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Welcome to my online scrapbook and diary! Below you can see the last five blog posts I’ve written.

Click here for the Table of Contents. Besides weekly posts and travel diaries, my site also contains document/photo scans and writings. Nearly every page on the site is linked off of here.
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Right now, my focus is just to get my weekly blog posts going because that’s what I’ll need to record my experiences if and when I go to Japan or wherever to study. The format of the blog posts has shifted over time as I’ve experimented with it and learnt to write quicker. It takes about 4-6 hours to write each weekly post, longer if I want to do deep-dive research into a topic.

The ultimate goal of the blog is to have a place where I talk about my life’s journey and how each individual part — my migration from Singapore to Canada, my depression and gender transition and subsequent happiness, my job, games I’ve played, anime I’ve watched, friends I’ve had, and everything else — influences each other and ties up together into one big package.

The weekly Memory Snippet segments help me build toward this by bringing my past forward, while the Life and other segments help me chronicle the current days. In the interim, I also hope to scan lots of random documents that I’ve collected over the ages as a digital archive of things, for future historians to come across.

My intended audience for the blog are readers 200-500 years from now or even beyond. While I have a few friends that read the blog, nothing on it is monetized, nor do I care about SEO or advertising, because I think all that would get in the way of the purity of chronicling. I am not looking to make it big or get famous within my lifetime.

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My Diary #098

Week ending Jun 25 2023

Longing for…
School
Work
Life
Games
Plushie of the Week #94
Song of the Week #71
Writing Prompt of the Week #14
Memory Snippet of the Week #78
Dreams

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My Diary #097

Week ending Jun 18 2023

The calm after the…
School
Work
Life
Games
Dreams

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The Slightly Longer Way – Final Thoughts

This blog series covers my trip to Japan from May 06 2023 to Jun 14 2023. This was my second trip to Japan, and I went there to participate in the Ritsumeikan Summer Japanese Program, or RSJP, a five-week program at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto.

This particular post is a wrap-up post for this blog series that I made once I was back in Edmonton.

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The Slightly Longer Way – Day 38

This blog series covers my trip to Japan from May 06 2023 to Jun 14 2023. This was my second trip to Japan, and I went there to participate in the Ritsumeikan Summer Japanese Program, or RSJP, a five-week program at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto.

This particular post covers my 38th day in Japan, Wednesday Jun 14 2023, and includes my flight home to Edmonton.

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The Slightly Longer Way – Day 37

This blog series covers my trip to Japan from May 06 2023 to Jun 14 2023. This was my second trip to Japan, and I went there to participate in the Ritsumeikan Summer Japanese Program, or RSJP, a five-week program at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto.

This particular post covers my 37th day in Japan, Tuesday Jun 13 2023.

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The Slightly Longer Way – Day 36

This blog series covers my trip to Japan from May 06 2023 to Jun 14 2023. This was my second trip to Japan, and I went there to participate in the Ritsumeikan Summer Japanese Program, or RSJP, a five-week program at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto.

This particular post covers my 36th day in Japan, Monday Jun 12 2023.

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The Slightly Longer Way – Day 35

This blog series covers my trip to Japan from May 06 2023 to Jun 14 2023. This was my second trip to Japan, and I went there to participate in the Ritsumeikan Summer Japanese Program, or RSJP, a five-week program at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto.

This particular post covers my 35th day in Japan, Sunday Jun 11 2023.

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The Slightly Longer Way – Day 34

This blog series covers my trip to Japan from May 06 2023 to Jun 14 2023. This was my second trip to Japan, and I went there to participate in the Ritsumeikan Summer Japanese Program, or RSJP, a five-week program at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto.

This particular post covers my 34th day in Japan, Saturday Jun 10 2023.

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The Slightly Longer Way – Day 33

This blog series covers my trip to Japan from May 06 2023 to Jun 14 2023. This was my second trip to Japan, and I went there to participate in the Ritsumeikan Summer Japanese Program, or RSJP, a five-week program at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto.

This particular post covers my 33rd day in Japan, Friday Jun 09 2023.

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The Slightly Longer Way – Day 32

This blog series covers my trip to Japan from May 06 2023 to Jun 14 2023. This was my second trip to Japan, and I went there to participate in the Ritsumeikan Summer Japanese Program, or RSJP, a five-week program at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto.

This particular post covers my 32nd day in Japan, Thursday Jun 08 2023.

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