the qualia journal

There's something about U.K. that resonates deep with me. Maybe it is the unpretending attitudes of people. Perhaps the spirit of unders...

On the plane to London Heathrow, I had to write several essay manuscripts. Theoretically, it was possible to do them after arrival, and make...

The reader of this blog might recall that recently I was stranded in Munich for 4 days due to the volcanic ash cloud crisis. Here I go to Eu...

When you are a child, there are many things that leave an impression on you. As you get older, you grow out of these things. But then one da...

As I walk home at night, these days, I notice that the moon is getting fatter every day. What a dramatic change! To think that shifts in th...

Even if a book sells a million copies, it would at best reach a very small proportion of the population. The same is true for a mega-hit fil...

It seems like another job will take me Europe again within a few days. This time I will be flying to U.K. I have some trepidations naturally...

I am in Nikko, where a series of temples were build in the early 1600s for the first Shogun of the Tokugawa government, Ieyasu. Now it is a ...

When I arrived in the U.K. to do two years' research in Cambridge, the first thing to do was to find a home. I looked around, and found ...

I am still recovering from my experience of being stranded in Europe for 4 days due to the volcanic eruption. I could have enjoyed it as an...

A great sigh of relief was emitted from my mouth, or rather, my soul, as I finally made it onto the Lufthansa flight to Tokyo. I was sitting...

Today the Lufthansa started operating its long distance flights, despite the still existing problem of the volcanic ash. I therefore would h...

I am still stuck in Munich due to the distant echo of the vigorous activities of the volcano Eyjafjallajökull. Last evening, in an effort to...

In the morning I went to the airport, to make changes to my reservation. As the telephone lines are always busy, one needs to go to the airp...

Yesterday, I wrote something which, with the benefit of hindsight, seemed to foretell what to happen. "In any case the soft beauty of K...

From Frankfurt, I flew to the ancient Polish capital of Krakow. Already on the way to the city center, I was seized by the poignant beauty o...

On the last evening in Dresden, I went to a chamber concert in the Semperoper. An gentleman looking like Albert Einstein walked onto stage, ...

I was walking along the streets of Dresden, and found a bookshop. Dropping in, I wanted to by a Reclam. The yellow cover and its small size ...

Though my present life style is hectic and occupied, it does not have a regular schedule. I don't go to the office at 8 o'clock ever...

I am in Dresden now. On the way to Frankfurt from Tokyo, I watched "Avatar". I was meaning to see this blockbuster film, but did n...