Slept at 7:30 pm last night, woke 12 complete hours later feeling happily energized.
“How are you?” is “genki? ” in Japanese. The literal translation is “do you have origin of energy?” If you do, you reply “yes yes, I’m very genki”. And so I am today.
“Ki” means a lot of things, but I […]
“A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday, but never her age.”
-Robert Frost, poet (1875 - 1963)
“Husbands are like fires. They go out when unattended”.
-Zsa Zsa Gabor, Hungarian American actress
(1918 ish? …please refer to the above quote)
“The Bible tells us to love our neighbours, and also to love our enemies; probably because […]
On a monotonous rhythm of every day commute, a fresh spirit, a new thought. Looking out the window from all imaginable angles, not limited to the square of the frame, I become an insect, and the world is large again. The passing scenery is too fast, and the stain on the glass too still. But […]
Went to a home of a friend of a friend, whose parent in law kept 300 rabbits, in small dirty cages at the back of the house. “It’s her passion, she takes them to shows and sells them”, but the son in law who was house sitting during their absence, seemed very disturbed. “Let’s take […]
I reach the shy Chinese co-worker walking up ahead, he’s half a foot shorter than I, we engage in a first real conversation while we walk to the train station.
“I was more shy before” he said, “before I did sky diving. 75 percent of me has changed since then, I think. I like to surf […]
Between spare minutes in the office, I sent a book to a publishing company.
The 28-page picture book is called Santa Ponta’s Journey, written by me in Japanese and English and illustrated by Yoko (my brother’s girlfriend, most imaginative, charming friend). It’s taken us years to come this far, a gradual metamorphosis to put together a […]
On a car ride back from band practice, chewing on gum, humming a tune.
One fake tooth in the top back row. The gum sticks to it’s ceramic coating.
I pull it off with my tongue. It finds its way and sticks again.
I chew with the other side of my mouth. Then I’d forget.
Like two lovers in […]
On Sunday, an annual 12km marathon was lead by a group of runners, followed by an entourage of people who danced the same path, flaunting a party spirit from one end of San Francisco (the Bay) to the the other end (Breakers). Here are some humanimals captured below:
Looks like more resting than walking, I think […]
Read an article by Nancy Gibbs (Time, March 24, 2008) that talked of defining sin in the modern day world, giving example to Ghandi’s suggestion of the seven deadly sins.
1. Wealth without Work
2. Pleasure without Conscience
3. Science without Humanity
4. Knowledge without Character
5. Politics without Principle
6. Commerce without Morality
7. Worship without Sacrifice
Wow, I’m blown away. Especially […]
95F (35C) in San Francisco today.
A historical overturn on Mark Twain’s famous phrase; “the coldest winter is a summer in San Francisco”.
At the same time, same sex marriage became legal in California, 2nd US state to drop the ban after Massachusettes.
Hot day, feels like I’m on holiday in the Caribbeans, except the office cubicle and […]
