711 Keep Calm and

"Keep calm and" is one of the great mottos that encourage people to carry on, walk on, change on, smile on, or to play drums, hug your dog or drink Starbucks. What I've been experiencing these days is similarly uplifting but a little bit different. it feels like "Change on, talk on, walk on, challenge on, try, go on, (and drink tons of coffee), and become calm." Sometimes things start with tense, hesitation and uncertainty but it ends up with calm, quiet, warm and peaceful goal that you've never expected.

710 Starlight

The last two posts inevitably made me think of write about starlight next. If moon is like an old friend, and the sun is like own self, stars are to me like a traveller. It differs depends on the time and location and the season. It pops up unexpectedly, it appears and disappear, and it seems like quietly telling and bringing something from far away. Stars are like a traveler, a pilot, a navigator, or a beam from the lighthouse that always shows me that the world is out there.

709 Sunlight

I like to see the moonlight in the town, but I feel the sunlight will be better fit to the mountain. Some prefers to see the sun rising and setting in the sea, some likes to feel the sunlight under the woods, or perhaps everyone likes to see the sun high in the sky over the cloud, which is only be able to seen from the airplane. I do like the latter, but it's special. On the mountain, I imagine that (as I'm not a climber so never experienced) the sun is much beautiful because the mountain top is the highest place on earth to reach to the sun. In considering to write about sunlight in this blog, I remember that I was actually named after the sunlight itself. I care much about not to make my writings too conceptual that sounds boring to everyone, but if you kindly allow me to spend one more sentence I should say, that if the moon is my old friend, the sun is my self.

708 Moonlight

Sometimes, and suddenly, at some point of evening, walking in a street I happen to look up the sky for a moment and surprisingly find the moon is shining among the flood of town lights. Then I remember I am living totally unaware of the direction where the moon appears. No matter how far human gets wiser and more skilled, and no matter how far the age of technology go beyond, we will always see the sun rise in the morning and the moon will appear in the night sky. When I was a little child my mother used to tell that the moon was a guardian that made you safely back to home under the light. Being a guardian when I was a kid, and now it's like an old friend. It may sound odd but I cannot help feeling like smiling to the moon when I unexpectedly find it, just as I come across one of my best friends in the crowd.  

707 Glass

"Ando's Glass"

My friend and I were searching for a glass as a special gift and token of our gratitude, and came across a beautiful masterpiece. It was so fine that it looked like illuminating itself, because of its simple and sophisticated shape and style. I thought that a glass is the best work that enables us instantly appreciate how good design gives us delight and comfort, since a glass is something you always touch, hold, look at, taste and hear the sound it makes everyday. A fine glass changes the taste of the drink, because it directly appeals to multi senses and stays beautiful even it is used - emptied - and put down nonchalantly. 

706 Remix Business

It's a great pleasure if you happen to combine two (or three) of your favorites together and make them work in an unexpected and exciting way. It's like remixing the different tunes. Currently I'm totally losing myself in practicing hip hop dance and taichi. Sometimes I do free-style dance with unconsciously introducing familiar move from taichi. I taped my practice taichi move and edited it with my favorite hip hop tune. I know that both arts cannot be translated to each other easily, as the one is martial arts and the other performing arts, but all I feel is a happy chemistry and that makes me much more fascinated to both of them.     

705 Walls

Walls protect powerful, important people, noble, eminent people and valuable assets. Castles and palaces have majestic and awesome walls as a part of its architecture and landscape. I wondered what if someone asked whether I wanted to become such great person and to find myself living inside the walls. Maybe I would answer I would rather be a part of the virtuous function and protect what is to be protected from outside. 

704 Danny Collins

Danny Collins is a story about a middle-aged rock star who suddenly realized what was the true value of his life, after years of corruption and laziness, inspired by a letter to him from John Lennon which had never been delivered to him. It's amazing that this is "a bit" based on a true story. This is a very well-made, heart-warming but full of cynical humor thanks to the unparalleled performances by Al Pacino, Christopher Plummer, Annette Bening, Jennifer Garner and Bobby Cannavale. I like this movie so much because it never falls into an easy and quirky plot that I would have thought of, like the issue of whether the letter was really from John Lennon or just a fake one. It's all about matured dialogue and communication and power to believe bonds between people, to believe you can just start over.

703 Light Side

Recently I heard several delightful news from my friends that they happily got married. In speaking with them, watching their happiest moment in their life, or watching my parents and my brother's family, I always think that loving relationship doesn't need to have dark side. Surely it's not blessed with only light side, and I don't mean that love should not fall into dark side (because some people can really handle it), but it should be simply, clean and light. For loving relationship to come into power, it never need lie, breach, trick, gimmick, envy, or entrapment. In its nature, it is truly simple.  

702 Reflection

I spent walking around a whole new year's day in one of the most sacred locations in the country. I'm not that spiritual kind of person but I just wanted to see beautiful and comforting scenery on this occasion. Still it's no doubt that meditation time gave me to think deeply inside myself. Again I didn't intend to think my life. I just wanted to enjoy the sightseeing but anyhow the location had power to lead me to that level of insight. 

What I thought is that I should accept my weakness and flaws --- simply put, I cannot be perfect. I should watch them and acknowledge them so that I could be finer and stronger regardless of them. If I can watch them carefully, objectively, like watching myself in a mirror, it may help me to avoid falling into not just to too much ego but also, more importantly, a blind fear, anxiety and impatience caused by too much seriousness to be as perfect as possible. To know your weakness would lead you to something. The best part of it is you don't have to criticize yourself for it, as others will do so when necessary. Just watch, know, acknowledge it, and it will be a tactics worth trying.

701 Daybreak

I went to a day trip on New Year's Day and enjoyed sunlight of the daybreak during the take off and throughout in the sky. As long as I like flying so much, this is one of the best ways to celebrate the day.