About Me

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If you haven't got anything nice to say about anyone, come and sit next to me.

There is only one "me" in the world.

The Shunkoin Temple www.shunkoin.com

My Interests

Red Wine, Coffee, Coffee Shop, Restaurant, Cooking, Zen Meditation, Yoga, Running, Japanese Tea Ceremony, Japanese Traditional Arts, Piano, Dancing, Travel, Language, Fashion, Tattoo, Philosophy, Astrology, Psychology, History, Art, Dalai Lama, Freedom, Peace

I'd like to meet:

You are...

My old friends and new interesting people. Yeah, in any ways, it's brilliant thing to meet all shorts of people. And, these experiences enrich our life.

Have some manners, please. If you wanna add me on your MySpace, please send a message to me first.

Music:

Texas,
Cranberries,
Killer,
Bijork,
Queen,
Cher,
Sting,
Frank Sinatra,
DMX,
Jay-Z,
Wyclef Jean,
Mos Def,
LL Cool J,
Common,
Andrea Bocelli,
Sarah Brightman,
Lonestar,
Everthing But the Girl,
Frou Frou

Movies:

Lost in Translation, Japanese Story, Passionada, Amelie, The Last Samurai, Bad Boyz 2, Reservoir Dogs, Braveheart, Tango Lesson, Red Violin, City Hall, the Lover, Bend it like Beckham, etc

Television:

British Commedies, Coupling(BBC), AbFb, CNN, BET, A&E Biography, Kumar at No.42, Growing up Gotti, MTV Cribs, Real Time, Family Bond, Family Guy

Books:

Any biographies of leaders and wealth, history, psychology, non-fictions, Eastern philosophy, Art of War, the Book of Five Rings-Musahi Miyamoto, Geisha-Lisa Dalby, Geisha:A Life-Mineko Iwasaki, the Wisdom of Gion, Rumi, Prize, The Art of Memory, Wallpaper & Surface (magazine), Kateigaho-International.

Heroes:

My Parents
Every person, who dedicated/is dedicating his/her life to make the world better,
Stephanie Chantry,
Dalai Lama the 14th,
Martin Luther King Jr.,
Arnold Schwarzenegger

My Blog

My Celebrity Look-alikes

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Posted by Taka on Wed, 23 May 2007 06:20:00 PST

I am alive again!

Yeah, I am alive again!!!
Posted by Taka on Thu, 25 Jan 2007 05:35:00 PST

Gion Festival

Gion Matsuri is one of the largest festivals in Japan. This festival actually started in 869, when a priest of Yasakajinja-Shrine led a procession of people through Kyoto in an attempt to pray Shinto ...
Posted by Taka on Mon, 17 Jul 2006 05:16:00 PST

It's been Crazy

It's been a week since my grandmother's funeral. Yet, in Kyoto, Japan, the mourning period is 49 days. And in every week till the 49th day after someone's death, we have a small ceremony. As soo...
Posted by Taka on Tue, 27 Jun 2006 04:51:00 PST

Relatives

There are always two things they talk about when my relative gether my house. They talk about my childhood stories and enbarrace me. Or, they just tell me what to do. I just hate my relatives tell me...
Posted by Taka on Wed, 21 Jun 2006 06:56:00 PST

Zen Meditaion Seminar

Hey everybody! Actually, I am a Zen Buddhist priest, who were trained in a Zuiganji monastery in Japan, and teach Zen style meditaion at my dad's temple in Kyoto and Phoenix, Scottsdale, and Tempe, A...
Posted by Taka on Sun, 04 Jun 2006 09:55:00 PST

Back in Japan

I am back in Japan again...I miss my darling in Phoenix already. I was so sad in the aircraft Well, here is not much things going on....I will be bored soon. I hate here. I am so sad......
Posted by Taka on Tue, 23 May 2006 09:21:00 PST

Shunkoin .com

I created the website for a Zen Buddhist temple, Shunkoin temple, in Kyoto, Japan. Shunkoin temple is a hidden tourist attaction because they only have five groups a day. Well, check this out ht...
Posted by Taka on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Intelligence

Your Dominant Intelligence is Interpersonal Intelligence You shine in your ability to realate to and understand others. Good at seeing others' points of view, you get how people think an...
Posted by Taka on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Elephant

How do you eat a elephant? One bite at a time.
Posted by Taka on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST