A Delicious Return to the Movies with The Solitary Gourmet

The last time we went to a movie theater was in 2022, when we watched Top Gun: Maverick. Three years later, we finally returned to the big screen to watch a Japanese film: The Solitary Gourmet (孤独のグルメ). While it’s nowhere near as grand as the Tom Cruise blockbuster, we found it equally entertaining in its…

Cloud Atlas Theme (Sextet) using Yamaha P-255

The theme song from the Cloud Atlas movie, is one of my favorite piano pieces. It starts slow and relaxing but gradually picks up pace. I did some customizations to this version by adding some strings midway (thanks to the Yamaha P-255), and by returning to the slow and relaxing part after the crescendo. I…

Our Creators And Our Creations

What if… we were created by our creators in their own image and likeness, just as we create characters in our computer games, in our own image and likeness? The phrase “as above, so below” makes a lot more sense if we think in this way.  This kind of thinking made me rethink how I…

My Favorite Movies about Spirituality

The Matrix More than a movie about special effects and amazing action scenes, the Matrix is also a rather accurate interpretation of reality, as many philosophers and some reputable scientists believe. Reality can be seen as an immensely more advanced version of our massively multiplayer online games, in which our souls take the roles of different…