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Maybe I’m finally ‘cool’ because I finally got around to watching Kubrick’s “A Clockwork Orange”. Then again, maybe I just need to go back to working on my thesis - I’m almost done (and it’s always that final leg of the race that’s the killer!).

The twenty three hours between Bahrain and my dorm room in Tokyo included being trapped between rather large people in Economy Class, terrible airline meals, and keeping my cool while being given the ’special’ treatment for having ‘middle eastern’ features. As soon as I got into my room, after getting a familiarly unwelcome greeting from [...]

In less than a week, my midterms begin.
I’m supposed to be brushing up on the Nash Equilibrium and Pareto Optimality for my Microeconomics exam, but instead, I find myself more interested in reflecting on the history of the Visigoths and Professor Alexander Demandt’s Der Falls Rom (1984) (An essay in which 210 theories behind [...]

Your Birthdate: April 29

You have the mind of an artist, even if you haven’t developed the talent yet.
Expressive and aware, you enjoy finding new ways to share your feelings.
You often feel like you don’t fit in - especially in traditional environments.
You have big dreams. The problem is putting those dreams into action.Your strength: Your vivid [...]

Just don’t feel like it. (Another oxymoron for Odd to go bananas over).

Well, I’ve been in Tokyo for a while now after an - engaging - trip to Bahrain (No. “engaging” does not involve anyone getting married - or even thinking about it - by the way). I’ve been busy lately (or so I tell myself) with things: Reading as much Kafka humanly possible. Trying to [...]

I was watching TV in an attempt to appease my latest spell of insomnia that reemerged after a two month hiatus (Welcome back, Lady Sleepless Nights!), when I found this show in which a bunch of not-so-masculine-looking male members of a pop “band” in Japan were being asked about the Beethoven (big surprise that they knew nothing about him).
Here [...]

Okay, so, I just came back from the cinema after watching the new James Bond movie (it’s about time). Despite going to the movie alone, and despite the train ride back to Kunitachi being delayed for a few minutes because someone decided that tonight was a good night to commit suicide by throwing him/herself onto the [...]

The steak I ordered had been laying on my table for at least ten minutes before I began to eat it. How had my day gotten to this, I wasn’t sure. I look around the restaurant and make a few observations:

Two tables to my left, I saw this guy who I always see sitting outside the local Starbucks [...]

Ummm.. erm.. nevermind.