Posted By:  leiju Posted On:  Sep 2, 2008	S(e)oul searching
... it is so easy to play on the name of this city. I wonder whether the founding fathers knew this (... duh?). I have become a consumer whore. It took only a few days for me to become engulfed in the consumerism and beauty care that is ever so present in this city. It kind of reminds me of the...... [view]

Posted By:  leiju Posted On:  Aug 27, 2008	sunrise upon skyscrapers
I have arrived in Korea and am sitting in a small bus, on the way to town. The sun isn't quite ready to rise yet but it has already started diluting the dark night sky, turning it deep orange on the horizon. The road is incredibly smooth, especially compared to the roads in Mongolia, and I...... [view]

Posted By:  leiju Posted On:  Aug 24, 2008	love drunk
A seemingly impossible departure looms upon my daily experience of Life. I have fallen in Love before. One could almost say that falling in Love is a major part of who I am. Yet this time around, the Love I have come to found is hard to leave. I seem to have become attached to being surrounded...... [view]

Posted By:  leiju Posted On:  Feb 19, 2008	On the flight from Vilnius to Tallin...
It's not pure fear anymore - or more precisely, this time around . It's more like intense discomfort, as all the emotions that usually quietly haunt my unconscious rush to the surface at the same time. It's almost akin to internal panic about Life itself, set off by a precise and...... [view]

Posted By:  leiju Posted On:  Jun 14, 2007	mail me the list, baby!
If there's anyone out there who would like to be included onto my mailing-list (first issue of which will probably be spread around tomorrow night - and whose topic line will be something like On the road to nowhere... and Asia ) then please do drop me a line here with your e-mail address...... [view]

Posted By:  leiju Posted On:  Jul 12, 2007	JAPAAAAANNN!!
I'm in Japan! I have just landed in Osaka and I am taking advantage of the free WLAN internet at the airport to check out this dear blog I was unable to access during my time in China! I've resorted to writing in my little booklet, on paper, with a good old-fashioned pen. It's...... [view]

Posted By:  leiju Posted On:  Jul 14, 2007	Head over heels in Love
I've fallen in Love today. Something I thought would never happen. Yet it hit me the moment I stepped off that train. Something new stirred up within my veins. Slightly out of place, yet totally in the right space. It felt like the world I'd known until then disappeared without...... [view]

Posted By:  leiju Posted On:  Jul 16, 2007	moving on... reluctantly
Japan hit by typhoon! Earthquake! Sarju made a really good point today: it seems that catastrophe follows wherever I set foot. Except that I haven't set foot in Tokyo... yet. *evil laughter* The weather has been lovely here in Hiroshima, and I hadn't a clue about the earthquake...... [view]

Posted By:  leiju Posted On:  Jul 17, 2007	alone, in the middle of a crowd
So, Tokyo. It is amazing how one country can be so many. A bit like China and Shanghai, Switzerland and Geneva, I guess. It's as the Shinkansen pulled into Kobe and filled up with businessmen that I felt the change. We'd moved from gentle Japan to hard-liners' business...... [view]

Posted By:  leiju Posted On:  Jul 21, 2007	At Peace - perhaps
I find it fascinating how we are tempted to believe what we say, or what we think. I am fascinated over our ability to choose what we decide to consider as truth and what we dismiss as nonsense, how we decide to consider some people and disregard others. It is temptingly easy to say it's...... [view]

Posted By:  leiju Posted On:  Jul 27, 2007	wanderlust
I am barely scratching the surface. I yearn to spend more time. More time alone. More time out of context. More time with myself, alone, in the middle of the crowd. I remember why I stopped looking for a significant other. I found Love. Love like no other. Love. True Love. And then I realised...... [view]

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