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The Ultimate Superpower

May 10, 2008 – 1:51 am
When we were children most of us imagined ourselves to have some kind of superpower. I always thought that it would be cool to be able to fly. On second thought, it might not be a good idea because what if your power fails when you're flying high above the sky? Not good. I also wanted to be able to read people's minds. I bet it would be really helpful, especially if you want to know their deepest darkest secrets. And use those against them --- ha, blackmail! Unfortunately, I don't have any of those superpowers. I can sit in the couch and stare at the TV for hours, but that's not a fun superpower. It's only helpful if you want to look like a blob statue. I can also shed tears watching dog commercials --- but that just makes me look crazy and delusional. Besides, running mascara is definitely not ...

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One Art by Elizabeth Bishop

May 2, 2008 – 2:55 pm
How does losing become an art? And can youcreally master the art? I don't think one can. You may desperately try to convince yourself that losing is not very difficult to deal with. That there is an art to it, and like every other art, one can master its techniques. This poem caught my eye because the author seemed intent in trying to convince herself that losing something is not a disaster. Indeed, some things are sometimes meant to be lost, but this does mean that we are not allowed to feel bad if they do. The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.   Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn't hard to master.   Then practice losing farther, losing faster: places, and names, and where it was you meant to travel. ...

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A Text Lesson on Finding Love

May 2, 2008 – 11:12 am
Yep, times definitely has changed...

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Let me just bury the hatchet

April 21, 2008 – 11:58 pm
Just because one doesn't think of something anymore doesn't mean that they're forgotten. Forgetting is a constant battle. You have to consciously make your mind do it. And in doing so, the act of forgetting contradicts and nullifies itself. For how can you forget when you're actually thinking about it?

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Yey… New Shoes

April 21, 2008 – 11:47 pm
  I've always thought: "One can never have enough shoes." And what's a bestfriend for but know your thoughts? So for my birthday, Sha gave me shoes! Yey...

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It Must Be the Weather

April 11, 2008 – 12:01 am
Temperatures nowadays are approaching to boiling, -broiling, -baking, -barbecueing, or anything that will cook anybody's ass off as soon as they step out of the comforts of their houses. Could it get any hotter?! Arrggh. Making matters worse, besides being uncomfortable and extremely sweaty, is that I've been fidgety. It seems that I can't really stay in one place and there are a thousand things in my mind right now. Thoughts are blazing throught my head so in order for me to spend off all the pent up energy, I cooked spaghetti as soon as I went home from work. It's not actually spaghetti coz I used linguine but I'm still calling it spaghetti. Anyways, I'm writing coz there seems to have some fidgety feeling left in me (still). I played with tappy (the dog) earlier. But running around outside with the dog chasing me didn't really help. It just left ...

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Why did the chicken cross the street?

March 29, 2008 – 8:33 am
Because my last post seems to be a little bit darker than usual, I'll try to balance things out with something lighthearted. It's still one of those days, but sulking will do me no good. So here's one of mankind greatest unsolvable mystery of all time. Even great minds can't seem to figure this out: Why did the chicken cross the street? Here's some of the answers: Primary school teacher: Because the chicken wanted to go to the other part. Plato: The chicken was looking for knowledge. Aristotle: It was in the chicken’s nature to cross the street. Captain Kirk: To go where no chicken has gone before. Machiavelli: The chicken crossed the street. No one cares why. The end of crossing the street justifies any motive. Freud: The fact that you are worried whether the chicken did or did not cross the street reveals your sexual insecurity. Moses: And God came down from ...

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A Lump in the Throat

March 28, 2008 – 12:23 am
Today is one of those days.Sometimes you just feel lonely and sad. No matter how hard you try to ignore it, it's the way it is. And you're caught in a limbo. You get overwhelmed because you don't understand why you feel that way. When you woke up this morning, you were actually feeling all right. The sun is shining brightly, you felt fine and you're smiling. You went through your seemingly normal day. You talk with your friends, you pretend to do your work, you smile when someone says something funny. You seem to be you. Then, as the day went on, this feeling slowly creeps on you and you try to ignore it. You say to yourself, "I'm doing Ok. I shouldn't be feeling this way. There is no reason at all." But you are only fooling yourself. Because just being "OK" is never Ok. Is it not every person's ...

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Books, books and more books

March 23, 2008 – 10:49 am
How many books are there? Well, I just finished reading two and I'm halfway on my third. Though technically I've already read them sometime ago, I've quite forgotten the details, so I'm re-reading them. Two books are by John Grisham (of course!) -- The Client and The Pelican Brief. These are really some of the first books written by Grisham (they're old!) and I quite remember that I've already read them in high school some 10 years ago. So I've got a good excuse if I say that I've forgotten some of the details in the story. Consequently, both books have been made into a movie -- one with the late Brad Renfro (bless his soul) and the other with Julia Roberts. The Client is about an 11-year old boy, Mark (Renfro) who along with his little brother (Ricky) saw the suicide of a Mafia lawyer. Things got complicated because this lawyer ...

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Muted but…

March 18, 2008 – 11:08 pm
It's really been awhile since I've written a decent thing. The issue is that I don't really feel like sharing lately - feelings-wise and thoughts-wise. There are just times that a person won't feel the urge to blurt out every thought, ache & pain, and useless crappolas and just keep their feelings inside... I've been that lately -- talking and not speaking, hearing and not listening, smiling and laughing; but not really. Although since I am writing right now, I guess it might mean I'm slowly coming out of my shell to take a peek at what's going on with the rest of the world. Am I or am I not?!

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