I am about to share with you an ill kept secret. Ill kept because so many people already know about it. Like many adopted individuals, I am not particularly fond of admitting that my biological-parents have left me to the care of strangers. That I have grown up to find myself living a lie. Yes, my adopting parents never told me and I had to find out the truth by myself as a budding twelve year old. Although, I am sure they had their reasons and I don’t blame them particularly, I know that they love me as they would one of their own. Anyway, that is not the point I wanted to talk about. I once heard a friend telling me that, “true love is made of dreams unreal and unsatisfying”. I knew that he must have been terribly bitter after breaking up a relationship with his 8-year-old steady girlfriend. To somebody unaccustomed to such a severe case of “breaking-up”, his lamenting must have sounded severe and undeserving. I have come across many divorced and separated couples and the...

This particular number by Fumiya Fujii has a long personal history... introduced to me by a friend in 2002 it goes all way back to 1994. I was madly in luv and would do anything to please my now-ex girlfriend, so I searched frantically for the tabs and then went to work. The following weeks saw me struggling with the not so familiar language and methodical timing induced by the overtly jealous acoustics of the song... at last, I got it right and with time i got to sing it to her... "did u know that it has a sad ending" she said... I told her that it didn't matter as long as it talked of love...

Bokura wa itsumo haruka haruka toi mirai o
Yume mite ta hazu sa
Yume mite ta hazu sa...

We were always dreaming of the far away future
We were