Not having written here just for a few days what with my report and everything else, I find it already hard to get myself back to the habit of writing. But once I begin writing here, I wonder what it was all about. In my head, much knowled…

Seven out of ten. This was the number of people sitting in front of me in a train who were looking into a small screen of their cellphone. Three days ago, without having nothing to do in a train, I observed those people. A young business m…

Things fall, of course by the gravity. But have you ever seen the gravity? No, you haven't. All you can see is that things fall. So the gravity is just a concept you believe in. Why you believe in it? Because it seems to explain the behavi…

Night air was unexpectedly cold, It tightened up my skin immediately after I got out of the door. I ran down the slope in front of my house, running for a while to a hill and then ran up the hill at one stretch so that I could warm up my b…

This Sunday, as our belated wedding anniversary, my wife and I went, of all the romantic places to go, to Tokyo Dome to watch the final game of Asia Series baseball. The game was fought between Seibu Lions representing Japan and United Lio…

I suspect It would be very different if you learned English only from ears and not from reading. When I took a taxi in Denver, US, the driver was from Sudan, Africa. He said "Five マネット". "Sorry, five what?" I asked, thinking it was "mo…

Last Thursday, when I told an American guy in my client office my failure story about mistakenly hearing someone say "pawn shop" as "porn shop", he told me this. A: My wife finally is gone to live in a Caribbean island. B: Jamaica? A: No, …

With a bit more than 2 months to go before my research report is due, it is about time I had to get down to business... Ok, enough playing around. I have to read several literatures and conduct some computer simulation, interpret the resul…

It's getting colder and the days becoming shorter day by day. When I got up at 6:00, it was still dark. At 4:30 pm the sun was about to set. Last Monday, when I called the Zurich office at 5:00 pm, nobody answered the phone. I thought it s…

"Thank you for your application for the Tokyo City Marathon. We had applicants far more than our scheduled maximum entrants, thanks to you. As the result of a fair and strict lottery, we are sorry to inform you that we cannot meet your wis…

Global warming in recent years has felt like breaking news of big events such as deforestation, shrinking polar ice and endangered polar bears, sinking island of Tepuka(ツバル共和国) and so on. CO2 is considered as the culprit. So everyone…

Two weeks ago I went to the culture festival of Tokyo Institute of Technology(東京工業大学), my alma mater and now Eriko's college. I had to go because she was selling Tapioca milk tea at the festival and I felt obliged to buy some. I boug…

Recently I read "Miscellany in idleness (徒然草, I am not confident about this translation of the Japanese titile)" by Kenko Yoshida written almost 700 years ago. Here is the Chapter 211. "You should not depend on anything. Regret and grud…

Our intelligence is in a sense a substitute for DNA in terms of our collective evolution. Just as DNA gives us instructions to fit our environment, our intelligence works out a better way to get along with our social and natural environmen…

Strategy of a plankton to survive is to swim around randomly. If he feels comfortable where he is, he slows up his movement to stay there. If he feels not, he continues moving around until he by accident comes to a better place. He never t…