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For the past week, I’ve been thinking a lot about an unfortunate accident that happened in my dormitory: An 18-year old freshman died of alcohol poisoning. As the circumstances of the accident have not been confirmed, I am not at liberty to talk much about how it happened or the different rumors I’ve heard. All [...]

I’ve been in Tokyo for nearly three years, and I still don’t think I understand half of what’s going on over here. This concern of being lost in translation was confirmed earlier this evening during a walk I took around Shinjuku Station.
Shinjuku Station is a monster of a station. It’s got hundreds of mouths and [...]

Ezra Pound put it beautifully:
In a Station of the Metro
THE apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough.

I find train stations to be both symbolic and microcosmic at once. I get a rush every time I walk into a train station, no matter how many times I’ve passed through it before. [...]

A dervish woke up after a sleep that lasted half an eternity. He looked around him to see that much has changed. The lodge he shared with the others in the fraternity and all its occupants seemed to have moved or - even worse perhaps- disappeared entirely. He immediately knew that the times have changed, [...]

The Noise Next Door:
I’ve discovered that my next-door neighbour has the ugliest laugh in the world - I found this out after being startled out of my sleep a few mornings ago while she was either on the phone or using some online net-to-phone service talking to what seemed to be her family back in [...]

The Annoying Midnight Cop:
I was out on another midnight stroll; hadn’t had anything to eat since 11.00am and so I thought it was about time to eat. I got out into the fresh midnight air and made the 5-minute trek to the local convenience store (the only place open at that time of night - [...]

Last night, we had our first official “Welcome Party” at our dormitory, after an hour-long orientation about the facilities within our dorm building. It was quite fun.
The Welcome Party was fun; probably the first time I really had fun at a party, mingling with people I’m meeting for the first time. I made small talk [...]

Okay, and so I just came back from my university’s Enterance Ceremony, which would be the opposite of a Graduation Ceremony (and I still don’t see the point). The President of the University gave a speech to which most of the “graduate students” did not pay attention. I know this because I was in the [...]

I didn’t know how to organize this entry, so thought I would just write it down in point form. There isn’t that ONE, OUTSTANDING thing I really want to say for now, so, just thought I would share these little “snippets” (If translated into Bahraini Arabic, “Sawalif 9a’3eera”). These little pointers are written in no [...]

Okay, even though it has been nearly 6 months since I arrived in Japan, there is PLENTY of room for SURPRISES in my daily life. Today, I woke up late - as I usually do during this four-week Summer holiday - and headed for the communal showers. Before jumping into the shower, I usually like [...]