Daily Life: Week Roundup~ Cosplay, Tao + Foodie

It is one rainy rainy week. 

Two fridays ago, I watched Tao, a Japanese drum performance, at Resorts World Manila with my parents. I love the overall performance. Their costumes were so clean and perfect. It was a samurai-inspired outfit in the shades of black, violet and dark gray. Their movements while performing were so fluid as if they were dancing. I think their moves were martial arts, actually. And the sound of the percussion instruments was just magnificent! Whenever they played, I could feel Pre-modern Japan around me. There were times that I think the music were reminiscent of wartime because of the Taiko. I think their lead drummer was a girl in heels. Aside from the percussions, they also used the flute and koto, a Japanese string instrument. I never new that percussion and wind instruments sounded so good together. Also, I loved their concept of interacting with the crowd. (Click the link below, the one I'm referring to is the woman in white) If they perform in your country, you should watch.

Here's a link to their website. But it will redirect you to the photo gallery.

Daily Life: Remembering Japan and Random Rants (Photography from Japan)

I MISS JAPAN SO BADLY~!!!!! :(

I want to go back to the beautiful Land of the Rising Sun. It isn't obvious that I love Japan. /sarcasm

Last time, I've posted about the trip to Japan as a youth ambassador. This post is not so different from the last.

Foodie: Japan Trip Food Blog

Food Blog! One of my passions is eating good food. So in one of my past posts I blogged about my Jenesys Programme in Japan trip. As a bonus, we got to try loads of authentic Japanese food. Cause here in the Philippines, everything is turned to a saltier version. They say real Japanese food is more bland. I finally had the chance to try the real thing! Though I wasn't able to take pictures of everything.
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I will be listing restaurants, hotels, and addresses (if possible).

Wanderland: JENESYS at Japan

I promised I would post something about my short summer trip to Japan.

The trip was all-expense paid trip by the Japanese government. The trip was called JENESYS Programme. In return, I participated as one of the goodwill ambassadors to Tohoku, the region struck by the March 11, 2011 tsunami. We were also sent as delegate under the Go Green batch. I was supposed to go there last year but since the tsunami struck, it was postponed. The programme was twelve days, nine days were spent in Japan.