January 2012
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December 2011
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New Year’s Eve: A simple Japanese dinner at home with the family. :)
Cheers to the Year of the Dragon! 2012 will be amazing, I feel it!
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I asked you what you took up at university.
You hesitated and said ‘Literature’ with a sheepish, tentative laugh and I’m secretly dismayed at what society has done to you, has done to us. When did we start putting such a low premium on the arts? Ever since our parents told us to do away with ‘childish’ pursuits and enter the ‘real world’? Ever since we realized that the arts won’t always put...
November 2011
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Courage, dear heart.
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Who wants an Indian wedding?
October 2011
In Indian wedding tradition, the groom must travel either on an elephant or a horse to the bride’s house. Following close behind is a procession of family and friends. He is greeted with garlands upon reaching his bride, after which commences the wedding ceremony.
I think I want an Indian wedding. It’s just too lovely.
Wedding and reception snippets up ahead....
October 2011
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WatchLast night I gave in to the compulsion of doing something unrelated to work. Sanity does come first, after all.
Exploring Bacolod post-MassKara Festival with great friends. :)
September 2011
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August 2011
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I've seen that look before.
Uh oh.
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Martyred slaves of Time no more
- Charles Baudelaire
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"The core of man’s spirit comes from new...
Sean Penn’s “Into the Wild” tells the true-to-life story of Chris McCandless, an upper-middle-class college graduate who leaves everything and everyone behind to find his true self in the mountains of Alaska. It kind of reminded me a bit of The Little Prince with all the interesting individuals he met and the life truths revealed to him along the way.
I think a lot of people,...
July 2011
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One and a half months of studying and one million+...
I’M FINALLY DONE WITH THE GRE!
What an experience test taking was. During the first math question, I got a serious mental block. I kept reading the question over and over but my brain couldn’t seem to decode the letters and make out any meaning (momentary aphasia?). I spent so much time on the first question that I knew I was going to be dead for the whole Quantitative part of the...
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What would you do if you weren't afraid?
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Skinny Love by Bon Iver.
This song makes me so...
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I was in the middle of reading my book and sipping...
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Do you plan out your day and make daily decisions...
Nope. I try to keep my mind as blank as possible in the shower.
All you have to do is ask
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At Tea Talk with the cutest bunny I’ve ever met. Really, I don’t think my love for tea will fade anytime soon. Their almond milk tea was just heaven! And look, a smile that came with the pie Bunny ordered. Will definitely visit again soon.
June 2011
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That awkward moment when you realize
you cannot flirt to save your life
But it's just so hard to forget.
Pardon my weakness.
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When you simply cannot figure your mom out.
I finally gave in and took a break from work and studies to go and see what the French Film Festival ‘11 had to offer. I was able to watch La Tête de Maman (In Mom’s Head) yesterday with a good friend of mine, and was not at all disappointed. It was funny, candid, obscure, and twisted in just the right amounts. Twisted, the dominating one of the bunch. You realize how you...
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Watching dogs sleep can be therapeutic, seriously. I literally stop in my tracks when I catch him asleep and just watch for a minute. I feel so calm and at peace when I do. Though a bit envious too that this little guy can sleep the day away, eat, play, then just do it all over again. Enter the trite saying, “It’s a dog’s life” followed by a heavy sigh.
He’s...
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Now, how do I get out of this labyrinth?
May 2011
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I love this.
Heavy, cool, loud, like-raging-mad-heavens rain.
I wait for this kind of weather. I love. Words cannot describe how strangely blissful and content I feel right now.
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M&M's, Popcorn, and Booze
Photo remnants of that day. I knew I should have taken more pictures:
I’m not much of a drinker, but Nelly and Joey each got me booze anyway (thou must offer liquor on a girl’s twenty-TOOT birthday?). [EDIT: Thank you guys, though! I was touched you even thought of getting me something. :) ]
My birthday went by way too fast, I think. Work ate up most of the day (my first...
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The other morning, our helper was in our mini garden cleaning when she screamed bloody murder, “AY BUANG!” (translation: “CRAZY!”). My mom and I rushed to the scene thinking there was some crazy man roaming about, only to find this larger-than-normal hermit crab sitting on the grass. How on earth it got to our house we’ll never know, but anyway we decided to take him...
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July 21, 2011, 9:00 AM
It’s official: I am scheduled to take the GRE at the above date and time.
Butterflies in my stomach. It feels like the old UPCAT days all over again. @.@
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Musings of a person suffering from severe jet lag
Slept at 5:00PM, woke up at 1:30AM (10:30 AM, LA time) just about an hour from when I started writing this entry. I’m the only one up and about in this quiet, pitch black house as apparently, jet lag has nothing on the rest of my family. While the regulatory part of their brains are more amenable to the change in time zone, mine still thinks I live on the other end of the world and thus...
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April 2011
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Three things I love about California:
1. The weather: pleasantly aircondition-cool. All you need is a light jacket (or even none at all).
2. The people: so darn friendly! Everyone from the salesperson at Old Navy to the woman shopping beside you at the grocery seems inclined to smile and start a little chit chat.
3. The atmosphere: laid-back, go-with-the-flow. People don’t seem to rush in California. There is a main...
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