Tokyo Station Everyone told me that Tokyo is crowded. Obviously it is, and yet, there is no reason to be scared about that. They have also mentioned that Tokyo station is crowded and you get lost there.

Start of a fabled trip! Yes, it the first image is a drab view of a grey morning outside the window of a Polaris Lounge at Terminal 6: LAX on purpose! I find it ironic the amount of time I spend at different

More Words It is common knowledge that as we learn a new language our vocabulary improves with time. There are a lot of study on the subject and we can test something similar, AKA our writing prowess using

Persepolis During the week, my younger daughter got a cross word puzzle assignment from school where the content is banned books. Parents were asked to help them a little bit with the cross word puzzle

Gamification of Learning Alright! My Japanese learning is 2 weeks deep now. I am using a variety of tools but currently liking Duolingo a lot, mostly because of its gamification nature. I have purchased

Are We Gamers? Recently @beaker007 forwarded me an article about the web-3 gamers, the world I spend a lot of time in. It raises a serious question that I have rarely seen articulated in this lucid way.

Galápagos Syndrome I was recently reading a lot of Japanese industry and corporate culture and how it is impacting its society and people's lifestyle. It is a fascinating subject. The term Galápagos Syndrome

However! There are many benefits in engaging in writing a blog at hive. I have written 700+ post at hive blogging platform, I hope that probably have some impact on how I write and interact. It is nearly

So What? So the crypto market is suddenly down and hive flash-crashed to 6 cents for a few seconds, and still down at 14 cents. So What? Nothing happens to you and me unless you jump the gun and do something

Long Term Commitment Yesterday, I did a short post about learning Japanese. I have no idea if I will ever be successful in saying 2 sentences in Japanese ever or not! However, the interesting thing was

Learning Japanese Okay! I know this might sounds crazy and I know I may not be able to make much progress, but I am going to give it a try. Mind you I have tried to learn a new language as an adult, Spanish

Importance of Taking a Break Recently I have been looking into @holoz0r 's Hive Report Card. If you haven't seen it, go do it now, because it will tell you lot about the following: Yourself People you

KE Update I first wrote about KE Ratio in August 2024, till date that is probably the most useful thing I have written at hive and about hive. Over time I have written multiple posts about KE and they

Shinto I have a Japan trip coming up late October to early November. I am thinking about visiting several random places in the country which is not typical tourist spots. Yes, I will have to go to Tokyo,

Hive History I have recently learned that it is not very easy to track your hive account growth history. There are no publicly available user friendly tools to do that. Thanks to Marky, and @beaker007

Confidence and Commitment Couple of days back I published a post Splinterlands and hive health check up for top 2000 Splinterlands players. These are original plots that I like to produce and I am producing

Health Check It is time for an another health check up for SL players. The last time I did this was in March 17, 2025. I believe this is an important check to do from time to time. After all hive paid

a dictator's playbook I used a lower case on the title on purpose. I am trying to be soft. Our orange colored heavenly father at the white colored house want us to comply. So we will :) This weekend I

Land Resource Prices It has been months since I have written a post about Splinterlands. There are multiple reasons for it. First, I have been travelling a lot towards the end of the summer and early fall.

It is ugly out there As you all know if you follow my blogs, that I work in the oil and gas industry. For the last 9 months, which is basically all this calendar year, oil and gas industry have been going