December 2004
9 posts
Sobered and subdued
Like most people I know, this holiday season was marred by a lot of sorrow. I’m supposed to be going to a party later on tonight, with the requisite bottles of champagne and perhaps a few minutes of watching the ball drop in Times Square. But it’s not easy to remain buoyant for the New Year under the circumstances, is it?
I have a friend who was in Phuket when the tsunamis struck. ...
I, the Heretic
But first, let’s go off on a tangent.
I remember watching my dad eat a plate of sausages at a restaurant once. German, Austrian, Polish sausages, lined neatly on a plate. He ate them with so much gusto. You could see the tail-end of a smile tugging at the corners of his mouth as he chewed. But I hated those sausages. I never used to eat sausages. Intestines filled with meat did not...
So excited for the beach
I am so incredibly excited to go to the Philippines this February. Got even more excited when I cam across this guy’s blog and his amazing photographs. Take a look at this:
by JAKE VERSOZA - La Union, Philippines
MERRY CHRISTMAS
M E R R Y C H R I S T M A S!!!
There hasn’t been a lot of substantial updating going on here lately, I apologize. I’ve been defering quite a number of entries to my old-fashioned handwritten journal these past few days. Lots of thoughts and ideas in the process of fermentation right now, and as you know, fermentation is best done in cool, quiet, dark places.
Anyway, as I know I...
Vermont
So, I paid for my tuition to go back to Goddard in Vermont. For the record, I just have to say that I hate Vermont. Thankfully, this is my last 8 day residency (well, HOPEFULLY, at least!)
It’s pretty and all that, if you’re a tourist and you go to the touristy places. BUT. Imagine living in the middle of nowhere for 8 days. Seriously.
I am paying good money to exile myself...
Big Fish
I was watching Big Fish on HBO today and I don’t know if I’m tha last one to notice, but in the scene where Ewan McGregor is parachuting down to what appears to be a variety show in a Korean military base, there’s a shot of a guy holding a puppet, and the conversation the guy has with his puppet is actually in tagalog. Haha. They were talking about sweat and stuff.
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Randomness
If you were to ask someone from the office to pick three words that best describe me it would be these. It makes me see just how strangely I translate to US soil.
Uptight. (Also, much too serious.)
I am, I guess. In a funny way, people’s perceptions of me have skewed to become this: uptight and serious. I guess it’s because this is the most serious I’ve ever been in my whole...
Stoner Animal!
People, meet Alvin, Simon, and Theodore’s party cousin.
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“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.” Douglas Adams
I’m not a particularly organized person. Actually, that’s not completely true. I do have a very loose kind of mental organization, but it’s something which I’m not sure anyone else can understand. ...
The trouble
The trouble with being broke…
I like the hours in Real Estate, I like our office, I like the whole matching and searching for properties, I like the set-up, heck I even like Real Estate in particular. But I am not good at shmoozing up to people to get them to buy/rent from me. As one of my ex-potential clients said, I am a snob pretending to be friendly. I am not a people person. At...