headlines today were mostly about an iraqi reporter who threw both his shoes at bush.

this was what happened:


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compared to the trips i've taken in the past, this should have been a piece of cake. i was dismayed to find myself dead tired at the end of the day. ah, well. at least it was a good day.

i.
soyst and i agreed upon this day for our meeting re: payment + catching up + hopefully seeing sabine. martin and i also agreed to meet so that i can return his ( Read more... )

i'm not a hardcore fan of the series. i never memorized what evolutions any single specie has, i never memorized all of their names, and i'm not even familiar with all of them. but that doesn't mean i don't pick some of the *very cutest* among them and covet them as pets.

for example, there's togepi, who can literally charm you weak. togepi already ( Read more... )

Neil Gaiman crafted this beautiful busy goth girl as Death, who greets us as a long-lost friend at the end of our days. However, i find myself stubbornly believing in Szymborska's Death, the one who is clumsy as clumsy gets, very messy, very impotent, and very awkward.

. - + - .

just tonight i received news about the death of a classmate from grade ( Read more... )

A Pity, We Were Such a Good Invention

They amputated
Your thighs off my hips.
As far as I'm concerned
They are all surgeons.  All of them.

They dismantled us
Each from the other.
As far as I'm concerned
They are all engineers.  All of them.

A pity.  We were such a good
And loving invention.
An aeroplane made from a man and wife.
Wings and everything.
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1) i have been rendered hypersensitive to terms of endearment. please, if you love me, DON'T call me love, sweetheart, angel, and beautiful. i cringe.

2) i am constantly yearning to get back the five days i marathoned the four books so i could get around to bashing it to bits.

3) i will be forever tainted with something so bad yet... so bad.

4) i am ( Read more... )

perhaps it is because we are too volatile, too passionate. the trappings of lust (or love) became no more than that - trappings. in the end, foundations are overwhelmed by the desire to protect the other, or the desire for self-preservation.

we, all of us who have tasted this elixir, know how it is to feel forest fires, and would never settle for ( Read more... )

(originally a jpeg file, but i wanted to transcribe it :D)

Taoism - Shit happens.

Zen Buddhism - What is the sound of shit happening?

Protestantism - Let shit happen to someone else.

New Age - Affirm shit doesn't happen to us.

Confucianism - Confucius says, "Shit happens."

Hinduism - This shit happened before.

Catholicism - If shit happens you deserve it.

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some things are just not meant to be remembered.

because i was bored, i visited at a website i made years back that showcased some of my (supposed) "poems," articles, and narratives (not yet a story, perhaps, but hey, they had a plot) and photos. i marveled at the way i made it (though it looks slightly off on firefox). it had codes i've forgotten.

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i'm a sticker away from getting the 2009 Starbucks planner. I've been an avid follower of the planner craze for five years. The first one was back in:

2004 (planner year: 2005). my first one was the very first one that Starbucks released, with the pretty postcards and the freebies. (i did a quick search on the internet, it seems that no one ( Read more... )