It's a scream from the core of my heart. There is nothing to write about in my diary. I suck at the word "as". I think it's super elusive. However, thanks to Harry Potter, I've managed to grasp the meaning of "as" that's similar to "while"…

I got through this infernal November, somehow. However, December, like eternal darkness, lies ahead. Unfortunately, we shall bide the time for devastation, as though we are pitiful sacrificial lambs that are offered on an altar. Anyway, wh…

Wait, is it already Friday? Come on... According to damn Yahoo's topics, it seems that new levels, which are 6 and 7, will be established for Japan's English proficiency examination. Is it really necessary? In terms of level, it looks like…

I'm bewildered about how many kinds of words describing flexibility there are in the scene where Harry bought a wand. Here they are: swishy, pliable, whippy, and supple. On top of that, Gemini and ChatGPT triumphantly suggested more words,…

No matter how hard I think, I've got nothing to write about in my diary. That's because I did nothing but work. The development team looks like they're in the thick of a catastrophe. So I've been trying to fend off their demands today. The…

It's been raining. I wonder when it started raining. It seems like this year's November ends next Sunday. The cost of food on my credit card bills is a heavy burden. How can I manage this shabby life? I've tracked my calories every day and…

Now I'm caught up in an inevitable system migration. Do you have the time? Oh, it's about to reach the fallback point. I'm praying the sanity check works out somehow. If it failed, I'd have to restore the old version. If it occurred, we'd …

Good grief, I'm supposed to work from this evening until tomorrow morning. Come to think of it, I went to my regular wine bar yesterday. Of course, it was to savor Beaujolais Nouveau forsaken by the patrons. But, unfortunately, there was n…

I got through the harshest final weekday, finally reaching Saturday somehow. My precious three-day weekend is doomed to be devastated by my current damn work I've been involved in. I'm sure several arrogant and selfish women who are involv…

I somehow made it to Friday. I wonder if I can handle this harsh last weekday. Yesterday, when I was talking with my friend, I realized that most people don't know the fact about calories in oil. Whatever oil it is, it has the same calorie…

The yen has kept getting weaker. The other day, when I was talking to Gemini, it said "Although the possibility is still low, hyperinflation might occur like in Turkey." In other words, the more the yen loses its worth, the more stock pric…

I can hardly order properly at a fast-food place when I want to get it to go. What a shame. Well, I'm thinking of how I should order at a fast-food place. To-go pattern: (Use it, this, or that appropriately) Can I get this to go, please? I…

I read a certain article just now. It went like this: using a Windows laptop at a certain café like St**bucks is embarrassing. That's because most people actually use a MacBook. I think using laptops, especially MacBooks, at St**bucks is r…

Yesterday I bought a 500 g pack of macaroni and its price was less than 200 yen, which in turn means if the pack was 5 kg, it would be less than 2,000 yen. For crying out loud! Don't mess around! Screw you! Rice is pricey. That's an unders…

I'm struggling with how to use the word "jerk" properly, which is too versatile to tell the difference. On top of that, I still can't make out the difference in how "as" is used in context at all. It went like this: when I suspected it was…

Today I have damn work in the afternoon. On top of that, there's a condo association meeting in the evening. These are such a drag. Man, it's a beautiful sunny autumn Saturday though. Yesterday, I managed to avoid breaking my diary streak …

Yesterday, I went out drinking at a Japanese standing tavern. Mind you, I'm off today. That's to blame for coming up with nothing to write about, no matter how hard I think. I wonder if I should take a nap for a little while. It seems like…

I'm like an on-site supervisor, struggling to draw ideal critical paths. I'm always caught between needy operators and arrogant developers. I don't have any useful skills and am an insignificant system engineer. However, in a sense, I prid…

I was doing nothing but work yesterday. My daily routine goes like this. Before work, I always finish writing my diary. In my lunch break, I do Anki, and work on at least two exercises from the TOEIC Listening section by shadowing thorough…

I've been reading the first installment of Harry Potter. Basically, I seem to be able to understand the story in terms of grammar. Then again, a fucking myriad of new unknown words appear in the story. How mean the author is. Oh, this is a…

It's our adorable Monday. It's time to start another hellish week. There are just over 50 days left in this year, too. Wait, for real? Totally unrelated, but since I get a headache talking to insane people involved in my project, I wanna a…

I wonder since when it's been raining. Humidity makes me feel a bit cold. Words like ceasefire, persecution, immigrants, death toll, massacre, and victims appear in world news every day, but never appear in the TOEIC exam. In America, many…

I made it to Friday somehow as usual. Nooo! It's Saturday! I wonder if everybody thinks a red regime from the continent will invade Taiwan. I think it's manifestly a bluff. Their scheme is already underway. It's not an invasion, but someth…

Yesterday, when I was studying English, I learned a new expression "Something will do." Then I remembered there was a certain controversy this summer. As you know, that related to Somen. So I thoroughly compared “I want somen.” and “Somen …

Last night I was dealing with some emergency chores related to one of our Production environments, and the request was fucking short notice. But thanks to this bother, it made some bucks for drinking. Now, I've started reading the first of…

I got 825 points on the TOEIC exam held the other day. The breakdown was Listening 455 points and Reading 370 points. Come to think of it, I was able to improve my score by exactly 200 points in half a year. Umm, as I thought, my next focu…

Today is the first business day of this week. What a pain. By the way, I felt like the Cho-Goku-Dan was a bit too warm. Maybe the warmth of the Goku-Dan is enough for me. Now that I've figured out how warm they are, I wonder if I should bu…

It's a blissful holiday, despite it being Monday. Considering my current feelings, after all, we need three holidays per week. I profoundly think so. It's bad. There is nothing to write about. Oh, yesterday, I bought some underwear called …

Yesterday, I happened to be driving my family car. Then I noticed that the fuel was almost empty. So, I had no choice but to drive to a gas station and fill up. Just then, a pop-up screen for the fuel price appeared and I started putting i…

Finally, I've reached three hundred days of keeping my diary. I didn't think I could continue such a long time. Totally unrelated, but in Japan, these sorts of emails are sent indiscriminately at the end of the month when employees retire.…