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It's been a harrowing semester so far.  Really, at some point I thought, "This will never end."  Maybe hell month is never meant to end at this point in college?


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The Same Old Figurative

by Joel M. Toledo


Yes, the world is strange, riddled with difficult sciences
and random magic. But there are compensations, things we do
perceive: the high cries and erratic spirals of sparrows,
the sky gray and now giving in to the regular rain.
Still we insist on meaning, that common consolation
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The advantage of living in the tropics is that the humid air allows Southeast Asian women to retain youthful, supple skin much, much longer than their European counterparts.

The downside is that the climate will not permit us to look as chic as this...


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I'm having stomach problems and back on antibiotics again.  But it's not as bad as the food poisoning I had last October 5 from those thrice-damned oysters.  Oh yeah, I also am temporarily lactose intolerant.  I ended up vomiting milk solids the day I got sick.  Serves me right for drinking too much.

I'm not sure what exactly caused this new bug but ( Read more... )

(Image-heavy post ahead!)

I only tackled 16 units this semester but it left me feeling more drained than usual.  No, at this stage it's not the number of units that counts anymore but the combination of subjects and teachers involved.  Had Santa for design and deadlines that were set earlier than the rest of the batch.  The CCP (final) plate ( Read more... )

Found these at Urban Archaeology.  And, wow... I HAVE to own one BOTH of these.


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(Another one I forgot to post.)

Cloths of Heaven by William Butler Yeats ( Read more... )

(I don't care much for love poems, save for a select few.)

UNENDING LOVE by Rabindranath Tagore ( Read more... )

Is that when the deadlines arrive, they pour from the sky (or rather, the profs' brains) like Milenyo.  Wait, Milenyo is an exaggeration because I only have 16 units.  After all the plates have been submitted, and long exams answered, what follows are long stretches of boredom.  Most of the time I'm tulala, looking for ways to amuse myself.  The ( Read more... )