October 2007 Archives

This is the photo I took last Sunday in the hallway of the hotel I was staying in Portland, Oregon. Why did I take a photo of this? Well, my sense to see ghosts has become weaker since that's what I wanted after the monk training (That was one of the good benefits) but then I still saw ghosts in there. So I thought I took a photo and see if I could capture what I saw. Well, I actually tried four times to take a photo in here but none of them came out good :-( Damn it. How can one take a good ghost photo? Anyway, first, I thought I saw one guy walking ahead of me and went into the room. That was when I realized that was the room I was checking in. I thought I was still badly jet lagged. But then, the same guy was walking ahead of me and looked back at me and ran away to the end of the hallway and dove from the exit door!! That's when I realized he was not the real human being with warm blood. He looked so real and vivid so I couldn't tell the difference at first. Anyway, I kept seeing this guy and I am sure he wanted some attention from me as he killed himself here. But I was too tired and not very nice so I wasn't being polite. Everytime I come back to my room, I saw him doing things here. I thought I was going to take a photo. He even came into my room when I didn't welcome him. But he was harmless so I let him be. :-) Poor guy. If he was hotter, I might have reconsidered :-P Anyway, I thought I'd bring this non-exciting story up on this particular day. For me, the scariest thing right now is that I have to work from tomorrow :-( Ugh. Happy Pumpkin day!

you have a fantabulous week!!!!

Anyway....huh... if this is something worth looking. It might not be :-) you have a fantabulous weekend!!!!

Happy Thursday!!!

On my way to the closest starbucks from my home, there is this museum. They curently have this huge ad on the wall of the museum. It gets my attention every time I pass by because the guy is really good looking in my personal opinion. His name is Kumagusu Minakata. He was a super smart mycologist born like 140 years ago. This photo was taken when he was 24 years old in San Francisco. He was a geeky weirdo. He easily got hot and sweaty so he took off his clothes whenever he wanted (heh) and he couldn't get settled in one place. He went to the United States to study and UK as well. Ergo, he was super fluent in English. Now, this was more than 100 years ago. So it's not really easy to be too revealing nor go to the States like we do now. Anyway, he even worked at the British Muesume. Because he was too weird unique, he isn't popular like other noble scientists at that time. I got to know him when I was in high school. He was one of the reasons I wanted to go to the States to speak English very well. I even studied geeky science like he did. While I didn't become pretty like him, I still admire him. I know he is a weirdo but a hot weirdo. He was my role model and still is even though I am not a scientist (I wanted to be but I realized I am not good at that.) FYI, I don't take off my clothes whenever :-) You have a fantabulous week!

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I am not sure what this is called in English. But since this is so Japanese, I call it as we usually do here. This is Tatami. Tatami is a Japanese flooring rug thingy. It's made of woven straw. As it ages, it gets brownish and doesn't have any smell anymore. I have a Japanese room in my apartment. Yesterday, I called this Tatami place and asked them to replace Tatami. It cost me some but it was about time this had to be replaced anyway. The new tatami. It smells like fresh woven straw. It's fresh. Nice. :-) It's been awhile I smelled this fresh. I do have to apologize that I cannot describe this fresh smell as I don't have huge vocab in English. When the Tatami guy finished his thing, I inhaled to capture this fresh smell. This smell makes me excited oddly. It is like me smelling superglue a lot when I was in junior high school or me smelling gasoline so much when I was in college. Though it's not as intoxicating as superglue :-) It occurred to me there are some things that make me excited oddly like this. Yesterday, in this fancy place, there was the elevator I was about to ride had transparent doors. You can see how elevator moves through the transparent doors obviously. I guess my nerd DNAs made me excited oddly.... But I don't jerk off to any of these in case you happen to wonder.... It's just innocent excitement that I was talking about :-) You have a wonderful week!

I had fantabulous dinner with a workaholic friend of mine last night. It was fantabulous. Anyway, I realized I will start working again but I hope I won't be a workaholic like him. God, how angry workaholics are!! is what I thought during the dinner. Overall, the dinner was good and the view was fantastic but it was an eye-opener for sure. While I am looking forward to working again, there are some things that I am going to miss... Here are some.
1... When I get sleepy, I take a nap whenever. I've been taking a nap almost every day for 7 months. (Except for monk days). I cannot imagine how people can live without taking a nap.
2... If there are things to do but don't feel like doing them, I always procrastinate by saying "This can wait" so I am not spending time efficiently.
3... What I will miss most will be empty department stores/ any shopping places/ the gym in the middle of a weekday. I will have to put up with crowded department stores, the gym, and etc.
4... Have Jobless days made me self-indulgence? ooohhhhh that's so scary. I should spend this month as a transitional period to make myself a more civil person.
But I keep my head up and move on. Have a fantabulous day!

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1... Hello. From today, I have resumed my blog. I will keep blogging as I used to. The details about my monk days will be presented this weekend. Stay tuned if there is still any visitor :)
2... I only have about a month til I start working. I surely miss my jobless days. I thought I was going to be jobless for a year but instead, it is 7 months. But I got this fantabulous opportunity to work for a company I really liked (especially their philosphy).I know there were some people who got fired because they were too revealing. So I will not mention the name of the company. It's an american apparel company. That's it. I will let your imagination take care of the rest. :-) FYI, nope. I will not be one of those in the shop to say "Oh your ass looks fabulous in them!". I will be a nerd still :-)
3... After fantabulous dinner with friends last night, I drove back to my place. Ergo, no booze. I got pulled over by cops. One of them reached me and asked me to roll down the window. He went "Please let me smell your breath." It was a casual checkpoint for under the influence. He approached and his nose was a few inches away from my mouth. I was like "Seriously?" When I was about to exhale, I burped by accident.. I am so sure he captured every essence of my garlicky breath followed by onions. He immediately stood back... It was an accident... In my defense, how primitive for them it was!!!. I thought Japan was good at inventing stuff! They should've used the detector... On a side note, I am glad the cop was not hot so I didn't have to kiss him instead.
Thanks for visiting the non-exciting site again! Have a fantabulous week!