Archive for the ‘Life’ Category
Recently I realized how complicated my life has become, despite the efforts I’ve been making to keep it as simple as I could. I usually carry iPad, iPhone, and iPod. That’s fine, as long I’m on the move. The trouble becomes present, when I come back home and start plunging them in.
For the sake [...]
It’s been bothering me to read about the news from Japan recently. Yes, there’s earthquake followed by tsunami, reconstruction is on its way (and I’m sure things will be back in normal sooner or later). There is, however, one thing which worried me a lot.
In some cities where tsunami hit the most, all the [...]
A friend of mine, who is originally from Japan (and is Japanese) and currently staying outside of Japan, contacted me to talk about things one can do for the sake of current situation in Japan from outside. My thoughts and answers are simple :
(1) Donate those organizations (such as Red Cross) who help [...]
I don’t think I have to explain what happened from the start. It was Friday morning when one of my colleagues informed me about it. Seconds later, I started trying to contact people in Japan.
First friends I could confirm their safety were the ones who were familiar to the Internet (more precisely, SNS). I [...]
A while ago, I wrote a post about an iPad app. from Financial Times. The title and URL link to articles would be sent to my twitter timeline via RSS. It seems that one person inside the Financial Times actually read my tweet.
That was not the end of the story. She (at least so [...]
Last weekend, I was going for shopping with a friend of mine (and by his car). On the way back to my flat, I saw some places I never actually had seen before, although they were not too far away from where I live now.
The reason is very straight-forward; I usually use subway or [...]
As new year has started, I saw many people around me making their own resolutions for the year. Likewise, I made my own as well, only that I would prefer calling it a set of plans; in order to achieve a goal, you need a path to get to there, hence the term “plan” seems [...]
While I went back to Japan this time, I bought rather many books (probably around 100) and shipped them to myself. While I’d be waiting for those books to arrive, I thought reading the books which occupies some space in my room would be a nice idea. It’s funny to think books as something very [...]
Using my vacation time, I was going to Okinawa for a while. This time it was almost 3 weeks long, and I was staying in Okinawa for more than 2 weeks.
The primary reason of my visit to Okinawa was to see my parents. I thought I should see them while they’re still well. Luckily, [...]
My current iPod is my 3rd iPod. I bought this iPod nano 4G about 2 years ago in Tokyo. It’s got wheel, can plan movie, and doesn’t have video recording feature (which I usually never need). Overall, I’m fairly satisfied with this model.
Recently Apple announced new iPod nano 6G. Somehow, I’m not yet convinced [...]