Articles by mika

Nikki

ippoutsuukou

A common solution to streets where only one car could pass through is to make it into a one-way street. I suggest we make a two-way bike only street.

kurikaeshi

Questions not to ask in a course evaluation survey for “repeat” courses:

Would you recommend this course to other students? Would you take this course again?

gengo

What’s it like to be the last native speaker alive?

kaban

My strategy for choosing a backpack: highest number of clever pockets per dollar spent.

kai

A dead bivalve foot massage on thin-sole shoes: highly recommended.

furooke

I like reading in a bathtub. Buoyancy is not required.

namiuchigiwa

I like wading.

But. Waves always come just when the sand settles down and I can almost see the creatures under water. It makes me feel like someone is intentionally causing waves at these intervals and I really wan to ask that person to stop.

So frustrating.

hachi

Got ready for a couple bee stings.

Got bitten by mosquitoes.

tsuba

I don’t think I should order Margarita at bars or restaurants in the future.

Ew, saliva?

gozensama

While I usually prefer local stores, there is one thing I can’t get in these stores: the empty and desperate atmosphere of 24 hour big chain grocery stores at 3AM.

It’s like being in a grocery store in a zombi movie but without the zombis.

tatakai

Being in a squash court makes me feel like a gladiator. A weak one.

shibire

When my arms fall asleep in my sleep, it wakes me up.

kaburimono

Why is it that people point to my helmet if I don’t take it off immediately after I finish biking? By the end of a bike trip, the helmet has partially become part of me and I’m sure that happens to everyone.

satou

I wonder how much trouble my aversion towards sugar and whipped cream saved me from when I was a child.

tansu

When my clothes are kept where they’re supposed to be, I often have a harder time finding them.

chienowa

Ethical problems are like a disentanglement puzzle after one piece has come off. I often don’t know whether there is supposed to be a solution to take the remaining pieces apart as well.

onnryou

My computer’s ability to control volumes in a non-predictive manner prevents me from exploring the web in class.

Thank you, Ubuntu.

syouka

If my digestive tract were transparent, would I be more conscious about what I eat?

I would certainly not be able to sneat his green tea ice cream.

me-ru

Dear my bike, Please stop popping the wheels.

Dear my rider, Please get me Armadillo.

Hey bike, Well, you’re not the one who has to bike.

Rider, I bike therefore I am.

…fine.

niteru

When people mistakenly call someone with a relatively popular name with another common name that doesn’t even sound similar, there is always a moment of awkwardness.

I wish I was better at remembering names.

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