BY DEE GREEN One of my favourite bands, The Hives, penned a song called Walk, Idiot, Walk, and Ralph Waldo Emerson once said: “nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” If you combine the two, you’ll get a sense of what it’s going to be like participating in the life-changing challenge that is Oxfam’s Trailwalker [...]
BY AIKO MIYAGI In our recent readers’ survey, many of you told us that you’d like more content related to the boonies, and we agree! To start including more content that isn’t based in Tokyo, we’re introducing what we hope will be a semi-regular column, our boonies guide. On these pages, broads living in the [...]
I feel like there’s a lot of my favourite people in Tokyo featured in this issue! Starting with our cover girl, Tracey Khoo from Boudoir, who ensures that I actually take some time out to relax by giving me the most amazing facials each month. And another Tracey (Taylor) continues the story of her Tokyo [...]
I love taking photos in Japan, both since there are beautiful, interesting, unique, and just plain wacky scenes around every corner, but also because it’s the only country I’ve visited where everyone, tourist or not, is always taking photos—I never feel out of place taking out my camera. That said, my small point-and-shoot digital camera [...]
BY RACHEL HASHIMOTO He caught my attention immediately. I had never been attracted to an Asian person before, but his shy smile nearly knocked me off my feet. A million other things were running through my mind as I walked into the welcome party for the new international students at the college I would be [...]
I love how absolutely random Japan can be sometimes, which is why I was completely intrigued when I heard about the shop in Sangenjaya where you can fish for goldfish out of a stocked pond. The little building has been there since 1966 and some of the catch-and-release fishers we saw seemed to be practically [...]
Full name: Khoo Sit Ming (Tracey) Age: 30 Nationality: Malaysian Grew up in: Malaysia Time in Japan: four and a half years Japanese ability: fluent Works at: Boudoir Day Spa Why did you come to Japan? While working in Singapore I met my ex-husband. We fell in love and married and I moved to Tokyo [...]
BY TRACEY TAYLER “To find out what can be accomplished when you put the mind and body into motion, well, that’s something that changes a person deep down inside.” My quote from last month’s BAB article. Unfortunately, when you have a bladder like mine and it’s raining, sleeting, and 35,000 people are wearing compression tights, [...]
COMPILED BY DANIELLE TATE-STRATTON Twenty-two British-Asian women are currently in the running to become MPs in England and Scotland, and should one of them win, she would be the first such woman to hold the position in Britain, where the first male British-Asian MP was elected in 1892. Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno, a Muslim Malaysian [...]
I love this keitai strap album! It’s cheap to mail to family and friends abroad (at just three and a half by four centimetres), good quality, ¥790 each, and only takes a few days to process. I noticed a photo ordering machine in the corner of our local drug mart (WELCIA) with a sample of [...]
