Recently the Resource Center at OIST organized another outing for researchers, to attend Okinawa’s largest fireworks show at the Ocean Expo Park. I signed up immediately, having never been there myself and spending most of my recent weekends inside. Thankfully we arrived with plenty of time to spare, giving us a chance to explore the […]
Over the last few weeks I have been able to take more time to properly cook dinner. I have also been looking into recipes I can make in bulk with the limited produce I have access to during the seasons. This resulted in some rather interesting results, including a variant of jambalaya and polenta that […]
Over the weekend, I had intended to mostly rest at home and work on personal projects. Needless to say, things didn’t exactly go to plan, and I ended up joining friends for a trip to the northern part of the island to visit an azalea park. The park was putting on a small festival to […]
Every so often OIST hosts outings to help people become acquainted with Okinawa and local attractions. This weekend they were organizing a group to go out on the ocean and watch whales. Given how unique of an opportunity this is, it was hard to refuse. Skip to the bottom of this post for the photos, […]
Though I didn’t post anything about thanksgiving, I did in fact have a wonderful feast with my fellow students. One would think having a giant turkey would be enough meat for one sitting, but my friend Jeremie decided to go further. For his birthday he summoned a 70kg whole BBQ pig, and invited all his […]
Although this post is coming a month after my last one, it actually takes place the day after. November 5th is Guy Fawkes day, which in England is roughly the equivalent of July 4th. I say roughly because the only similarity is people gather together to set off tons of fireworks. Naturally this works out […]
It has been far too long since I last posted here. Unfortunately there was not much time to compose a proper post in the last few weeks due to my involvement organizing a campus wide Diwali event. You can find several official pictures of the various events we organized here and here, though you will not see me […]
It’s been a while since I updated about my life in Japan, so there will be a lot to cover today. To start with, research has become a lot more interesting. The simulations I was given to complete have given me a much better understanding of the electron microscope I’m working on, so I’ve been […]
For the past 15 years my family along with our close family friends would retreat into the mountain of California for a weekend of camping. The goal initially was to rekindle in my parent’s generation the lost memories and feelings from their time in Kashmir, before they had to leave. Eventually it grew to have […]
Today was a rather odd day. Not only did I not have to go into lab, but there were an unusually large amount of people swarming Cambridge. Swarming is definitely correct word, for even a simply walk to the park took an hour because of the barricades and crowds of people awaiting the beginning of […]