Hands

Early morning today, when I was dozing off, I had a dream.  The dream was about hands holding.  There was no particular plotline.  I just remember the warmth of the hands, so I assume one of the hands were mine.  I woke up and was disappointed that it was just a dream.

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The Running Month

December in Japan is called the month that runs.  It feels that way.  Blink, and it’s over.  Just realizing I’m seeing probably the last snow of the year.  I wonder how I’ll look back at 2008 in the future.  Right now, it’s a year that I definitely will not want to revisit.  At this very [...]

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Exquisite Pain

Days go by.  I wake up sad. I go to bed sad.  But in a very strange way, it makes me even sadder that one day, perhaps soon enough, it will go away.  And I won’t feel what I feel now.  That all of this, what seems like an exquiste pain, will not matter anymore.  [...]

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Seat Backs and Tray Table

On my way to and back from D.C.  I listened to this song by Fountain of Wayne.  Over and over again.  And now, I cannot get it out of my mind.   I wish I can embed the song on the site.  The words were hillarious yet  identifiable in so many ways, it made me [...]

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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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Birthday

I had the strangest birthday ever this year.  Not only that it was a number that many seem to make a big deal out of, but of incidents and occurrences that surrounded the event and days after that.   I also realized, that I have always stressed that I was not a “Birthday Person,”  I don’t [...]

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Speed Blogging

Can it be that all of July went without me blogging a word ?  One blogs when there is a POV.  Or the need to rant.  Or the need to ponder.  Or the need to commemorate an occasion.   Could it be the whole month of July, I had no need for any of those ? [...]

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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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Pissing into Azure

I obviously did not take this picture, although I could have, given how empty it was. Mandarin Oriental Hotel Tokyo’s Men’s Room on the 38th floor. I wonder if there is any other place with such a view while you are doing your thing ? I actually did not go to it’s counterpart, but now [...]

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Pure Darkness

I don’t want to sound melodramatic. I still believe one can endure anything. Banal as it may be, it’s the “this too shall pass” attitude that is built-in most of us that helps us. But there seems to be no end to this. If a sin was committed, I would have to think I had [...]

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