Persimmon aka Kaki in Japan

Persimmon is an autumn fruit. In Japan, it is called kaki.It is sweet and certain types like the bitter ones could be hung and dried (3 weeks). I prefer the dried persimmon which taste like dried dates. It contains lots of vitamin C and is a good fibre fruit.

Chilli padi and spring onions

Besides other plants we also grow chilli padi and spring onions. Actually I was surprised to discover that chilli padi could grow in autumn. All along I thought it was a summer plant.

A little humor won't hurt

Early X'mas shopping in Japan

It is still early for Christmas but the shops have started selling goods at discount rate. I was at the above shopping center and was quite surprise to have found a Daiso discount shop selling most items at 100 Yen which is equivalent to S$1.20.
I got a pair of shoes at 1,990 Yen ($24) from a shop selling sports items. The original price was 4,990 Yen (a discount of almost 3,000 Yen or $36).
Shopping in Japan is fun because the malls are huge and not as crowded with people as in Singapore. Besides, there are ample car parking lots and are free of charge.

Harvesting daikon

We harvested 5 pieces of daikon (radish) from our garden.
This type of daikon is used for the "chye tai kueh" or fried carrot cake in SG. We gave away 4 to friends and kept one for ourselves. Daikon is usually grown in cool weather like now (autumn) whereby the temperature ranges from 12c to 16c.
The potatoes will be harvested during the colder months in January and February.

Teaching English

The planning and murder of Saudi journalist

Best goalkeeper in the world

Lady abused for doing her job

The lady was a beer promoter. She was verbally abused by a man....read here

Hijacked crew Philip has retired

Philip was the crew  thrown out of the SQ hijacked aircraft in 1991. He survived the terrible ordeal and 27 years later (a few days ago) retired as an IFM after 40 years of flying with SIA.