This isn't why I haven't been updating, but something fairly bad happened to a friend of mine a while ago. I thought of doing an essay on it, so I kept a TextEdit file open on my desktop. In the end I decided not to, so I'm posting my notes here just because ( Read more... )

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Lots to say, probably only a minute or two to say it in, since I suspect my hour of internet time is running out ( Read more... )

Just F. y'all's I., my harddrive melted. I haven't had a computer for a few days and won't have one for up to a week, longer if things don't go well ( Read more... )

I just got done watching this about fifteen times in a row. It doesn't matter if you don't understand what they're saying.
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Today was my last day of Chinese class. In honor of that, my teacher brought in this "cute" poem for us read. It's by Huang Chunming (黃春明), who I really like from what I've read of him. The title (一則無聊得要死的故事) can be read two ways (not really, but almost): "A boring-to-death story" or "A boring story about wanting to die." Here it is (warning: not ( Read more... )

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Near midnight, the MRT runs more slowly-especially the brown line, which is all above ground and runs north-south along the eastern edge of the city. I boarded the train at 11:49pm at the northernmost stop. This city likes to call itself a city that never sleeps, but by this time of night there are hardly any lights on. In the windows, passengers ( Read more... )

My apartment building has this special characteristic: During the winter, it expels all heat; during the summer, it traps all heat. In all cases, it is a giant concrete humidifier, which perhaps accounts for these other characteristics. It's hard to tell. I can't think very critically in my current humidifiedly sweltered condition. Of course, in ( Read more... )

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