As I grow older I have started taking fitness more seriously and health more seriously, so much that I ended up setting up a small gym in my apartment!

I'm really not a fan of how most commercial gyms in Japan require a lot of signing up for timeslots to use squat racks and such, so it was a big improvement in my working out efficiency and a welcome quality of life improvement.

As the Romans would say "Mens sana in corpore sano".

I have been passionate about videogames since I was little, and enjoyed all genres of them from RPG to FPS. It was in part to videogames that I had originally been exposed to japanese culture, something that would serve as the seeds of curiosity that brought me to this side of the ocean.

During my more carefree days I went as far as achieving World First in a then somewhat popular MMORPG called Wildstar, I still look back at it as the pinnacle of my gaming achievements.

I don't really have much time to play games anymore, but I still enjoy following the industry and seeing how it grows and the trends it develops. There is some cross-talk with software engineering in general, so I use this as an excuse to keep up to date!