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tales of sojourners in foreign lands.
Strange experience yesterday. Neurotic and guilt-addicted as I am, it's been gnawing on me ever since.
Nothing earth-shaking, really. I was on an escalator going down to a supermarket and right in front of me was some Caucasian man with a frisky young daughter. Ok, ho hum, nothing to see here. I was supermarket-bound specifically just to look ( Read more... ) -
where the heart is
It's funny what people end up preferring. Today I met up with an old friend for a long chat. He's been traveling across the country for work and just recently went to the US for a month. He said that he finds he prefers the country to the frenetic pace of the city.
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it ain't foie gras but just give me time.
I have to keep a tight watch on my weight and figure, given how much I love to eat. It's a good thing I'm such a cheapskate and have a stomach that's pitifully easy to fill (I am always cheated whenever I patronize buffets), even when I still wish I could eat more.
That said, I am excited for this weekend because I plan to indulge luxuriously. ( Read more... ) -
picters! with some boring text.
I'm just filching photos from my friends because photobucket got really annoying to work with. 0_0
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sojourner in a foreign land, for realz this time
Went on my first "vacation" abroad in six years with five good friends from college to Hong Kong and Macau over the last six days. All in all, an interesting, worthwhile, and--all right I'll spit it out--fun trip, though I'm still recovering from its fallout, namely: two giant painful zits from all the sleep deprivation+stress and a lingering ( Read more... ) -
timeout.
...I'm tired. Can I say that? Can I claim the right to just say that? Can I claim the right to just not reply to your constant, single-minded, not disposed toward discourse, unsolicited texts? to just not respond to your presumptuous and insistent claims on my personal time? to just take the low road and not even explain to you just how ( Read more... ) -
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'Cause I'm trying to haul myself out of the Slough of Despond, y'know. On better days at least.
I keep revisiting MarketManila, a truly delightful gem of a locally produced blog. It's largely and technically a foodie blog, but perhaps a slightly more accurate although possibly pretentious-sounding term would be an "aesthete" blog (also, I ( Read more... ) -
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Last weekend I took a cab and the cab driver wouldn't stop sweet-talking me. I told him I'd only pay the agreed-on fare, and I did, haha. But throughout the ride the guy, who must have been over fifty and admitted he had 2 kids, wouldn't stop complimenting me on my looks and even my voice.
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The Trouble with Jade (2007)
Old issue, but an interesting exercise in debate: Beware of those who conveniently appear to confuse personal feelings with social issues. This is a common, if not popular, tactic for those who fully intend to subvert discourse for their own ends--i.e. to defend and preserve the societal status quo.
(i.e. You yourself, ( Read more... )
