Archive for the ‘Life’ Category
Yesterday was the day of TEDxVienna 2011. It was more than 12 hours conference in total. While my memory is still fresh and while I’m feeling my excitement, I’ll try to write down what I thought.
As stated in the previous post, this was my first face-to-face TED conference. Unlike watching individual movies on digital [...]
Partially because I first arrived in Vienna in late November, my image about its climate is simply cold (or at least it could get really cold). In the summer time, I usually feel very alive, while many people around me complain that it’s too hot.
Things were fine for me until last week. The temperature [...]
My latest toy is something I thought about buying more than a year ago, and I eventually decided to go for an iPad; a device called “Kindle” from Amazon. I was sure they would release something before the Christmas, and when I heard the news (or rumor) that newest Kindle would be Android-based and full-color [...]
A while ago, I read about a knife, which does not need to be sharpened for a long time. A Japanese company called IHI, which is famous for producing aerospace related products (such as rocket), developed a technology that could be applied to daily life, such as in the kitchen.
Of course, I became interested. [...]
Just like last year, we had a public chakai (tea ceremony) in Vienna. Unfortunately, I wasn’t as prepared as previous year; the week before this tea ceremony was an absolute zoo, and I was constantly rushed by my assignments from the MBA program.
Shortly after I submitted my 6-weeks assignment, I got a call from my [...]
About few weeks ago, my sister told me, it made her feel really great to have done cleaning her room. Before that, I used to sweep once a week and cleaned the kitchen once in a while. There seemed to be some room for improvements.
When I was in Japan, I used to use something called [...]
A friend of mine recently wrote about how convenient the kindle is, a reading device provided by Amazon. After writing to his wall, he suggested I should go for one as well, given that I understand many of the contents provided bat kindle store.
I have to be honest here. Before I decided to go for [...]
It’s been more than 1.5 years since I came to Austria for my job. Things have been great, and I like both my work and the city. There is, however, one small issue in this. Every Friday afternoon, shortly before I finish my work for the week, I had to ask myself the same question [...]
There are many “switches” to remind me of the time in the past. This evening, I was listening to some old music to which I used to listen in the high school time. I couldn’t help myself thinking about the places I’ve been and things I’ve been doing. So I took a night walk in [...]
I’ve been bothered by what seemed to be a cold or a flu at first. It started as headache, followed by fever and soar throat (and coughing). One of the first things I did was, of course, to go to a doctor. Because I’ve been caught by virus in Europe few times in the past [...]