Be Beautiful

Were we ever meant for something beautiful? Some people certainly seem like they were don’t they? But I suppose hindsight is always 20/20. Anyone who has ever accomplished anything of significance on even just a personal level seems to have a ‘je ne c’est quoi’ sense of purpose. Now I’m not necessarily hinting that you [...]

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Perception

Sometimes it’s difficult to distinguish between the real and the imagined. It becomes even more difficult under the influence of sense disorienting environments or substances – say being in the middle of a packed club with loud, booming music or alcohol. As for me, I have none of the above to attribute my most recent [...]

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Overeating – Tabesugimashita

I have Fridays off, so today my roomie told me about a great place he found – all you can eat for only 1000 yen which is about $10CDN.
The restaurant was just about 5 blocks away so three of us headed off. We found the small establishment, opened the door and were surrounded by buffet [...]

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Six Months

A lot has happened on this side of globe but I just have not had the time, the mood, or the energy to document, mull over, express or describe much of it.　But I did finally pass my first 6 month anniversary date of coming here last month, on October 26th. Six months just like that. [...]

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The Sports Gym

Saturday, October 7th, 2006
9:16pm, Caffe Veloce
Nishi-Shinbashi, Tokyo
Beverage: Hot Cafe Mocha
Weather: Fine 
The Sports Gym 
It goes without saying that some things, many things and almost all things here in Japan are different compared to in Canada. Some of the lifers in Japan would immediately tell me to, “Go home if you don’t like it!” Yes, [...]

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Flat on My Back (Not a song title)

It was a bad start to a wet morning. I found myself this morning at about 9:20am flat on my back, with my legs splayed and kicked up into the air on the subway station platform. You see, I was clip-clopping my way gingerly down the stairs when I heard the unmistakable call of an [...]

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Maza Famu

   
It’s a national holiday in Japan today. I went to the farm, the Mother Farm! Out of a seven-person panel I was the only one who voted no to going on a day when rain was forecast at an 80% chance. But who am I to argue against the majority.
 
And yes it rained. [...]

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To the Station

Thursday, September 14th, 2007
3:46pm, Ochanomizu,
Tokyo
Hachifuku – lunch: curry rice with tonkatsu
Woke up: 8:55am
Started work: 10:00am
Finished work: 9:15pm
Weather: Cloudy, raining
 

It’s raining hard today but the rain here is different from home. It’s much finer and it likes to blow sideways thereby drenching everything south of the elbows. I wore my suit today; donned after a summer [...]

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Days Off

Eyes open, bearings disoriented. What time is it? I should shower.

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