Two thousand and ten was, for me, a great year. I completed most of the things I said I would do, I visited a few places, I’m one step closer to my dream, had quite a few revelations, made quite a few good friends, met interesting people, but most of all, I had a few surprises thrown at me that I never thought would’ve happened in my lifetime. I am reminded, once again, that life is so much more than what our senses tell us, that there is something bigger going on in this universe. It sounds vague, but only…
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They say the texture of the brain is like tofu. Tonight though I feel that mine is like a pile of sand held together by water, which really isn’t working. Every grain of sand tries to adhere to one another but attempts are futile because they aren’t meant to be that way. My mind, alas, remains scattered all over the place; and I, for once, will just let it be. Tomorrow when the sun is out and the weather calm, I will sweep up them all up and mold them into one again.
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The World is a Beautiful Place by Lawrence Ferlinghetti The world is a beautiful placeto be born intoif you don’t mind happinessnot always beingso very much funif you don’t mind a touch of hellnow and thenjust when everything is finebecause even in heaventhey don’t singall the time The world is a beautiful placeto be born intoif you don’t mind some people dyingall the timeor maybe only starvingsome of the timewhich isn’t half badif it isn’t you Oh the world is a beautiful placeto be born intoif you don’t much minda few dead mindsin the higher placesor a bomb or twonow…
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ask me now and i’ll tell you i seriously have no recall of how my July and August passed by. the conscious mind of course will tell you it was all work work work. FDA audit at work gave all of us loads of stress but we couldn’t really do “real” work. after the audit is when the real suffering began- we had to catch up with clients’ orders; all the testings were backlogged and everyone worked over time for as much as we’re allowed to. even now, and we’re still sort of behind. not as bad, but still. that…
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i am back-tracking. for the sole reason of none other than my deteriorating memory, i am jotting down the little things (or big things) that happened prior to this moment, so that i can look back and remember what i’ve done during my time in LA- for soon, i will be gone from here, and what is left will merely be memories of this place and the people i’ve met. but even then, memories are nothing more than traces of thoughts in our mind that can so easily be tampered with, modified, or forgotten. and so, this little virtual space…
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well, well. i stopped writing for so long i don’t even know where to begin! so much has happened, yet nothing has happened that shouldn’t have happened. does that even make sense?! it’s almost the end of september, i’m running out of time. but i guess since i’ve been away for so long, there is no hurry in writing any updates. here are some pictures from puerto rico, where i left off the last time. first day we were there, and it was pouring cats and dogs. no matter. no amount of rain could have dampened our excited spirits…
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I promise you, these videos are of the cutest little kids I’ve ever seen, the first one reciting a poem – Litany, by Billy Collins, and the latter, a french girl telling her cutest (albeit a little morbid) fairytale that tickles your heart. if you’re having a bad day, spend the next six and a half minutes to watch this, it will cheer you up. 🙂
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omg i completely abandoned the blog for more than a month now. this is terrible. unbelievable! if you’re wondering, i’ve been too busy at work, and catching up with friends when i’m not. here are a few pics as proofs. puerto rico pics will be up when i get my other more important stuff done! priorities!! 😛 workplace fun 🙂 korean bbq with friends. but i think i loved the potato pancakes and all the side dishes more! 😛 a day at Farmer’s Market in LA and The Grove. i wanna own a 3-storey bookstore like this when i grow…
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When we look at someone (an angel) from a position of unrequited love and imagine the pleasures that being in heaven with them might bring us, we are prone to overlook a significant danger: how soon their attractions might pale if they began to love us back. We fall in love because we long to escape from ourselves with someone as ideal as we are corrupt. But what if such a being were one day to turn around and love us back? We can only be shocked. How could they be as divine as we had hoped when they have…
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A friend commented that I seemed to be living a life of constant flux between my hermit-ville and the party lifestyle. I wouldn’t say it’s exactly true, only because I don’t reckon the second part of it as the “party lifestyle”. But yes, in a way I do live in two separate worlds- one of my own and another of the socializing and getting together with people. Two weekends ago I checked out from my hermit-ville and took off to the self-acclaimed Pearl of the Caribbean, Puerto Rico, visiting my dear friend Jeanie, and meeting up Jessoms and Chris there.…
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Grind, oh grind! I’m back! Puerto Rico was a lot of fun, albeit the less-than-ideal weather that was warm and humid, and rainy. But despite all that, I’m so glad I got to hang out with my girls and reminisce on the old times we had back in college. 🙂 More on the trip this weekend. Some sporadic updates:Late last night I had a conversation with someone who talked about her retirement plans, what she wanted to do to keep her entertained etc. Listening to her talk requires a lot of patience – she never fails to talk down everyone…
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Self-coined term: riceosophy – a combination of words ‘rice’ and ‘philosophy’. Which really just mean the philosophies of rice. Don’t think too much into it, though. If I sound illogical or incoherent, I probably am. 😛 Here are some sayings I grew up with that are related to rice, each of which encapsulates the philosophies of life in its own unique way: Finish up every single grain of rice on your plate, or else whatever is left on it will resemble the acne/pimples on your future husband’s face. You don’t want that, do you? I’ve consumed more salt in my…