Air-bound Conversation

Almost everyone in red shirts filed into the plane carrying gifts and cartons (all redly wrapped) besides mandatory dangling of oranges in plastic nets by their arms. Since I was already seated (aisle seat), I had to get up each time someone went in or out of their seats. Everyone said ‘Gong Xi something’ – [...]

Hope…

Plastic birds, perched up on thin shiny steel rods, sway in the wind. The air, filled with smoke, is hard to breathe. It’s hard to see…
It’s a weird innovation. Life has been ripped off of the living. The inanimate objects linger around us, proximating to life that we once had.
A river, painted, framed and nailed [...]

Somewhere in Time

A lone bird circled in the sky.
It was so long ago that seems like an experience of another lifetime, where memories and dreams are intertwined, mingled with a sense of nostalgia. It makes me wonder if it was just a figment of my imagination.
Somewhere across the valley, a man was calling out to another man [...]

Films, Books and Music

I am crazy about them, I must confess, crazy about all of them. I cannot think of a world without these antonishing people who left wonderful gifts for us (for me at least). Come to think of them, all are Japanese! Now, this doesn’t mean I am also crazy about Japanese girls *grin*…
Um, Japanese filmmakers, [...]

Ah! Horses! Horses?

‘Ah!’ I might have even smiled from ear to ear, ‘horses?’ I said or rather thought myself.
I heard the thumping of hooves on the concreate floor, echoing in the hallways, but was given to some doubts. Horses in a Departmental Store? It was impossible. But, you could see anything in Shopping Malls these days.
I got [...]