Now isn’t this just the perfect thing to make me blush and put my ch’i right back into alignment again as if I’d just had an orgasm or had managed a bakasana crane pose without falling flat on my face; a post here on Anastasia’s blog sending some virtual love in geishaland’s direction.
Lazy Geisha has [...]

Sent to me by a reader who asks Please don’t use my name!; the Love Hotel as written about on the blog stippy.com here is an icon of Japanese culture – a place where couples, married or otherwise, can go to get their freak on in a themed room which can either seem like Disneyland [...]

I’m in total geek-girl heaven right now! I finally got the SimpleModal Contact Form working! Yay!
SMCF is is an Ajax powered modal contact form which utilizes the jQuery JavaScript library and the SimpleModal jQuery plugin.
Go ahead – click that little link that says Contact nina aoki at the [...]

Tagged by Ms. Olivia Delamere; the inscrutably beautiful English Courtesan Livvy wrote her own Six Word Memoir here, and then she tagged me and asked me to play too.
There are of course rules to this internet meme, tho not like the rules of Haiku as discussed with larokkaku here, nor like The Hemingway Challenge thrown [...]

Sent to me by my longtime reader Dins_P.; a story which appeared on CNN here about the latest fashion accessory Japanese women cannot live without; a paid boy toy. It’s being termed as - ‘a dizzying role reversal’ - but I’m not so sure. I’m a modern woman, I saw American Gigolo, [...]

My watch is still set on Seattle time; a quick business trip to the west coast at the beginning of last week still has me a bit off kilter, and I’m still trying to decompress from airports, hotels, conferences, clients, and the utter hassle of having to haul my ass and all my stuff across [...]

This was kind of a totally cool way to start my day, with some love from Fake Steve on my interview with Suki of OhMiBod, especially since my yoga class was cancelled last night because of the snowstorm. FSJ also paid homage to the sacred feminine temple as any benevolent dictator should, because after all, [...]