A couple months ago, I was wandering around the vendors' stalls at the Tokyo Stamp Museum when I noticed someone...it took me a while to place the face, then it hit me -- the security guard at a local community center.
I often go to martial arts practice at the community center and never got a word out of any of the security guards there. I suppose foreigners walking around with swords are not easy targets for conversation.
I must have passed by his post hundreds of times over the years, and not a word passed between us. And here he was, at the stamp museum. After a pause, I ventured a few words. Turns out he is a long-term stamp collector.
Since that time, we have exchanged words each time I visit the community center.
A couple weeks back, he tipped me off about an exhibition in the lobby: works of art made by cutting and arranging postage stamps (切り絵). I should post again later with more details, the name of the artist, and so on.
日本語hints
security guard = 警備員
martial arts = 武道、武術
tip someone off = tell them, give them information
rough translation of the Chinese: I love people who make their actions as targets or destiny.
ReplyDeletetranslation of the first comment above:
ReplyDeleteLife can be normal, but the ambition should be noble / high.