If this city in the sun as we like to brand it as could tell tales, what would it reveal to us? Let's put our beers or our whisky on the table for a minute or two and allow our minds to wander and catch a glimpse of all the wisdom these streets have soaked [...]
Do you know you?
I'm seated on a wooden four-legged chair with a high back, this very seat that overlooks a white wall overlain in flowery wallpaper. It is in this very seat that I often settle down to write, and it is this same damn wall that I sometimes find myself staring at for hours on end when [...]
A Toast To The Year That’s Been.
First of all, I hope this finds you in a good place, perhaps by the beach with a glass of whisky in you hand, the sun kissing your skin and the cold breeze wiping sweat off your brow. If not, I hope it finds you in the comfort of your home, in your pyjamas maybe [...]
Second Chances
6.30pm, Friday. You're in your favorite bar, a beer in front of you. It is the color of the setting sun, and it's frothing at the top. The glass is full to the brim and you take a gulp. You've just been laid off from work - at a consultancy firm set in the middle [...]
Homecoming
A story is told, from a land far away from here, of a man who had a dog. The dog was an Akita breed, and as time went by the two became loyal friends - a dog and its human. The man was a lecturer at a university in Tokyo, and the dog used [...]
