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Let's be friends!
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The things we fear the most have already happened to us
One of my favorite moments in music comes in the form of a Jeff Buckley song. Somewhere out there, a live version exists where in So Real, Jeff Buckley builds up to a crescendo and sings out passionately, almost wailingly, to the point where it ends in a screech, "Oh, that was so real! Oh, that was SOOOOOOO REEEEEEEEAAAL ( Read more... ) -
Where Are They Now?
So I was telling inklingfair about what the local LJ "scene" was like several years ago, and I couldn't help but pause for bouts of laughter. Thinking about all the LJ friending, unfriending, not-friending-back, deletions, revivals, migrations, multiple journals, secret journals, fake celebrity journals, the outings, the backstabbing, the gossip, the ( Read more... ) -
Zing
Within three years of its initial release, classifying any intense friendship as "totally a Harry-Met-Sally situation" had a recognizable meaning to everyone, regardless of whether or not they'd actually seen the movie. And that meaning remains clear and remarkably consistent: It implies that two platonic acquaintances are refusing to admit that ( Read more... ) -
Masks
"No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true."
--Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
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Slim Pickings
Last night's Chocolate Buffet at the Manila Peninsula was, in a word, underwhelming. The last time I went, back in 2004, my friends and I had so much fun, we tucked in truffles and macarons between paper towels and brought them home for our families to sample. (This time, we came Lock'n'Lock prepared!) After years of abstinence, Reitch, TJ, and I, ( Read more... ) -
Why Bother?
The iPhone 3G is debuting in the Philippines tomorrow. And it is NOT $200.
What a buzzkill. To paraphrase the Conchords, "That's too many 0s- that's ridiculous!" I don't want it anymore!
For 43,799 pesos, I could:- get a laptop with great specs
- travel
- invest in time deposit/stocks/bonds/mutual funds
- become an entrepreneur
- rent and furnish an ( Read more... )
- get a laptop with great specs
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metier: an area in which one excels; an occupation for which one is especially well suited.
bathos: the effect resulting from an unsucessful effort to achieve dignity or pathos; an unintentional dropping from the sublime to the ridiculous.
fantod: a state of nervous irritability.
lethologica: the inability to remember the ( Read more... ) -
Forging a relationship
I... I hate myself for wanting one, but I really, really want to get a friggin' iPhone 3GI could say it's because my 5-year-old phone containing 5-year-old messages is worn and beat-up and showing symptoms that it's about to die soon (which is true), or I could say it's because I lost my portable audio player and I'm starting to feel the pangs of ( Read more... ) -
False dichotomy
Can't I just have them both?