Friday, August 26, 2005
Chillin’ with CMF in NYC
After work, I immediately called up Omar to see what he was up to. In a New York minute, I was at a delicious Mexican establishment, getting a brain freeze from a chilled margarita.
Barely rolling out of the restaurant with south of the border goodness, we headed over to a hookah bar in the upper East side. We couldn’t help but laugh at the cultural mixture at hand – taking a look at my new Japanese travel essay about Mexico, while discussing his upcoming Korea trip, listening to Turkish music and smoking our sheeshas.
I don’t think I ever had the chance to talk to Omar as much, and I hope I get to have more nights like this. We have a surprisingly similar background on being immigrants and trying to keep our traditions. Yet, we have different outlooks on life, which makes our conversations richer. We spoke of eclectic topics from communism/socialism in Cuba, Soviet Union, China; what to do in Korea; hypocrisy of “free America”; professional goals; personal mantras; Rwanda/Sudan; and how we perceive moments in our lives.
I say, “You can’t step in the same river twice. You need all the elements of ‘the moment’ to be back – which can’t happen, so you appreciate it, and then let go.”
Omar refutes, “But I can always go back. It will always be there, because I can make it happen. I’m an optimist.”
We acknowledge the different spins on our philosophies. Life wouldn’t be interesting otherwise.
Barely rolling out of the restaurant with south of the border goodness, we headed over to a hookah bar in the upper East side. We couldn’t help but laugh at the cultural mixture at hand – taking a look at my new Japanese travel essay about Mexico, while discussing his upcoming Korea trip, listening to Turkish music and smoking our sheeshas.
I don’t think I ever had the chance to talk to Omar as much, and I hope I get to have more nights like this. We have a surprisingly similar background on being immigrants and trying to keep our traditions. Yet, we have different outlooks on life, which makes our conversations richer. We spoke of eclectic topics from communism/socialism in Cuba, Soviet Union, China; what to do in Korea; hypocrisy of “free America”; professional goals; personal mantras; Rwanda/Sudan; and how we perceive moments in our lives.
I say, “You can’t step in the same river twice. You need all the elements of ‘the moment’ to be back – which can’t happen, so you appreciate it, and then let go.”
Omar refutes, “But I can always go back. It will always be there, because I can make it happen. I’m an optimist.”
We acknowledge the different spins on our philosophies. Life wouldn’t be interesting otherwise.
// posted by sakit @ 6:11 AM 
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drake, is this drunk blogg commenting?
In any case, with CMF on my side, it seems like I will be having hell of a birthday in NY :)))))
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In any case, with CMF on my side, it seems like I will be having hell of a birthday in NY :)))))
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