Whenever I go back to Japan, I feel like I came back to ‘reality’. I think I finally figured out why — it’s because I hear a lot more footstep sound (and other noise too) there than in the states.

Noise really changes how I perceive this world.

The little purple flower piece on the right side of the banner is bothering me — it looks too wet. It looks like a flower tongue — I’m afraid that that purple piece can actually move around and lick other flowers.

Is it ethical for vegetarians to eat carnivorous plants? What if they’ve got empty stomach?

Thanks to a zit outbreak, I’ve got a unibrow and a monroe beauty mark.

How sexy.

A good friend to have: someone who can sense whether police cars have their sirens on because it is necessary or because it’s more convenient for them — and can turn off their sirens if the latter is the case.

I’m always suspicious..

There is a way to estimate the powerfulness of virus. The method is called plaque assay. When you infect a lawn of cells with virus, the site where the virus attaches will have dead cells. The newly synthesized virus will infect the neighbor cells and kill them as well. In several days, you see plaques of dead cells in the lawn of cells. The more plaques you have, the more powerful the virus is.

I was reading an instruction of how to “grow” virus. There were a lot of typos like, instread of “big” dish, “bib” dish. As I read on, I came across “plague assay”.

I suppose that that is a more appropriate name but…it made me feel like I’m very evil.

If the rain could be warm — like 37-40C — during the winter or summer, I wonder if people would be more willing not to use umbrellas. It’d be like a warm shower.

I guess people’d get cold as the water takes away the heat afterwards but that can be solved by just wearing bikinis while outside and wipe off the water after getting inside the building and wear normal clothes.