18th January 2008

Finally set out at 1.45 p.m this afternoon
for San Francisco.
Stopped by Nippon Ramen for some Miso Ramen
for lunch. It tasted better than I remembered it.
Also stopped by Peets to get a Darjeeling Kalimpong…Read more

Kavin and I are spending a quiet Christmas
over here in Los Angeles,CA

It's been a busy Christmas Eve and Christmas Day,
I played the piano in Church for Midnight Mass,
which only ended around 1.40 a.m in the morning…Read more

It was a lovely evening at the Peets Tea and Coffee in Tarzana,CA
I had written most of the songs on the album 'Beautiful Seed'
whilst sipping a cup of Darjeeling tea at Peets, so it seemed fitting
that I'd…Read more

Uncle Kavin and Dylan

Uncle Kavin and Aunty Corrinne with Dylan and Ryan

Kavin's parents with their grandsons

Babysitting -


Kavin and I have spent the past week up in Northern California,
helping his sister to babysit her two-year-old
son…Read more

The nights have been getting colder
and colder over here in California
and the days and moments of light have been getting shorter.

And yet, I find a lovely reflectiveness
in this season, this Winter season,

Nature is a great…Read more

This is the full, un-edited version of the piece
on 'Globalisation' titled 'World Piece' that I wrote for the Vanilla
Magazine in Nov. 2007.


"With a single life
I will not learn enough.

With the light of other lives,
many…Read more

Saturday, 10th November 2007, 9.15 p.m


A table opened up here at the Starbucks on 3rd Street,
in Santa Monica, so I figured I'd sit down and write.
Outside, people are streaming past, the tide of life washing by.
The…Read more