How was your weekend?
Mine became a very relaxing one. (I think that I needed it to be relaxed.)

I went to see a movie in Sat night with SH (The King’s Speech was excellent),
and before the movie, she and I had a quick bite at a Chinese restaurant across the street.
Meal was alright (comforting enough to cheer my stomach up.)
Like any other Chinese restaurant, the wait staff brought us little refreshments.
Mint chocolates marbles and fortune cookies.
Fresh slices of orange would’ve been nicer,
but I needn’t to complain it because I like choco marbles and fortune cookies anyway!

It’s a US made ritual (or precisely originated in San Francisco by Japanese).
Even if you are not hungry and have no intention to eat,
you will open the cookie.
Yes, you do!
You can’t resist to crack that little given fortune of yours open
as you hope to see something good in it.

I have opened a little dainty bag that holds a precious cookie shell in
(or the one that hides a message from… somerewhere we have no idea!),
then, have taken out the cookie of my own.
I can smell the sugar and it tickles my nose.
I wanted to eat the cookie first, and then read the fortune while I eat,
but in some reason, I always feel that isn’t the right order.
It has to be “read” first, then, “eat” the shell.
For this time, again, I couldn’t reverse the order.

“If we are all worms, try to be a glow worm.”

WHAT?

I… uuuuuuuu…’nderstand each vocabulary
and probably understand what that means,
I guess? probably? (maybe not?)

BTW, do you have any friend who writes this fortune as his/her occupation?
If so, I beg you to take me to his/her work.
I am too curious who writes and how s/he writes.

ANYHOW.

I shall sing My Shining Hour tonight to show my
“glow-worm sprit” promised in my fortune.


Monday, February 7
from 7:30 PM to 11PM

Mamiko Taira (vocal)
Toru Dodo (piano)

at NB Lounge
111 E56th Street
(bet Park and Lexington Avenues)
New York, NY 10022