If you don't bring anything to do, you have to sit and watch TV with the retirees. You're kind of forced to do the default thing, unless you prepare in advance, which I didn't really do (although I did think about it, and decided it would be a good chance to think). Or, you can […]

Earn it. There are many ways to do so, but the best way is to respect others. Any time you don't, you don't deserve respect in return. If you demand it, you'll get the opposite effect as people begin to resent you, and purposely do things against your back. But once you respect people, they […]

Continuity is a theme that comes up again and again. I haven't read the book, but I believe the book grit by Angela Duckworth is along similar lines. That persistence trumps 'talent'. I actually don't believe in natural talent, because if you do have so-called 'talent', it's nothing unless you put it to use, and […]

Going swimming in the middle of the day when your tire is really good. I feel tired right now but I know that once I get into the water my body will wake up and I will be fine. It's kind of like going in automatic mode. Exercise is one of those things that you […]

If you need a reminder why not to live in Tokyo, just visit there. For me it's the number of people and the lack of greenery. The number of people makes it unreasonable to have a car, which means less convenience (unironically, I think too much convenience is cause for evil. Overconsumption, and mountains of […]

When we are in a new place, we tend to look for people like us, and we tend to stick to people like us. Thankfully, people see that people like us is simply people, but to be able to find people like us, we need to know both parts of the us equation. Us=you and […]

Since the Second World War, we have been blessed with abundance. Abundance of food, abundance of entertainment, abundance of news, abundance of information, abundance of everything. An abundance of food leads to an abundance of obesity. An abundance of entertainment leads to an abundance of inattention. An abundance of news leads to an abundance of […]