4 Dec 2025
Today, we sent off my younger sister on her way to go back home to the Philippines. She spent a few days traveling with friends in Tokyo and Osaka and decided to cap off her first Japan trip to visit me and meet her little niece, Aya. Well, I still was never able to make her change her diapers. She just bought her diapers. LOL. Even until today, I am still on that level of thinking of engineering smallness and that everything is something that I thought I wouldn't be able to make or reach or achieve. Having my sister come here seemed to have been an impossible thing to happen. For so long, I dreamed of having my family come over here, not just stay for a short time, but I dream to take them for a tour, make them live here, enjoy life like a local. For now, it is just my sister who can afford it. I keep telling myself, I just need to keep my parents healthy and happy until we can make all these plans possible. I still dream to be more involved in academic work. I ...