Dreams are my reality...

Had an interesting dream a couple of days ago. I was supposedly in a train station in Tokyo, and when I stepped out of it, I looked up and there it was...the magnificient Tokyo tower. Wow..I gasped as I looked up at its incredible height. It looked so beautiful. And then I walked back into the station and suddenly, I happened to see a Japanese friend who is currently in Tokyo. I really thought I was right in Tokyo. so vivid, so real.

Well, a dream sometimes feel like reality to me and reality sometimes makes me feel like a dream. Today I was invited to a ceremony where Mitsui company, which generously funded my short trip to Qdai in 05, presented a $500,000 cheque to the President of my university. I was in awe...maybe it was the sheer sum of money, maybe the sight of those people incessantly exchanging namecards bearing their larger-than-life credentials (some acronyms still sounding in my ears: KPMG, EDB, GIC..), maybe it's the awkwardness I felt sitting amongst these "elite", maybe it's the feigned smiles and laughter, perhaps also the trays of mini choco eclairs and cute little fruit tarts...
Seems more like a dream to me. Honestly, I felt sort of like the little tarts and eclairs. small, fluffy and can be forgotten with just one mouth.