Adventure Accounting

I have been avoiding eating animals  since my week-long detox adventure in Ananda Marga . It can be tough, but it is manageable. However, managing my choices becomes really difficult when I travel to different place.  Kobe is not a place for vegetarian wannabes like me.  Wagyu is a type of cattle breed which is predisposed to marbling. Marbling results to this nice fat around the lean meat of the cattle.  There are a lot "t rying hard" restaurants nowadays that pass off their Wag yu meat as the real deal. I've read menus that claim they bred wagyu in Laguna and in Cagayan de Oro. Technically, that may be right. But in terms of taste...? I shelled out money for trying some of these local Wagyu stuff but the real deal can be found in Kobe.  We travelled to Kobe to try this authentic real genuine Wagyu stuff.  We got the 1-Day Hankyu Tourist Pass whic h costs JPY 700. This allows the holder unlimited travel on Hanky u lines connecting Osaka, Kyoto and ...

I got a multiple-entry Japan visa two years ago . After two years, I haven't used it. I thought it would be useful when I planned to go to Taiwan but I flushed my promofare Taipei tickets because I got too fed up with China last year . My amiga Sarah booked her Japan tickets, to make her teenage dream come true. I couldn't join her for her Tokyo adventure ( I took a lo t of vacations this year - ergo spent my leaves and moolah on th ose ).  I got excited about Kyoto when she started planning her itinerary. I knew left out some sites in the Kansai area in 2012. When Cebu Pacific had their Piso-fare promo, I snatched roundtrip Manila to Kansai tickets for less than Php 3,000 - without baggage. Sweet. There are some places which will be fun to revisit with a friend! I was extremely happy how the costs fell below my planned budget. I already spent a huge amount of cash outflow this year because of my international trips. The budget was even below the amount I sp...