Last night I gave a presentation on NZ, and I'll be doing the same tonight too. Except it's not really a presentation, nor is it a lecture. It's more of a quiz, because I wanted to get the audience involved as much as possible. At the start I get the participants to draw NZ and […]

As it currently stands, I am the sole breadwinner of our house. We have made a conscious decision not to have my wife work so that she can figure out what she wants to do. Fortunately, we are in a position where we are able to do this. If we were in New Zealand, I […]

I'll need to think of a better name, because I stole this one, but I think I need better tracking of the things I consume. When I did my master's, after reading each article or chapter in a book, I would write a short synopsis, not a review, covering the basic ideas of the texts […]

Sometimes it's necessary. Sometimes you have no choice but to sit still and let the world flow around you. Embrace it. Let it flow. You'll still be taken for the ride.

Quite often, Japanese people say I am more Japanese than they are. Obviously this depends on how you define 'Japanese' however. I think this reflects two things; how modern the Japanese have become, and my romanticized view of Japan. How modern they have become is more a comparison to times gone by. If you compare […]

I put Instagram, Facebook messenger, gmail, Line, and google analytics in one folder on my phone and it tried to call the folder 'productivity'. What a joke. The reason why I put it all in a folder, on the third page at that, is because they are not at all productive and they only get […]

Over the past few years, I have done a bit of interpreting for Zen monks and master Yamabushi. I have just been tasked with condensing all their knowledge of meditation into a script that we can later use for the participants on our Yamabushido programs. I was amazed at how much I have picked up. […]