a night with Eric

I was waiting for the carrot cookies to be baked, listening to Eric Clapton.
I borrowed Murakami Haruki's Norwegian Wood today from the library. I also borrowed many books like William Somerset Maugham's Cakes and Ale, a couple of mysteries by Higashino Keigo, and some cook books. While waiting for cookies and listening to Eric Clapton, I was deciding what to read first, then realized how happy that moment was. I was struggling, I mean literally suffering from many things recently, and forgot how it was like to just feel happy from bottom of your heart. It wasn't like YAY!-kind happy, but more like I-know-that-I-am-happy-at-this-moment-but-there's-nothing-I-can-put-this-feeling-into-the-human-words-kind happy. So nothing could be more important than this, don't you think?

a rainy morning

a rainy morning.

the dinning room is pale look unlike until yesterday.
without any music, you still have natural raining back ground music.

I am cooking a ham + egg breakfast and a ginger milk tea with lots of sugar in it.
sweet and warm milk tea melts my body into a drop of rain.

Norwegian Wood

When I first read Murakami Haruki's book, I was only 18 years old and suffering from everything. I was too young and not mature enough to enjoy in a total alien country.

One winter night, I was reading his "Norwegian Wood" all night long until dawn. At the time of winter dawn, I finished the book and what I felt at that moment is somehow still living in me. My first experience of his book was and has been huge impact on me.

I have once been to his talk show in Berkeley. He had great atmosphere around him, and the way he talked was somehow but clearly related to his words and his world. And I loved it. So if his novels were made into movies, I wanted it to have the temperature he has in his works. And this time, the director of Norwegian Wood, Trần Anh Hùng, said that she focused on the original story's temperature and atmosphere, not just followed the story. Now I really want to see the movie. And I love the Beatles' song Norwegian Wood as well.