Posts Tagged ‘reflections’
flower, blow, snow
sakura season. harbinger of spring; of a time of departures and meetings, farewells and hellos, old things and new, in japan. there is something hauntingly beautiful about these flowers. perhaps it is in their transient beauty. or simply the ghostly white-and-pinkness that speak of things both happy and sad.
unlike most people who rush to see [...]
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sunset at home
these sensations of homesickness are so surreal i cannot help but submit to them. is it age, hormones, or something else altogether?
the impossibility of bringing everything i have with me has finally sunk in; bit by painful bit, i remove pieces of myself from the trunk and put them back in the closet. it is [...]
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a moment of silence
just a personal moment, really. for all the innocents who have perished in all the senseless acts of violence, minor and major (although no such act could really qualify as being a ‘minor’ one), at any point in human history.
i felt incredibly guilty last night, because as others had tiptoed around in wide-eyed fear, wishing [...]
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it storms. i think.
i was woken up at half-past three in the morning by the gentle whooshing of rain outside. i left my windows wide open, snuggling into the blankets as the wind swung the curtains this way and that.
it is a lovely feeling to be awake at that time of the night (when you are not dead [...]
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fighting back
i feel almost normal for the first time in two weeks. there are remnants of physical discomfort, and the world is wont to start spinning at the most unpredictable moments, but for the most part, i’m back. at least, i hope so.
because too much work has piled up in the meantime. shampoo bottles to be translated [...]
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Tags: dreams, fear, reflections
stray thoughts
ever sat down and thought about your principles? the shining beacon of light that you base all your decisions on, from marriage to… things as trival as what to wear to work? i had a revelation of sorts, the realization that i don’t seem to have any such principles. or it might be that i am [...]
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飛び方を忘れた小さな鳥
the tiny bird that has forgotten how to fly. (really makes you want to change “tiny” to “fat,” doesn’t it? well, for me, anyhow.)
one of misia’s songs – just another one of those japanese ballads that i actually like. incidentally, i am going to watch her perform live in two days. my virginal rock/pop concert experience! i hope it [...]
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Tags: misia, music, reflections
ouch
head. aches.
i’ve had a record number of headaches this year, and none that panadol could cure. i might believe that it is because my bed is in direct view of the room door, or i might not. it is a rather chinese/fengshui thing to blame everything on the door (apparently, bad things always enter through the [...]
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Tags: reflections, sick
10.44pm
sunday nights. i hate them, really.
sundays have become an endless carousel of work that i cannot say no to, and when night comes… when night comes… all the old, familiar emotions come flooding back, and i just want to crawl into bed and let the music flow over me – scant comfort, but comfort, nonetheless.
i [...]
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not all roads lead to rome
some lead right back to where you started.
i was wandering around the financial district today and getting rather hopelessly lost, as always. that was when this post happened.
you know the movie sliding doors? i think about that sometimes. where i might have ended up if i hadn’t done a certain something in life. let’s say [...]
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