There are many things that I often feel too embarrassed to do in public; playing piano, giving a speech, cleaning fish for cooking etc etc. I find it kind of nerve-racking yo choose music in front of my friends. I feel like I’m showing parts of myself that I don’t usually show to people..it’s hard to hide myself that are being expressed in anything (i.e. art, music) other than facial and maybe verbal expressions.

There are many many useful skills that I wish I had. I always thought that an ability to roar like a lion can be pretty useful when scary people or animals try to assault me. I wonder how a dog would react to my roaring…would they get scared by what they hear or would they trust what they see?

For a long time (actually until last week), I thought the word, lukewarm was “nuke”warm. I think the reason was probably because I was associating “nuke” with a japanese word for lukewarm “nukui”.

I can’t believe nobody corrected me on this for seven years. How embarrassing..I think I’m gonna start telling people that the water is “nuke”warm when it actually is boiling hot (like nuclear warm = hot). This way, only those who pay enough attention to me can avoid getting burnt.

There have been almost no cockroaches in my kitchen. It’s getting pretty cold here and that’s probably why.

One of the last few roaches I saw decided to jump off from the kitchen counter. The counter is at least 1m high but the roach started running as soon as it landed. I wanted to ask it how it felt when it was falling down. What does it feel like to fall off a cliff without thinking you’re gonna die?

My friend was talking about this place where they remove each piece of your hair with thread..I’m really curious. How does it work and why is it better than doing it with a twizzer??

People often say those who are near-sighted are book worms. I think that’s almost like saying people who have flat butts are deligent workers.

I like the sound of both argments but I don’t think they’re necessarily true…unfortunately.

Deep sea creatures are fascinating. Some of them like viperfish are intimidating looking. I was thinking that when a thing looks scary, it’s because it wants to scare its preys or whatever – but I thought that deep sea creatures, whether prey or predators, couldn’t see anything…what’s the purpose of looking so frightening then?

There are some people who hate abbreviations used in chat programs like u instead of you. I have a suggestion for these people. If they get an SMS saying “msg me when you get to the station” or something like that, I think they should bring a bottle of monosodium glutamate and pour it onto the msger.

yumm…MSG..

People talk about how humans differ from the other living things; humans have cultures, higher intellectual capacities, a wider variety of emotions, etc etc.

I say that one of the differences is that humans think least frequently about dying from getting eaten. I feel like almost all the other living things (excecpt for trees and a couple other things..) fear becoming preys of other organisms – of course, we becomes preys of viruses and bacteria quite often but still, it’s not like we are contantly alert so as not to get “eaten” by something else.

I made a mistake that I should never have as a nutritionist – I bought a cucmber thinking it was a zuccini.

Had Mako been there when I cut it to put in my soup, I know I would have totally pretended that I meant to cook cucmbers in soup.

Another corny movie idea.

View the earth as a prison for another planet/world that is closer to ideal. It is quite liberal compared to jail cells (maybe the ideal world prohibit putting prisoners in cells…) but still you encounter people who are violent and may get beaten up etc in this prison. Everyone tries to make rules but without prisoner watchers, it is rather chaotic. Also, humans who die young have actually been sentenced for lighter punishment in the previous life in the ideal world.

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Even if the earth IS a prison of an ideal world, I still think this world is cool..

I love brie. I’ve been eating it every day for the last 8 days..my pouch is made from brie. My butt is made from Parmesian cheese; my boobs from fresh mozzarella balls. And my thighs are made from Mayonaise.

I love dairy products.

A fun game to play when you’re kinda bored.

Come up with a fish name that sounds maybe true but maybe not – have the other person guess whether that is a true fish name or not. Then, google.

Mako beat me the first time we played this game. His suggestion was “Slimefish” – I guess wrong…

Everyone has his/her unique fear. I got one too. I can be pretty forgetful sometimes and I’m afraid that I’d someday forget to wear pants (I mean trousers, british english speakers!) or a skirt and notice that like 10 minutes after I leave my house. In fact, I sometimes check whether I’m wearing something to cover me up while I’m walking outside and get sweaty for a couple seconds.

I wonder what I would do if that happens though. While I’m young enough that this is not likely to happen, I think I’d start acting crazy. I know I’d get more attention but people would at least get a wrong idea that “oh she’s insane” rather than thinking “wait..did she forget to wear pants??” I gues this is a strange pride but I’d rather want people to think I’m crazy than I’m forgetful.

I remember to feed my fish when I’m eating fish.

Where did these pigeons in our underground subway station come from? Did they fly through the dark tunnel from an outside station? Or did they take the subways at some point? Or did they take the elevators (the only way to reach that platform)?

When I tell Japanese people that English speaking people say “happy as a clam” and explain why, 10/10 times they start laughing pretty hard. I guess we usually look at clams nothing but a delicious food and when told to personify them a little bit, it just knocks off the brake in our brain for laughter.

I wonder if non-Asian people’s eye lids also puff up in the morning after they fall asleep, crying. My eye lids get huge.

I heard if I don’t rub the eye lids, they don’t get big in the morning but it’s hard not to touch my eyes when they’re covered with liquid.

I often encoutner mojibake (characters turning unreadable) when trying to read something in Japanese online, It’s an annoying thing when it happens on a computer but it becomes interesting when it happens in reality.

When I write or stare at same characters over and over (like caligraphy), the character starts to look like letters that I’d never seen. My mind gets so bored that it start recognizing the characters from different perspectives and the character becomes illegible. It’s scary but really interesting..

I had a nightmare where my school was making zombi virus. They were clever about where to hide though. They hid them behind an elevator. In my nightmare, some robbers found out that the elevator rotates and when the elevator with them inside came back around to face the hallway, they had turned into zombis!

That day, I think I saw an emergency light blinking on one of the research floors at my school. Sometimes, it amazes me how imaginative my mind can get in my sleep…