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Japan, don't make me fall in love again. | Japan, don't make me fall in love again. | ||
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You know I have a soft stomach. | You know I have a soft stomach. | ||
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I am not the same man that you remember. I've been scorched by light. The light of the sun, the light of knowledge, of love reflecting from the ice. | I am not the same man that you remember. I've been scorched by light. The light of the sun, the light of knowledge, of love reflecting from the ice. | ||
Today you were good to me. You know I have a weakness for compassion. | Today you were good to me. You know I have a weakness for compassion. | ||
+ | A cop in the police station saw me fumble with my phone and insisted on directing me to the nearest Ramen restaurant. A man in the Ramen restaurant insisted on buying me a noodle refill - A gesture for a foreign student friend, he said. Again the hair on my arm became an attraction. I still find it hard to understand how is it that you shun from hand shaking, but have no inhibitions for feeling someone's arm-hair without asking. | ||
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+ | You're also interested in what I do. | ||
+ | Tomimatsu-sensei, my professor in-charge, is interested in organizing a Soft Robotics workshop. I happen to know how to do that. If I am able to build my Palestinian robot under this framework, I need to look no further. | ||
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+ | Both Finland and Japan have a sterile purity to them that leaves me baffled. | ||
+ | Both of them invite you to dig deeper into their soul, until you reach the dirt, but without actually saying that. | ||
+ | However, they are not the same. | ||
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+ | I finished reading [[https://www.press.umich.edu/9732/conversations_on_science_culture_and_time|"Conversations on Science, Culture and Time"]]. | ||
+ | This is a book I'd like to buy and keep, so I can open it up every once in a while and be inspired. | ||
+ | Next on my list: | ||
+ | * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cultural_Politics_of_Emotion|The Cultural Politics of Emotion]] | ||
+ | * [[http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/730139.Gravity_and_Grace|Gravity and Grace]] | ||
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+ | *Click* | ||
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- | A cop in the police station saw me fumble with my phone and insisted on directing me to the nearest Ramen restaurant. A man in the Ramen restaurant insisted on buying me a noodle refill. A gesture for a foreign student friend, he said. Again the hair on my arm became an attraction. I still find it hard to understand how is it that you shun hand shaking, but have no inhibitions for feeling someone's arm-hair without asking. | + | </poem> |
+ | ~~DISCUSSION~~ |