Author: mika

When I watch romantic scenes involving samurai, I have a hard time concentrating on the story.

That hairdo is mesmerizing.

It’d be a nightmare if Tokyo actually had a patent granting department.

For a few reasons.

Frogs seem perfect at the late-tadpole stage.

I often think of good ideas in my bathroom but it’s rare that I remember those ideas after leaving the bathroom.

Consume a large amount of garlic before going to sleep.

Loud music in my head wakes me up the next morning.

Looking at the spelling of stomachache makes the aching worse.

When Iceweasel tells me “Well, this is embarrassing”, I usually feel embarrassed.

The super moon photography is more mysterious than the super moon.

Mental exercise: Count how many cars passing by me are carpooling and how many are single drivers.

Turns out, this is actually not very hard.

Having ten layers of meta dreams stimulates creativity.

In the dreams at least.

Fear driven learning works well but only when the fear is not for learning but rather for the subjects being learned.

My mind is much more willing to switch to defining something previously considered to be safe to be now unsafe.

Optional vs completely optional ingredients.

I feel ok with skipping optional ingredients while completely optional ingredients make me feel compelled to find and use them.

Rain, coffee, warm lighting.

Productive day.

The necessity to type double n’s for n in Japanese sometimes never ceases to annoy me.

Seeing a frozen wine is like seeing a shrunken wool sweater.

Finally learned to enjoy vanilla ice cream yesterday.

An important milestone in my life.

Eating udon in front of Rubens Head of Medusa makes the dish less tasty.

Appendicitis is caused by little ants crawling into an intestine.

Life lesson 101.