It was in a Japanese bar in Ginza. I booked this place for its high standard sushi without realizing that people were allowed to smoke in there. The cigarette smell was so repugnant that I proposed going to another restaurant, but she said she could live with it. She contacted me out of the blue […]
I had my first TOEIC test experience last week. In order to take the test, I went back to my “hometown” Shimane. For the current pandemic situation, ETS set a limitation on every test center. Considering the extremely high competitive rate of the test enters in the Tokyo area, I deliberately applied to Shimane’s test […]
I had a “friend” who I thought was really smart at one time. Both of us liked Japanese pop culture. When I was struggling with the university entrance examination, he went to Maryland. Before his departure, I asked him why he didn’t choose Japan. He said he could go to Japan whenever he wanted if […]
For the first time in my life, I got a prescription for sleeping pills. After entering the pharmaceutical industry, I learned that in many cases doctors don’t really know whether their patients really have certain diseases, but they are still willing to write prescriptions. People can obtain some serious medicines way easier than I thought. […]
I fired my Japanese language teacher Ms. Y last week. It was a sad decision that was the result of multiple issues. I scouted Ms. Y three months ago online. Normally, I would not accept online lessons. However, after considering the COVID-19 situation at the time, that was really the only option. We used to […]
Over the last several months, I have been fighting against negativity. Living in such a stressful society where even basic things like harmony are not an easy thing to get. Fortunately, I successfully got rid of most unnecessary negativity from my life. One thing I should point out is that I knew nobody would be […]
Recently, on a casual visit to a bookstore in Hibiya, a book drew my attention immediately. It was a personal diary written by a female psychiatrist named Mieko Kamiya, who passed away half a century ago. The diary started from 1939 when Mieko was living with her family on the east coast in the US. […]
In the past few weeks, I was working on a project which can make my workflow more efficient. Specifically, the Excel files our financial software creates have a problem. We have to wait several minutes, even over ten minutes in order to open a single file. I addressed the problem and decided to find a […]
It has been roughly 3 months since I joined my company. I have received a lot of special treatment such as being enrolled in the financial department straight away, which was extremely unusual and saved me at least 6 years. What I didn’t expect was that my supervisor even allowed me to use business hours […]