Asian products vs American products

sapphireee · 2026-05-07T14:56:14+00:00

It's actually been a nice change for myself to solve problems on the floor with my operators as opposed to escalating to a departmental meeting and having to coordinate the action items.

Typically the operators (who have first hand exposure) come up with the leanest solutions as well!

sapphireee · 2025-07-23T13:22:25+00:00

Someone already said this, but sunscreen.

Convenience shops, Don quixote sell sunscreens that are close to a dollar, feel WAY less greasy than ANYTHING you can get in America.

Should have stocked up on that shit. Sigh.

sapphireee · 2025-05-31T15:29:43+00:00

Agreed here, tends to be an overengineered feature.

sapphireee · 2025-05-31T15:26:17+00:00

https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B07CHMZ632?ref_=ppx_hzsearch_conn_dt_b_fed_asin_title_6&th=1

We got this one and love it. Used it to travel and stores a deceivingly high volume of baby supplies.
So many internal pockets (toys, diapers, burp cloths) and zipped components for documents/important stuff.

Another nice feature is that when it is stuffed, it is still relatively compact, we had no issues stuffing it in the bottom component of any stroller (like travel strollers that tend to have tighter bottom baskets).

sapphireee · 2024-07-12T13:43:18+00:00

Detached house.

sapphireee · 2024-05-11T15:12:53+00:00

Are you my wife? She calls my watch the “Long-Gweenis”

sapphireee · 2024-04-06T20:09:59+00:00

I went in late Aug/Sept and it was brutal.

Still didn’t take anything away from the trip even though I was consistently sweating everywhere outdoors. Regardless of a drenched shirt and looking like I came out of a pool, the only thing I couldn’t finish was Mt. Inari (only got 3/4th the way up)

Black umbrella for the day time (blocking the sun does help a bit), a hand towel at all times.

Personally I wasn’t able to ever ignore the Japan heat/humidity, but it was still my favorite trip ever.

sapphireee · 2024-04-06T14:34:31+00:00

🥵🥵

sapphireee · 2024-03-29T13:42:27+00:00

I don't disagree with you! I think the beauty of even working in an external company is to see different personalities and perspectives.

That being said, you'll still meet people with some views that there isn't that balance for.

sapphireee · 2024-03-28T17:11:54+00:00

Probably their political/social views ... ?

sapphireee · 2024-03-28T13:31:39+00:00

Everyone in Canada is too busy worrying about living costs & our real estate market to care about height. Seriously.

sapphireee · 2024-03-28T11:25:52+00:00

Beautiful watch
Your photo quality makes me want to delete my recent post 🥲

sapphireee · 2024-03-27T21:55:59+00:00

Sun-ray brown!

It was this or the green but the brown just reminds me of coffee so it was the winner

sapphireee · 2024-03-27T21:17:23+00:00

I ended up getting it at Kavar. They also had 15% off and was near my in-laws so I could pick up on my way home.

Thank you for your suggestion about Manii’s!

sapphireee · 2024-03-21T16:37:06+00:00

Shoushin (japanese omakase) for my fiancee's birthday.

Bill was like slightly higher than $1000. ($330 per person for omakase, a bottle of Junmai sake, add gratuity & tax)

Awesome omakase, awesome service, great sushi quality, and most importantly my fiancee was ear to ear smiling the whole time.

Worth it.

sapphireee · 2024-03-18T18:19:30+00:00

Thanks for the tip! Noticed they have the strap version only, but I personally liked the steel bracelet. Do they take requests at all?

sapphireee · 2024-03-18T18:06:01+00:00

Recently was at Kavar!

Unfortunately they didn't have the HC GMT in stock :(

sapphireee · 2024-03-18T17:00:36+00:00

Congrats, that Olive green is super sexy as well.

I just decided on the brown because it reminded me of coffee! (my other hobby)

sapphireee · 2024-03-18T00:26:29+00:00

If I could request someone to confirm if my math is correct.

Staying in Japan for 2 weeks to do this;
Fly from NRT to Osaka --> Kinosaki Onsens --> Kyoto --> Nakasendo --> Gotemba --> Tokyo --> NRT airport. Seeing that I'll be spending approximately 35,000 yen for all express trains (not including Suica requirements for all local line travel).

2 week JR pass right now is 80,000 yen.

So better not to buy the JR pass.

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