#348
the frontier
#349
It’s right in front
of you.
#350
If you can’t forget,
you don’t have to forget.
#351
(Will you be my
friend?)
#352
A long time ago,
someone stroke a match and lighted off one big firework saying “let’s have fun”
and the universe was born.
#353
He’s the party
master and it’s our mission to enjoy this. We're all invited.
#354
Woot Woot
#355
Definition should
come later.
#356
I always wanted to
tell you. If you see the world only in black and white, we can’t fit in.
#357
this dependency
this tendency
this expectancy
#358
I cannot imagine how
it’s like to cross the border by train or bus. I was born in a country
surrounded by sea, always need to take a plane to go outside.
#362
Big Ben has been the
symbol of my “foreign country” imagery. When I first saw it,
I screamed and the taxi driver jumped up.
#366
We cannot be friends
just because we both came from the same place or share first-language.
#367
I thought “growing up” is
getting closer to perfection so that I could handle almost everything nicely by
myself. But the reality is contrary to that. I realize more and more things
that I can’t do by myself.
#368
Oh well, that's me, I give up.
#369
Go on.
#370
No matter how much I
love and enjoy the time with you, I need to close the door and be myself for a
while. I need to be alone to keep balance and to be me. You don't wanna see me behind that door.
#371
My highschool
teacher visited schools in America, and one of their students passed the letter
to him saying “please give this letter to someone who can be my penpal” And he
passed it to me.
#372
We exchanged mix tapes.
#373
Becky liked country
music.
#374
I don’t want to ruin
our snail mail relationship with one “Add Friends” button.
#375
I am so glad to know
the pre-internet age. Even I made quite a
lot of friends thanks to internet.
#376
Say hi me back. Talk
me back. Ask me back.
I want to be your
friend.
#377
I loved seeing your
smiling face behind that salad bar. How beautiful woman you were.
I think it’s not only
because of the fresh salad in front of you.
#378
Girls are simply beautiful.
What I mean “beautiful” is not “professionally beautiful” to be on the cover of
the magazine, but they are beautiful in its own way. Different colors of eyes,
skin and hair, and different figures. Uniqueness. Smiles. How they move. Strength inside. Each of them are beautiful
like flowers.
#379
Watching these girls
from all over the world, I felt like watching a radiant flower garden.
#380
And boys. Boys are hopelessly romantic creatures, with a joystick built-in.
#381
I love them
both. I love that we are different. It’s not a competition.
We are just different.
#382
It’s no longer an
instinct, it’s a conviction.
#383
It’s no longer a
dream, it’s a plan.
#385
At the moment you
lowered your eyes, I saw the crack on your “la vie en rose”
#389
Will you always be
in my life? As a friend, as an
acquaintance it doesn’t matter.
But possibly in amicable way.
I want you to be in
my life all the time, I want you to see how I walk in this life. I want you to
witness that I live in this world.
And I want to be a witness of your life.
#390
Is this Love or Dependence?
#392
Is this Innocence or
Cruelty?
#393
Strong desire of domination. They just wrap this in a sugary word like “love” or “justice”.
#394
He told us how horrible
his life was back there, as if he justifies his move to the new country. But I
sensed the deep sorrow under his rage. I sensed how much he misses them.
#395
You miss them. You
really miss them. Of course you do.
#396
It is our right to
pursue freedom, happiness and better life. But we also have a right and freedom
to love where we’re from, our own country. No matter how rotten, corrupted or
changed dramatically they are.
#397
That scenery, that
wind, that street, that sea, that sky, that laughter. How could we hate that, no matter where we go,
no matter how happy we are right now in different place.
#398
You don’t have to
hate.
#399
Ending of this
chapter is nearing.
End it without hesitations.
#400
#402
I look back and miss sometimes. That city, that place.
Though I know it’s
not the same if I go back now.
#403
That shop with nice
old man is gone.
That new café on the
corner is no longer “new”.
That yellow scarf I
always wanted to check the price is sold.
No one sings that
song on the street anymore.
The restaurant I
tried to copy the dish is closed down.
He no longer smiles at me and opens his arms when he sees me.
All the piled up old
books must be replaced with different old books.
People I could see
anytime are no longer sitting on that chairs.
#404
What I miss and dearly
cherish is not the certain place
that exists. It's all dwelling only in my mind. Compilation of somewhere at some point that I can never go back.
#405
I won’t compare now with
these moments because I’m now old enough to know this is very unrealistic. But I’m very glad to
have these moments stay in me.
#406
When I look back, I’ll
smile at you guys. So please, don't hold me back.
Just smile me back and say "keep going"
#407
Even if I could I wouldn't change anything, because that's what made possible to see you right here.
#408
I am happy now. Not
because I live somewhere or I have something or someone to make me happy.
#409
(Oh that was so
elementary.)
#410
And the story goes on.
#414
If I had a
teleporter for a day…
#415
I would get a good
morning coffee and baguette in Paris then have chat on top of the table
mountain with my friend. Then I would visit
the beautiful library in Ireland, and watch the rain falls in Vietnam.
Then I would have
lunch with my girlfriends in Hong Kong and walk along the Thames and get a nice
cuppa. But I would quickly drop by Germany to get some cakes and cookies.
And then I would enjoy them near the lake in Finland and make surprise visit to
my friend in Denmark and Norway.
Then I do a shopping
for dinner in Tokyo and Niigata, but quickly jump to Crete and watch the sunset. And I’ll
invite everyone I love on that secret rooftop in Montreal. Hm, maybe that’s
way too small, need bigger place. (dinner place TBD)
Anyway, after that I
would watch beautiful ballet in Moscow, then ride on the river boat in Budapest
to watch that night view. Then I jump to karaoke dive bar in Vegas to get rid of
the sentiment, and move to New Zealand to watch the starry sky to get my sentiment back. And finally I go back to my own bed in Japan.
#416
Oh, I can’t meet all
my friends and cover every place I wanna go with this plan!
Can I borrow this for
a week?
