January 2012
23 posts
methinks this place needs a lot more gold
“I feel so happy now that our vision for Anand’s wife is aligned.”
– Jing Pei
#nyresolution
book of the week: bossypants by tina fey
song of the week: it will rain - bruno mars
you've hurt me
and you’ll never know
bucket list
swim in a hot spring in iceland
burning man
dive in mexico
eliminate education inequity
trans-siberian railway
live for a year on each continent (except antartica, because i’m not that hardcore)
run a marathon
speak in tongues
write and publish a book
make my mother proud
song of solomon
daughters of Jerusalem, i charge you by the gazelles and by the does of the field: do not arouse or awaken love until it so desires.
“Come, Come, Lay your weary head/ Come, Come, Rise with Me”
– Delirious? When all around is fallen
my hands are small, i know
on jan 18
i will be so free. so, so free
years from now, we will not recall the target-settings or the templates.
we will remember only the lights while dancing, the laughter at long lunches, the relief after hard meetings, and swimming in the moonlit sea.
speaking of 04
i remember drowsing on the hotel room couch in a sleepy haze. people were talking over me in hushed voices, tired voices, cracked voices full of emotion.
“…couldn’t recognize the faces..”
”..must do autopsies to identify..”
“…flying them home..”
”.. it’s been weeks now.”
i remember lying there, trying to comprehend that...
give it up
it’s not a single pasrah.
it’s a thousand million pasrahs every second of the day.
“We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great...”
– Aemon Targaryen, Song of Ice and Fire
joyce is busy dreaming of all the things she could...
some things never change
i don't understand this feeling
what does it mean?
what should i do?
i feel so small.
December 2011
10 posts
A: That's my view.
A: Child bearing years should be spent maximizing your time finding a suitable partner
J: WTF
my mum is a ninja
new year resolutions
1. read a new book a week
2. listen to a new album a week
3. work out 3-4 times a week for 1 hour each time
4. pray every day
all of this is important to my well being.
mysterious paper sculptures in scotland →
November 2011
10 posts
Bangkok Underwater - Alan Taylor - In Focus - The... →
The ARPANET Dialogues →
poptech:
In the period between 1975 and 1979, the Agency convened a rare series of conversations between an eccentric cast of characters representing a wide range of perspectives within the contemporary social, political and cultural milieu. The ARPANET Dialogues is a serial document which archives these conversations. Even more unusual perhaps was the specific circumstances of the conversation:...
October 2011
8 posts
Where the 1% Live - Jobs & Economy - The Atlantic... →
realization
i really cannot respect you once i know your political beliefs. even if what i respect you for has nothing to do with that.
i guess i am completely, horribly, terribly judging
“But as both myth and cognitive psychology show, failure is how one learns; indeed, it is the most important element of the natural process of learning. And entering new territory one does not already “control,” without a passport, is how one keeps moving outward from the known center, how one avoids calcification, how inquiry and wonder are not stifled by...
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