I am just writing up a quick update on my shopping service. I will also inform my regular customers via email.

New changes:

• The Japanese government will be increasing the goods & services tax from 5% to 8% as off April 1st, 2014. This means that the costs for items, shipping, and packaging will also increase with it. This means:
• My service fee will increase to 20% of your total order amount (minus worldwide shipping) to cover Paypal and repacking fees.

Other than the changes above, I will be doing my service as normal. Although, I do work full time now which means I might not be able to ship out items as quick as I used to. I will strive my best to ship out your orders as soon as I can!

I have written the above updates on my shopping service page here.

Thank you for visiting my website!

Have a nice day~

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Where did the year go? One moment it was summer and I was still studying Japanese, the next moment it’s snowing and I’m an office lady!

The good thing is, end of the year = Christmas is coming! It’ll be our first Christmas with just the two of us this year! We don’t have a tree though since it’ll be a hassle to bring back next time! 

On the subway to work now! Ready…to fall…asleep…

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Bits and pieces from our little Enoshima trip during the summer～ Autumn has been quite pleasant with warm sunny days and cool nights.

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Phil and I went on a short trip to Tokyo and Enoshima for the Obon holidays. We stayed in the same hotel as last year’s trip – really close to Tokyo Skytree! We did quite a bit of board game shopping and revisited the Moomin Cafe at Tokyo Solamachi～We also revisited Odaiba and actually had a good look around! Gundam!

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A few thing I’ve been up to in the past few days.

– Gardening!  I’m growing clovers, basil, tomatoes, parsley, strawberries, bell-flower, and chamomile.

– Cleaning! Changed the cupboard liners.

– Afternoon tea! Never too much!

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The day before yesterday was Phil’s birthday~ I couldn’t celebrate it with him because I was studying.. So yesterday I came home with ice cream cake to make up for it!

Have a great week everyone!

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Trying to get into a study mood or at least a Japanese mood with this:

This blog is somehow turning to a music dumping place… ええ！？

Have a lovely weekend everyone!

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Hello strangers! I’m still here~

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I joined in with Japan and celebrated Valentine’s day by giving chocolate to the boys (Phil and some male friends)!

I originally wanted to make this chocolate hazelnut slice for Phil but the ingredients were hard to find/super expensive so I ended up making choc chip pikelets for just instead! 

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It’s snake year this year~~

(Image from here! – They got cute wallpaper too! カピバラさん)

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