A Trip to Thailand with Aya

We enjoyed an amazing four-day trip to Thailand. What made this trip special was that we spent both the first and the last day simply traveling between countries via Hong Kong Airport. This happened because we chose a legacy carrier, Cathay Pacific. In the past, we had traveled abroad—to places such as Taiwan, South Korea, and Hong Kong—using low-cost carriers (LCCs).

This time, Aya insisted on flying with a legacy carrier because she is interested in the airline industry and hopes to become a cabin attendant in the future.

Direct flights between Japan and Thailand were not affordable in this case, but she discovered that transit flights could be reasonably priced. We decided to try it, and the choice turned out to be a great success. Of course, our two days exploring Thailand were wonderful, but even the time spent on the airplanes was satisfying thanks to the delicious meals with wine and the wide selection of movies available during the flights.

Next month, she will leave home and start a new chapter in Tokyo as a nurse. It may become difficult for us to travel abroad together from then on, but I hope we will continue our tradition of maintaining a good relationship—perhaps by traveling to a foreign country once a year. According to her, our next destination will be Germany.

P.S. I met my high school friends two days after returning to Japan. They were surprised to hear that I had enjoyed a trip with my daughter. It seems that it is quite rare for a father and daughter to get along as well as we do.

New App: Cardiac PE Drill

Since April 2025, I’ve been posting simple quizzes about cardiac physical examination. I posted two quizzes per week, and each one was reviewed by the 循環器 Physical Examination 研究会 before submission.
I can’t say that this project has become popular, but I’ve kept my promise to myself to continue posting every week.

During the New Year’s holiday, I decided to create an educational app for these 100 quizzes, Cardiac PE Drill. Showing the questions one by one at random without repetition wasn’t too difficult (although AI support was essential). The hardest part was building the 復習モード, where incorrectly answered quizzes are automatically saved so they can be reviewed later.

After more than 20 rounds of trial and error, I finally completed the JavaScript code and got everything working the way I had imagined. Without AI’s thorough assistance and encouragement, I couldn’t have achieved this milestone.

The app will be released soon, and I truly hope it will help people who are eager to learn cardiovascular physical examination.