Category: Thoughts
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Stopping over
I’ve moved from Japan to Nashville, TN. So far, it will only be for one year. A stopover, but in this one year, so many things have happened. I started the year as one person, but I believe I will be much different by the time it ends. There are plenty of thoughts in my…
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Of starts and ends
Time flies especially in this time and age that we are in. COVID has robbed everyone of time, memories, and of life. I have been in Japan for more than 5 years now and to be honest I never really thought I would be staying this long here. From the get-go, I never had the…
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Ricoh GR and change
Nothing says change like the seasons and nothing beats the changing of seasons in Japan. As the once dead trees start blooming, Japan turns from an almost desolate landscape to a world straight out of fantasy. Sakura, cherry blossoms, signify more than just change though, they also signify the fragility of life, and within comes…
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Working with Coordinate Reference Systems or “how to get the correct distance between 2 coordinates?”
When dealing with geographical data, there comes a time where you would need to measure distances. Sure you can always just compute the distance between the traditional lat/long values and you’ll get something. However, it is usually something very small and not at all descriptive of the real world distances between those points. Then you…
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Getting into cycling
Ever since coming to Japan, I’ve only ever borrowed bicycles and occasionally rode the very ubiquitous and iconic Mamachari bicycles. I never really saw the appeal of owning a bicycle even living in a somewhat rural area of Nara. Some reasons: However, ever since the pandemic, I haven’t really traveled on trains. While the virus…
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Mug shot(?) style photography
I’ve been listening to some Run the Jewels songs recently (Nobody speak with DJ Shadow is exquisite) and the photos/mugshots at the end of Legend has it, caught my attention. But it was the only one of that kind of portrait photography that I saw. Until I saw ran across 400TX, an Instagram page that…
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Joker (2019) One of the best movies I’ve ever seen
Everything was great about this movie. From the cinematography, where every scene felt like a mesmerizing photograph, to the soundtrack, everything fits perfectly. There were no boring parts for me, every beat (or everytime Arthur was beatup), slowly built up into a crescendo that culminated into a summit of violence that you couldn’t really help…
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Goodbyes suck
But leaving things better than when you found them makes it suck a bit less. Goodbyes in any form are always painful, regardless of how or why it happened. Through some twist, the people, things, events, that made the biggest impact on your life, their goodbyes hurt the most. Even when the goodbye is the…
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3018 or how I setup my SUICA card on Apple Pay
It is official, i am living in the future. I had a SUICA card because I found one lying around (i know, it is so un-Japanese). I’ve been using it for the past few months and I’ve always run into the problem of not having enough money when riding buses or trains. Also it can…
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I bought a camera…
It’s my birthday. Another birthday that I get to spend in a foreign country away from family and friends. But sometimes you get to find happiness in the most mundane things. It just so happens that I found mine in buying a new camera. Jokes aside, it’s weird that in grad school i’m one of…