• going to the airport
• the feeling of a new toothbrush
• taking a shower with such hot water, the bathroom turns into a sauna
• late night/early morning hours
• late night drizzling rain in the city
• the smell of candles when you blow them out.
• pointing out constellations and planets
• a long distance phone call
• when people touch my hair
• packing suitcases
• getting hair cuts
• freshly painted toenails and fingernails
• icy smoothies
• receiving and mailing letters
• shopping for presents
• napping on and off all day
• holding my breath and closing my eyes while driving through tunnels
• blowing on dandelions and making a wish

• House
• Arrested Development
• Bones
• Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations
• Modern Family
• The Simpsons
• The Office
• Samurai Champloo
• Cowboy Bebop
• The Wire
• Futurama
• Glee
• Nip/Tuck
• Law & Order: SVU
• FLCL
• Entourage
• In Treatment
• Nurse Jackie
• How I Met Your Mother
• The Venture Bros.
• Metalocalypse

늙었다. 젠장.

• Language in Thought and Action , S.I. Hayakawa
• Brideshead Revisited , Evelyn Waugh
• Kafka on the Shore , Haruki Murakami
• The Things They Carried , Tim O'Brien
• Dandelion Wine , Ray Bradbury
• The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald , F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Book of Laughter and Forgetting , Milan Kundera
• The Wind-up Bird Chronicles , Haruki Murakami
• A Farewell to Arms , Ernest Hemingway
• In Our Time , Ernest Hemingway
• East of Eden , John Steinbeck
• Cannery Row , John Steinbeck
• Nine Stories , J.D. Salinger
• Welcome to the Monkey House , Kurt Vonnegut
• Siddhartha , Herman Hesse
• The Living End , Stanley Elkin
• Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World , Haruki Murakami
• Severance: Stories , Robert Olen Butler
• The Heart Sutra
• Tender is the Night , F. Scott Fitzgerald

• Bangkok, Thailand
• Belgrade, Serbia
• Bogota, Colombia
• Cologne, Germany
• Doha, Qatar
• Geneva, Switzerland
• Hanoi, Vietnam
• Harbin, China
• Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
• Johannesburg, South Africa
• Lyons, France
• Monte Carlo, Monaco
• Montevideo, Uruguay
• Moscow, Russia
• Munich, Germany
• Okinawa Island, Japan
• Paro, Bhutan
• Prague, Czech Republic
• Reykjavík, Iceland
• São Paulo, Brazil
• Takamatsu, Shikoku, Japan

• a roadtrip in the middle of the night to no actual destination
• a weekend in Las Vegas, 5-star hotel, gambling and lots of drinking.
• full day at the spa including a deep tissue massage
• a week-long trip to NYC
• duty-free shopping
• chain-smoking along with iced café au lait
• a new hair cut and color
• a brand new laptop
• laying in an air-conditioned room 24/7
• a BBQ party
• camping in the mountains
• a new car
• a new environment/landscape/life

• "This is love, isn't it? When you notice someone's absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love his presence?" - Everything is Illuminated , Jonathan Safran Foer
• "Il semble que la perfection soit atteinte non quand il n'y a plus rien à ajouter, mais quand il n'y a plus rien à retrancher." - Terre des Hommes , Antoine de Saint Exupéry
• "Revenge is good for your health, but pain will find you again." (__Oldboy__)
• "You have a serious problem of distorting reality. You could sleep with the entire planet and still feel rejected." (__The Science of Sleep__)
• "In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day."
• "吾十有五而志於學，三十而立，四十而不惑，五十而知天命，六十而耳順，七十而从心所欲，不逾矩。"

• In the Mood for Love
• 2046
• Chungking Express
• Akira Kurosawa's Dream
• ワンダフルライフ
• Everything is Illuminated
• Oldboy
• Spirited Away
• My Own Private Idaho
• American Beauty
• 주유소 습격 사건
• Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring
• Paris, Je T'aime
• Eureka
• Happiness
• Holy Mountain
• The Bicycle Thief
• Children of Heaven
• 데이지
• リリイ・シュシュのすべて
• 친절한 금자씨