Category: Diary

I’m living in the suburbs now with my parents, but I plan to move downtown if I get a chance. The reasons for why I don’t want to live in the suburbs anymore can be listed as follows. First, I have not yet experienced living downtown throughout my whole life. I think it is the […]

In the first place, I want to subscribe to some famous newspapers or magazines, like Financial Times and Wall Street as English materials. After I checked their prices, I gave up instantly. Then, I recognized that Amazon started offering a service called “Kindle Unlimited” in Japan. After a trial of several days, I think it’s […]

I went to Nanking on July 3rd for an examination being held in Southeast University. It is a really nice place for me because, it was a part of National Central University. When Nanking was the capital of China, it was the best university in China. Although my hometown is Shanghai and I had my […]

Christmas was a Christian festival, but nowadays, Christmas is more than a day for Christmas. Even in the far east, almost everyone looks forward to Christmas. In my opinion, they just want to find a reason to celebrate something. Actually, they have many of their own ways to celebrate Christmas. For example, some Chinese people […]

Today I applied for my second TOEFL test, and the day will be in March. This time I have to get a really high score in order to apply to the top universities of Japan. Since the examining fee is expensive, I had better to make it in one shot. This time I want to […]

There was a question that has bothered me for a long time. I couldn’t figure out why Japanese universities require me to get English skills as high as in the US. Right now it’s my third-year, I have to gather the information about the professors I want to follow in the graduate school. In order […]

When I study, I like to listen to light music, like the ones played in cafes. Today I listened to Tenmon’s works, who often collaborates with the Anime producer Makoto Shinkai. They haven’t made a lot of works but they focus on quality. The stuff they made had a great influence on me. I have […]

Today is my birthday, I’m 23 now, still stuck in undergraduate school. When I went to Japan for a test, I met a western guy who was twenty-sin still studying as an undergraduate. As he went to where he liked, maybe it is not so bad. And by the way, for many years I have […]

Before noon, I followed the schedule I made, as always. I reviewed the econometrics which I thought were really hard. After lunch, I watched anime “Osomatsu” and then I took a nap until 3pm. I woke up unwillingly. Then I practiced my oral Japanese by imitating the Japanese shows. This was the part I liked […]