31 Dec 2007

Thank you 2007 Welcome 2008




Another fresh new year is here . . .

Another year to live!To banish worry, doubt, and fear,To love and laugh and give!
This bright new year is given meTo live each day with zest . . .

To daily grow and try to beMy highest and my best!
I have the opportunityOnce more to right some wrongs,
To pray for peace, to plant a tree,And sing more joyful songs!
Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.
Always, Love.
Emi.

26 Dec 2007

Why Don't Man Listen?


For this one, Dr. Billy exhaustively searched for an answer. How sweet would it be if there existed the perfect scientific comeback for the next time a woman screamed at you, "Why are you ignoring me!"

Well, here are the inklings of our anatomical answers...In the September 2005 issue of the journal Neuroimage, psychiatric researchers at the University of Sheffield reported that male and female voices activate distinct regions of the male brain. The scientists monitored the brain activity of twelve men as they listened to male and female voices. They found that in men, women's voices stimulate an area of the brain used for processing complex sounds, like music. Male voices, on the other hand, activate a region of the brain used for producing imagery. This may suggest that, at least for men, the female voice is more complex and more difficult to hear and understand.But there's more...An earlier study in the July 2001 issue of Radiology also showed that men and women listen differently. In this study, researchers at Indiana University had twenty men and twenty women listening to a passage from a novel. While listening, they underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) of the brain. A majority of the men showed exclusive activity on the left side of the brain, but a majority of the women showed activity on both sides of the brain. Now there is certainly more research to be done, but we can put these two pieces together and start to make a leap toward excusing occasional male lapses in listening to their female partners.
So men out there, here is our suggested comeback when you are accused of not listening:Honey, I try so hard to listen. It's just that my brain is incapable of doing what my heart desires. (Then go back to watching football.)


- "Why do man fall asleep after sex" Chapter 1 page 8


Well ... this question is so subjective, not all men react this way but... how about you or your peartner?


At Omotesando

23 Dec 2007

Christmas


I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys.

-harles Dickens

At Akasaka

21 Dec 2007

Your Music


So sing, from the bottom of your heart
Dance , with your body waving free
And live, putting your soul into it
And when you love, love as though you have never been wounded, even if you have.

At Singapore

19 Dec 2007

Truth of truth



The line between right and wrong had blurred. In my search for truth, I had become a lie. Perhaps some secrets should remain secret.

- Little Black Book

At Omotesando

16 Dec 2007

Accept



It would be very important to Learn to understand people different from yourself,
and to accept others as they are.

At Singapore

14 Dec 2007

Precious moment


When you woke this morning, did you look forward joyously to the day? When you go to bed tonight, do you think you will be filled with satisfaction? Do you think the place you are in precious?

Me? - Yes. I do. Sometimes I don't but now ... Yes.

At Singapore

11 Dec 2007

Perfect Closet



Sometimes reality has a way of sneaking up and biting us in the ass. And when the dam bursts, all you can do is swim. The world of pretend is a cage, not a cocoon. We can only lie to ourselves for so long. We are tired, we are scared, denying it doesn't change the truth. Sooner or later we have to put aside our denial and face the world. Head on, guns blazing. De Nile. It's not just a river in Egypt, it's a freakin' ocean. So how do you keep from drowning in it?

At Singapore

10 Dec 2007

Signpost




Hope to the best plan tp the worth.
At Singapore

3 Dec 2007

What Do I Want?


As Ray Porter watches Mirabelle walk away he feels a loss. How is it possible, he thinks, to miss a woman whom he kept at a distance so that when she was gone he would not miss her. Only then does he realize that wanting part of her and not all of her had hurt them both and how he cannot justify his actions except that... well... it was life.

- Shopgirl

At Yokohama

I'm a...woman?



A woman needs to be held, even, and science has shown this, if itswith someone she doesn't care about. Protective hormones are released,and the amount of hormones released depends on the degree to which sheis held. The first and best is the complete surround. He wraps you inboth arms, whispers how beautiful you are. Second best is the 'armaround.' He is next to you but with one arm around you. Third is he'sjust next to you on his elbow, but he rests his hand on your stomachand looks at you. Fourth is you snuggling up to him with your head onhis chest, while he looks away into space. But when the first besthappens, you feel completely, wonderfully like a woman.

- Shopgirl.

At Yokohama.