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 denial, [...]

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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 daughters, my two [...]

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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. It’s a fantasy to think it can [...]

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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 the Taikan exhibition was there. The line was long ! But this [...]

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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 places that I have been, including cities [...]

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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. But I’m against [...]

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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 sounds like words of [...]

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