The Portrait of a New Yorker as a young dreamer (2)

Miamo is a crazy Japanese character so in love with reggae music that he spends two weeks out of every year in Jamaica. He is known to be ready to sing a Japanese tune whenever he's challenged at any given time or place and he does it while dancing like a true Rastaman.

He has never had sushi in New York and he finds it impossible to describe Japanese New Years' food in English.

One of his hobbies is reading with a high degree of seriousness any English text including and especially grammar exercises. This is the only time when he becomes Japanesely solemn and that's when he's the funniest.

He's continuously looking for love in the very Italian way of the word.

His mind must be working in film images as his mouth speaks in screenplay cuts as follows:

"My ideal lover would be as ideal as a Coke when you're thirsty. She would love to cook for me, and sing for me and dance with me. After dinner she would wash dishes and I would wipe them thinking I am the happiest man alive."

The Portrait of a New Yorker as a young dreamer (1)

Yaron born Israel has a master in Jazz music at the Conservatory in Haifa. Lived in Japan for three years working as a cook. He loves his wife, his jazz band and Sunday barbeque with friends.

He's my ipod's most reliable source of old, unbelievably hard to find music.

He married an Asian girl that my Albanian ex-co-worker thought to be black from a picture taken at their dream wedding in Hawaii despite his family discontent.

He was keeping this picture on his desk in the dusty warehouse he was managing. He was a warehouse manager that called himself a dispatcher studying to become a customs specialist while we were colleagues.

He has a Friday cult expressed in his favorite sayings:

• "It's Friday and nobody can take that away from me"
• "Every Wednesday morning while shaving I say to myself : This is the last time I am shaving before Friday"