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Everyone in my dormitory, including myself, uses the door stoppers outside of our dorm rooms as an umbrella hanger. Said door stoppers are tactfully placed quite high so that they stop opening doors from the top, as opposed to them being traditional placed on the ground, which I imagine could be hazardous when university students […]

It’s beginning to get cold here in Tokyo. This is the time of year in which leaves start to turn and eventually snow down in a flurry of red, orange and yellow. Other things happen at around this time that not many people - I suspect - seem to realize here in Tokyo.
One of […]

Yes, you read it right. I think that musicians are heavy travelers. Why you ask? Let me tell you about the last two trips I’ve had over the past month: My trip to Chichibu in Saitama Prefecture (around 2 hours outside of Tokyo), and my long-short trip between Narita International Airport and Bahrain International Airport.
1. […]

On the train this evening, on my way back from a long day of volunteer work, I started to recount a few things that happened over the past few days as I absent-mindedly leafed through a notebook I had been carrying around with me here in Tokyo for most of the last three years. And […]

Yesterday, a lightning bolt struck the train tracks at the station near my dormitory. This resulted in the traffic signals on the train tracks to go haywire, and all the fire alarms in all the houses, apartments and dormitory buildings to all set off at the same time: the town I live in was shrieking […]

A conversation between a professor and a confused graduate student:
Professor: _____, you are going to apply for the PhD program, right? When’s the deadline again?
Student: Umm… sometime in January, I think.
Professor: Are you sure? I’ll call the admissions office and double check with them. (picks up the phone, asks a few questions and returns to […]

I don’t understand the little street behind my dormitory.
It’s a little strip of street, with apartment buildings lining both sides for a stretch of 300 meters or so leading up to a t-intersection that is flecked with small restaurants (some of which are probably involved in extracurricular underground work, I imagine) and a small police […]

I woke up early this morning to get to class on time.
I didn’t wake up out of my own free will, but out of the impossibility of ignoring my alarm clock’s buzzing sound cutting the enormous distance between itself and my bed. Every morning, I give up to the alarm clock and get on […]

I was preparing for my advanced microeconomics midterm exam (which I just completed moments ago) late last night in my research lab on campus. On my way out of Mercury Tower, where my research lab is located, I spotted a scorpion on the same asphalt path in which I was walking.
The scorpion, as big […]

Quotes:
i. “It’s not easy working with infinity.”
ii. “It’s just a major exam. No big deal.”
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Context:
I was sitting in my microeconomics class this morning, worrying about the upcoming midterm exam in two days from now. My professor was explaining, using calculus (oh, the horror!), the implications of a ‘weakly Pareto Optimal’ Economy (whatever that is supposed […]