A tool for creativity
Being the pretentious snob that I am, I've always carried a slick leather-bound Moleskine notebook to write down my thoughts and ideas since college. But recently I realized that ironically it's the...
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Principles of Social Intelligence
I recommend everyone to read Dale Carnegie's old classic, How to Win Friends and Influence People.It's amazing.Granted, the book delineates very commonsensical principles to apply in social situations....
View ArticleThe Experience of Being Alive
Today, I came across a quote by Joseph Campbell:"People say what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're really seeking. I think that what we are seeking is an...
View ArticleReflection: Death Comes Knocking at the Door of Loneliness
For some reason, I really like this post; it resonates with my mood in a way. This was when I said fuck you to the world and wrote and read in solitude for 11 straight months. Looking back, it was a...
View ArticleA Missing Piece
We're looking for missing pieces in our lives.Usually, it takes the form of another human being: the ideal lover, the soul mate, the one, the love-at-first-sight.Sometimes, though, you meet them in the...
View ArticleDeath be not proud
Let me gut out all the feelings I have and see them splatter on the page in blotches of awkward sentences. My brush is ready to be dipped into the cans of roiling emotions; I pick the colors from the...
View ArticleReflection: Creation in Silence and Solitude
When silence knocks at your door in your deep-sea solitude, will you answer it and let it enter and seep into the core of your being? Or will you thrash about and spurn the terrifying loneliness that...
View ArticleNight
Night comes. Night, that dreadful hour when you're by yourself, that dreadful hour when you are forced to face the hollowness that's inside you.It creeps up to you out of its hiding place, an ugly lair...
View ArticleOur Deepest Fear
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be so...
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Food For Thought: Sunflower Poem
ひまわりは、いつでも君たちのそばに咲いている君たち自身がまた、ひまわりのように咲くことができればやり直しのきかない人生などない例えば老人になったとしてもだSunflowers are always blossoming around you.If you can blossom like sunflowers,There is no life you can't start overEven...
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Book Review: Lolita
The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated by Vladimir NabokovMy rating: 4 of 5 starsShe was Lo, plain Lo without the annotations--I came across the unannotated version of Lolita in summer 2004 when I...
View ArticleKatou Miliyah
Just discovered Kato Miliyah (or Katou Miriya or 加藤ミリヤ or how-the-fuck-ever you want to write it). Post-Utada J-R&B with a dash of Koda Kumi would be the label I'd give to her style of music. I...
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How to Fix Your Psychological Problems in 20 Minutes
Here Be Dragons: The Psychological Problem, Cause & Cure by Manuel J. SmithMy rating: 5 of 5 starsTotal Read Time: 2 MinutesDo you get defensive often and wish you didn't? Are you afraid of being...
View ArticleAbsolutely Inspirational!
Feeling sick and tired? Think you're unhappy? Think you failed? Think you're in doubt? Think you're depressed?Watch the video. It's probably one of the most inspirational clips I've seen:That's all.
View ArticleFunny: Hitler and iPhone
This section of the movie has probably been spoofed so many times, but I just found out about it. Comedy comes from tension that results from a contrast. The contrast here is the apparent seriousness...
View ArticleInglorious Emericans and Jepanese
The following clip is my favorite scenes from Tarantino's Inglorious Basterds. If you haven't seen the movie, you most definitely should. It's violently funny and engrossing. The schizophrenic and...
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Best Pancakes in Japan: Bills
Located in Shichirigahama - about 1.5 hours away from central Tokyo on the train, and one stop before the (in)famous Enoshima, THE beach located to the south of Tokyo, to which Tokyoites schlep to...
View ArticleA Drama You Must Watch: One Liter of Tears
It's a drama series that was broadcast in Japan about four years ago and based on a true story.Aya Ikeuchi is a kind, happy, smart fifteen-year-old. She applies for the prestigious high school she has...
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Brainstorming! Impromptu Rhapsody on the Word "Turn"
Total Read Time: 4 Minutes I'm reading a book called Writing the Natural Way by Gabriele Rico, Ph.D. This very cool book explores simple techniques to "release creative inhibition" and let your mind...
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Traveling in Japan: Hot Springs in Gunma-ken Part I
Going to hot springs, or onsen (温泉) in Japanese, is one of the favorite national pastimes of us the Japanese.For those of you who don't know what's so special about hot springs in Japan, you get to...
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