Drinks that suffer the beauty

Nobody seemed to like Kurosawa Akira, the Japanese filmmaker, who directed influential films like Seven Samurai, Yojimbo, Rashomon…I was the only one heaping praise after praise upon his works. My Japanese friend was the greatest hater of Kurosawa that night as he tried to balance his whiskey on the rocks and his hatred for the [...]

Quote of the year

‘Being dirty is the lowest form of human existence.’ – Natalie Glebova, Miss Universe 2005, while racing on Amazing Race Asia Season 3.

Hmmm…I still wonder what she meant by that…maybe something on the line of ‘cleanliness is godliness’?

Dancing shadows, barking dogs

Shadows danced in darkness. They leapt into the air, glowed, disappeared for a while and appeared again, dancing around me. I didn’t even try to believe what I saw.
Far across the wooden bridge, dogs howled into thickness of the night. I shivered, and for a while, I thought I was dead.

The wrong choice

Two men – strangers – sat around the fire, brought together by mistakes. Each weighing their dreams, collecting their memories as silence deepend into the cold night. The only sound was their occasional grunts and the crakling of burning logs. Sometimes, as wind blew, the pine trees imitated the sound of the gushing river, probably [...]

The cliche of the full-half glass

‘The glass is half empty, see?’ said a thick voice from the far corner. I glanced and saw a couple of guys sitting under a dim light, red as the evening sun. Above them, on the wall, was posted a sign, ‘NO SMOKING’. They were smoking anyway.