I really miss smoking in bars...though actually, I personally have never smoked in bars myself. I would have liked to though, to be able to walk into a bar, light up and chat, especially since it takes me at least three tries to light up my cigarette on cold windy days, which is when I do smoke (I don't do it often ( Read more... )

Lay, lady, lay, lay across my big brass bed
Stay, lady, stay, stay with your man awhile
Until the break of day, let me see you make him smile
His clothes are dirty but his hands are clean
And you're the best thing that he's ever seen

Bob Dylan - Lay Lady Lay

Oh deep rich cigarette voice, you make me so nostalgic for times I've never been in.

I haven't seen the ocean since 1995, that of my birthplace, Hong Kong. Once in a long, long while, when I'm lying in bed not quite awake or sleeping, my body will feel the motions of waves that aren't there. The bunkbed in a cabin on those crowded boats where middle classed HKers chip in together for a summer weekend ( Read more... )