March 2011
1 post
Namaste
Greetings from Delhi!
I have decided to create a separate account for my volunteer adventures in India, where I will be based in the next 11 months. And I couldn’t think of a better first post than this.
Happy reading!
February 2011
8 posts
“[T]he world is too much with us, and we are too much with ourselves. We need...”
– “The Philosophy of Travel” by George Santayana, Harvard philosopher
Pico Iyer made a great case for it, too.
Because life is too short to spend it all in one place.
What I want for my birthday:
A nerdy BF, who can rock geek chic like young Gandalf does.
More adorkable dress-up-your-boyfriend ideas here.
“Of all the epic structures the human race has devised, none is more staggering...”
– - Henri Jean-Baptiste, World Heritage Committee Chairman on the “8th Wonder of the World”
(If you see it everyday, it ceases to be a marvel. Hell, it’s a reality you learn to live and struggle with. Surviving it is another wonder altogether.)
Why there is too much suffering in this world
lovestampede:
yvonnegeorgina:
“To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But, then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer, not to love is to suffer, to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love, to be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy, therefore, to be unhappy one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness...
“It’s never over, my kingdom for a kiss upon her shoulder.”
– from Jeff Buckley’s “Lover, You Should’ve Come Over”
One of those things that make me blush. And yeah, this one, too:
“She tied you to her kitchen chair; she broke your throne and she cut your hair and from your lips she drew the hallelujah.”
January 2011
2 posts
“Lace up your sneakers and make a run for it.”
– “How to date me” entry no. 1. List inspired by this tumblr post.
“I want to kiss the back of your neck,
The top of your spine where your hair...”
– from Lisa Loeb’s “Sandalwood”
(There are way too many things that make me blush. This is one of them. Funny, the explicitness of DMB’s “Crash Into Me” didn’t even bother me. Oh well, I am a romantic fool. Now, that explains it.)
December 2010
2 posts
“Classic research has suggested that the more people doubt their own beliefs the...”
– David Brooks, citing one of the studies bundled and distributed via e-mail by Kevin Lewis, who covers the social sciences for The Boston Globe and National Affairs.
(Maybe we doubt to look for confirmation and affirmation of ourselves, of our beliefs.Or we doubt to convince ourselves to believe...
“By running longer it’s like I can physically exhaust that portion of my...”
– What I talk about when I talk about running by Hakuri Murakami
(I had always wanted to run, maybe that’s why I had it for PE class in college. But I never got around to taking it up seriously. Then one day I just did. Now I am hooked.)
November 2010
2 posts
“You never know.”
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I don’t. Not yet, anyway. But I must thank Nora for reminding me to take every opportunity to flaunt what Jelo said is my ”beautiful, slim neck.”
A light and easy read, the book often made question what I’m doing with it. I am only 31 years old and Nora is talking about...
May 2009
1 post
“One More Night” by Stars
From the...
March 2009
14 posts
In which The New Yorker compares Mrs Obama's arms... →
“Invisible : Where we go to escape the things we do to each other.”
– My non-place today.
Gray's Anatomy →
President Obama turns grey only forty-four days in office.
I miss writing…
Return to sender
You are a non-place
I keep coming back to.
(03.04.09)
“This morning (someone) said it’s like playing music at your own funeral....”
– Another US newspaper dies.
Lift it →
Architects and designers are gods.
Mid-rise buildings →
This post reminds of a chapter in Alan Lightman’s Einstein’s Dreams where people always change their minds and never get to complete anything. And thus, the unfinished buildings, speakers breaking off in midsentence …
Cougar ambitions →
“We always need something to grieve about in this life. For whatever it is worth,...”
– Mike, a friend from a long time ago.
February 2009
7 posts
“Any romantic partnership is essentially an alliance, and alliances are a core...”
– ‘nuf said. happy belated valentine’s. (more here)
“It’s Hard Out There for a Pimp”...
“I have bigger balls than most guys I know.”
– (Saying this makes me a b*tch, right?)
I once called a friend a “babaeng as*hole.” My sis coerced me into apologizing for being a bigger jerk than most of the guys she knows.
A webcomic of romance,sarcasm, math and language →
I get everything except the “math” part. lol.
July 2008
6 posts
Working the squeeze →
These kids are so cute. If only our sampaguita vendors could talk about their venture the same way…
(Pencil) skirting the summer →
Fashionistas in New York don the summer’s hottest look: thereallytightpencilskirt.
Interesting commentary from the NYTimes.
The reshaping of Beijing →
WatchYes, You Can!
Inspiration Day
Today, I am redeemed.
Thanks to some of the world’s greatest inspirations: teachers, Team Hoyt, and a great Alaskan adventure.
June 2008
5 posts
“Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity,...”
– Oscar Wilde
“Heartbroken, will date.”
“Maybe this disconnect has always existed. As one of my classmates, a genteel...”
– Let’s Not Get to Know Each Other Better
(Modern Love, an essay contest launched by NYTimes, has produced some of the best and most engaging college essays on, yes, modern love. This has got to be my second fave, next to this one.)
“Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare...”
– - Bill Watterson
May 2008
11 posts
“Technology provides us with a window onto reality, but it is we who narrow that...”
– Commencement speech by Julie Lasky, I.D. editor in chief. You are not your avatar.