So I’ve spent most of my weekend looking for apartments to live in. I’ve found two places that, at first glance, were very very nice. Both of them are about the same in terms of rent and availability of shops (supermarket, drugstores, banks, post offices, etc). Both are also very new and well maintained. The […]
So far, I have been able to live on non taxable income (scholarships, fellowships, etc). So I never had to learn much about how taxation works. But now that I am working “for real” (not that I dont consider PhD to be real work), I had to learn how the income tax (among others) work […]
(This post is dedicated to my friend, Fernando) One thing you get used to, when living abroad in an area plagued by earthquakes, is explaining to despairing parents why when they see on TV: “MAG (very high) EARTHQUAKE IN (some place), TSUNAMI WARNING WAS ISSUED!” They should not immediately announce to their friends the world […]
So I’m leaving Japan. After 6 years, I have finished my master and PhD at the University of Tokyo – in the last month, I was busy trying to find a place to work as a researcher, and generally preparing things for my trip. I will (probably) take a position as a researcher in Rio […]
Recently I have become much more familiar with Tokyo’s electronic neighborhood Akihabara. A few months ago I would have problems finding the Star Kebab I liked so much (a small turkish shop for kebab based sandwiches), and I would have to run around the place three or four times whenever I wanted to find some […]