Musical Baton (This One is For you Nov :P )

I don't usually do this, but what the heck, I will do it anyway. And Novi, hehee, I skipped the last one. I invite everyone who visits this site to write this in their blogs!


Total volume of music files on my computer:
977 MB

The last CD I bought was:
A year ago, I think it was MTV music award for my wife, hehehe

Song playing right now:
Hana by Orange Range (some Japanese stuff, not sure why I cannot get it out of my head)

Five songs I listen to a lot, or that mean a lot to me:

1. Gospellers (cool melody)
2. Eric Clapton, Change the World (like the message)
3. Mariah Carey, Butterfly (first day of college in US, oh the reminisce!)
4. Rie Natsukawa (I Think), Nada Sou Sou (Japanese song, but remind me of my childhood somehow)
5. John Meyer's first album

10 Things I Dislike Living In Tokyo

A while ago I published article on 10 things I like about Japan. So now would be the opposite of it:

1. Sitting next to a weirdo in a train. I don't even want to go into this, it is repulsive to think about it, hehehe.
2. Shoulder to shoulder with someone who gets into the train sweating because they have to catch the train....yuckkk
3. Standing to a drunk guy in a packed train....I hate the small of stale alcohol. This happens usually on Friday night.
4. Seeing some young people who sit in a special seat and just pretend to sleep so they don't need to give seat to old/pregnant/injured people.
5. Those annoying girls on TV who says "kawaiiii!" one too many times. Kawai means cute in English
6. High density living with others, yet lacking any social contacts whatsoever. Space, I need space!
7. Difficulties to fill out just about any forms...well, this is more because of my lack of Japanese more than anything else ;-P
8. Spring pollen! My allergies are killing me during these times. Especially for this spring 2005, one of the worst allergy episode I have ever had.
9. Where is the greenery! There are just so few of them in the city.
10. Fruit is so darn expensive! Tropical fruit even more so. Imagine buying one piece of mango for three dollars. Hmm...I miss all those tropical fruits.


As you can see, many of the experiences revolve around train, hehehehe. It's true, train here is very on time, but sometimes it is quite exhausting to ride on them, especially when it is ridiculously crowded.

What Is It Like?

From time to time, some of my Japanese colleagues asked me what it is like to live in Japan. I guess they were hoping too much of good answers from me about living in Japan and became disappointed when I told them, "well, what matters most is being able to live with someone that I care, where ever that might be".

Of course, there are many things to like about Japan, such as cleanliness (almost to the point of obsessive to me, somehow), how discipline people are, organized and timely manners things are done, etc., but at the end of the day, that does not really mean too much now, is it?

I have been very fortunate to be able to experience living in different parts of the world until now, it has made it less relevant to me now where I should spend my life. The question is not where, but who do I live with and what I would do to sacrifice being with the person who is important for me.

Then again, there are places on this planet that you would not prefer to live obviously, so let's use some common sense when you do reading on the above :) With this, I hope that where ever you are, you can live with your loved ones!

Utopian Society a la Wisnu

So I am sure that everyone has an idea of a society which is so ideal that it becomes...utopian, I just want to write it down in a listing for all of you:

1. When people do not need to do physical work any longer, especially those menial jobs. Robots will do it for us! It is left to us to be able to fully realize the creative and artistic aspect of our brain.
2. When traveling to and living in space is no longer something you see in movies, but an actuality. Man, I would have love to live in that time.
3. When longevity of life and youthful look are maintained, even when you age. The problem with current method to prolong life is.....precisely because they are only to prolong life, but not to make you any healthier or agile as you get older. The term geriatric will be meaningless in my utopian society.
4. When you get have nourishment at will. After all, everything is constructed out of protons and electrons, surely a food that "suddenly" show up is by no means impossible (or, I refuse to believe it is impossible, hehehe)
5. When you can communicate just by using your thoughts (actually, this was achieved in ancient history, so this is more like retracing our roots)
6. When you can travel at the speed faster than speed of light (observed already in particles, in some hi tech lab somewhere) without disintregating your physical body into pieces....wait, do we even need a physical body?


Hmm...suddenly I am running out of ideas of what else is there....Of course, world peace, harmony among religions will be a part of that utopian society, but I thought I want to write down something that are less obvious than the usual utopia. So what do you think guys, what are your future dream world is like?