William H. McRaven is a former Navy Seal who wrote the book Make Your Bed after giving a commencement speech at the University of Texas at Austin. If you don’t want to have to buy the book, I would highly recommend at least listening to the 6 minute speech on Youtube (it summarizes the gist…
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Dele is a Japanese TV show that I thought was pretty similar to the US TV show Person of Interest, which was a show that aired on CBS from 2011-2016. The show is similar not only in the main characters (one of the main characters is in a wheelchair for both series), but also the…
Address: 1001 Queen St #105, Honolulu, HI 96814 Rinka is a popular Japanese restaurant in Ward Village. They have a really extensive menu, and all of their dishes are pretty authentic Japanese tasting. I like the crab dishes that Rinka has, as they use real snow crab. They have both real crab California rolls, as…
If you have ever been to Tokyo, I am sure you have seen all of the soba restaurants inside the train stations. They are typically full of businessmen on their way to work who want to get a quick bite to eat, but they are actually so good. The most popular chain that I know…
I have been taking an entrepreneurship class in college, and it has been a fun experience. Throughout the class, I have been tasked with coming up with potential business ideas and how to best turn them into reality. One stage of coming up with a business idea is prototyping it, and seeing how it would…
Address: 725 Kapiolani Blvd, Honolulu, HI 96813 After having lived in Milan for a year, I don’t eat as much Italian food in the US as I used to. Between my pasta cooking and restaurants in Italy, I think I have eaten enough Italian food to last for a while. However, if I am ever…
Giri/Haji is a British/Japanese television show that was produced by the BBC, but is now shown on Netflix. The show has a half-Japanese and half-British cast, and it also splits time between the two places. The story is about the Japanese yakuza, the Japanese police, and the British police, and how a murder of a…
As I mentioned in a previous post, one of my favorite board games to play is Settlers of Catan. It is just a really well-made and well-thought out game, and it provides for a lot of different strategy and potential outcomes. Recently, I have discovered a YouTube channel called DyLighted – Catan. The channel is…
Since I have begun using Spotify a lot to listen to podcasts, I have also started to find some podcasts that I did not previously listen to on the Apple Podcasts app. One podcast that I have started to listen to is a podcast by Stitcher called All-American: Tiger Woods. While doing some research on…
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Mischievous Kiss: Love In Tokyo is one of the highest rated Japanese shows that I have found on Rakuten Viki, with a rating of 9.3/10. It is also one of the older shows available, as the show came out in 2013. Just because it is older though, does not mean that it is not worth…
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