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yamanakako， japan | 山中湖 ，日本

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(1) an ang pow in Malaysia (2) a new job (3) conferred a new degree (4) myself in various places with new colleagues for work or leisure In other news, while coping with the steep learning curve in this new phase of life, I am also in search of the 'work-life balance' that our local pro-family enthusiasts social discourse is droning on about. So it isn't as rosy a picture as all the

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"I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it's just too much. The current's too strong. They've got to let go, drift apart. That's how it is with us. It's a shame, Kath, because we've loved each other all our lives. But in the end, we

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Being in a SMC ward, I was spared the agony of mulling over a buy-1-get-4-free deal that is easily read as an embarrassing local political weapon designed to buttress a single-party domination. And it's kind of like cable TV. I'm happy to pay only for Channel A, but I must pay for a bundle of Channel A and other channels that I will not be watching. Because that's how they are packaged and sold,

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planned.

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to a brand new stage in the life course.

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and enjoyed six eventful days scooting in and between cities, towns and villages in this part of Malaysia:two more to follow.

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"O btw what irks me most is, I'm still getting thinner but no one ever says, good, you're so much healthier [BMI used to be like 30]. Everyone says, omg, you look so much prettier."

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anyone moderately familiar with the rigour of composition will not need to be told the story in detail; how he wrote it and it seemed good; read and it seemed vile; corrected and tore up; cut out; put in; was in ecstasy; in despair; had his good nights and bad mornings; snatched at ideas and lost them; saw his book plain before him and it vanished...now cried; now laughed; vacillated between this

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Penny: I’m a Sagittarius, which probably tells you way more than you need to know.Sheldon: Yes, it tells us that you participate in the mass cultural delusion that the sun’s apparent position relative to arbitrarily defined constellations at the time of your birth somehow affects your personality.The Big Bang Theory S1E1

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and new vantage points to see Singapore.I've had the privilege to survey several large cities from above, and this time my emotions flowed in quite exceptional directions as I stood high up in a sky garden resembling a long spaceship resting awkwardly above three shiny hotel buildings to witness the very city I'm born and raised in.So this, I thought as I gazed at the shimmering lights, is the

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愿难了。

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The one thing puzzling me this morning: Why mourn the loss of something important when all along (a fictional) you were already conscious of how your decisions could lead to such an outcome? I suggest it's more fulfilling to cry over the opportunities you would never have again to rethink your options. Then, move on.

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This year I found the cuddliest christmas tree ever. Happy holidays!

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labouring on powerpoint slides for Thursday in a warm night like this, I don't know why I keep thinking that everything could have been easier two years ago. I think the universe has a cruel sense of irony, and tonight I feel it strongest.

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"Q: Which is worse? Ignorance or apathy? A: I don't know and I don't care."

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So after spinning through a rough week, I rest in knowing I have an empathic family to update and a solid group of understanding individuals I deem friends to ruminate or comiserate with. Call this social support, social network or even social capital. Whatever its name, it certainly restores the requisite sanity for moving on steadily in a speed-obsessed society that can sometimes also be very

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Simple comforting words from a friend Joyce: we all try our best, and hope that people understand.

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hold the camera captureto disclosedetailsin realityredefininglife, reliving.

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Teacher: Algebra forces your mind to solve problems logically. It's one of the only perfect sciences...Student interrupts: You think the world runs on logic? Come on, open your eyes!

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or not? Whatever the answer is, I can't wait to wrap 2010 up and trash it somewhere in what some would call 'the shady past'. It's been the most bizzare (was going to use 'challenging' but I think 'bizzare' better entails the dimensions of weirdness that came with all the events) year of the decade where the most number of uncertainties prevailed in the most uninspiring ways. There are 56 more

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If you the Singaporean think it's justifiable to complain about the characterlessness of public housing estates in this country, or if you are free from the daily post-work-in-city-centre 'flight to suburbs' and thus are unable to fathom how these 'distant' public housing estates can have any appeal other than cost, I would be inclined to think you lack the eye for detail and nuance that Horst

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...but the recent feedback urging me to rethink parts of my dissertation means I am still boiling in the pressure cooker and getting shrouded in the recent haze instead of marveling at the autumn foliage as planned.

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So one late and scorching morning I was drinking HOT tea on the front porch of someone's house in santa monica after being told (by the same someone) that it would cool me down more effectively than any iced beverage. How true was that? I didn't get to find out, because when I was done, we headed straight for ice-cream at the beach. I also wasn't bugged enough to test this claim until minutes ago

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of a spotless street.nuremberg, may 2009a very brief stint in bavaria.

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I *thought* some works did make me feel lost and somewhat consumed by 'meaninglessness', and therefore, using Haruki Murakami's oeuvre as an example, I told a friend - who is also a passionate graduate student in English literature - about that sense of loss and wondered aloud if it was doing me any 'good'. Here's what she had to say:I have to say I disagree with looking at books like that. I

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is taking its toll on my well-being,because it never seems to end.

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reality is not destiny; it is a challenge.edward galeano.

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you live on in our hearts and in our memories.

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view from behind the wheel, CA.

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picture by Jason,taken during his exchange year at Wisconsin-Madison, 2006

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Looking for some fancy quotes to hang in the space between the title and text of your academic critique of authoritarianism? Here's a suggestion.'When I use a word', Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less'.'The question is', said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things'.'The question is', said Humpty

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just like how it is, at the moment.

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Marx is right about bourgeoisie ideology, but wrong about not subjecting his beliefs by saying they too are ideological. Karl Mannheim argued this. Indeed, Marx's own beliefs are as ideological as the bourgeoisie's. What's your belief?

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"i was on the train from kyoto to osaka, and there was this senior japanese sitting next to me. he did something very unusual for a japanese: talking to a stranger.he asked with his very little english where i am from. and when i replied Italyhe was very surprised and said very loud: OH, ITARIA!then, he started to think on what to say next, and what he came out with was, in summary = itaria +

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tijuana, méxico, 2008

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still horrified by stories detailing the torture of underperforming national athletes by the sadistic Uday Hussein, I now wonder whether a similar fate awaits the north Korean team back home following the merciless crush by Portugal. Maybe they should all defect to the spectators after their match with Ivory Coast.

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Spent some time feeding my curiosity in North Korea's presence in the world cup and found out that far from being isolated from the world like the rest of their countrymen, they'd been training in various countries and also played against their southern counterparts in 2008 in Seoul. Apart from that, it was also fun(ny) to read about the French drama revolving around their poor performance this

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revisiting old photo albums.once upon a time, or 1986and now, I'm all that she has.She will be seeing this, so I will also say it here: I love you, Mum.

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In recent years, some of my friends gave me books as presents. These are not gifts for any special occasion. Just "a book for you" on an otherwise ordinary day. I can't be thankful enough. It already warms me that someone is thinking of me at a bookstore or during a search for books on the internet. Nothing like receiving and curling up with a book that is thoughtfully meant as a read for me.

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I switched to using an iPhone 3GS and smoothly transitioned to the fast-paced world of smartphone communication. I still don't resonate with the gripes of many iPhone 3GS users. That means I can deal with not being able to multi-task; I can overlook not having a facetime chat function; I depend on my own systematic arrangement of my applications for quick access without the need for folders; I

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Keeping up with the news on Thailand's internal bleeding from a plethora of sources (anti-red shirts, pro-yellow, pro-Abhisit, anti-Thaksin, neutral-but-somewhat-sympathetic to both reds and Abhisit, etc.) made me both mad and sad. Its political history has never been smooth, and right now the country is experiencing yet another blow at the cost of human lives, hardened social and cultural

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is the silver lining?

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Sometimes I laugh out loud at the reviews at hungrygowhere, because there is no way a non-Singaporean can ever comprehend the largely English-Singlish blend in some of them. I'm not refering to reviews written in familiar Singaporean bad English (lousy grammar and expressions in Chinese syntax). I just find it funny to read those articulated well in English and yet are interspersed with

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rocking the ballad fanatics in Thailand of late.

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No amount of news-reading can beat being there physically, even for a short while, seeing the songs- and speeches-filled rallies of the various groups of protestors with different agendas. The area around Siam sky train station is firmly occupied by the red-shirt protestors, leading to the nightmarish prolonged closure of Siam Paragon, Central World, Gaysorn and all the major high-end

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is what I am.

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and you are playing checkers.

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when all you haveis who you are.

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urban routine.

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Transcendence: a specifically European disease.- Gilles Deleuze and Félix GuattariA Thousand Plateaus,Capitalism and Schizophrenia

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Because place doesn't only unite. It also divides.

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it poured.

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Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood is coming to the silver screen this year. Hopefully it delivers, just like the novel does. Sputnik Sweetheart, I hope you're next.

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with hipstamatic on my phone.boon lay bus interchange (2006-2009), singapore16 march 2010

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an excerpt of an example in Edward Leamer's 'Let's Take the Con out of Econometrics' (1982, American Economic Review):Methodology, like sex, is better demonstrated than discussed, though often better anticipated than experienced. Accordingly, let me give you an example of what all this ranting and raving is about. I trust you will find it even better in the experience than in the anticipation. A

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praguemay 2009

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when it emphatically situates a personal story in the existing pool of literature on bioethics and social inquiry of hospital ICUs, and articulates powerfully enough to raise searching insights into bioethics while simultaneously evoking much of my empathy and sympathy.Two years ago, my brother-in-law was injured in a catastrophic industrial accident, which left him with second and third degree

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and unknown to autumnwe live in the tropicsand laze by the poolas the sun blazes downall year round.

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singapore. 03 march 2010. 6.15pm

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because in all the four times I called your 24-hour technical helpdesk, you got me navigating through a million options with the phone buttons, then put me on hold for ages before a recorded voice abruptly terminated the call again due to unusually 'heavy traffic'. At the very least, even if you can't really 'help' me instantly, do answer your calls or publish somewhere on your site to explain

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is that people who can appreciate multiple perspectives in sociological and pyschological knowledge have also engaged antagonistically in classic victim blaming - seeing the problem(s) inherent in blameworthy victims and more often than not, nowhere else. Educated much?

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Ever gone all 'unbelievable' after episodes of unique homes and the likes? Unhappy hipsters parodies these dwells that swell.

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Four years ago, my army friends and I enjoyed a steamboat (hot pot) dinner at one of our apartments during the chinese new year period. It then became a yearly affair. This year, I was happy to host the tradition.

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busy.

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...you say, go slowand I fall behind.

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is a thing of the past.For now.

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less than 30 days into the year and I'm already swarmed with unprecedented demands from various commitments - completing the thesis, reviewing an academic book, gym visits thrice a week, having meals with mum regularly, cutting down on carbs, pounding on the greens, writing an unrelated-to-thesis essay for an irrelevant-to-thesis conference, sustaining enthusiasm in what I'm teaching this

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singapore. 24 January 2010. 6.05pm"The city lives forever unfixed, always in the making, never fully achieved..."p. 224 in D. Massey, 1997. Spatial Disruptions. In Golding S. Editor. The Eight Technologies of Otherness. London: Routledge.

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Shadow, who had not been in San Francisco since he was a boy, who had only seen it since then as a background to movies, was astonished at how familiar it was, how colorful and unique the wooden houses, how steep the hills, how very much it didnt feel like anywhere else. "It's almost hard to believe that this is in the same country as Lakeside," he said. Wednesday glared at him. Then he said, "

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I won't forget my love for diners in the US, especially not when I once wrote nostalgically about them, or when a good friend just mailed me a pictorial evidence of myself exiting an unforgettably classic one in San Anselmo looking (and feeling, of course) like a bloated troll.

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miss you muchos!

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all eyes on the prize.

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on the mountains in the undulating middle of Taiwan.navigation, exercise long stridesispec aslc, 2002

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Remembering a conversation in LA: me: hey, I’ll be heading to ojai next monday. will be there for a week. k: a whole week? you do know that place has like, only 3000 households? me: exactly. -----and a full week I stayed.It included cycling a whole morning to Ventura and lunching at its long wooden pier (featured in one of my fav movies Little Miss Sunshine), sauntering in pretty Santa

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why I so often wish I could get out of here for a while. My answer simply boils down to one word. People.

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