Don't think I've made a post about my love of Ramen specifically chili chicken Ramen I really can't think of any food that I like as much as this in comparison the majority of British food is bland and boring and I get tired of Chinese because I have it so often, so when I do get a chance to have Ramen its a great change and if its cooked fresh and not the stuff from the supermarkets then its very healthy. I've found very few places local to me that I can get 'proper' Ramen the main place I know of in the UK is Wagamama great set of restaurants that are based of Ramen places in Japan and have a great Japanese menu from things like Ramen to Ebi Katsu and not to forget SAKE! The only thing they are missing which I wish they had is 寿司(sushi) but I've seen another Japanese style restaurant close by that I'm gonna check and see what's on there menu.

Well as some of you may know one of my largest goals in life is to live and work in Japan and no matter how hard this will be I intend to make it. So today I thought I would talk a little about what my plans are and how I intend to reach my goals of living and working in Japan.I have nothing really special don't have a degree, haven't got much money and don't work in company that has a Japan division. First of all I've had to look at the degree front contrary to popular belief you don't need a degree to obtain a working visa in Japan, 10 years of experience in a specific field will also allow you to obtain a visa, this has set the first part of my goal I want to set off for Japan when I'm 28 at this time I will have 10 years experience in IT which comes under the working visa 'Engineering'. Although there is no denying that a degree would make life much easier for finding a job and the worst case scenario becoming an English teach, which I will talk about possible plans for me to obtain a degree before I set off to Japan in a later post.Next up is another large obstacle 'money' my plan is when I reach the ripe old age of 28 that I will have enough cash saved to live in Japan without work for up to a year on a working holiday visa this should allow me enough time to hopefully find a job. To do this I've worked out that I need around 10k preferably more to live comfortably for many months until I find work this has to take into account there will be 2 mouths to feed as my wife will be with me. I started saving for this earlier this year and if I keep going at the rate I am now I should at least reach my goal of 10kOther than these 2 main obstacles I just need to keep increasing my knowledge in many work related areas, my Japanese and people networking as any one of these can give you opportunities in life that you may otherwise never have.As long as we all have dreams and ambitions we should realize that we can reach any of our goals in life if we try hard enough but we all need to think what can we be doing 'now!' not later but now as we all only have a finite amount of time.