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Ever After: January 2010
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Wednesday, January 27, 2010. My good friend R was sitting to my right, and he'd shaved, put on glasses, and was wearing a nice peacoat with a full suit. "I can smell the anticipation in here," he said, leaning close to me. "You can just feel it in the air. The competition, the violent ambition.". After the presentation about the company there was a Q&A session. There were some valid questions and some very obviously insincere ones, like "What do you think your greatest challenge is at? Links to this post.
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Ever After: December 2010
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Wednesday, December 15, 2010. He hesitated, said, "Well, to be honest, yeah, but I don't have t- " and I said happily, "No, no, go! She said exuberantly. I blinked. She smiled at me with her luminous, smoky eyes. Some other friends approached the circle, and I began to talk to them. Two feet away from me. Holly was saying in a steady stream to J, "Oh my god, she's so hot, your girlfriend's so hot. She's like a firecracker. ('Is that only because we're Asian? No, of course not! Do you want some water?
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Ever After: Two Threads of Thoughts
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Monday, November 29, 2010. Two Threads of Thoughts. 2 "Africa" is such a cliche that it's condescending and meaningless. The people who tend to use it, e.g. "do some good and help out a poor starving HIV-positive kid in Africa" often have no idea of the conditions in Africa, or the culture, or the facts. Myself included. I'm making an effort to avoid all such cliches in the future. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Two Threads of Thoughts. It Goes On and On and On. Reasons Why Today Was Great. But I wa...
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Ever After: Snippet: Spring 2008, Age 19
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Wednesday, January 12, 2011. Snippet: Spring 2008, Age 19. I stared at a girl wearing a cotton strapped dress over a t-shirt. It seemed weird and childish, and her odd blissfulness and sweetness matched it. She was barefoot for some reason. I clutched at my one beer bottle. I wouldn't have anything to do after I finished the beer, and there were no more, so I took tiny sips as the ale became unpleasantly lukewarm. The dregs are always bitter-tasting. The moment felt trashy and pointless. Eventually, one ...
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Ever After: August 2010
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Tuesday, August 31, 2010. Atolls and islands, blue that ripens into translucent green. Like the outline of a sunken Atlantis. The ridges standing just below the surface. Like quiet actors standing behind the curtain. Waiting to spring to life. Tantalizingly, they wink at us from the air. Their secrets are silent and will never be spoken. Links to this post. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Yesterday I bumped into Adisha at the computer lab. Great barrier reefer madness, part II.
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Ever After: February 2010
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Thursday, February 4, 2010. Someone needs to start a wikipedia for business. It could list info about companies, industry lingo, stats, conferences, notable people, etc. Links to this post. Wednesday, February 3, 2010. Here's a mind-boggling quote from his book on fundraising and management, from Jeffrey Sachs:. According to Forbes magazine, there are some 950 billionaires in the world,. With an estimated combined wealth of $3.5 trillion. Even after all the yachts,. Gates By standard principles of founda...
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Ever After: Birthday Celebrations
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Wednesday, December 15, 2010. He hesitated, said, "Well, to be honest, yeah, but I don't have t- " and I said happily, "No, no, go! She said exuberantly. I blinked. She smiled at me with her luminous, smoky eyes. Some other friends approached the circle, and I began to talk to them. Two feet away from me. Holly was saying in a steady stream to J, "Oh my god, she's so hot, your girlfriend's so hot. She's like a firecracker. ('Is that only because we're Asian? No, of course not! Do you want some water?
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Ever After: It Goes On and On and On...
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Sunday, November 21, 2010. It Goes On and On and On. I woke up this morning and suddenly didn't know where I was - I felt like I was waking from a coma, like the last three years had been a dream, and I didn't understand how I'd gotten here. Who are these lovely strangers around me? Where are my best friends from the town I grew up in? And who are the adult versions they are now, these taller and more well-dressed and ambitious people? I want to go back, but home is elusive and ephemeral. It's gone&#...
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Ever After: Winter Migration
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Monday, January 31, 2011. See you in Beijing: http:/ leitmotifx.wordpress.com/. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Snippet: Spring 2008, Age 19. A little girl stands on a beach, safely away from the water, and watches a star fall from the sky: a great, green comet that burns and burns as it drops in. We got knocked out after the quarter-finalist round of the competition. That's all right, I wasn't banking on their support anymore. Last week my partner a. Great barrier reefer madness, part II.
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Ever After: January 2011
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Monday, January 31, 2011. See you in Beijing: http:/ leitmotifx.wordpress.com/. Links to this post. Wednesday, January 12, 2011. Snippet: Spring 2008, Age 19. Everyone had left except him and his buddy. He was probably determined to leave with a girl no matter what. Was that the state school mantra? I don't want to make this awkward and angrily tell him to go away, especially since I'm a hostess. Who sweet talks a girl by blocking her in her own bathroom? The moment felt trashy and pointless. Somehow I m...