tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9115204577730418102024-03-05T12:05:15.673+08:00Delicious Ambiguity"Some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next..." This quote by Gilda Radner is at the heart of this blog. Naturally there's no telling what my next post will be about, but one thing's for sure, you can bet on it to be delicious. xxAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10524473254526191444noreply@blogger.comBlogger125125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-911520457773041810.post-87406088794312773562014-03-16T17:54:00.000+08:002014-03-16T17:54:47.108+08:00Are You Blue?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10524473254526191444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-911520457773041810.post-3817182866245584952013-01-14T22:24:00.000+08:002013-01-15T22:24:39.831+08:00Footprints: Day 14<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My first read for 2013 is David Levithan's 'Every Day'. I first came to know of Levithan just last year when I stumbled upon a Twitter feed for 'The Lover's Dictionary' (<a href="https://twitter.com/loversdiction" target="_blank">@loversdiction</a>). It's one of my favorite things on Twitter for the sheer ingenuity of telling a story through dictionary entries, so naturally I'd like to explore more of his prose.<br />
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"Every Day" is a story about a guy who wakes up each day in a different body and in essence a different life. Think 'The Time Traveler's Wife' only, instead of jumping through different time frames, he goes through different bodies. As if that's not complicated enough, he wakes up one day in this guy's body and falls in love with that guy's girlfriend. Talk about a dilemma of epic proportions.<br />
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I'm only a few pages into the book, but boy am I already emotionally invested in it. There's just something in the way Levithan and other writers who more or less have the same style, such as John Green and Iain Thomas, reveal the beauty out of even the most commonplace of experiences. The quote above is so far one of my favorites from the book. As simple and familiar as the prose may be, the important thing is that it has a voice and that my heart recognizes what it speaks of.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10524473254526191444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-911520457773041810.post-50144495009284467652013-01-08T17:29:00.004+08:002013-01-08T17:30:29.437+08:00What to Expect in Books this 2013I don't like putting a figure on the number of books I will read in any given year (neither do I keep count o<span style="font-size: small;">n</span> how many I've read so far), that just takes too much joy away from an otherwise generally pleasurable experience.<br />
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What I will do though for this year is to diversify the kinds of books that I will read. I already have a few classics in mind, the only thing lacking is a solid set of fresh titles. For that, I turn to this list:<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.themillions.com/2013/01/most-anticipated-the-great-2013-book-preview.html" target="_blank"> The Great 2013 Book Preview</a></span><br />
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You, what are you planning to read this 2013?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10524473254526191444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-911520457773041810.post-63611859273450089082013-01-05T05:30:00.000+08:002013-01-07T00:23:06.192+08:00Footrpints: Day 5<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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OMGEEEEE THE KOBE BRYANT IS ON TWITTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<br />
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I wouldn't have done this on any other occasion, but this post just deserves to be in all caps. heh. Like this is the next best thing to actually seeing Kobe playing on the court (w/c by the way happened to me for realzzz two years ago). Can you just imagine what this means for someone who fangirls as hard as I do? It's like having a direct line to Kobe never mind that the possibility of him answering is very very slim, but still there's the chance. Ooh my mind is already going cray thinking about all the love I can bundle in 140 characters. #fangirlout<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Isa-43-19"><span style="font-size: x-small;">**Footprints is a photo j<span style="font-size: x-small;">ournal that I started this 2013. <span style="font-size: x-small;">Basically <span style="font-size: x-small;">I just <span style="font-size: x-small;">take and post photos of practical<span style="font-size: x-small;">ly anything that <span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">best <span style="font-size: x-small;">captures my mood/thoughts/activities on</span>
a particular day. It's an exercise both in mindfulness and creativity
not to mention a wonderful reminder to be grateful for each and every
day.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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Along with this photo journal, I've also started a logbook this year. The idea came from <a href="http://www.austinkleon.com/2010/01/31/logbook/" target="_blank">Austin Kleon</a> of Steal Like an Artist fame. The idea is to keep track of things that happen during the day, simple facts of the who-what-where type.<br />
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According to Kleon, <br />
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<i>But more importantly, keeping a simple list of who/what/where means I
write down events that seem mundane at the time, but later on help paint
a better portrait of the day, or even become more significant over
time. By “sticking to the facts” I don’t pre-judge what was important or
what wasn’t, I just write it down. </i></blockquote>
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For someone who has the tendency to nitpick on certain events right through their many twists and turns, journaling has become a tedious and exhausting exercise, so the idea of "sticking to the facts" immediately appealed to me. Also add to that how much I love making lists, and this whole idea of having logbook becomes a no-brainer for me. I will still keep a journal of course, but for the most part this logbook will do. <br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Isa-43-19"><span style="font-size: x-small;">**Footprints is a photo j<span style="font-size: x-small;">ournal that I started this 2013. <span style="font-size: x-small;">Basically <span style="font-size: x-small;">I just <span style="font-size: x-small;">take and post photos of practical<span style="font-size: x-small;">ly anything that <span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">best <span style="font-size: x-small;">captures my mood/thoughts/activities on</span>
a particular day. It's an exercise both in mindfulness and creativity
not to mention a wonderful reminder to be grateful for each and every
day.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10524473254526191444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-911520457773041810.post-49077512428882191062013-01-03T22:27:00.001+08:002013-01-03T23:31:56.085+08:00Footprints: Day 3<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I had the chance to do a lot of thinking today, and ultimately this is what I came down to:<br />
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<i><span class="text Isa-43-18" id="en-NIV-18524">Forget the former things;</span><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span></span></i></div>
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<i><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Isa-43-18">do not dwell on the past.</span></span><span class="text Isa-43-19" id="en-NIV-18525"><sup class="versenum"> </sup></span><span class="text Isa-43-19" id="en-NIV-18525"><sup class="versenum"> </sup></span></i></div>
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<i><span class="text Isa-43-19" id="en-NIV-18525">See, I am doing a new thing!</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Isa-43-19">Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?</span></span><br /><span class="text Isa-43-19">I am making a way in the wilderness</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Isa-43-19">and streams in the wasteland.</span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Isa-43-19"><span style="font-size: x-small;">**Footprints is a photo j<span style="font-size: x-small;">ournal that I started this 2013. <span style="font-size: x-small;">Basically <span style="font-size: x-small;">I just <span style="font-size: x-small;">take and post photos of practical<span style="font-size: x-small;">ly anything that <span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">best <span style="font-size: x-small;">captures my mood/thoughts/activities on</span> a particular day. It's an exercise both in mindfulness and creativity not to mention a wonderful reminder to be grateful for each and every day.</span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><i><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Isa-43-19"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> </span></span></span></i></div>
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You only need to look at those who have dared to reach the skies to know that the fulfillment of dreams takes courage. I have my heart set on dreams as high as the heavens, my only prayer is to have the courage to get there.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Isa-43-19"><span style="font-size: x-small;">**Footprints is a photo j<span style="font-size: x-small;">ournal that I started this 2013. <span style="font-size: x-small;">Basically <span style="font-size: x-small;">I just <span style="font-size: x-small;">take and post photos of practical<span style="font-size: x-small;">ly anything that <span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">best <span style="font-size: x-small;">captures my mood/thoughts/activities on</span>
a particular day. It's an exercise both in mindfulness and creativity
not to mention a wonderful reminder to be grateful for each and every
day.</span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><i><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Isa-43-19"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> </span></span></span></i>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10524473254526191444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-911520457773041810.post-29619713459978209532013-01-01T23:00:00.000+08:002013-01-03T21:55:24.506+08:00Footprints: Day 1I'm welcoming the new year by starting this photo journal named Footprints. The rules are simple. Everyday, I will be posting a photograph (preferably taken by me) of something that would make me remember that particular day. I may choose to write a little about it or just let the photo speak for itself.<br />
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This doesn't mean that Delicious Ambiguity is now turning into a photo blog, I just want to add a little something to keep things interesting around here. I believe this will be a good practice on mindfulness and just being aware of God's grace and provision throughout the year. Plus, I think that this will be a good way for me to hone my photography skills (as if meron haha), and to just exercise my creative muscles on a daily basis.<br />
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Even as I'm still on my way to my first post I'm already excited to revisit the whole thing come 2014! Now let me start things off with this:<br />
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The first of January is always celebrated with the extended family. This is one tradition I hope to keep even as my siblings and I have our own families. I am so thankful that this year's celebration was made extra special because we got to spend it with lola for the first time since she has been living in the US for the last couple of years. Here's wishing everyone a year filled with love and joy! x<br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10524473254526191444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-911520457773041810.post-60918563870318635422012-10-11T16:00:00.002+08:002012-10-11T16:00:52.074+08:00Good Reads | The Referendum<br />
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"The Referendum is a phenomenon typical of (but not limited to) midlife,
whereby people, increasingly aware of the finiteness of their time in
the world, the limitations placed on them by their choices so far, and
the narrowing options remaining to them, start judging their peers’
differing choices with reactions ranging from envy to contempt. The
Referendum can subtly poison formerly close and uncomplicated
relationships, creating tensions between the married and the single, the
childless and parents, careerists and the stay-at-home. It’s
exacerbated by the far greater diversity of options available to us now
than a few decades ago, when everyone had to follow the same drill.
We’re all anxiously sizing up how everyone else’s decisions have worked
out to reassure ourselves that our own are vindicated — that we are, in
some sense, winning."<br />
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"Yes: the Referendum gets unattractively self-righteous and judgmental.
Quite a lot of what passes itself off as a dialogue about our society
consists of people trying to justify their own choices as the only right
or natural ones by denouncing others’ as selfish or pathological or
wrong. So it’s easy to overlook that hidden beneath all this smug
certainty is a poignant insecurity, and the naked 3 A.M. terror of
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<b>The New York Times Opinionator: <a href="http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/17/the-referendum/" target="_blank">The Referendum</a></b><br />
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There you go, finally a word for that thing I've been feeling. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10524473254526191444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-911520457773041810.post-73429248605558854092012-09-08T14:20:00.002+08:002012-09-08T14:28:47.075+08:00Book to Film Adaptations I Want to See<div style="text-align: left;">
"Which is better, the book or film?' may be a pointless question for some, but nevertheless still begs to be asked every time a book to film adaptation is made. Answering that question becomes even more relevant when the adaptation is of a book that's loved by many or when it holds prime real estate on your bookshelf like some of the titles below surely are. Here are seven of those book to film adaptations I can't wait to see on the big screen.</div>
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<b>Cloud Atlas</b><br />
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I highly recommend reading the book first or whenever you get the time. It's not an easy read (I got a serious case of vocabulary envy early into the book, heck Mitchell even created his own futuristic English), but it is completely worthwhile; like getting six stylistically varied yet all well-written short stories (Robert Forbisher's letters being my favorite) in one seamless compilation. It will be interesting to see how the Wachowskis (of The Matrix Trilogy fame) and Tom Tykwer adapted the different time frames and storylines of the novel into the film version. In the book, the narrative begins by following a chronological sequence from the 19th century to a post-apocalyptic future from where, it then proceeds in a reverse chronology, so that the book begins and ends in the 19th century. This worked beautifully in the book, even managing to emphasize the common thread running through each of the six stories, but I can imagine how messy that narrative pattern will be when translated into a movie. Imagine having to traverse through six different climaxes and resolutions (hmm on second thought..). So big props to the screenwriters and directors if ever they pull this one off, actually, for even attempting this ambitious film adaptation. <br />
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<b>Perks of Being a Wallflower</b><br />
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Ok, here's the deal. Young Adult books have that special place in my heart, which basically means every film adaptation from the YA genre gets measured by a very personal yardstick. It's not just about, "hey, does this stack up against my imagination?", like how I'd pit most stories to, but to a great extent is about putting it up against my own stories or experiences of getting comfortable in my own skin, trying to fit in, dealing with the highs and the torment of first love and first heartbreak. It's just that, basing on the trailer, I have major qualms about the movie. Casting-wise, I feel that the only thing they got right is that guy from 'We Need to Talk About Kevin', Ezra Miller, as Patrick. The characters of Sam, Patrick, and Charlie are people you've met at one point in your life, they could even have been you in your younger years, but Watson's and Lerhman's portrayals look foreign, as if someone played with your world and inhabited it with people you don't recognize. On the plus side though, Stephen Chbosky, the author of Perks, got to write the screenplay and direct the movie, so we can at least hope for some fidelity with the novel. <br />
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<b>Les Miserables</b><br />
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So far this has been Anne Hathaway's year. After giving us the best Catwoman who has ever graced the screen, in the box office hit The Dark Knight Rises, she returns with one of the most vied for roles in theater, that of the girl with glorious locks and perfect teeth, Fantine. I'm less than halfway through the book and have never seen it on stage, so really there's no point of comparison for me. Is it bad that my first taste of a Les Mis production will be on the big screen? But, but I've looked through all the actors who've played Jean Valjean and none of them is as smokin' as Hugh Jackman. And what about that Eddie Redmayne guy? whooo. Trumps all your "I am so culturally superior" arguments. <br />
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<b>Anna Karenina</b><br />
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Keira Knightley is one of my favorite actresses. I promise to read the novel before the movie comes out. <br />
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<b>The Great Gatsby</b><br />
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I haven't read this one, but the trailer showed what promises to be an over the top production ala Moulin Rouge. If that's the case, then, good. It doesn't hurt that Leo Di Caprio and Carey Mulligan are in the cast too. <br />
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<b>The Hobbit</b><br />
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I never bothered to finish any of the LOTR movies, although the cinematography was undoubtedly breathtaking. Tolkien's prose was too much for me (I was bored to death). Needless to say i'm not exactly a fan of the Jackson/Tolkien tandem, but we'll see. After all, The Hobbit is the only Tolkien book I've finished and relished. I'd dare say it has everything to do with that hobbit Bilbo Baggins.<br />
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<b>Great Expectations</b><br />
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I don't think you can ever go wrong doing a film adaptation of Dickens' works. His propensity for detail is known far and wide, so it doesn't surprise me one bit that everything on the trailer is also exactly what I had in mind. You know how they made a wrong call with the kid they cast in 'Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close" and it just ruined the whole thing? Well I'm glad to tell you that young Pip here is exactly how anyone would think him to be.<br />
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How about you? Do you have anything to add to this list? Or maybe a book you would like to see made into a film? <br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10524473254526191444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-911520457773041810.post-48626972752066186322012-08-30T22:22:00.002+08:002012-08-30T22:25:59.486+08:00Good Reads | The Beatings of a Second Heart<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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This post over at The Rumpus came to me less than a year ago
at a time when I had almost given up on a dream, no, THE dream, and since then
I have constantly returned to it to anchor me through the massive waves of
doubts and indecision<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that almost always
seem to accompany any ambitious pursuit. It is thanks to this piece that I have
come to name that, which has troubled me on so many sleepless nights. That
relentless, almost maddening, internal plea to create, to fashion something out
of the tangled mess that my thoughts always seem to be in, that, which Cheryl
Strayed (the person behind the Dear Sugar columns) refers to here as the second
heart. </div>
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I sat like that too.
Thinking of only one thing. One thing that was actually two things pressed
together, like the back-to-back quotes on my chalkboard: how much I missed my
mother and how the only way I could bear to live without her was to write a
book. <span style="font-style: normal;">My</span> book. The one that I’d known was in me
since way before I knew people like me could have books inside of them. <i><b>The one
I felt pulsing in my chest like a second heart, formless and unimaginable</b></i> until
my mother died, and there it was, the plot revealed, the story I couldn’t live
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Sure it was several months in the making, but just recently,
after much time spent traipsing between being overwhelmed with zeal and being
paralyzed with fear, I finally got myself to sit still, pen touching paper, in
what I can only hope to be the first steps in a dance that will be carried on
to great length, with deep thought and candidness of feeling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My every stroke keeping in time with the
second heart and its beating.</div>
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The fear still persists though, presenting itself in short
bouts of doubt and writer’s envy, things that can, and had in the past, all too
easily stopped me on my tracks. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But
there is no escaping the second heart, as Ms. Strayed clearly points out –
there is no other way but to meet its call with courage, willingness to put in
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But I was wrong. The second heart
inside me beat ever stronger, but nothing miraculously became a book. As my 30<sup>th</sup>
birthday approached, <b><i>I realized that if I truly wanted to write the story I had
to tell, I would have to gather everything within me to make it happen.</i> </b>I would
have to sit and think of only one thing longer and harder than I thought
possible. I would have to suffer. By which I mean <span style="font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">work</span>.<br />
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At the time, I believed that I’d
wasted my twenties by not having come out of them with a finished book and I
bitterly lambasted myself for that. I thought a lot of the same things about
myself that you do, Elissa Bassist. That I was lazy and lame. That even though
I had the story in me, I didn’t have it in me to see it to fruition, to
actually get it out of my body and onto the page, to write, as you say, with
“intelligence and heart and lengthiness.” <i><b>But I’d finally reached a point where
the prospect of not writing a book was more awful than the one of writing a
book that sucked.</b></i> And so at last, I got to serious work on the book.<br />
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to give it because I’d let go of all the grandiose ideas I’d once had about
myself and my writing—<span style="font-style: normal;">so talented! so young!</span>
I’d stopped being grandiose. <b><i>I’d lowered myself to the notion that the absolute
only thing that mattered was getting that extra beating heart out of my chest.
Which meant I had to write my book.</i></b> My very possibly mediocre book. My very
possibly never-going-to-be-published book. My absolutely no-where-in-league-with-the-writers-I’d-admired-so-much-that-I-practically-memorized-their-sentences
book. <i><b>It was only then, when I humbly surrendered, that I was able to do the
work I needed to do.</b></i></div>
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My work is far from complete, and I know that for as long as it takes to finish my book I may also have to keep on returning to this post, if only to soothe me, shake me, remind me. In that same vein, I share this with everyone, regardless of whether it is writing he/she seeks to do or something else, but who like me also happens to be plagued by the urgings of a second heart. </div>
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Kobe Bryant, to those who have faintly heard about his feats from all over the world; the Black Mamba, to us who have witnessed and followed his prowess
on the court. Thirty four years ago, this man was born. Today, we still
celebrate him.<br />
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<i>Happy birthday, Kobe Bryant</i>.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10524473254526191444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-911520457773041810.post-12579934618833920472012-08-22T22:47:00.001+08:002012-08-22T22:49:27.749+08:00Good Reads | Second Love<div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">
The second time you fall in love with someone, you’re going to feel so
relieved. When you get your heart broken for the first time, you can’t
imagine loving someone else again or having someone else love you. You
worry about your ex finding love before you do, you worry about being
damaged goods. And then it happens. Someone else loves you and you can
sleep well at night.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">The second time you fall in love with someone, you’ll be a more sane
person. Your first love is when you get all of your insanity out. You
behave like an insane monster because your mind is freaking out about
all these new powerful feelings. By the second time, however, you have
an idea of what works and what doesn’t. It’s by no means perfect. The
insanity will make a cameo at some point. “Peek a boo. I’m here! Hope
you didn’t forget about me!” But you can usually shoo it away after
awhile.</span><br />
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Thought Catalog: <a href="http://thoughtcatalog.com/2011/the-second-time-you-fall-in-love-with-someone/" target="_blank">The Second Time You Fall In Love With Someone</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Even if sometimes, that someone else can be just you, finally learning to love yourself. x</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10524473254526191444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-911520457773041810.post-63010474208384644482012-08-15T14:36:00.001+08:002012-08-20T19:04:21.302+08:00My Lakers Will Be So Awesome! (with fingers crossed)When news of the Dwight Howard trade broke out last week, the jubilation felt by many Lakers fans was not without caution. After all Howard is still rehabbing after undergoing surgery for a back condition that left him unable to play during the playoffs and the recently concluded Olympics. This was such a concern for fans during the months leading up to the trade that for most people the focal question was, "Do we trade Bynum's knees for Howard's back?".<br />
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Well, we all know by now that the Lakers have already decided to put their franchise's future on the latter, which should easily put to rest those fears. You do know they would've consulted with medical experts first before pushing through with the deal right? But if you're like me, you'd still want to know the truth behind Howard's condition and what we can expect now that he has a surgically repaired back.<br />
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For that here's a repost from a Lakers forum summarizing an interview with the chief of orthopedic surgery at Cedar Sinai regarding Dwight Howard's back.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="postbody">Just listened to Dr. Robert Klapper, chief of orthopedic surgery at Cedar Sinai and ESPN 710's resident expert.
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Some highlights:
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1. From an orthopedic surgery standpoint he would much rather have Dwight's back than Andrew's knees.
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2. The knees have a much more "chronic injury" issue than Dwight's back
which is an "acute injury" that can be repaired with very little
sequelae.
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3. After surgery, you can't play basketball and engage in any heavy physical activity for 4 months.
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Why?
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Because the injury is a disc herniation: a small amount of the nucleus
pulposus or the "shock absorber" of the disc got squeezed out. It is a
VERY SMALL amount. You get rid of the "squirted out" material with a 1
inch incision under a microscope.
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There is a 5-10 percent chance that returning to physical activity too
early could herniate more material. That's obviously not good because
you've reherniated the disc and have to remove more of the extruded
disc.
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Bear in mind that Dwight was fully recovered, pain free, and ready to
work out probably a few weeks after surgery (it is only 1 inch incision
after all). BUT returning to physical activity too early gets you that
5-10 percent chance. Keep in mind that means there is a 90 to 95%
chance that if he came back after only a month or so he would be fine.
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But he is Dwight Howard and so they are being super, super cautious.
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4. He had surgery 04/20/2012 which means he should be able to resume
training, weights, basketball activity, etc around 08/20/2012 if
everything goes according to schedule and he feels no pain, etc.
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5. Per Dr. Klapper, based on that schedule Dwight should be ready for
opening night (10/30/2012). He'll have 2 months to get his
conditioning back. Again assuming he recovers as expected and at his
age and conditioning there should be NO REASON for any setbacks.
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6. Dwight will ALWAYS know he had surgery, he'll ALWAYS feel just a
little different. That's unavoidable. BUT that feeling doesn't affect
his ability to do what he needs to do. Per Dr. Klapper as fans we
should be able to tell NO DIFFERENCE in the way he plays. He should
have essentially NO difference in his skills, athleticism, etc.
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7. By way, reading some medical papers addressing the effects of
laminectomy on NBA athletes, those papers support Dr. Klapper's
assertion that Dwight should be back as good as new.
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8. That should answer the question why teams are still willing to kill
themselves to get Dwight Howard despite this "back injury" issue. It's a
non-issue moving forward. Also why he and his agent are very
comfortable not extending and waiting for the end of the season to sign a
new max contract. They know, all-world BEAST 3x DPOY Howard is coming
back this year. With Stephen A interview, Dwight pointed out that he
absolutely felt he could have won a 4th straight DPOY if he had been
fully healthy. He's ready to come back and remind everyone who he is
on the basketball floor. Trust me, he may be smiling but this whole
Dwightmare did affect him and he's going to playing with an edge,
especially on defense.
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The most dominant defensive force in the NBA basically feels
disrespected and the league has NO IDEA what is coming down on them from
the 5 slot.
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Summary: If everything goes according to schedule, we should hear
something by the end of August that Dwight is starting to work out again
on the court, lifting, running etc.
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Chances are good that he'll be ready for the start of the season.
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Chances overwhelmingly good that there will be no lasting effect from this particular injury.
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Final point: He played with a lot of pain and discomfort when the
incompetent, dumbass Magic medical staff misdiagnosed with "back
spasms." He said it was more pain than he had ever experienced since
he was in the league.
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That's why the thing that hurt him personally the most in the media was
that he was faking an injury and quitting on his team. He put up
All-Star numbers last year playing with a herniated disc.
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<br />
When I think of Bynum taking plays and games off and openly admitting it
while Dwight is still putting up the numbers he did with an injury that
ultimately required surgery and in a toxic, destructive environment . .
. I think there is no doubt the sort of heart and work ethic Dwight is
going to bring to our team.
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Hope all of this is a bit reassuring.</span> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: small;">via <a href="http://forums.lakersground.net/viewtopic.php?t=148925">dfchang813</a> </span></blockquote>
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Two things straight off the bat, this interview did take place and the contents have been verified by a lot of people who've heard the interview as well, BUT Dr. Klapper is not Howard's doctor nor is he affiliated with the Lakers. That shouldn't take away from his statements though because spinal disc herniation is a fairly common condition and can be easily assessed by any doctor, what more the chief of orthopedic surgery!<br />
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Medical opinion notwithstanding, the full effects of Howard's back surgery on his game can only really be seen once he's out there on the court, which is still a good 2-3 months from now.<br />
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So for now, I say we Lakers fans continue with the "my Lakers is so awesome" memes and posts, while keeping our fingers crossed, you know, just in case. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10524473254526191444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-911520457773041810.post-29706335435719923832012-08-13T15:33:00.001+08:002012-08-13T15:34:23.678+08:00Let Me Read to You : I Have Dreamed of You so MuchToday I'm striking off one thing from my to-do list, yey! For a long time now I've had this idea for a mini-project where I record myself and other people reading our favorite poems or book excerpts. I guess it stemmed from my habit of highlighting, re-writing, and constantly re-reading passages that have really made an impact on me. So I thought, instead of doing all of that, why not just keep an audio recording that I can return to easily time and again? Of course, even as I say that, I am completely aware that I will still continue to re-write and re-read, but whatever, maybe it's just the pleasure of listening to myself.<br />
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I'll be starting with one of my favorite poems, this one by Robert Desnos, "I Have Dreamed of You so Much". I know I flubbed thrice (by my count) and failed to do it justice, but please, this was only my first try :)<br />
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I know other people have done this thing way ahead of me, but i'm just excited to share this with people in my circle and hear them read their favorite pieces. That the texts they'll be reading are highly personal and of their own choosing will surely add color and nuance to every resulting audio. I can only imagine how beautiful that will be.<br />
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In time I plan to broaden the scope of my recordings to include an analysis of the text or maybe just a brief explanation on why it moves me. For now though, this will do. On to the next piece, Neruda's 'If You Forget About Me'.<br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10524473254526191444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-911520457773041810.post-52692529260918847082012-08-12T15:10:00.000+08:002012-08-12T15:14:22.849+08:00The Return of the Fangirl : Purple and Gold LoveHey there! It's been a while since I last made a hoops related post, and I have to admit it has everything to do with my Lakers's dismal showing for most of the last NBA season. There's only so much heartache a fangirl can take, you know?<br />
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But as you all know by now, that is about to change as the biggest trade of the off-season took place yesterday. (allow me to go all-caps on you as I make my celebratory statement) DWIGHT HOWARD IS NOW A LAKER, BABY!<br />
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Sweet.<br />
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I was really sure this would happen about two months ago but then the whole "dwama" took so many unexpected turns and road bumps making it over-bearing and stale. I lost interest especially since the additions of Nash and Jamison already upgraded the roster, and Bynum was a tolerable center anyway (when he's not acting like an over-sized kid, oh which he is).<br />
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I was content, to say the least, but not jumping for joy as i'd imagine the Heat and OKC fans were doing. That is, until Adrian Wojnarowski (just call him Woj, my personal barometer for truth when it comes to NBA news) tweeted something about a four team trade that will land Howard to the Lakers. It got my hopes up, but then I learned from the CP3 trade and knew better, if he ain't in purple and gold yet, I will not celebrate and make a complete fool of myself.<br />
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It was only when the Internet exploded (drowning out even the basketball semis in the Olympics) that my fangirling went into full gear as I went through meme after meme, watched every video discussing the trade, pored through every article, and gave each Laker fan a cyber-fistpump as we go from 'old, slow, can't keep up with the young guns" to "a beast that's most likely to take home the Larry O'Brien trophy next season". Hell yeah, life is in dazzling purple and gold these days.<br />
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I won't go on and pretend that I know the intricacies of the impact that Howard will have on the Lakers so let me leave that to those who are truly in the know:<br />
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<a href="http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/nba/story/_/id/8254617/suddenly-los-angeles-lakers-team-beat-again">Arash Markazi talks about how the Los Angeles Lakers are suddenly the team to beat again</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.latimes.com/sports/basketball/nba/lakers/la-sp-plaschke-dwight-howard-20120811,0,7286972.column?track=rss&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&dlvrit=53295">Bill Plaschke gives props to the Lakers organization for its dedication to keep on winning</a><br />
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And my personal favorite, <a href="http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/8254854/mailbag">Bill Simmons -Celtics fan and Clippers season ticket holder - sounding a tad fearful about this "winning" Lakers team.</a> (He makes a great breakdown of the winners and losers of the trade though, so read it! As for me, I'm just enjoying that smell of fear) <br />
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Can't wait til November, uh actually, make that June (yabang!). My Lakers are going to be great and this fangirl will surely have a hella fun time watching all of it. <br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10524473254526191444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-911520457773041810.post-33450970241784352862012-08-08T13:32:00.005+08:002012-08-08T13:34:35.754+08:00A Reminder:<br />
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<a href="http://zenhabits.net/breathe/"><span style="font-size: x-large;">BREATHE.</span></a><br />
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<br/>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10524473254526191444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-911520457773041810.post-14965168100836972592012-07-23T15:10:00.001+08:002012-07-23T17:39:01.494+08:00Are You a Feminist? Of Course You Are<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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I saw this a few days ago and something just clicked in me. Like something i've known all along -but has somehow been confused by the staggering amount of texts with differing opinions on the subject- has finally been brought to light and confirmed.<br />
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I am a feminist. Of course. How can I not be?<br />
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I think the confusion, particularly here in the Philippines, stems from a basic misunderstanding of what it means to be feminist. The word is still highly associated with activism, wherein only feminist activists (meaning those who actively take up the cause of feminism by protesting or taking it to the streets) end up being the only ones seen to be truly feminists.<br />
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This residual belief from the first wave of the feminist movement back in the '70s, where activism was necessary to advance the cause of feminism, is still much needed today, but along with that, also has the tendency to alienate other women (i'm not even going to begin talking about the men who support the movement), who are already part of a generation reaping the benefits of that early movement, making them feel like they are not part of the cause just because they are not so-called activists.<br />
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It also doesn't help that even among feminists there's so much contrasting or dissenting opinions on what it means to be a woman. It's like we fought to have the freedom to be anything we want and yet after we have it we're looking for ways to box or to tie ourselves to a particular identity or to a particular type of woman.<br />
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I remember a lot of instances in college where I or other females, in a casual conversation, would say something along the lines of "I don't like guys carrying my stuff for me, hello, I have hands" or "I want to cut my hair short and not look girly girly" and immediately be answered by a chorus of "ano ka peminista?" (what are you, a feminist?) like it's a shameful thing to aspire to become or something. These examples are superficial, but then it also just shows how equally superficial most people's understanding of what being feminist is.<br />
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To this I seek the words of Caitlin Moran, from her book 'How to be a Woman'.<br />
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<i style="color: #666666;">Because the purpose of feminism isn't to make a particular <i>type</i>
of woman. The idea that there are inherently wrong and inherently right
'types' of women is what's screwed feminism for so long ... What is
feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however
nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy, and smug they
might be. Are you a feminist? Hahaha. Of course you are. </i></blockquote>
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So if you ever find asking yourself if you're a feminist, just call this question to mind, "Do I want to have the same freedoms and rights as men do?". Regardless of how you want to practice those freedoms, whether in a sharp business suit with matching perfectly coiffed hair or in a skimpy number with loose, sexy waves, if you answered yes and if you live a life that speaks of those ideals and beliefs, then yes, you are a feminist. <br />
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Live it. Own it.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10524473254526191444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-911520457773041810.post-30529865844937389322012-07-22T15:20:00.002+08:002012-07-22T15:20:53.622+08:00Got time for gorgeous men being endlessly adorable?It's been raining for a solid three days now and that has seriously impaired my capacity to think about anything deep, or at least worthwhile, like the paradox of choice or the real essence of feminism. The weather's just begging for me to hit the sheets and stay in bed for another minute that somehow stretches to an hour.<br />
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With all my mental faculties necessary for critical thinking bailing out on me, i'm left with my basic senses; taking in the world in soundbites, images, and olfactory delights. If you can only hook me up to an fmri machine, i'm sure my nucleus accumbens will be all lit up like fucking Times Square.<br />
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The main culprit? The men on my Tumblr dash of course. In gif format no less. I mean, how cool is it that these gorgeous men are being endlessly adorable on my screen, subject to my girly whims? Yeah, my epiphanies don't get any further than that lately, wait, where you expecting more? hah.<br />
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OK, enough talk. Let's all take a minute to appreciate these men being gif-gorgeous.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Let's just say that the amount of time i've been staring at Penn Badgley doing that cute thing with his eyes (yeah I know it's just called squinting, BUT), borders on creepy.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The world seriously needs more JGL. Too bad his goody cop character in The Dark Knight Rises didn't come with facial hair.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My personal favorite. Seriously, do I need to explain? It's James "i-can-do-anything-and-still-be-incredibly-hot-while-doing-it Franco!</td></tr>
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You will thank me for this last one!<br />
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Oh of course you have more than a minute to spare! <br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10524473254526191444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-911520457773041810.post-18925929499761341422012-07-14T18:35:00.000+08:002012-07-14T18:39:06.041+08:00Norah Jones 'Happy Pills'Another lazy Saturday here at home. After a busy work/schoolweek, it's pretty hard to convince any of my siblings to go out of the house. So yeah, I also have to live under this lazy cloud that's hovering over them every Saturday.<br />
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Sometimes it pisses me off, 'cause idleness isn't an atmosphere you want around you, but then there are days like this when staying at home isn't so bad, and I actually feel great about just being in my pj's all day, stretched out on the bed, taking extra long to do everything, or just plain not doing anything.<br />
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Maybe it's because I stayed out til late last night, maybe it's the weather, or maybe it's just being 25 and not caring about not filling my time with the parties and all the activity that I used to crave when I was much younger.<br />
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or maybe, it's just one of those days.<br />
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Actually, i'll leave it at that and not over-analyze it.<br />
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Right now i'm just going to relish the feeling of being at home on a Saturday night, the promise of rain in the air, lazing on my bed, in my floral pink pajamas that's three sizes too big, going through the length of my Tumblr dash like it's the most important thing in the world, waiting for my McNuggets (!!!) to arrive, meanwhile enjoying Norah Jones' silky, jazzy voice about realizing someone's not good for you and finally giving them the boot.<br />
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<i>Happy pills</i>.<br />
Sounds just about right and perfect.<br />
Welcome to my blissful Saturday.<br />
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Never said we’d be friends,</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Trying to keep myself away from you,</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">‘Cause you’re bad, bad news.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">With you gone, I’m alive,</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Makes me feel like I took happy pills,</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">And time stands still.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">How does it feel?</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Oh how does it feel to be the one shut out?</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">You broke all the rules.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">I won’t be a fool for you no more my dear.</span></i></div>
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<br /></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10524473254526191444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-911520457773041810.post-41731595632978278892012-07-13T14:24:00.001+08:002012-07-13T22:14:35.076+08:00just another day of counting on serendipity<div class="post_content clearfix" id="post_content_27109078349">
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Of the many things i’ve read, watched, written, and thought of
the past few months it has become increasingly and frustratingly harder
to recall any particular quote or line and to place where I first
encountered them. I do keep a record of the things that really strike
me, but there will still be things that escape me. Things that at that
particular time may not be so relevant or useful, but somehow manage to
be called up by my consciousness at random, relevant instances.<br />
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Currently it’s this line or what I remember of it <b>“up until now she never used her condition to wound me”</b>.
Those may not be the exact words, but you get my drift. Did all the
available, practical, and logical ways to look for it, but to no avail.
At first I highly suspected it might be from Extremely Loud and
Incredibly Close, but my word search for “wound” turned up nothing. How
reliable are those searches anyway?<br />
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Actually it’s not that important whether I find the source or not
given that it has nothing to do with what I plan to build up from those
lines, but it’s one of those things that gnaw at me til I crack it or at
least shut it up. It’s like a simple riddle from my childhood that I
can’t answer, mocking my mental faculties. So if only for that, I <i>need
need need</i> to find that damned source.<br />
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But my patience is running thin, and i’m just flat out defeated right
now so here I go with this post. My last resort. It’s me leaving a note
out there, hoping that the answer will find me in one sweet
serendipitous event.<br />
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</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10524473254526191444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-911520457773041810.post-30510732682655846402012-07-12T16:11:00.000+08:002012-07-12T16:11:30.024+08:00Instagrille 2.0<br />
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If you love your Instagram, just like I do and would like to take the experience beyond your iOS or Android devices, and if incidentally you are a Windows user, then you definitely have to get Instagrille on your laptop/desktop.<br />
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There are already a couple of websites dedicated to the task of allowing you to browse through Instagram photos, but i'm telling you Instagrille 2.0 offers an experience that is quite unlike the rest. For one, the interface is neat and easy to go through, then you have the same features offered on Instagram such as views of your stream, your friend's streams, and popular photos. Liking and commenting can also be done straight from the desktop app with the addition of enabling user and photo searches in version 2.0. What's a big big plus though is that there's an option to share your and other people's photos to Facebook and Twitter along with the capability to save photos straight to your desktop! This is the feature I really love. Yes, Instagrille 2.0 is packed.<br />
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Of course you need an Instagram account to get started and post your photos, because if there's one thing this app is missing on, it's the ability to upload photos (Instagram's API doesn't allow it). <br />
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You can get Instagrille 2.0 along with other desktop apps, for free, on <a href="https://www.pokki.com/app/Instagrille" target="_blank">Pokki.</a><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10524473254526191444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-911520457773041810.post-61267605548896482472012-07-04T15:18:00.001+08:002012-07-04T15:22:47.582+08:00The Path From Like to LoveHold your horses. I'm not about to dish out romantic advice for your relationship woes. No, sorry, this isn't where you're going to find out the "thing" that can finally take your relationship to the "next level".<br />
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What you'll do find here though is about another kind of "like"; the one you yourself perform almost everyday when you see that status message about one of your friend's fantastic day on Facebook, or that picture of the awesomely-cute-i-want-to-pinch-those-cheeks-coo-coo-coo baby on Tumblr, or its derivative form on Twitter, the favorite.<br />
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If I still have your attention after having said that, then let me continue and tell you why.<br />
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Simple. One, because I downloaded this one of a kind app called <a href="http://www.robinsloan.com/fish/" target="_blank">Fish</a>, that turned out to be a tap essay about what it means to like and love something on the the Internet today. And two, because i'm a notorious liker/faver/bookmark-er/read-it-later-er who's desperately in need of this so-called manifesto about liking and loving on the Internet. <br />
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A few things about the app: currently it's for iOS only, it's free, AND you definitely have to <a href="http://www.robinsloan.com/fish/" target="_blank">get it</a>. I'll leave the finer details of why it's so good to people who have actually put in the time to write about that like<a href="http://www.complex.com/tech/2012/03/ungoogleable-a-conversation-with-robin-sloan-creator-of-fish-a-tap-essay" target="_blank"> this</a>, <a href="http://www.downloadtheuniverse.com/dtu/2012/04/a-minimalism-win-for-ebooks-robin-sloans-big-fish.html" target="_blank">this</a>, and also<a href="http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/9/2936291/fish-robin-sloan-app-explores-the-difference-between-loving-liking" target="_blank"> this</a>.<br />
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Now, let's go back to the question: <i>What does it mean to like and love something on the Internet today?</i><br />
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Awhile ago I told you how i'm such a sucker for bookmarking and/or for putting stuff on Read it Later, well, in my defense (and I know you will agree with me on this), the Internet is just a treasure trove of cool, good stuff.<br />
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On any given day I can chance upon a couple of pretty neat links from my Twitter (always), Tumblr (so-so), and I'll admit not so much here, which speaks badly of my contacts, or myself, for the kind people I associate myself with, Facebook. And that's not even mentioning the things I find on individual websites that I peruse at least 3-4 times a week namely, The Atlantic, NPR, The Rumpus, Mashable, The Browser, Brain Pickings, Thought Catalog, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, and the occasional feature done by GQ, Vanity Fair, and Fast Company on interesting people.<br />
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Is there any wonder why i'm such a goldfish?<br />
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Robin Sloan, the author of Fish, calls this barrage of content from the Internet as <i>an endless flood</i> and points out that <i>we try to stay afloat by liking, faving, bookmarking,</i> which is all good because <i>in effect we're telling the writers of these things, the websites that host them, and our friends who see them that this something that we liked and faved is cool or smart and is worth their time.</i><br />
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In a way it's an efficient system where websites get a feel of what people want to see, which in turn translates to us viewers being given more of the content that we care for. Why memes, cat videos, and the like are so popular is beyond me, but i'm sure this is the same system that is at play there. <br />
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The problem though with this system, as Sloan observed and as i've seen in my own habits, is that more often than not the things that we like and fave get lost in the jumble of the hundreds of things that we like and fave, and eventually end up in obscurity. This is particularly true for my reading list on Read-it-Later (now known as Pocket), which by now is a staggering 1188 entries long. Add to that the ones I have on bookmark and the things I faved on Twitter, and you get a huge mass of links, a couple of which I haven't even clicked on. <i>We rarely return to the things we like and fave.</i><br />
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Sloan hardly offers any solution to this (I will not even make an attempt), instead he gleans on what he calls a path from liking (w/c translates to forgetting) to loving, which he puts in this single phrase, to love is to return.<br />
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This got me thinking about my own reading and viewing habits off and on the Internet, and it made pretty good sense to me. The books i've professed to loving like The Client, A Little Princess, A Widow for One Year, among others are exactly the same ones that i've read at least twice. The same goes for music, movies, and essays - I go back to them again and again and again. <br />
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Because when it comes to these things, <i>liking and faving just aren't enough.</i><br />
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As corollaries to that definition he further offers that:<br />
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For me, on a practical level, this just means changing my attitude towards the things I like and fave. It means not getting overwhelmed and overexcited by the huge volume of wonderful things on the Internet, but instead keeping a level head as I remind myself of what I love, why I love it, and making sure that I give these things their proper due of attention and focus.<br />
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It's been said that anything less than mad, passionate, extraordinary love is a waste of
time, this may be talking about romantic love or other higher expressions of love, but I doubt if it would hurt to use this same approach on the things we do on the Internet.<br />
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Try it too won't you? And see if it changes how you read and watch in this age of endless content.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10524473254526191444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-911520457773041810.post-31382959515279597502012-06-27T13:50:00.000+08:002012-06-27T14:33:48.795+08:00the girl who always says goodbye, but never knows how to leave<br />
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I don't know who wrote this, so forgive me if I don't give the proper credit. It's just one of those surprises that I find on my Tumblr dash every now and then that somehow gets caught in between the porn show and the catwalk that my dash almost always is.<br />
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It's probably good that I don't know who wrote this, so then I could continue with the fantasy i've made for myself, that this is me and only me. <i> </i><br />
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<i>The inevitable wanderer, the girl who always says goodbye, but never knows how to leave. </i><br />
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I mean how could someone else have written it? That line is achingly me, and the fact that I hadn't even come close to writing it is somewhat agitating me and piling on that molehill that is the things I may never be.<br />
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And then Norah Ephron died today, which is a totally different matter, but again it's that molehill that's quickly turning into a mountain because I say I want to be a writer but every time I come close to touching my pen on paper or my fingertips to these keys, I freeze and a massive cloud inhabits my mind as my breath gets caught up in my chest daring me to be more than this girl who wants and wants and wants but is too damn afraid to let herself go and be taken in for the ride that is scary and intimidating as shit, but god does she know it, is the only way for her to be able to fully face the mirror and tell herself, "i've lived".<br />
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The fact that so many people relate to this, and by that I can assume, go through the same thing is hardly any consolation to me. For who can honestly say that they are completely fine with being one with the faceless mass? Or even more than that, who can say that they relish being this girl those phrases allude to? Always seemingly stuck in a moment, with everything that she could be always out of reach. <br />
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So to whoever wrote this, it is a thing of beauty, but i'm returning it to you, because they are after all your truths. This, from the girl, who will always be painstakingly learning how to leave and with that, live.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10524473254526191444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-911520457773041810.post-77333872580323296542012-06-26T23:10:00.001+08:002012-06-26T23:14:10.624+08:00Sorkin's World of Words<br />
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It's no secret that I want to have Aaron Sorkin's mind. It's not just the way he strings words together, it's how he brings those strings into one coherent mass, an actual working conversation that's not just a pool of words where viewers are often left to drown, but a pulsing, engaging, meaty exchange. It even gets better when his characters go into one of their monologues, in which case you're given, in his own words, something similar to an aria - a speech that's almost musical in nature it's sure to captivate your ears.<br />
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I could only wish to get my hands on his bag of tricks, but in the meantime, I will satisfy myself with this video mash-up of the recurring dialogue and plot lines from the bulk of Sorkin's screenplays for both movies and television, which doesn't take an inch away from his genius, but rather shows his mastery of the subculture where most of his characters belong to. <br />
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This is like picking the nooks and crannies that make up Sorkin's wonderful world of of words and actually make for an interesting study. Who knows, you might just stumble on something useful from "the master of dialogue's" arsenal of techniques.<br />
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