Mr. and Mrs. Brown live in Canterbury, Kent, they looked after me when I was 10. In a jolly conversation to England this morning, they mentioned they are training to become temporary care takers for guide dogs.
“We’ve passed the background check, now we’re learning more about the dogs, so we can take them in our […]
Got the hiccups today, answered the office phone “Yes, this is HIIIck!”
The lady two desks left of me hurriedly gave me a spoon full of vinegar to swallow. “That should cure you” she said. I thought it odd that she keeps a bottle of vinegar on her desk and a bag of plastic spoons in […]
A tiger in San Francisco Zoo killed a young man. Three men presumably teased the animal by throwing pine cones. One man, the one who got slain, is thought to have dangled his leg down the moat that surrounded the tiger’s grotto. The tiger latched on to his leg, leaped out, killed him and ran […]
On a cold winter’s night in 1986. I left a window slightly open, and taped a paper arrow pointing this way, to compensate for not having a chimney. I wrote a letter to Santa Claus, and placed it underneath the tree. I asked for a set of paints. I woke every time I thought the […]
Felt it coming yesterday, wet hair in winter air, caught a cold again.
Not too bad, not too good, just snug in my bed with a runny nose. Instead of counting sheep to go to sleep, I’ve started counting people I know, now I cannot go to sleep. I close my eyes and there you are, […]
One of the accountants, who sits two desks left of me, has the bluest eyes and the stiffest shoulders. She leans on my cubicle wall at times, makes jokes, rolls her eyes, tells me how she can’t sleep at night.
“Stress?” I ask. “Yeah” she says. So I volunteered to massage her shoulders, knowing better blood […]
In an American company:
In a Japanese company:
A: I call my boss by his first name.
J: I called my boss by his sir name, with a decorative ’san’ at the end.
A: I can leave for the day before my boss, if my work is done.
J: It was considered rude for me to leave work earlier than my boss, even if my […]
Paws lightly tip touch
on shining oakwood veneer
Onto my desk it jumps
A casual glance my way then,
Lays in a pool of light
Snug in its own body
If only I wasn’t allergic.
(photo from Haseo)
One of the reasons wars happen is because it’s profitable. More production + destruction = more jobs = more money. People say some countries need to engage in wars to keep the economy afloat. If that was the case, then:
Why don’t we have World Wars with paint bullets? Every participating country will have a […]
/Some Japanese people I know wash their pajamas every day.
/It’s a national norm to soak in a bath tub every day.
picture from Japan-guide.com
The rule is to wash your body outside the tub before relaxing in a 38C hot water. You scrub yourself with a rough, soapy towel, from the back of your neck to […]
