The Promise You Made Me Keep
You once said to me: If I ever get so caught up in my own pain that I forget, remind me I’m still worth loving....
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...
The Mask of Maturity
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...