My curiosity
I heard that my associate went to the research institute for primate. I've also been there. There the primates live in a small mounta...
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I tend to root for the underdogs.
Yesterday, at last, the Japanese professional baseball games was beginning, but my favorite team was losing. Beside baseball, it is rare ...
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The paper doors.
In Kyoto, we can find many old and traditional buildings, and most of them are made by wood, paper and pottery. I also like to see such t...
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I'm a teacher.
There is some experiments only I can know in our laboratory, so I have to tell the new student who want to know about it. I know I'm ...
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The blooming viewing
Today, we went the bloom viewing. The main emphasis was not cherry blossoms, but a drinking party outdoors. Indeed, the cherry blossoms a...
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The snitch food.
To welcome the new students, viewing cherry blossoms, we eat outdoors every spring in our laboratory. This year, the bloom gazing will be...
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Takeshima or Dokuto
Between Japan and Korea, there is a territorial issue about the island "Takeshima 竹島 (Japanese)/ Dokuto 独島 (korean)". The islan...
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I read a novel.
After a long interval, I read a novel "Kappa 河童" which is written by "Akutagawa Ryunosuke 芥川龍之介", because I saw a ent...
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Today is the first working day.
Today is the first working day of my laboratory, regardless of it, most of us study something. But the new students coming, and the meeti...
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We can't lie today.
According to Japanese wikipedia(http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A8%E3%82%A4%E3%83%97%E3%83%AA%E3%83%AB%E3%83%95%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB), i...
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Brushing of teeth
I heard Mark D McGwire, who had a record for home runs in a major league season at that time, thought much of his teeth, because his fath...
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The grasses on my desk
On my desk, there are grasses. I had no custom to raise such plants, but a previous technician of our laboratory gave me 2 years ago, exc...
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I miss the warm days
This year is something strange. March is ending, but the temperature didn't get increased. Today, it is slightly warm though.
I ma...
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Tohoku high school
"Koshien stadium 甲子園球場" in Kansai is frequently compared to Japanese baseball sacred place. This stadium is oldest and most tra...
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The graduation.
In Japan, March is the season of the graduation, and it might be something special for the graduated students in this year. In my univers...
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The crisis for Japanese gravity center
Recently, I was struck by a phrase. The previous secretary of our laboratory was pregnant, and she walked at a tilt and looked laboring. ...
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Can we say "itadakimasu 頂きます"?
How do you say before eating?
Most of Japanese including me say "itadakimasu 頂きます".
"Itadakimasu" originally means ...
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Run faster
Today, I had meeting with my boss early in this morning.
I can get up on time without alarm clock with thinking that I get up at this...
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The stiff
The stiff topics are filling up Japan. In Japan, all people aren't seriously damaged the disaster, and the victims also may need to u...
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The nuclear power plants' accident
Yesterday, I wrote about atomic energy in my last entry, Please read it too if at all you are interested in.
By the way, I went to a ...
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