November 2014

It has been 15 years since I last took photos of the Alatau Mountains from an airplane. In 1999, I was flying with Air Kyrgyzstan on flights from Bishkek to Osh and…

Just checked my stats for the past year. Below are the top 10 posts and pages for SaigonNezumi.com: Halal Restaurants in Saigon and Hanoi A new Greener Yamaha Nouvo SX…

I love the camel handcrafts in Kazakhstan. I will need to bring some to Vietnam. Posted from Samsung Galaxy Note 4

No pain, no gain Pain is just weakness leaving the body What does not kill me, makes me stronger When I was medically discharged from the US Marine Corps Reserves back…

Winter can make any city beautiful. Almaty is especially pretty now with our snowfall from a couple days ago. Posted from Samsung Galaxy Note 4

Well, this is a topic that raises eyebrows with many people across ethnic lines. Asian women. For me it can be an awkward topic since I am mixed Japanese and American…

Note: This post was originally typed back in August, 2013, but never published. Today I decided to edit it since I have been out of Vietnam to work for over a year now…

Today Almaty was forecasted to have over a foot of snow. Luckily it has been downgraded. Still we got a lot of snow. The temperature is dropping now as well. This is…

Air Astana One of the big benefits since moving to Almaty, Kazakhstan, over a year ago is that I am able to take more trips then I normally would. From May, 2010, until…

Next Saturday I will be flying with colleagues for a 3 day trip to India. This will be my first trip to India (though I have flown over India on 2 occasions with Air…

This is a post I wrote over 6 and a half years ago about a "missing" iPhone that I finally recovered. Yes people, I did recover an iPhone that a "friend" was supposed to…

Green Viper Snake - Vietnam (Source: Tuoi Tre News) Interesting article coming out of Vietnam now, "Residents terrorized by explosion of venomous snakes in central…

Malioboro Street in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, is one of the main reasons many Indonesians tourists visit Yogyakarta. In fact, towards the evenings, this street with be…

While in Yogyakarta, I stayed at the ibis Yogyakarta hotel. I chose this hotel since I really enjoyed the ibis hotel I stayed at in Singapore. ibis Yogyakarta is located…

Today I endured another taxi nightmare. After reserving a taxi from Taxi 515 online, I was surprised that they never came. Phones to the taxi dispatch did not help…

This is my final Prambanan post from my Indonesia trip last summer. More Yogyakarta posts will come this week. Enjoy the remaining photos from my trip:

Rumors of snow tomorrow. I may need to wear these cleats tomorrow if the sidewalks are icy. I ordered these from the US. They claim these take just 30 seconds to put on…

Continuing from yesterday's Prambanan post, here are some more pictures from my visit to this Hindu temple site outside of Yogyakarta.

Edit 1: I mistakenly called this Borobudur, I just made the corrections. Well, this week I will do more posts from my Summer, 2014, trip to Indonesia. Today's post will…

Edit 1: Sadly my humidifier died but I found it was not really doing much anyway. I good solution is to shower with hot water and keep the bathroom door open. It puts in…