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Cellular Shenanigans
성약과 지예씨, 이거는 너들을 위해: Forgive the broken Korean, but I can't believe a friend of mine has been diligently checking for updates on my blog after its months of dormancy. Heck, and to think I'd been planning to toss this blog outta the window. Well, here's another one for you, freshly grated and on the fly.
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Close to fifteen years ago (has it ( Read more... ) -
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I had some things I planned to do over the summer. Recently I found myself looking over the list of what I had intended to accomplish in those eight to sixteen hour slices of free time only to wonder what went wrong ( Read more... ) -
Chinese New Year
A Happy Chinese New Year to everyone. Or as the natives in this East Asian peninsula would have it: Sae hae buk mani padeuseo ( Read more... ) -
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After remaining dormant for the longest period, it's about time this blog got a mild kick in the rear.
Just how many unfinished entries sat idly by and watched as the world whirled on its axis?
Nothing grandiose, but it's another start. -
Dolor
I have known the inexorable sadness of pencils,
Neat in their boxes, dolor of pad and paper weight,
All the misery of manilla folders and mucilage,
Desolation in immaculate public places,
Lonely reception room, lavatory, switchboard,
The unalterable pathos of basin and pitcher,
Ritual of multigraph, paper-clip, comma,
Endless duplicaton of lives and ( Read more... ) -
On Writing (fragment)
Perhaps anyone who has found themselves itching to come up with a first oeuvre that would immortalize their existence knows how daunting a blank sheet of paper can be. On worse occasions, a keyboard and a blank screen isn't much of a help for the more technologically savvy ones either: the cursor, bored at your inability to make it squirt the ( Read more... ) -
In Manila, restless at 2am
It’s a far cry from a Ulysses, even a fainter one from Shakespeare, Elizabethan gobbledygook drooling from his poetry notwithstanding, but at least it’s a start. Determined to polish my corroding writing contraption into giving off a more brilliant luster, I shake off the 3am drowsy spell and fasten my butt here in front of the blank computer ( Read more... ) -
Identity in Solitude
"For solitude is sometimes best society." - John Milton ( Read more... ) -
Who Says Nice Guys Finish Last?
Often when I find myself inclined to sneak past the margins of Biblical caution, the following serves as a reminder of God's genuine concern. Philip Yancey's Rumors of Another World rips Biblical advice from its pages and into the plane of present reality as he outlines a study by a doctor concerning the physical benefits for all ye faithfuls ( Read more... ) -
Secrets to Greatness/My Quest for Excellence
THREE weeks ago, a Fortune magazine cover story read: "What It Takes to Be Great: Research now shows that the lack of natural talent is irrelevant to great success." With legs throbbing from an estimated mile's walk from DFA to MRT Taft Station (I was scrimping on money, okay?) and twenty or so minutes of negotiating my balance on an aching foot ( Read more... )