Archive for August, 2008
Leaving the internet behind for 10 days (or so) - can you believe it?
2 Comments Published by hasan August 17th, 2008 in Travel.I don’t understand why I can never travel light.
Every time I go somewhere I have to carry notebooks, books, clothes (way too many), toiletries, a few more books, a musical instrument or two, some photos to show people, etc…
I’m about to walk out of my dormitory in West Tokyo to live on a […]
A Moment of Silence for Mahmoud Darwish
2 Comments Published by hasan August 12th, 2008 in Mahmoud Darwish.silence.
(I don’t know what else to say.)
when a train suddenly reverses its direction, a fortune teller is bound to be around
2 Comments Published by hasan August 12th, 2008 in daily life.On the train this evening, on my way back from a long day of volunteer work, I started to recount a few things that happened over the past few days as I absent-mindedly leafed through a notebook I had been carrying around with me here in Tokyo for most of the last three years. And […]
a stupid cicada and the olympics opening ceremony
1 Comment Published by hasan August 9th, 2008 in Olympics.As I walked up the stairs, I was staring at what had to be the stupidest cicada I had ever come across in my life. It, the single buzzing insect, kept flying into the hot florescent lamp in the landing and shrieking painfully as it burned itself more and more. Yup, you guessed it, this […]
John Lennon wrote “Across the Universe” in 1967, when he was 27 years old. This kind of makes me wonder.
Freddie Mercury was 29 when Bohemian Rhapsody came out in 1975.
Robert Plant was only 22, while Jimmy Page was 26 when they penned Stairway to Heaven.
Albert Einstein was 26 when he published his 1905 paper entitled […]
I just set up a myspace site of my own at http://www.myspace.com/hasanhujairi, where you can listen to samples of some of my music. Feel free to give the sample a listen and let me know what you think
I also wanted to thank Hashim at Mello Studio for […]
“One Day in the Life of..”, Stray Lightning Bolts, and a Visit Back Home
0 Comments Published by hasan August 6th, 2008 in daily life, Nobel Prize Winner.Yesterday, a lightning bolt struck the train tracks at the station near my dormitory. This resulted in the traffic signals on the train tracks to go haywire, and all the fire alarms in all the houses, apartments and dormitory buildings to all set off at the same time: the town I live in was shrieking […]