Science, Art, Music: A bottomless swamp

A blog of a Japanese PhD student who lives in Glasgow. グラスゴーに住んでる日本人博士生のブログ。

Entries from 2020-01-01 to 1 year

Things I Read During the Quarantine: Part 1, Introduction

Background In this post, I won't talk about any of the books I read during the quarantine but on the books I read in the past, and about my reading habits. The oldest book I remember reading is probably, everyone's favourite The Very Hungr…

Melon Bread doesn't have Melon in it.

お前は今まで食べたパンの枚数を覚えているのか? - ディオ ブランドー Do you remember how many slices of bread you've eaten in your lifetime? - Dio Brando I was missing eating メロンパン (Melon Bread), so I was planning to bake one since I wa…

May be the super-frog was eaten by the cat he abandoned - Part 2.5, the frog

The text www.gq.com Part 1 sciartmusic.hatenablog.com Part 2 sciartmusic.hatenablog.com My plan was to write about abandoning a cat, but I remembered that I had something about the frog that I didn't write about; so I just dump it here. It…

May be the super-frog was eaten by the cat he abandoned - Part 2, impressions

What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real - Super-frog saves tokyo by Haruki Murakami 目に見えるものが本当のものとは限らない -村上春樹著「かえるくん、東京を救う」より sciartmusic.hatenablog.com www.gq.com I hope you read my previ…

May be the super-frog was eaten by the cat he abandoned - Part 1, synopsis

'Underrstanding' is merely the sum total of our misunderstandings - Super-frog saves tokyo by Haruki Murakami 理解は誤解の総体にすぎない - 村上春樹作「かえるくん東京を救う」 Haruki Murakami was mentioned throughout various conversations, t…

Buckwheat tea! NOT Buckfast wine!

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee. -Abraham Lincoln I got few letters, so I wanted to write something how important it is to have something physical on your hands in the era of tra…

The Little but not so Little Prince

L'essential est invisible pour les yeux What is essential is invisible to the eye. 本当に大切なものは目に見えない My childhood dream was to become a pilot. It never came true; due to my stupid laziness. Maybe it's just, I didn't have coura…

Keep calm and drink tea.

小さな出会いを大切に育てていくことで、人生の中での大きな出会いになることもあります - 千利休 Every little chance meeting that you hold dear can lead to a pivotal, once-in-a-lifetime encounter. - Sen no Rikyu Three years in High school, I wa…

Zombies in a park

You might have imagined an apocalyptic world to be as zombies everywhere and people are making barricade in Walmart (TM, whatever), but then nope, this is the reality staying home and watching random shit on whatever the device that you ha…

太宰治 「斜陽」 を読んで

最近眠れない夜が続いていたので、良い機会だから太宰の斜陽と短編を何冊かを一気読みしました。 絶望文学なんていってやたら暗い話が多い太宰、斜陽もまた例外ではないのですね。 もう6年も前になるかな、五所川原の斜陽館、行きましたよ。冬だったけどね。…

haiku 咳をしても一人

Well, usually haiku is a poetry composed of three lines with 5 syllables - 7 syllables - 5 syllables with word indicating a season. Howver in the beginning of 20th Century, bunch of people tried to be free from the constraints. So no 5-7-5…

memento moriと一期一会

コロナウイルスの為に自宅待機なんでなんとなく一日中机にむかって心にふと浮かんでは消えていく色々な事をちょろちょろと下書きに保存してたのだけど、まるでとりつかれたのかのように筆がすすんでしまったので2年ぶりくらいに投稿します。 なんて徒然草の…