Ten Year Reunion

I am not supposed to be here today. I was hoping to be in Seattle this evening for my Ten Year High School Reunion. But I’m not. I’m in New York. Working. I don’t feel that bad about missing it, although I must admit that I always intended to go. I won’t be there not [...]

Japanese Class, Day One

I attended my first Keizai and Business Japanese class at the Japan Society the other day, as mentioned in my previous post. For the first time in a long time, I felt in over my head with Japanese. And it wasn’t that I couldn’t understand what was going on. I could. I just couldn’t read the article [...]

The Japan Society, Round Three

Tonight I begin my Japanese class for this fall semester. This is the third class I have enrolled in at the Japan Society in New York. I have been impressed with the classes so far and the caliber of the professors. The two previous classes I have taken have been with the same professor, Aizawa Sensei. [...]

Freedom

I finished a book recently that will stick with me for a while.  After seeing the book remain one of the best-selling books in the past few months, I was eager to read it for myself. The book is A Thousand Splendid Suns and the author is Khaled Hosseini, the author of the global hit, The Kite Runner. Splendid [...]

Tell Me What You Think

For those that have visited this site before, you probably noticed that I have changed the design after 122 posts on Sound to Sound. What do you think? I like my new simple design, but also enjoyed my previous layout, with its muted colors and illustration of midtown west at night. I have finally also [...]

24/7 All Access Assistant

I recently discovered a service in select cities in the U.S. and London that I found to be quite a good idea. After exploring the website, I kicked myself for not thinking of the idea on my own. The company is Sunday LLC and it claims that its service will boost busy people’s productivity and mobility. Essentially, you [...]

Four Months With Hanna

Before my daughter was born, I remember a friend of mine who has two kids saying that his kids didn’t like him and he didn’t like them until they were four months. I can now say that there is something magical about four months. My daughter Hanna turned four months this past weekend and she [...]

Tupac Shakur

-”My mission is to be more than just a rap musician; the elevation of today’s generation, if I can make them listen.”
Today marks the eleventh anniversary of the death of Tupac Shakur. Tupac, or 2Pac, as he was also known, was the most successful rap artist of all time, and in my mind, the [...]

To Seattle In Vain?

It was a year ago today that I got on a plane and flew to Seattle. After spending my third- year of law school looking for a job unsuccessfully, I decided to give my job hunting a break to study for the New York Bar Exam. After the bar exam, I picked up my job [...]

September 11, 2007

Like most people, I remember where I was and what I was doing on Tuesday morning, September 11, 2001. I was in Hawaii. And given the time difference (six hours behind New York), I felt that I was the last person in the world to find out what occurred in New York and Washington. I [...]

Drum ‘n Bass For the Speed Reader

I like to listen to music when I read. Not only does it help me focus, it drowns out the noise around me. Given that I spend over an hour on a train each day commuting to and from Manhattan, I find myself having a lot of time to read. And I make good use [...]

Where The Fathers Walked

As I walk the streets of Manhattan daily I often think of those who have walked here before me. Given that my office is in lower Manhattan near Wall Street, I am surrounded by history. Just a block away from my office is the statute of George Washington commemorating his inauguration as the first President of [...]