Great ideas always start weak

by | Sep 13, 2013 | Post

I recently started riding a manual-transmission motorcycle, switching from the previous automatic-transmission scooter. The motorcycle has no place to carry luggage, is heavy and long, sounds like a tractor than a motorcycle (I named it Tract-One) and the biggest of...

A job changes you. Suck it up.

by | Sep 11, 2013 | Post

A university professor advises potential students to not apply for a prestigious (=expensive) university, probably including his own. Seriously. Why? Because due to the increasing tuition cost, they won’t be able to pursue their dreams after graduation. The burden of...

Attracting debris

by | Sep 9, 2013 | Post

I am standing inside a muddy pond. I am surrounded by all sorts of debris—rotten leaves, branches, plastic bags, pet bottles. This is my mental world, when I am right in the middle of negative emotions. I try to let the debris go away by swinging my arms. It doesn’t...

Radiation and Akira

by | Sep 8, 2013 | Post

Two thoughts on 2020 Tokyo Olympics: 1. The real agenda is (still) to fix the nuclear disaster I honestly thought Tokyo never had a chance because of the radiation that is getting out of control from a nearby idilic city called Fukushima. But whatever was going on...