The World Clock – Time Zones

The World Clock – Time Zones Today I tried this new feature (new for me anyway) called Quickpost – you open a website and if you find it interesting, jump to the Quickpost website and it automatically generates a blog entry with the title and the hyperlink...

Starting blogging again

After a long absense, I now think I should start writing in a constant manner. There are four entried sleeping in Typepad server labeled as draft. Writing the first draft is almost always fun and exciting. The problem is on the editing or reviewing stage – I...

Your body knows everything

Read and write a lot. This is a universal advice for anybody who wants to get involved in active writing. I am not sure if I want to write a fiction but definetely I want to be capable of articulating what’s going on in my body. Specially about the so-called gut...

旅は人を変えるか

今回3週間日本を離れてみた結果感じたのは、「旅」という抽象的で得たいの知れないものが自分を変えたりするようなことはありえないのだな、というあたりまえのことだった。違う環境では、違う行動と考え方をしたほうが楽に生きられる。だから試行錯誤してみるうちに、普段の生活でもこうすればいいんだ、と気づいたりする。そうやって旅行先でやってみたことを本国の生活でも応用したりすると、それが結果として「変わった」となる、ということだと思う。普段の生活で変化が不足している、のであれば必要なのは旅行やそれに準じた儀式ではなく、試行錯誤のほうだ。旅行先では、嫌...

Public Address in Japan

So I came back from Southern Africa and the first moment I felt “Ah, I really came back” – was when the public address begun. It started BEFORE I reach Japan – in the airplane. Altogether I heard four or five messages in Japanese. “We...