白い巨塔(The White Tower)

Why does it take simple things like a walk beside the water, a touching drama series, even a relaxing chat to make one appreciate how wonderful life is? To be able to see, hear, smell, taste, feel, to have family and friends who care for one another, to have a roof to sleep under and even warm clothes - these things are always around us but often fade into the background. Excuse my philosophical rambling, but it is at times like this when I ask myself, what is the purpose of work? What's the point of engineering things when emotions are not involved? Granted, the satisfaction of seeing code run successfully or working silicon gives me a sense of fulfillment, but where's the passion, where's the imagination that frees the mind and lets it soar? 白い巨塔　or "White Tower" is the best drama series I've seen in a long, long time..... filled with good guys who are not 100% good, and bad guys who aren't all that bad - in other words, they're human, and each of us can perhaps hear echoes of ourselves in the characters. Thoroughly absorbing.

Transportation for the masses

There are few things more frustrating than running to the bus-stop in order to catch a bus which turned up ten minutes' late, and then arriving at the train station just in time to see the train move off. Given that if the bus had been on time, I would not have to wait 33 minutes for the next train and risk missing my appointment.
Fortunately all went well...

Yummy ramen in Tokyo

天下一品,
originally uploaded by bagelfire.

If only yx could taste this : ) 崇さんが連れてくれた東京の天下一品と言うラメン屋さんで食べたの。

Hajimemashite! はじめまして！

First entry of the year - feeling very inspired after a trip back home
and to Tokyo. There're so many nice blogs out there and hopefully this
will become one in time.