the next best thing to being a hot young scandalous woman in new york city is being a hot young scandalous gay man. both compete for the title of 'most likely to get laid'.

and if i ever opened up a gay nightclub in the city, i'd name it 'the seventh circle' -- c/o dante's inferno, of course. it would be for gay men and sodomites only. because ( Read more... )

my bf graduated from columbia yesterday with a B.A. (second one!) in math and economics, magna cum laude. woo!

i don't usually do this kind of shit, but since these past few days have been so proud and festive and all, here's a public photo of us demonstrating our happy couple-ness.

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earlier this evening, after dinner, i said a very brief but sincere "thank you" to my mom, probably for the first time in my life. it came out as she was hurriedly entering my room, tackling 5 things all at once in her usual speedy, distracted way -- offering me a plate of chopped fruits while asking where my laundry was while hanging up clothes by ( Read more... )

school is taking up much of my time these days. i've officially dropped my arabic studies for chinese, and, in the first few weeks of learning this odd and musical-sounding language, i'm told my tone-pronounciation is the bomb. intro chinese feels a lot like being in the choir, actually. our professor even put up a sheet note on the board to direct ( Read more... )

i'm in love with this cut. best souvenir from japan, ever.


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LJ update: I am in Japan.
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i spent the last few days hanging out in tokyo by myself, leaving my japanese friend back in the suburbs to work on some grad school applications. i remember that i used to LOVE traveling to different cities by myself as a teenager, and so when i arrived in tokyo i thought it'd be the same kind of adventerous blast. ( Read more... )

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sCoRpiOngUiLe: happy belated.. your disappearance since the night of the second tells me you must have had one hell of a b-day
roastporkbun: haha
roastporkbun: well, i always disappear.
sCoRpiOngUiLe: haha this is true

i turned 22 some weeks back. a stable mind and the ability to appreciate things. life has never been better than this ( Read more... )

these are some of my vacation photos from boston/cambridge last weekend. we were there to check out a class at the harvard school of business, but more importanly to revel in general drunken vandalism and debauchery.

hello, everyone. meet my new boyfriend!


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Although I've been agnostic-atheist since Ash Wednesday of this year and have since stopped pondering about the nature of god and spirits and myths and the afterlife, there's still one thing I somehow can't get myself to do...and that's reading the scriptures while on the crapper. I picked up The Good Book on my way to do #2, but halfway through ( Read more... )