I'm trying to see things as they really are... But it's so difficult...

I love:

[Food] pistachios, gin & tonic, caffé latte, ginger beer, Japanese green tea, sushi, sashimi and sake.

[View] people's faces when they're looking at the faces of babies.

[Music] Baroque music, Renaissance music, J.S. Bach, French composers from the Romantic Period, sacred music, choir, the pipe organ, the classical guitar, classic jazz, bossa nova, some electronic music, the 1980s stuff, some chill-out stuff, some house music, some indie rock/pop stuff, Windham Hill records, George Winston, William Ackerman, Jordi Savall, Hopkinson Smith, Miles Davis, Pat Metheny, Ólafur Arnalds, and ethnic music of the world.

[Films] World Cinema, Quest for Fire, Amadeus, Tous Les Matins du Monde, Shall We Dance? (Japanese Original), La Camarera del Titanic, Amélie, Trois Couleurs Trilogy, Cinema Paradiso, Lost in Translation, Shine and many others.

[Actors/actresses] Sandrine Bonnaire, Peter O'Toole, Audrey Tautou, Toshiyuki Nishida

[Books] Literature (Hesse, Gide, Hemingway, Gibran, Kawabata; Endo etc.), politics, historical novels, national geographic, religions and faith, psychology & mental health, books on animals, birds, and classic novels.

[Animals] Birds (especially very small ones) and most mammals. I've been a member of the zoo for many years. I especially love watching small birds when they're playing with water.

[Places] The Cotswolds, Hampstead Health, St Albans, London Zoo (all in Britain, UK), small villages in Spain (e.g. Olite) and Kyoto (Japan).

[Others] Playing some musical instruments, Sunday mornings, gardens, walking in the countryside, the National Trust places, meadows with wildflowers, walking along footpaths in the woods endlessly, old architecture, cathedrals and old churches. Also enjoy watching Formula One, reading for hours in my local café (by the window), autumn, natural smiles and photography.

I dislike:

Noises of the traffic, people making noises in public places (e.g. on mobile phones; arguing etc), and smoking