About my thoughts, aspirations, reflections
Is this the place I’ve always wanted to be?Is this the place I want to stay forever? On July 4th, 2009, I was in New York.More precisely—on the balcony of a 19th-floor apartment on West 48th Street, between Broadway and 8th Avenue. I was invited to a house party to see the fireworks display for …
There was nothing but snow and sunlight… and dogs. On New Year’s Day of 2022, I was standing in the middle of the snowfield in Kamikawa, Hokkaido. I looked around and breathed. I exhaled really deep - so that everything could evaporate. 2021 has been a tough year for me. I contracted covid, broke up …
I remember my first winter in New York. I enrolled NYU School of Continuing that winter to study art management. I was really excited to learn professional studies with other native English speakers. However, at the very first class in the semester, I realized my English was not at all enough to catch up with …
"Starting over" is the concept which I don't subscribe to because I believe life is a something continuous. But there was one time I felt I needed to start over entirely from scratch. November 7th, 2008: Brooklyn, New York. I arrived at JFK Airport the day before and settled in a hostel in Bed-Stuy. I …
Ten years ago today, I was at the airport waiting for my flight to New York. I was alone. It was a beginning of my real life, in the sense that I was not following anybody else's. Surely I have taken some big decisions before... like which course to study at university, or what kind of …
When I was 17 years old, I wrote my first play. I was a drama course student in high school. Every year senior students put on a show as a final project before graduation. All members of the class, 40 of us, had to be cast in the same show. Also, each one of us …
A Thousand Years 