By CAL NEWPORT
Published: September 29, 2012IN the spring of 2004, during my senior year of college, I faced a hard decision about my future career. I had a job offer from Microsoft and an acceptance letter from the computer science doctoral program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. I had also just handed in the manuscript for my first ( Read more... )

been some time since i last blogged; life's been going way too fast. busyness keeps me from thinking to myself, i feel like i'm lacking in some emotional development ( Read more... )

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone ( Read more... )

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i am seriously angry at myself for always wishing i was richer. i know i have more than enough, i have a condo, i have good clothes, i can go to semi-expensive restaurants....but it's never enough. i want more more more. i want to have shoes from Alexander Wang, clothes from Jil Sander and bags from Proenza Schouler. i can honestly say that what's ( Read more... )

I want to tear myself from this place, from this reality, rise up like a cloud and float away, melt into this humid summer night and dissolve somewhere far, over the hills. But I am here, my legs blocks of concrete, my lungs empty of air, my throat burning. There will be no floating away.

The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini

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whoops i haven't posted in awhile! i'm back from my exile in Beijing and Surabaya - actually i have been for a few days or so but anyway ( Read more... )

went for Rapture today!! it was a lot of fun; genuinely entertaining and awesome. I liked the pink and black outfit one, the couply one, the maroon outfit one, the cleopatra one (GOOD JOB MARILYN!!!!), the NUS one (so hottttttt omg seriously), the tribalish one and the sexy and i know it (so funny hahaha love it). HAHA the little boys were soooo ( Read more... )

today is one of the rare days i bothered to put on eyeliner. but other than dinner with family at crystal jade i didn't go anywhere so it was kind of a waste. so this gives me a reason to camwhore for a bit ( Read more... )