lots to post!! it’s been a busy few days. this post will be a long one, but bear with me.
== wild sheep chase ==
have you read haruki murakami’s wild sheep chase? it’s supposed to be either prequel or sequel to his another novel, “dance dance dance”. the book takes place in [...]

the sky dumped A LOT of rain yesterday and it almost seemed to have lasted forever, though it only rained for about 9 hours.
i think i’m totally jet lagged unfortunately. i somehow kept waking up and finally gave up on sleeping at 5am.
my mom and i decided to venture out of the house in [...]

man, what a rough flight.
my JAL 001 flight was delayed a little (about 20 minutes).  we added additional 30 minutes or so while in air due to turbulent air.  here’s what sucked - i was literally surrounded by little kids aged between 0-2 years old.  and you know what kids do in 11-hour flight?  they [...]