We Just Wanted to Call to Thank You for Supporting….

Couple of weeks ago, I was checking my messages on my cell phone while I was having dinner with two couples.  I heard a very unfamiliar voice start, “Hi, we just wanted to call to thank you for supporting marriage as an institution and for you to support Prop 8….”  I dropped the phone as [...]

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“Hey, are you Korean ?”

Seriously, I’m very anti-social when it comes to traveling on air.  For the past 30 years that I have started to fly on a regular basis, I can use my ONE hand to count the times that I’ve actually chatted up (or responded to a chat-up) a fellow passenger.  Today, en route to D.C. on [...]

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My Face on a Book

Facebook.  I too have one.  I’m not quite sure why, since most of the friends I’d like to keep in touch with, I already do.  Listing oneself on FB database seems to be shouting out, “Find me !  Find me !  Invite me as a friend !”  But checking off the privacy options given, to [...]

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Music and Placation

True story.
Not sure if it was temporary or not, but there were a couple of months that someone I knew experienced disintegration of an important relationship. (Ah, yes, a simpler way would be to say — a break-up) As with any, it was gradual, with spouts of pain, covered by unhealthy doses of [...]

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My Parents’ Luck and Mine

I’m the eldest of four kids. I know my parents had real high hopes for me and invested a lot as they do for first born. I don’t know how the ROI turned out for them, for sure I know they wish it could have been higher. But they have two other [...]

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Bankruptcy

A quick post, for thought archive. I have to understand that there are things that have to be dependent on the other. It cannot be a stand-alone. Such foolish act on my part. I built it up to this. I have to take responsibility and pay for it. [...]

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More Line

But the line was not for food this time. Last night, I saw a poster for Yokoyama Taikan exhibition that was closing soon. Wanting to stay close to Roppongi this time, we decided to visit National Art Center, Tokyo Sunday. Lucked out that [...]

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Tsunami of People

There is a word in Chinese/Japanese. 人涛。 Tsunami of People or People Wave. Standing at the corner of infamous Shibuya Crossroad waiting for the light to turn green, I saw that coming, Tsunami of People from across the street. It was, at first sight, overwhelming. There are many [...]

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Sage Age

One of the undue burden we give ourselves is that we seem to be under the pressure to think and act our age. I for one am not a fan of mid-riff bearing 40-year-olds or bimbo chasing 70-year-olds. Something tells me they are trying too hard and that is really never becoming. [...]

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K. Vonnegut on Powerpoint Presentation

Not sure what question he was responding to. But Kurt Vonnegut wrote these seven points in Science Fictionisms twelve years ago. (Most likely to something like: How do you write well ? Wonder if his response came with the rolling of the eyes ?) He didn’t know then, but it sure [...]

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