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Nobody told you to do it: Climbing Mt. Fuji on a rainy day

I climbed Mt. Fuji on 14th of July. The weather condition was awful, although it wasn’t as bad as I expected, to be honest. How bad did I expect it to be? To the extent that it was impossible to climb Mt. Fuji. It was barely climbable. My friend Ashley, a Butoh dancer extraordinaire, climbed [...]

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30 day blogging challenge, done. (Day 30)

Tomorrow, I’ll climb the highest mountain in Japan – Mt. Fuji. I hope the weather will be fine despite the forecast telling me otherwise. In any case, I’m sure I’ll have great experiences and create beautiful memories. You might think it’s easier said than done, but I believe you can choose to make those experiences [...]

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Here’s another short post (Day 29)

Really, one of the most important lessons I should learn from this blogging challenge is that I should start writing a post before 11.30pm, at least when I’m committed to blogging daily! The Internet connection somehow gets unstable and I can’t post from my laptop and I’m forced to write it from iPhone. That’s what [...]

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Business idea: Argument Clinic (Day 28)

I’ve been learning about entrepreneurship a lot from $100 Business Forum by Chris Guillebeau and Pam Slim, and Question the Rules by Johnny B. Truant and Lee Stranahan in order to build a location independent business and my own empire. But at the same time, I’ve been struggling to find the most important element in [...]

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Experiencing through the imagination (Day 27)

“Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Japan needs something more than English (Day 26)

His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama states as follows in an interview for The Japan Times:
“In order to contribute to the world, Japanese must learn English. The reality is that the universal language is English. Due to the language problem, Japanese people can’t contribute enough. It doesn’t have to be perfect English! My English is [...]

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Come and dance with us (Day 25)

Because life won’t wait.

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In search of a dragon (Day 24)

Could this be a synchronicity? I saw on twitter that SQUARE ENIX is looking for some new members for Dragon Quest’s scenario writing team.
(By the way, twitter has been one of the major sources of awesomeness for me. If you haven’t signed up for twitter, you should do so now. It might take for a [...]

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Two free&beautiful spirits I met in Harajuku, Tokyo (Day 23)

On a beautiful Tuesday evening, I met Maude and Chales in Harajuku, Tokyo. Charles was playing the accordion and Maude was selling handmade accessories there. At first, I walked past them. But a few seconds later, I wondered who they were. I got curious about them.
I decided to come back and talked with Maude. She [...]

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How I learnt English (Day 22)

This post might be useful if you’re learning a foreign language. I’ll write about how I learnt English.
The way I learnt English is simple. After I decided to go to university in Australia, I started studying English with enthusiasm. To be able to study philosophy in English, one must get really good at English. That [...]

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