Love Isn’t a Reward for Obedience
Blaming the Mirror of Truth Recently, I came across a thread where a guy named Chris asked if dating sites are destroying people’s ability to...
Groomed by Power
The problem isn’t people acting a different age—it’s people thinking there’s a right one. The problem is the perception that age has a linear path...
Amy
One time, Amy invited me over to her place for a little R&R. Her door opened as I was about to knock. She wore an...
Not Left. Not Right. Just Leeman.
The other night, I asked Sylvie a question I’ve never really asked anyone – not seriously, anyway. Babe, with what you know of me, what...
Groomed by Assumption
There has never been a point in my life – whether as a child, a teenager, or an adult – when I’ve asked someone for...
A Sheep in Wolf’s Clothing
The most tragic thing about my relationship with Megan was not that it ended, but that it ended in betrayal, and worse, dishonesty. I met...
The Hole Where He Slept
For Rudi, from the one who still hears him breathe. There is a hole in my heart,not sharp, not gaping –but smooth like a stone...
Enamoured and Elusive
This morning, I woke from a dream that lingered like perfume on the skin – soft, striking, strangely intimate. I met a woman. Petite, early...
Summer In June
2:42 a.m. Thinking back on my short, two-and-a-half-month situationship with June in early 2001, it remains one of the most beautiful chapters of my life....
Four Candies Out of Ten
The late summer of 2004 stands out. A year after I got back into biking, nearly a decade after the van that hit me left...
Once Upon A Time
I started Leemanism on April 1st, 2006 – April Fools, but really, I honestly didn’t realize it at the time. Cindy and I had finally...
Black Heart
The dream began on what felt like a summer evening around 8:30pm. The sun had set, but the sky still glowed faintly. I stood on...
Tea, Earl Grey, Hot
This morning, I took a nap with no alarm – just letting my body decide. I don’t remember the earlier dreams, but the last one...
Salutatorian Crush
Clearly, I have unresolved issues from my past – but whatever they are, only I truly know. Unless someone ever figures out the mystery. The...
43rd Street Bus Loop
The dream unfolded in two parts, split by a midnight bathroom break – both hazy and full of feeling. I remembered it not as an...
Somewhere Else, There Is Another Me
Lately, I sleep in fragments – two or three hours at a time, never enough to anchor the day. But when I do drift deep,...
The Journey On
These days, I’m barely sleeping enough to call it rest. I drift off sometime between 11:30 and 12:30, then wake up between 2:30 and 5:30....
Anywhere But Here
The dream began in the stars – somewhere between collapse and command. I was a TIE fighter pilot in the shattered remains of the Empire,...
Looking For My Shoulder Pads
About three weeks ago, I got back into World of Warcraft with Amber. I started obsessing over transmog sets – specifically, a pair of shoulder...
No One To Call But a Memory
Someone once said: if you tell yourself something long enough, your brain will start to believe it. Hope is a thread at the end of...
The Woman in the Hallway
This morning, I dreamt in fragments. First, I was in a glowing futuristic city, drifting between a grand wedding dress boutique and a sprawling Chinese...
The Fields Beneath Mount Fuji
I went to work that morning on barely three and a half hours of sleep, and my head felt like static. Yet, somewhere between exhaustion...
Tour De Patrick III (53km)
With a total of 53 kilometres, Pat, Jason, and yours truly made all the around the Vancouver Convention Centre and back to Richmond. We rode...
Tour De Patrick Pre-Ride
9:50pm Jeebus! I AM SO TIRED and SO SORE! Woke up at 8:50am, got dropped off at Pat’s around 9:15am, got ready, etc, then headed...
The God That Slept Too Long
5:27 a.m.Tune: “Slept So Long” – Jay Gordon I was already exhausted, running on three hours of sleep, when the dream began – another vivid...
The Day the Sky Opened Its Eyes
2:39 p.m. It began like a strange rerun – an alternate scene from Ghostbusters. The four originals stood in a deserted construction yard, clutching a...
Hong Kong 2007 – The City That Never Sleeps
10:30pm Tune: “Traveler” by Rhian Sheehan Drink: Blue Ice Beer Has the view ever been better? Never. That’s because I’ve never had a view with...
Hong Kong 2007 – Part 3 of 3
1:56pm Sorry. My long awaited entry for the last Hong Kong 2007 photo entry set took awhile. However, here it is in all it’s glorious...
Hong Kong 2007 – Part 2 of 3
10:38am Hong Kong 2007 – The City That Never Sleeps – CLICK HERE Hong Kong 2007 – Part 1 of 3 – CLICK HERE Hong...
Hong Kong 2007 – Part 1 of 3
1:36am HKT Hong Kong 2007 – The City That Never Sleeps – CLICK HERE Hong Kong 2007 – Part 1 of 3 – CLICK HERE...
Hong Kong 10/22 to 11/12/2006 – Part I
2:14am Please note that it will take me a good two to three hours to upload the photos one by one – very tedious, and...
No Resistance
8:25 a.m. I dreamed I was back in school again. The class was Social Studies, though I seemed to be a “special” student – allowed...
A Boat, A Plank, and a Hangover
10:57 a.m. I barely slept. My eyes felt like sandpaper, and the Port from earlier had turned my mouth into a desert. I went downstairs...
The Man In The Desert
3:41am Tune: “The Man In The Desert” by Yoko Kanno Mood: Feels like I am waiting for something or someone Drink: Fonseca Bin 27 Port...
A Mid Evening Ride
9:27pm Finding no one on my phonebook that lives close enough for a bike ride, I went out on my own around 8:30pm. Before I...
Spongey’s First Pacific Spirit Ride
9:53pm Any tall Asian-descendant guys who is single, not pale looking and have a proportionate meat and muscle to height balance, her butt is quite...
A Short Ride With Laura
10:31am We can almost be twins… Hmmm, I just noticed… Spongey – stop slouching! The last couple of weeks was straight work, and the last...
Beyond The Borders
11:52 a.m. Tune: “Beyond the Borders” — Elysis Another dream, another message I can’t quite decipher. It began with my family — my parents, my...
Comfortably Numb
3:34 a.m.Song: “Comfortably Numb” — Pink Floyd I hadn’t dreamed in a while, at least not one I could remember. This one returned like a...
Sex, Just Add Water
4:02 p.m.Track: “Traces” — Enigma Just got back from a client meeting. Four hours of “fun.” [sobs quietly into Port] There was another entry before...
Coal & Diamond
11:08 a.m. Seven hours of sleep — not bad. I should be working on my client’s website, but here we are again. Another dream. I...
Riches To Rags To Moderation
2:56 p.m.Track: “Ligaya” — Gouryella Last night, I dreamed I was walking through my old neighbourhood — near Mitchell Elementary — though the layout was...
Couldn’t Look At Her
11:24 p.m.Track: “Take a Little Hand” — Gabriela Robin I waited until now to write this one. It’s not the grotesque kind of dream that...
Hong Kong 10/22 to 11/12/2006 – Part II
Continued from PREVIOUS PAGE – click here. I decided to split this entry up into two parts, as the bandwidth was killing me. ^^ There’s...
Mount Seymour Bridal Path
2:55pm After a month and a bit of massive stress, the last couple of weeks had been pretty easy-going. So it’s great to end my...
Alice Lake Biking
4:31pm [“Beyond Raging Waves” by DJ Krush] It’s nice that the form boxes for WordPress doesn’t ‘cache’ text when I mistakenly press a link to...
The Chief Peak
12:27am ^^ At Peak 2 – Back to Front: Patrick, Freddy, Isis, Emery, Mike, Leeman (duh!), Albert, Jenny, and Emma. Missing: Lovely and the other...
Pacific Spirit With Albert & Jenny
2:51pm About an hour before I go into work-mode. I have a major short-video production I need to create for work tomorrow. Yes, as usual,...
Richmond Dyke Trails
3:43am [“Stronger” by Sugar Babes] Ah, my sleep schedule is very messed… Then again, the abnormality of sleeping late is really a normality. Where as...
Reflections In The Morning After
11:35pm So I did make it back alive after all. 8] Yeah I know, but always just in case. I should update my will as...
The Nationstate of Emma
12:15am “Weenerschnitzle” and “Twinginberries” seems to be Pat’s two most spoken ‘words’. I lucka no speek engrish. [implodes] Boy are my quads sore! I cycled...
Tour De Patrick
2:15pm I can already feel this entry will be kinda long. So before I type away I will remind myself that I have quite a...
The Fighter and the Ghost
8:18 p.m.Track: “Yearning” — Mono …so I could try to rescue her this time. The dream has been haunting me. Even now, I wish it...
Unstable Mountain
1:19 a.m.Track: “Time Is the Healer (Armin Van Buuren Remix)” — Riva Another day passes, and another begins. Time feels fast and still at once...