NANA

March 2006, I was crazy about a movie "NANA". In fact I think the whole Japan was crazy about this movie, it was such a great hit. It hit every girl at least.

The story was originally written as a Japanese manga. Two girls met by chance in a train to Tokyo. They were both about to start a life with their own dreams: Nana, after leaving the man she loves, struggled to become a vocalist and Hachi was eager to marry the man she's in love with. They became good friends and rented an apartment together.

The dreams of these two young ladies didn't come so easily. It could have been a typical "dreams won't come true" story but no, behind all the disappointments, broken hearts, loneliness, the two girls still managed to stay the way they are, the way they always have been. They lost the men but didn't lose their dreams. True that being in love is most pleasant, most satisfying, most precious, most comforting. But being herself is her soul. A soul does not live for anyone else. When her love for him hurts her soul --- She'll look away, walk away.

恋よりプライドを選んだと事.

I watched the movie again today. Some of my friends here are going to have a "japanese" party tomorrow at my place, and we are supposed to make japanese, speak japanese, etc. (Funny none of us is japanese). Someone suggested that we make sukiyaki so I went to her home to get a sukiyaki pot for tomorrow. She literally has a library of Japanese movies and dramas at her home. I immediately put NANA into her DVD player with great excitement, but just as the music started to play, it all reminded me of everything in Tokyo and it almost made me want to cry.

Didn't I forget to say sayonara when I left? Even when Lily sent me off in the Narita Express, even when she was wiping her eyes, I didn't say sayonara. I felt the word was too much for me to handle and I would rather say it in my heart.

Sayonara all my dear friends in Tokyo.

フラッシュバック
君は CLEVER
AH, REMEMBER

Endless Story
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