A friend of Tuji's talked about his planned trip to visit his friends who are very very old and said that it could be the last time they meet. This thought is scary. A lot beautiful things happened that started their friendship and one end of the friendship will just

It finally dawned on me that it takes longer for me to finish things that I expect. In addition, there is no upper bound on discrepancy. Therefore I need to be very very careful with time management. Always leave a very large margin.

Yesterday a friend of mine asked me about how to plan for watching sunset. One obvious way is to get to a desired spot 2 hours in advance and stay put. The assumption is that you have to get to a particular spot at the time of sunset to watch

Two Sundays ago, Tuji and his friends rode a boat to a tropical island. A local guide took us through bustling towns abound with motorcycles, to temples with praying people and to a seafood restaurant perched over cool waters. We ordered fish, crabs and shells from our best guesses within

Today I did a lot of service work (half-heartedly?!). Finally as I was heading to a seminar on a stairwell I saw a familiar face. Obviously this was our speaker! I would have known his name by reading seminar announcement before hand, if I had not been so busy crunching

Thus came the third time that we needed to grope in pitch darkness for a torch. We are getting the hang of the drill now. We had tried to turn on the light only to find that we had caused an explosion. Luckily this time it was just the circuit