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Earthquake! A story I rarely tell...

Yesterday, the LA area was hit by an earthquake. I haven't experienced one in a long time, and the 5.4 magnitude would seem to be strong enough to scare many, but it wouldn't cause much damage except to old structures an…
When naming your kid...

Paul, David, Dennis, Steven, Kevin, Bill, Richard. These are nice All-American names. Indeed, these are the names of my classmates as I was growing up in LA in the 1960s at a Japanese missionary school where all the stud…
Summer Rerun: The Yakuza and the wimp

In the previous post, I had a little fun at the expense of an innocent passerby--I do not assign any ulterior motive to his actions. Well, in the interest of fairness and openness, I should reveal that I too have had my …
Male or female

I just read a post by California Gal about her son. She posted a photo of her son and asked if he looked like a girl. He's a cute looking kid but still looks like a boy to me. But then, maybe non-Asians can't readily see…
Backward camel

Holy moly! It's freakin' cookin' outside. It's 95 degrees, 45% humidity and feels like 102 according to weather.com. But I didn't need them to tell me. I feel like a roast cooking over a low heat. If it would only melt o…
Happy Halloween

Halloween's coming. Halloween's coming. Ghosts and goblins too...It happened again... I was talking to M the other night right before bed. We were ready to go to sleep, just nonchalantly standing in front of each other a…
Text Appeal, i.e. a Face Lift W/out Much Lift

I was away from Xanga for quite a while. I mean, I would post every so often, when I had the time and was in the mood, but I it was just post and split--go back to work or to J-dorama or whatever. But I've been back now …
Early Halloween...

I leave campus a little after 7 PM most days, take the Metro train to the last stop on the Orange line and walk home from the station around 8 PM. I used to take a short cut that went past a parking structure, then benea…
Your Favorite O-man Story

Once, a couple of years ago, whonose wrote to me, telling that I should consider publishing some of my writing. I laughed thinking, who the heck would read it? Or better yet, who the heck would buy it? I have had a nu…
I Swear, It's Not Me

It's embarrasing when someone thinks you cut a fart... guilty or not. *sigh* Every morning, I find myself rushing to catch up on things. The alarm goes off--or M nudges me to wake up--and it takes me 15 to 20 minutes to …

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