📍 Now

• I just received a contractor offer as a software engineer in Tokyo, so I ended my working-holiday life in Australia and Japan earlier than planned.
• I want to build my own circle of life in Tokyo: favorite shops, favorite corners, and favorite people.

• No longer getting anxious ahead of time
• Recovering a regular routine and exercise habit, and adjusting my eating habits
• Improving my Japanese so I am less often troubled by not having enough Japanese
• Modern System Design Bootcamp
• Keeping up with AI developments: LLM, Harness, Agent

• Found a job in Tokyo
• Made friends in a non-native language
• Got better at cooking for myself (still not brave enough to cook for others)
• Redesigned my personal website

• Japanese and AI anxiety
• The regular routine I built during working holiday has fallen apart again
• It is too easy to spend too much time reading novels and manga

• The world is vast, vast enough that I can surely find people somewhere doing things similar to what I am doing. No one can really be that special, but that also means even if I feel out of place in my current environment, there must be some corner of the world where I can belong.
• I have been away from the software industry for almost a year. The things I worried about and felt anxious over last year did not happen, or at least did not happen that quickly. I suffered more in my imagination than in reality. Following the trend means doing it for as long as I can, but I should not eliminate myself first.

• ☀️ The comfortable weather right now: not too cold, not too hot, with sunlight falling down
• 😎 My redesigned personal website
• 🎵 J-Pop: The Story of Us (milet), Hitotarashi (Keisuke Kuwata), Salad Bowl (Aooo), illusion (Ryokuoushoku Shakai)
• 🎨 Manga: Fujii on the Roadside, 100 Meters
• 📺 Anime: Re:ZERO Season 4, Akane-banashi (the OP is amazing), Yomi no Tsugai
• 🎬 Movie: Last Breath

👉 Watching now