Recently I happened to read the news from Osaka Japan in which the mayor of Osaka, Hashimoto-san aggressively criticized a reporter for being ignorant of the background of a problem concerning the national anthem. When I saw a press movie …

"A kiss strikes like lightening, love passes like a storm." The message was written on the package of an Italian chocolate. Such epigram makes me smile during my hard work. It is a kind of refreshment. Ah, I am so exhausted these days. Alt…

It is freezing cold these days. I am writing this with a new Macbook that I recently bought here. The keyboard is not the international one, but still operable. As like the keyboard, funny thing is when I have a dream, sometimes I am speak…

I was in Florence. This was the first time in my life I had almost cried in the museum. I saw Sandro Botticelli's two masterpieces, 'The Birth of Venus' and 'Primavera'. The Genuine inheritance of human made me feel kind of religious rever…

I was terribly busy this month both officially and privately. What a little bit impressed me was a small farewell/celebration party. I just got the invitation from my colleague (A) to celebrate a colleague (B) who will leave here to be a b…

I was hearing a radio broadcasted from USA during my desk work. The commentator was mentioning that people living in city areas feel three times happier than the people in rural areas, nonchalantly suggesting that you should rather move to…

Well done and congratulations to me! I got the most prestigious Japanese fellowship for working abroad! So far I have succeeded to get 7 fellowships, some of which I had to refuse to accept because of overlapping the period of fellowships …

On Tuesday this week, burglary entered our working place and stole rhinoceros's horns from the museum. Next day, three news articles cynically reported that you can freely enter the building because there is no security system! Those horns…

claustrophobia. boast, make a boast of one's empty boasts. coined the nickname. runs everything,come back to you once more.pay(give) honor(homage) to. contender.

Description of happenings so far. 1. My watch stopped due to flat battery, which had lasted for about five years. 2. I attended a faculty meeting as a deputy of my boss, in which we decided to take PhD students for us this fall. 3. I start…

Last week I had been in Edinburgh on business. The atmosphere of the city was amazingly dark-fantasy medieval town, kind of Harry potter's world. The weather changed so much every 1 or 2 hour to rain, cloudy, and clear sky. After work, we …

I recently found a very very great TV CM that is produced by JR Kyushu. The first watching made me almost cry when I was in the working place. The long version of the CM (~3 min) was the best one I saw, where over 10,000 people living in K…

I had been in Montreal for almost whole the last week, meeting exciting people and topics. By talking with very motivated people day and night, I got both an encouragement and reflection. Those encounters were the greatest ones that I ever…

As someone called our workplace in the early morning, I answered the phone. She did not said her name and just 'Is Bridget here?' So, I hung on the line and looked for Bridget but she was not around. Then I replied 'Sorry, she is not here …

Recently, I watched the newest version of 'How do yo like Wednesday'. The instant impression after watching was somewhat sad and disappointment. They just got old with babble and laughter..Their talk lost the power to entertain and encoura…

When I am bothered by paperwork like writing for getting grants, I always feel uneasy without my regular works. So, to write or not to write, that's my eternal conflict! This year is my last year to be able to apply some types of grants th…

About 10 d holiday. Time and memory flies, and piles of works are awaiting me...

I recently got a special helper only working for me. Yesterday, since she failed my work, I got to recover that. It was so though because I sat up all night to complete my work before taking holidays. Now, I am preparing stuffs for holiday…

Chris said that the world in the lord of the ring is a most ideal peaceful world for him if it could exist. Another fantasy story, Worm Ouroboros is often compared with the lord of the ring, which he recommended me because I love the ambie…

My day starts by having a chocolate croissant and a cup of coffee. In my university day's in Japan, the pattern was almost the same, a chocolate bun, calorie mate, and canned coffee. The habit of mine is basically that once I love somethin…

Early morning, I had to talk with my boss about today's celebration. I just bought some snacks and japanese apricot sake last Saturday. Besides this, I asked about an e-mail that I sent last week to gently make clear my contribution in ano…

A loud music with drums and shouts were approaching to the street near the cafe where we sat talking. 'Hmm, they're gonna kill me if they find me.' I joked. Chris seemed curious that march and left his seat to take some pictures for that. …

In this sunny day and clear sky, soft breeze sends slight sweet scent of flowers as I wheel my bicycle. I love this season in which I was born. Most people forget or don't know what day it is today, but only a precious person cares of and …

Finally, this week, I got acceptance of my work that is the first work here for me (and the first correspondence) as well as in our workplace after moving to the Univ. Today I announced to celebrate this in a rather reserved manner...For t…

最近、辞めるのがはやりだ。若いボスがプレッシャーや人生の意味を考えて本職をやめたり、同僚が別の職種に就くために職場を去って行く。今週もまたひとりこの世界を去ると決めた人がいる。この世界(あるいはどんな職にしても)去って行く人の兆候は、日頃の…

どうもこちらの日本人の同僚の方がdepressionのようだ。仕事の哲学がないままに、現実をつきつけられすぎたのかもしれない。 日本の現状は、私の生き方や今後の人生の変更を間接的に迫る。今後の政策を考えると、もう将来の落ち着き場所を日本に求めるのは少…

一、二日で２つの別件の英文書類を提出し、報告し、それが終わると同業者の会合。その後は無意識に気が抜けたのか、帰ったら自然と身体がベットに向かう日が続く。はやり気力というのは、体力と直結していると思う。 提携先のボスと昼食を伴にして仕事に関し…

意外と感動がないものだ。私の仕事がとりあえず一つ世に近々出る手前の段階となり、こういう状況になると感慨深いと期待していたのだが。今回は仕事場が移転して初、同僚を出し抜いて初、私が独力でやった初の仕事なのに心が動かない。やはり仕事は大きくな…

このところこちらの今時期にはめずらしく暖かい晴れの日が続いて、春の匂いすら感じる。匂いといえば、先週からメンスのあの独特な匂いがただようなか仕事をしている。病的で、そこはかとなく気分を落ち着かなくさせる匂いだ。狭い空間に長時間ともにいると…

年末に弟が車の事故を起こしかつ失業する。さんざんな年末年始だったろう。原因は上司の横暴を彼が見かねて意見したことのようだ。日本的世間あるいはムラ的社会というものがあることに哀れみを覚える。私は故郷のいつまでも停滞したそういうところが哀しく…