Sunnytoast

Today, it’s almost two weeks of school for many kids in the area and each year at about this time I start remembering my first day at school. You took few trips to the store for school supplies full of excitement with your Mom because you have the freedom to choose whatever cartoon character or design cover of your notebook or worst thing you end up with pinoy local artist….aminin peg! yan ng panahon natin! Hahaha! And then a few more to the mall or the nearest embarrassing clothing outlet for new shoes and clothes for the coming year. I spend my high school days to Dominican Catholic private school,  so my folks did not save some cash…lol…I could have just jump into a public school; less tuition and could have be more fun. Needless to say, I miss quite a few things from high school and for sure you’ll find a mutual agreement with what I have to say. Days where teachers are absent or late in class we get free, kick-back period, Sport-team rivalries, lunch periods- a time to...

For the past few weeks I had been married to Haruki Murakami - a one week love affair. Actually I’m just happy that I’m back into my old self. Every after work I walk straight home then grab the book until black birds and owl knocks on me.  I recently finished reading the book The Wind up bird chronicle , a fiction novel that fuses realistic and fantastic tendencies which contains elements of physical violence. Murakami works are heavily influenced by western culture, humorous, surreal and at the same time distresses on themes of alienation and loneliness. "The story starts off simply enough about Mr. Okada losing his cat, then his wife, and then finally his own mind. In a bizarre fashion all of the odd characters and situations that Okada finds himself in are all related in some way which is eventually summed together at the end. What was most fascinating is the elements of Buddhism, the search for nothingness to really get in touch with one's consciousness. Okada finds the ...