Monday, February 24, 2014

Tired but GOOD! よい疲れ!

Usually, after I come back from work, I try not to do much because I don't want to be tired.
But it was becoming boring. Every day I come home from work, watch TV or sit around, and sleep.

So today I decided to make dumplings from scratch !
Mixed 2 cups of flour with 150cc of hot water to make a dough and actually made the skin :)

After I made 30 dumplings I was quite tired, but it made me feel because I felt like I have accomplished something.

So I realised that it is actually GREAT to do something you like, after work. It might make me tired, but it is a "good" tired which makes me feel better! Just like exercising!!!

いつも会社から帰ってくると体力温存のため(?)あまり何もしません。でもそれだとやっぱりつまらないので、今日は餃子作り!皮から作ってみました。
全部作り終わった後にはクタクタでしたが、すっごく楽しかった!!

これからは疲れるからやめよう、、なんて思わずにどんどん会社以外の時間を使って色々なことに挑戦しよう、と思います:)





Friday, February 21, 2014

Sshimona Kee 音楽に満たされた日

Last night I had a Sophia University party at Sauce Bar in Esplanade Mall. On the way there I heard this wonderful, feel-good live music.
After that the music kept on playing in my head and I could not stop thinking about it the whole day today. 
I googled and found out that luckily they are having another concert today! So I had to go!! :)

【Shimona Kee】

生の音楽を聞くと、その世界に引き込まれて夢の中にいるような気分になる。今オンラインビジネスを始めようと考えているし、ブログも大好きだけどLive Musicのように直接肌で感じること、face-to-faceのコミュニケーションをもっと大切にしようと思った。
 

Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Pretty In Pink 桜の気分

Miss Dior 
"Chanel pink caviar leather wallet on a chain" 

I don't know why but lately I am attracted to girly & feminine things. I was always aiming for "cool" & "stylish" fashion but this year I want to have more "pretty" things and be more feminine. 
What do you all feel like? :)

This made me think that when I have the online store, I would like to have seasonal collections so that people can change their mood in the house, according to the seasons. 

シンガポールでは季節がないのにも関わらず、最近優しいピンクや、
女の子らしいものに惹かれています:) なんだか新しい自分を発見出来そう!
皆さんは最近どんな気分ですか:)?

 まだまだ作成中のオンラインショッピングwebsiteのページですが、
将来的には季節にあわせたデザインも売れたらな、と思いました。


Monday, February 17, 2014

Beautiful Hair Secret 美髪のヒミツ

Lately I feel that having beautiful hair is important :)
When doing business, you have to give people good impressions, and a part of it can be your beautiful hair. It boosts your confidence too!

I realised when I went to India that Indian women have beautiful, silky hair. Of course it is partly genetic, but they told me about their beautify hair secret : Oiling

They oil their hair once a week!
So here is how to oil your hair :

Get coconut oil. This brand is the most popular in India. I found this in a small store in Singapore, it was SGD 1.20!













Take the oil in your hand, warm it up a little bit, then rub it in your hair. Leave it for 30min-50min, and wash.

If you cannot find the coconut oil so easily, you can also use Olive Oil, with a squeezed lemon :)
Let's grow healthy hair like Karina Kapoor!!

最近やっと(?)綺麗な髪に興味が湧いてきました。
インドに行ったとき、美髪のヒミツを聞いてみると、それはオイルにありました!なんと最低週1回のペースでココナッツオイルを塗り30分から1時間おいてシャンプーするという習慣があるそうです。
私も3回やってみましたが、すでに少し髪が柔らかくなり前よりツヤツヤになりました!
ココナッツオイルの入手が難しい場合は、オリーブオイルにレモン汁を数滴たらして髪の毛に塗っても効果抜群です!!
大人気女優カリーナカプールの髪を目指して:)

Wishes on the balloon! 願いを紙風船にのせて。









Last year, on the same day my husband and I saw people flying the paper balloons and wanted to try it sometime. Coincidently we passed by the people who were flying them this year! Then they gave us one for us to try. We wrote the wishes for happiness in the Bhatias and the Ikegamis :-)
The family who let us fly the balloon told us to come back on the same day next year at 8 PM. Felt so blessed  :) 
優しいシンガポール人の家族が、私たちにも紙風船を飛ばさせてくれました。来年も同じ場所で同じ時間に会いましょう!と言ってくれました:)
シンガポール人でも日本人でもインド人でも、みんな家族の健康や幸せを願うんだなあ、と当たり前のことかもしれないけど改めて思いました。
今年も良い年になりますように★

Dreams come true!

















I had lunch with my colleague today at a middle-eastern restaurant in Raffle’s Place. (It was delicious but the way)
She told me about how she got to where she is in life, and what her dreams are. One of her dreams is to live in Hawaii and surf. She does not have a green card and she lives in Singapore with a family, so at this point it might seem so far away from reality. But even then she was not afraid to speak up her dream! I love people who have dreams, and I believe that the dreams can come true when you don’t give up on them. 
Lately I have been trying to collect dreams ; tiny ones, medium-sized ones, and big ones. One of them is to get at least 100 followers on this blog and to get “Like”s and comments every time I post something.  Right now this blog has 0 viewers, but I will not give up, because I really do believe that the dreams come true! 
昔から夢をノートや手帳に書くのが大好きです。最近現実的になっていたのか「叶いそうな夢」しか書いていなかったけれど、今日同僚とのランチを通してもっと想像力を働かせて色々な夢を持ちたいな!と思いました。
今ある夢は、このブログのフォロワーを100人に増やすこと!
そして30歳までに、インテリアデザインのオンラインビジネスが出来るように頑張る:)

Happy Valentine's Day 2014 バレンタインデー







In Japan, girls give boys chocolates on Valentine’s Day! But because we are in Singapore, we decided to buy stuff for each other. My husband gave me a lovely card, a book I wanted to read, and a DVD I wanted to watch :-) !! This year, we went to the mall, decided to shop for each other in 30 min with the budget of SGD 50 ! It was so much fun.
How was your Valentine’s Day?
今年のバレンタインデーはお互いにあげることしました!シンガポールでは18年に一度の、国慶節最終日とバレンタインデーが重なる日だったので街は思ったほどバレンタインムードではありませんでしたが、結婚して初めてのバレンタインデー楽しかった:)

Sunday, February 9, 2014

Price of products

Today I thought about how the products are priced.
Conclusion : depends on the quality and the target.

So who should be the target of my online websites? 

Saturday, February 8, 2014

Serious? or Fun?


Meeting people can inspire you. In fact, it is probably through many encounters with people that you get clues on where you want to go.

Today I had one of those inspirational rendez-vous moments with Stephanie, an entrepreneur of the company called Style Tribute in Singapore.  (http://styletribute.com/)

I somehow thought that those pioneers just do what they love, and along the way it turns out to be a success. WRONG! , at least in her case. Before she started her business, she had a treasure map in front of her with all the detailed calculations including the clear definition of her target market and financial strategies.

Regardless of these seriousness required though, she told me that "my work is so much fun now that it is not work anymore".

I would love to say that someday.



Friday, February 7, 2014

Shoot for the moon!

When I was in high school, my friend's mom told me this quote which later became my motto for a while:  "Shoot for the moon!, even if you miss, you will still fall among the stars."

I used to be a fearless girl- as if I was living this quote. I auditioned for MTV and performed singing/piano in front of judges, went to Quebec for 3 months spontaneously without knowing any French except for "Bon Jour!", going to job interviews with my hair dyed to blonde, and the list goes on....

Looking back, I became more subdued after I started working for this Japanese trading company, which is stable, pays well and is "good enough". I would not say I do not enjoy it. Actually, it might be one of the jobs in Japan which "a million girls would kill for"(from Devil Wears Prada... my favorite movie by the way). 

But recently, I feel like it is time that I look deeper within my heart. Of course it does not mean that I suddenly quit my job and start doing crazy things out of the blue. It is not only that easy but also not realistic( I am a married, 29-year old woman). But now I am ready to take action to prepare for my journey toward the moon, and be more myself again. 

The problem is, I just know that working for my current company is not what I want to be doing for the next 5 or 10 years, and do not know what I should do instead. So I want to write on this blog about how I will find what I could do, and how I will make it happen. 
I hope that in the future, people who want to do something else in life can look at my blog posts and learn from my experiences. 

Bon Voyage! to myself and to future readers :-) 


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Hi, my name is Hana. I am from Tokyo, Japan. I am currently working in a Japanese trading company in Singapore. My dream is to start my own business, even as a side. I would firstly want to start off with creating an online website to sell the AMAZING products for home, designed by my sister-in-law! I play the piano, write music, love listening to music, shopping, movies, books, doing crafty things, fashion etc. It's been 1 year since I moved to Singapore, and I would love to have more friends and connect with more people all over the world through this blog :-)