Another who knows how long has passed since I last wrote. I just find myself so busy and/or lazy to bother writing here. However, I have been reading loyally ( Read more... )

Nick Cave on love:

"Love is a state that I would like to exist in continuously. But I know the potential of pain in love. It really is like a drug, lifting you out of the mediocre world and putting you in a state of inspiration and imagination where everything outside is meaningless." (article found here)Nick Cave is great. I found this online ( Read more... )

Man, I've had a weird few days. Some of it good, and some of it not so good. My Chinese is coming along. My friend Li-Wen and I had a very short conversation in Chinese on Thursday night. I told her I wanted to have a very easy conversation, and I thought she would ask me something like, "What's your name?" "Where do you live?" But she raised the ( Read more... )

I'm so happy. Lately, I feel like I've been absorbing a lot more Chinese. I think I'm finally over the hump of desperation that I felt for the first 4-5 months and I'm now getting more comfortable. I bought a gigantic grammar book at Eslite on Saturday (and I've been looking at another for a few weeks that Li-Wen borrowed from the library for me) ( Read more... )

This weekend was not bad. I've been working on rewriting Shrek for one of my classes to do as an end-of-the-year play thing. Unpaid work, gotta love it. I cleaned my room on Saturday ( Read more... )

My last few days have been pretty great. Saturday was Vincent's birthday party. It went off... with a few hitches. I don't want to point any blame, but let's just say that the plans didn't quite happen as they were supposed to. But I think overall it was still a good time. Vincent seemed to be happy and that's all I wanted anyway. Ming-Yi came for ( Read more... )

The past few weeks have been pretty bad. On-and-off bad, I guess. But mostly bad. Work is about the same. My co-workers are worse. Lately, I've felt the distinct feeling that the other women either don't like me or just want to ignore me. Except for Yvonne, they only talk to me when they have to. Otherwise they only talk to each other in Chinese. ( Read more... )

Annoyances:

• Why are you staring at me? I'm not a freaking celebrity. Do I really look that bizarre? Vincent said that even people riding scooters were staring at me. WHY? What makes me stand out that much? I mean, I'm short and I have dark hair, so it can't be that. So I'm a little bit bigger than most Taiwanese women, but I don't think it's that ( Read more... )

Sooo much to write about ( Read more... )

What American accent do you have?
Your Result: Boston

You definitely have a Boston accent, even if you think you don't. Of course, that doesn't mean you are from the Boston area, you may also be from New Hampshire or Maine.
The West

The Midland

North Central

The Northeast

Philadelphia

The Inland North

The South

What American accent do you have?
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