Somehow, this had escaped me before in my "Poetry, Please" book, but it's fabulous in its wisdom ( Read more... )

Upside to my first proper weekend in Bangalore: I don't think I've ever been this social. Neeraj came through with offering me a ride to the book group meetup this afternoon, which was loads of fun. My book review of "Half of a Yellow Sun" even wound up inspiring the theme for the next meetup, which is "read either HoaYS or Purple Hibiscus." ( Read more... )

So it's official. If the zombies attack, human civilization ends. The math proves it!
http://www.mathstat.uottawa.ca/%7Ersmith/Zombies.pdf

Between losing my wallet, dealing with a douchebag ex-Chinese teacher, and now the shooting at Wesleyan, this has been a horrendous week. Thank God it's Friday.

Off to Taipei to see Melly before she leaves for America, but SO happy with Governor Rell and really proud to be a CT voter right now.
http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/Gov-Signs-Same-Sex-Marriage-Law.html

:D

The look of stunned happiness causing these tears makes me get teary-eyed. Slowly, one state at a time, we're going to realize that denying people the right to create a life with the person they love (or even if you just have two old lady unmarried friends who have lived together for ages and want to have legal protection) is a thoroughly wrong, ( Read more... )

Because I totally did. I have written 8000+ words this weekend and amazingly do not have carpal tunnel yet. I have finished in time for dinner, it is not even a last minute dash. Two things to think about: my novel is not even halfway done yet, and I would never have imagined that my last 300 words would take place in a fictitious tapas ( Read more... )

Two hours ago, my mom sent me a text message to say that there were attacks happening in Bombay and that my aunt and her mother were stuck in a carpark at a movie theater (Inox) because there was gunfire outside. I couldn't go back to sleep so I came out and watched the news. Then Rohan asked if my cousin was related to Ashok Kamte, and when I ( Read more... )

Am I taking NaNoWriMo a little too seriously? I don't know what you're talking about :P. Still it is nice to see that Taiwan has risen up the wordcount charts to overtake Micronesia, but now we're stuck behind Key West. And Pakistan! I think my sense of Indian honor is at stake here, I must work harder! It's also gratifying that out of the 17 ( Read more... )

我的中文名字叫小梅。我教英文在三民國小。我喜歡台灣。我喜歡高雄。我有西個室友。我不喜歡蚊子。我喜歡吃牛肉麵，水教，和乾麵。

(My Chinese name is Xiaomei (little plum). I teach English at San Min Elementary. I like Taiwan. I like Kaohsiung. I have four roommates. I do not like mosquitos. I like to eat beef noodles, dumplings, and dry noodles).