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A Message from Tokyo – January 2025
Goodbye 2024. Hello 2025. Happy New Year, Everyone! Sitting here at my garden table on the first Sunday of January 2025 feels no different from any other day, but I’m grateful for the upcoming year that stretches out before me, waiting for me to carve. Japan experienced a year filled with significant events, ranging from natural disasters to groundbreaking achievements and cultural milestones. The year started with the massive earthquake in the Noto Peninsula on New Year’s Day marking the most disastrous start of a New Year. In this post, I will narrate an incident that left us with mixed feelings at the start of 2024! On 1st January 2024,…
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A Monday Motivation
You are not too old, And it is not too late. Sharing this experience with people might help someone with a similar situation during uncertain times. We had made a promise to ourselves that once we got through it, we would be open and as transparent as possible. Because when you share things, experiences, habits, and success hacks, it does have an impact on supporting other people and making them feel secure and protected in this very modern, technically equipped, yet complicated world we live in today. Piyush Kapur secured his first full-time employment in Tokyo in a Japanese company specializing in Cloud Security Solutions after a long wait of…
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Life Is An Adventure
When was the last time you went on an adventure? While some of us still see travel as an adventure, for many of us, our adventurous spirit is something that we have left behind in our childhood. Our days of exploring new places, climbing trees, and camping under the stars seems like a lifetime ago. But it doesn’t have to be that way! An adventure is any kind of exciting experience that is a bold or risky undertaking. From traveling and exploring new places, to extreme sports like scuba diving, sky diving, parachuting, rafting, mountain climbing, and even changing career path, there are an increasing number of ways to challenge yourself…
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Start Day Positive
Mary Poppins used to say, “Well begun is half done!” The way you start your morning can affect your whole day. Outside of a few rise & shine, most of us don’t consider it our favourite part of the day – especially if you stayed up late the night before working, worrying, or wondering. But if you learn how to start your morning right, you can reduce your stress and anxiety and significantly increase your chances of having a satisfying, productive day. Starting your day with a positive attitude has its benefits. Mornings set the tone for the rest of the day. In fact research shows that morning people are…
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World Needs more of Child’s Perspective
インドとパキスタンの心がつながっていますよ We wanted to write a small post inspired on this lovely experience in the school, which our son shared with us some time back and which really touched our hearts, assuring us that we are on right parenting track. It is also important to share this tiny story because in this world which sometimes seems complicated, unfriendly and tough, children are our hope to turn it into a much more beautiful world which is full of empathy and compassion. This will be also our first joint post on a topic – a style which we might think of considering for our future posts also. So let us start this…
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HOW TO OVERCOME CULTURAL CHALLENGES IN A GLOBAL PROJECT
“We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.” Former President of USA Jimmy Carter The Background If you read my PMP Journey post, you would know I studied Japanese and started my career as a language expert handling business and project communication involving translation and interpretation support for software development assignments. If you are new in the area of learning a foreign language, let me share with you about one major distinction and some details about this field: translators write and interpreters speak. Mostly people opt either of the two options and the choice depends a lot on…
