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Media Appearances in 2025
1. R&D Website In June of 2024, our team of three people won a company-wide new business challenge award. Thereafter, I spent the latter half of 2024 in Kenya spearheading the project, before returning to Tokyo in January 2025. Our efforts to implement a new business idea in Kenya were featured on Hitachi’s R&D website in November of 2025, and later, we were briefly highlighted on the global…
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The AI Bubble Might Hiss, Not Pop
I’m not the only one who has been talking about the impending pop of the AI bubble. GenAI (or LLMs) are way too expensive to train and run, but so far, there is no killer application that can cover the cost, let alone generate a profit for the investors. We are starting to see the signs of the bubble bursting, but rather than a loud pop, I think it will go out quietly with a hiss. I was reading…
Book Launch and Review: The Devil’s Horsewhip by Damion Spencer
The devil’s horsewhip is a plant found in many places throughout the tropical world. Its flowers will stick to your clothes and follow you wherever you go. The plant’s sticky property is a metaphor for death that seems to stick and follow the characters in the titular collection of short stories. The Devil’s Horsewhip by Damion Spencer One Saturday evening at the end of May this year, I…
Summer Holiday in Ishikawa: What to do With Kids
Raging Against the (Gen) AI Machine
It’s funny that I work as an applied AI researcher and yet here I am raging against AI. Generative AI to be specific, although I will just use the term “AI” in general throughout the blog post. I am an applied researcher, in that I take the AI algorithms developed by “pure researchers” and apply them to solve real-world problems for the company that employs me. In the course of my work, I may…
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Strep Throat Summer
I had a very busy Saturday, the day before I went down with symptoms of what would later be diagnosed as strep throat. It was my first time to get it and what a nasty infection. That Saturday (June 21st) , I woke up early to make breakfast, do laundry, vacuum and a myriad of other chores. I also made some fried rice for lunch. Then I changed into my running outfit. I fed Kai breakfast, got him…
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Books I Have Read in 2025
It’s hard to believe that we are almost halfway through 2025. A long while ago, I made a list of things that bring me joy, and every day I try to do the things on that list. Reading is one of those things, and I make a conscious effort to stop mindlessly scrolling on my phone and to instead turn to a book. Last year, a friend who left Japan left me several books, and I have been making my way…
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What I'm Cooking: Quick and Easy Japanese Meals for Busy Families
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2025 So Far
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Running 10K in the Hitachi Sakura Road Race
I have always wanted an excuse, a chance, to visit the famed Hitachi Seaside Park. On a perfect day, it would look like the image below that I have just lifted from a Rakuten Travel Page. Hitachi Seaside Park. Image from Rakuten Travel Page. And, after running 6km in the Nairobi City Marathon and 10km in the Nairobi Standard Chartered Marathon last year while I was in Kenya, I have been wanting…
A Decade in Japan: Coming Full Circle
I came to Japan at 26, a little naive but a lot optimistic. Life has worked out in some ways and in others, not so much. At the moment, I feel like I have hit some sort of ceiling, some stagnation, and not just because I failed the JLPT N1 for the second time. For the record, I actually passed the listening section. It’s also not because I have been waiting for the result of my permanent…
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A Brief Review of This Mournable Body by Tsitsi Dangarembga
(Just going through my drafts and publishing all my half-written work. I read this book in 2020.) This is a very complex novel, to be unpacked in a literature class. I suspect I barely scratched the surface when it comes to understanding it. While the book is titled “This Mournable Body”, the main character is actually never physically harmed, she’s more psychologically tortured. It’s all the…
My Year in Books - 2024 (From GoodReads)
8,888 pages read. 23 books read See link to goodreads page
Alternative Schools in Japan: The Option You Could be Looking For
Alternative schools could be a suitable option if you cannot afford the astronomical fees at conventional international schools, or the schools are located too far away, or your child just doesn’t fit in. They could also be an option for foreign parents staying in Japan for a short while, and their children need to continue their studies in English and would find it difficult to immerse…
2024 Goals
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My Running Journey in 2023
I am so proud of my running habit this year. I thought I would share some highlights from my running journey this year. Hopefully, it will also encourage you in your own fitness journey: be it yoga, walking, swimming, pilates or weights. Summary Total distance covered this year (up to Dec 28th, at the time of writing this post. Excludes walking/cycling): 326.6km Average per month including…
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2023: A Year in Review
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