Hop into the backseat of adolescence. Rev the engine and arrive at the red light faster than the opposing lanes. Blasting the re-mixed mixes, your sunglasses shine in resilient sunlight. Your backseat is full of beautiful anatomy, flying tuffets of hair abased in the light winds of Springtime. Your raucus rebellion does not cease at […]
Month: March 2012
Motivation (sometimes others just say it better)
It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog. ~Mark Twain The best way to predict your future is to create it. ~Unknown Men’s best successes come after their disappointments. ~Henry Ward Beecher Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson The secret of […]
The Fastidious Fox of Sands Point
Following fox trails of depressed vegetation, I found myself in a curling labyrinth spanning all different directions I knew not where. In his classib book Walden, Henry Thoreau once wrote about the trail of a fox: “ Now I am curious to know what had determined its graceful curvatures, its greater or lesser spaces and distinctness, […]
Snowboarding in Japan
Being there for a little while, and having an interest in Snowboarding, I had to search up a way to go and hit the slopes. The best place would be to go to Hokkaido for the winter and ski/snowboard with the snow monsters, but unfortunately it is a bit far from Tokyo. And I didn’t […]
Rockies and Manhattan
I have met a lot of people who are New Yorkers and who have been New Yorkers for life. I’ve also met a fair amount of people who came here from someone else. Most of those people that I’ve met have been here for a number of years. I know someone who has lived in […]
The Need To Look Up
Whenever I leave campus during the evening, I look up at the clear night sky. First, I look for the moon, if it is visible. I then look at stars that have not been drowned out by light pollution. Finally, I look for Jupiter and Venus, which have recently been particularly visible. There is something […]
Passion vs. Practicality
I doubt small things all the time, but the worst thing is doubting a decision that I’ve been happy with for years. I have a friend who, like me, was an English major. I was very surprised when she recently announced that she will be transferring to another school to go into nursing instead. When […]
Just wondering
What does it mean to accomplish something? What does it mean to achieve something? What does it mean to succeed? I’ve read somewhere (I don’t remember if it was on the internet or in a newspaper) that people define themselves by what they do. If you ask someone what they do, they will usually respond […]
Rejection
We will all be rejected for something or from something in life. I’m a voluntary editor for my school’s literary magazine, Ozone Park Journal (here’s the link if you want to check it out: http://www.ozoneparkjournal.org/). The magazine accepts poetry, fiction, plays, graphic novels, non-fiction and translations. Last semester was my first semester as one of […]
Hakone
[Lake Ashi @ Hakone] Hakone an area located about an hour or so away from Tokyo. Hakone is a wonderful place full of onsen [hot springs], nature and sites to see. It’s great if you feel like going hiking through for the day and relaxing in the onsen during the night time. As an overseas visitor […]
