BENKYO MEMO

I got three visas last week. They are for Hongkong SAR, Taiwan (ROC), and Russia (Far East). As everybody knows, a Chinese passport is basically useless by default. People can’t even use it to enter Hongkong and Macau, which are China’s own territories. This fact was making me feel naturally inferior to my Japanese fellows. […]

During the past several months, I began massively switching from Sony to Apple. Specifically, I adopted the iPhone, iPad, and Mac to replace the Sony equivalents. As a former Sony fanboy, the first reason I did this is a little bit silly. I was because Sony rejected my application during the early stage of my […]

In the past six months, I experienced one of the hardest periods of  my life. Job hunting was destroying me in every aspect. I earned almost zero credits and gave up writing papers in the last semester. I lost my part time job at a shrine which I cared about a lot. My savings was […]

At the beginning of October, I got the 10 years B-2 visa of the US. It’s just a tourist visa, so I won’t get a social security number even though I can potentially live in the US for more than 6 months legally. Unlike our lovely Japanese fellows, Chinese citizens such as myself are not […]

I have wanted to work at Bank of Japan (BOJ) since I was in high school. That’s why I chose Economics as my major and I am putting much emphasis on Macroeconomics. I always feel excited when I can have classes taught by professors who actually worked at BOJ or in the government. Today, I […]

I lost two years of my life because I repeated a grade twice when I was in high school. This experience left me behind other people my age. Now, I am about to be 26 years old and suddenly I figured out a shortcut recently. That is getting married as soon as possible. There are […]

Days ago, when I went into a cafe in Asakusa, a waiter guided me to a seat beside a group of foreign tourists. I refused instantly and demanded to be seated in a Japanese area on the other side of the cafe. The waiter seemed confused but honored my request. Then, I asked for a […]

For the sake of so-called globalization, many Japanese universities including mine hold more and more lectures in English instead of Japanese. Initially, I was satisfied with this movement and held a fairly high expectation of it. However, after experiencing English lectures worth 10 credits this semester, my mind was turned completely. It’s about the English […]