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Life Story Pt. 1
My brother and sister were 10 and 12, respectively, when I was born. There was a large age gap between us because my parents fled Vietnam following the war in 1979. My brother was less than a year and my sister had just turned 2. From what my parents tell me, they were on a boat for about a week before they reached Malaysia. When they got there, ( Read more... ) -
Writing stories about my life
For myself, more than anything else I guess. I've been having trouble sleeping again recently and haven't had an exercise in any sort of creativity for a while, so it could be productive. Was watching some youtube videos where youtubers draw their lives and felt like thinking through my own story. -
Lemons
When life gives you lemons...you take the lemons. And they find ways to sneak into those little cracks in your skin you didn't know you had, burning, stinging, sour, bitter ( Read more... ) -
More adventures in depression
Uh, I guess I'm out for the moment.
I reread this hyperboleandahalf post Depression Part Two and once again related to the feelings of feeling nothing. This has happened quite a few times now in graduate school, and I guess I'm only now realizing that I had been wandering through that wasteland for the past month and a half and am only now ( Read more... ) -
Just a random memory...
I don't know where to put this. It's something that's been on my mind for about a week now and I don't know where to put this voice, so I'll just leave it here ( Read more... ) -
I'm kinda homesick already
I'm not sure why I'm homesick. My life here isn't that much different than my life in Ann Arbor. I hang out with friends on weekends. I read manga and play games at home. I go to work every day. The food is great and I eat rice pretty much every day (which is the only thing I really truly can't live without food-wise). Everything is cheap because ( Read more... ) -
I guess I ought to start blogging
So I'm in Brazil--Sao Carlos to be exact--doing research for the next 2.5 months. So far no crazy stories, but I've been learning a lot about their culture and stuff so I'm writing myself a little blog here so I remember :D ( Read more... ) -
Well,
I guess I'll just bottle everything up and toss it into the lake then. -
I feel like I'm walking backwards
I've realized recently that I've been desperately clinging onto pieces of my childhood. I get really disappointed when I can't indulge in things I would look forward to every year, partly due to not having time, partly due to not having enough interest to outweigh my responsibilities, and partly due to not having friends with similar interests. I ( Read more... ) -
(Immature) Girl friends suck.
I've had a pretty shitty past couple of days mainly on account of one person--one person I thought I could trust as a close friend, whom I treated as such for a whole 2.5 years in grad school now, only to finally come to terms with this person actually just being an immature, spoiled little brat ( Read more... )