Documenting a PhD journey
Initially, I intended to make Swedish cinnamon buns. I found a recipe and got some crucial ingredients: ground cardamom, cinnamon and pearl sugar. But eventually, I replaced the cinnamon filling with chocolate, as Luca doesn’t like cinnamon and he seemed to expect me to use Nutella instead. The recipe I chose was quite nice (Swedish
After two days of intensive work in London after having an eight-day holiday in Sicily, I got back to my thesis writing this week. I was excited to finalise my findings chapter and was planning two weeks to complete it. But it’s been a slow start, going back and forth between the previous chapters to
Last Saturday and Sunday I acted as an interpreter for a Japanese family staying in London. I truly enjoyed being an interpreter and the time I spent with them! I’ve never formally trained as an interpreter but have been frequently asked to act as an interpreter or translator over the past five years, just because
My first trip to Sicily was in August 2016. I can remember it was boiling hot in the city centre of Catania. I got a swimsuit and swam at a rocky beach, and I swore that I would never bake my skin again! Three years later now, I bought a new bikini and swam in
I am writing this post in a hotel room near Kensington Gardens in London, after an eight-day holiday in Sicily. This was probably the first holiday that I indulged in during my PhD. In our villa in Sicily, we had very limited internet connection and I had a zero chance to open my draft documents,
I’ve just started reading Goodbye, Things by Fumio Sasaki, which has opened my eyes to an approach to radical minimalism. I like the part where he describes “the Japanese once-minimalist lives”, what they used to be like, and the minimalist movement that has come back to Japan. There is something really Japanese about some people’s obsession