Busy road, a fluffy animal caught in the river of speeding cars. “Be careful raccoon!” I thought and waved my hand to the drivers, made sure the animal got across safely.
I followed it as it ran under a parked car. Upon a closer look, “A GIANT RAT!”
It’s called a “possum” I later found. It’s long […]

A once common scene: Sleeping in front of a television turned on, the screen buzzing in electric grains of black and white. In fact, before the black and white buzzing, there was something about colour testing, when the screen turned bright with different coloured stripes. And before that, the Japanese flag swayed in the blue […]

“Welcome to Derrie-Air, the world’s only carbon-neutral luxury airline, where you don’t have to choose between living the high life and saving the planet….  Derrie-Air will be the only airline that plants trees to offset every pound of carbon that our planes release into the atmosphere. But not only will we do our part to […]

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 […]

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 […]

Cleared out a good patch of forest today, copying documents after documents of assorted numbers. My boss wanted 3 copies of 4 binders for a meeting with a big shot. Munching on a piece of bread for lunch, I occupied two desk-tops, figuring out what goes where under the pressure of a ticking businessman’s wrist […]

A joint birthday celebration with Kanta and our mutual circle of friends took place in a beatnik inspired couple’s wooden lodging. A surprise awaited, carefully planned by Sachi who contacted my dad months earlier. Never did I expect to see him on their big screen, talking to a crowd of us. How did he manage […]

My boss took me and two others to a fancy lunch today, to celebrate Secretary’s Day.
“Do you shave your head every day?” one of the girls asked boldly.
We raised our eyebrows, laughed out loud, continued to joke about bald this, bald that, my boss’s face a little red with the unexpected attention to the state […]

“Stocks share premium liquidated options.” Also meaning ”a hoard of piglets rationing a variety of special gooey food”. 
I was thinking about money, looking up, chin on hand, between loads of paper and a blinking computer screen. What if one day all computers crashed. What if numbers only meant something if you could count them in your hands. No assets. No debts. No money.
Maybe […]