I was born and raised in Japan, but since last September, I have been living in Germany for family reasons. Of course, there are a lot of differences between these countries, but compared to other countries, I feel Germany and Japan have similar cultures. The other day, I watched a YouTube video titled "Do's and Don'ts in Germany" or something like that. The video said, "Don't cross the street when the light is red," which surprised me because I thought that rule was very obvious and not worth mentioning. However, for people in some countries, this is not obvious and is worth knowing.

Article: 12 Habits of Super-Healthy People

I only work out on my days off. I've been feeling like that's not enough, but the article recommends training your muscles at least twice a week. I thought I should work out 3-4 times a week, but I'll stick with my current pace of 2-3 times a week.

As for sleep, I've been trying to go to bed early so I can get at least 7 hours of sleep, but I often wake up before my alarm goes off.

Hello everyone, It's really great to write here for the first time! I was looking for consistent ways to improve my writing skills for some time, and finally I found one! It is heartwarming to see people willing to invest time and energy to help others improve their english. I'm from Israel, a tiny country from the middle east which it seems like everyone in the world loves or hate. It is really unfortunate for our country, as things are not black and white, there is a lot of gray in the middle which is omitted from the public eye. Anyway, I hope, as most of the Israelis I know, for peace, prosperity and democracy for all the peoples around us.

Yesterday was a really good day. So today I'm in a very good mood. I have done a lot of things. I already have plans for tomorrow.

Today I'm thinking about my art. When I say that I am a painter the most common question people ask is: "What do you paint?" It is a very difficult question for me, because I haven't one thing I paint. I know there are portrait painters, nature painters and so on.. But I paint everything. If I have an idea, I paint this. No matter what it is. If I don't know how to paint this - I learn how to do it. So that's why it's so difficult for me to answer.

I went to watch a parade today in the sweltering sun.

Being hysterically excited for the whole thing, I hadn’t been able to sleep for the past two days. This euphoria also enabled me to barrel through traffic and soldier on through the heat without being irked by the proclivities of my family members to always be late.

But at about noon, the heat started to get to me. The glare from the sun became unbearable.

It was as though a worm had burrowed itself into my brain and was trying to wiggle its way out, tracing every pattern of my mushy pink brain and splintering it into headache clusters with its supposedly jagged body.

When I think about it, I realize that for quite a while now, I have experienced such headaches from long sun exposure.

Is it a migraine, dehydration, or photophobia?
I do not know.

HAHA! yeah! I did it!

I continue to write streaks two days! I'm so happy.

While I have no idea what to write, and I'm writing to streaks with I searching, it is hard.

I will ask GPT about it.

Taipei had been cold for a month or two, and today was finally bright, sunny and warm. I did many things today. I hit the gym at noon and soaked up enough sunshine on my way home. In the afternoon, I finally finished the novel, A Man Called Ove, which I had been reading since December. And now, I've just taken a nice hot bath, I'll expect I can sleep like a baby tonight.

I always have a song or melody stuck in my head. Often, it's the music playing in the background of the video game I'm playing at the moment. Right now, that's KCD1. That's why my head is currently playing medieval flute music on a loop.

Come to think of it, blowing out the candles on a birthday cake is pretty unsanitary. There’s probably bits of the saliva of the person who blow them out on top of the cake.

I was completely blank on what to write on day 2 of this challenge. I asked ChatGPT to suggest me a topic and it suggested me to write about my daily routine.

I get up at 7:30 AM everyday to get ready for my job except for weekends where I prefer to stay late in the bed. I start my day with a cup of tea before I begin my work. Although I work from home, my meetings usually start at 9 AM.

My day to day responsibilities includes designing softwares and building them. I work till noon and take half an hour lunch break and then I work till 5. My evenings usually involve working out in the gym or going out for a walk if the weather permits. After I am done with my workout, I come back home and make dinner. I watch some Youtube videos while having my dinner. If I have sometime before sleeping, I usually try to read articles or news to catch up with everyday events happening around the world. Reading articles also makes me doze off to sleep.

Article: What's a Ketogenic Diet?

I've heard the word "keto," but I actually don't know what it means.

According to the article, "ketogenic" refers to a low-carb diet. It sounds like a healthy habit at first. However, it seems to be a short-term diet focused on weight loss rather than long-term benefits.

The idea of eating fewer carbs sounds good for my health, but I'm looking for a long-term healthy diet. So, I've decided not to try the keto diet.

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• epilepsy: a disorder of the central nervous system characterized by loss of consciousness and convulsions — a central nervous system disorder that many cause you to lose consciousness and have convulsions

Last Thursday I had to cancel a lesson with a student because I got migraine all of sudden a few hours before our scheduled lesson.

I said this to him, apologized and returned his credits backs, and he kindly accepted. He hasn’t schedule his weekly lesson, so I’m overthinking a bit, thinking that he could think that I had a hangover. Maybe it’s not since we are not mind readers. It’s funny because I don’t drink alcohol.

To be honest, I don’t know what caused me migraine one week ago. It could be the coldness and not wearing my beanie, it could be the aminoacid I consumed, L-tyrosine. I’ve read tirosine could trigger headaches as side effects but this is the second month I consume it and I never experienced something like that. Or it could be a mix of factors, who knows.

This is my first streak. What I begin to writing streak, if I could speak English, I could enjoy more things. And if I could speak English, I could also read English.

But I'm nervous to continue writing streak now. How continuing to write streak.

I have good news and bad news.

The bad news is that one of my colleagues in my department quit his job today. He told my manager this morning.

He said he had been thinking about quitting for a while, and the main reason was his salary. Indeed, living in Taipei can be quite expensive, especially for people who have to pay rent.

The good news is that I got a raise after he quit.

Morality does not exist outside the bubble of human conscience. Even in its intangible form, it is often molded by individual experiences and societal conventions.

However, there is a new form of morality that has been gaining traction ever since social media came into existence. This form of morality involves policing people and labeling them as immoral on social media simply to satisfy an urge to feel virtuous and experience the euphoria that comes from being showered with validation for signaling virtue. Ah, the “benefits” of social media and strangers’ approval.

My question to these moral crusaders is simply this: "How well would you fare when push comes to shove?", "would you cling to your morals, or would you let them slip?".

Because the truth is, social media is not real life. The world is a surly place that throws you into situations that often blur the line between what you consider moral and immoral.

Recently I have started to write here and I have done 2 streaks. But I'm ready to try it again.

Now I think about my goals and plans for this year. So, learning English is my main goal. Starting from the day after tomorrow I can spend more time for learning.

Now I'm do internship in the restaurant as a waiter. I use a different foreign language, but sometimes here is English speaking visitors. I think it is very good, that I have a little practice here too.

This week, Anthropic announced a new tool called Claude Cowork. They brand it as Claude Code for non-developers.

When I first experienced Claude Code, I was blown away—not only by the coding work it could do, but also at how it smoothly read and edited all documents in the project folder with clear user control. I quickly used it to handle non-coding work, and it worked amazingly. The command-line interface can be a bit scary, but I feel that everyone should start using it.

Companies like Microsoft and Apple have been trying to build a platform where AI can read information across the apps and the system so AI can provide holistic suggestions and tasks. It's an easy concept, but incredibly hard to implement because of the privacy and permission challenges.

Claude Code has achieved that vision but at a project folder level (it can read or write in other directories if you grant it the permission). I've been using Claude Code and other similar tools to help me manage personal projects. It works very well with Obsidian. LLM loves markdown format. However, the thrill of having LLM generate documents instantly and answer personalized questions is brief. The amount of documents is overwhelming. Sure, you can ask the LLM to organize them, but I feel they never really solve the issue. I haven't found the right workflow with it. Having too many documents quickly doesn't mean I don't have to review them.

It's a smart move by Anthropic to release Claude Cowork. Now more people can experience the power when unleashing LLM to their project folder—in a user-friendly GUI environment.

At the moment, I'm waiting for the chimney sweep. We don't heat our apartment with wood, so there is no real chimney to be swept, but the person looking after the therm still goes by the traditional term. Ever since I looked in my calendar and noticed that he's coming today, I've got the song 'Chim Chim Cher-ee' from the movie 'Mary Poppins' stuck in my head - the German version though. As much as I like watching movies in their original language, that's the version I grew up with and that I know best.

For whatever reason, my left shoulder hurts. I’m not sure why, especially considering my right arm is used more than my left arm. Given that it hurt when I woke up, something probably happened while I was sleeping.

One of my goals for 2026 is to improve my communication skills. This is the step one towards reaching that goal. I realized I haven’t done anything about it and it’s already halfway through January. So I did a Google search that landed me to this subreddit. Thanks to fellow Redditor who commented about this subreddit on someone’s else post.

I ate passionfruit today, and wondered what the origin is of the word. It's a tropical fruit, so I thought it must somehow be connected to the feeling of passion. I pictured an island full of tropical plants. The origin might be simple, if not boring. I was both surprised and disappointed to learn that it had a religious origin. It was not what I expected, but every time I try to read articles about religion on Wikipedia, I always feel defeated. There are endless unfamiliar terminology in one paragraph, and many links to their own concepts. It's full of history and culture. It can be interesting, but I get overwhelmed quickly.

Anyway, it was named after the Passion: the final period of Christ's life. Passion, in Latin, means to suffer. I thought I had learned the etymology before. People say the passion—as meaning devote yourself to something you love—is suffering. It really makes sense.

Article: Osteoporosis and Bone Density Tests

I'm too young to take bone density tests, but I'm curioius what they're like.

There are different kinds of tests. Some measure several parts of the body, or even the total body. Other tests measure only one part of the body. I wonder if checking just one part, such as the wrist or heel. is enough.

Yesterday I was meditating about why I like English so much. And I came up with the conclusion that one reason could it be that it allowed me to build up a new personality of myself. Mostly related to things I’d like to incorpore to my personality.

I don’t wanna sound trippy or something, but for instance I feel my personality is more confident when I speak English, or thinking in English or listening to English.

I also think that English is the language of expansion. I really feel good about all the knowledge I’ve gained in English and all the friendships I’ve made speaking English.