Hi! I'm Shin. I use this blog to motivate myself to jot down thoughts I wouldn't have otherwise. Feel free to say hello at shinyoitsu0312@gmail.com!...
A few days ago, I realized that there is a part of my life I have been taking for granted, which most people do not experience at all. During my childhood, for one reason or another, I ended up spending significant amounts of time in multiple different countries. This meant that I ended up acquiring basic proficiency in the languages of these countries as well—in fact, for Vietnamese and…
I was browsing Twitter some time back and saw an image of a panel from a Calvin and Hobbies comic strip someone posted. It was in reply to a tweet about AI models having solved a large number of open problems. The panel had Calvin telling his teacher "Given the pace of technology, I propose we leave math to the machines and go play outside." Surprisingly enough, my first thought after seeing that…
I'm moving out in one and a half weeks, from the house I've lived in for the past 10 years. My family isn't planning to renew the lease, and once I'm out my parents will move all our books to my grandma's place, give away most of our furniture and throw away the rest, and return the house to the landlord. In one and a half weeks, I'm never gonna hear the birds chirp in the morning, with their…
To be more precise, it's been exactly one year since I started the Kaishi 1.5k deck on Anki, on July 23, 2025. I remember rote-memorizing Hiragana and Katakana or so for a little over a week before that. Here're some screenshots of my Anki Calendar statistics: I was doing a few minutes of Anki + half an hour of reading grammar guides for the first few weeks. The color gets lighter towards the end,…
For as nearly long as I can remember, my family has had a heck ton of books at home. When we moved into this apartment around a decade ago, they developed a habit of buying them online (usually including multiple ones we had no need for to reach the online bookstore's free shipping threshold), and started slowly accumulating them over the years. Now, we have three separate library areas in the…
Sometimes I find that I've had a very interesting thought. Not just any thought, but an epiphany about myself, or life, that would be really useful to jot down and take action on in the future. I.e. really good stuff. So I hold it in my head until I'm free, then sit down to make a journal entry or blog post about it. But invariably, once I start trying to write it down, I get confused about how to…