Category: Life
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History: Great Speeches of the 20th Century
First, I apologize (well, not really) for inflicting my geekiness onto any unsuspecting reader. Second, my reference for this post -yes, I have a reference– is “The Penguin Book of Twentieth-Century Speeches”, edited by Brian MacArthur. Third, my almost-excuse is the fact that I wrote all of this down in my journal last March 2012.…
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Little Wonderlands
first I am officially a graduate (though I obviously am not free of certain clutches). I’d like to thank my mom (who has spent and will spend [Singapore, darling, we’ll see each other soon] a disproportionate amount for my graduation, my sister (who has assigned herself a #StageAte, which is true), my brother (who is…
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Bookstore Mania and other worries
It’s Friday! The last few days have been very busy. This sentence is normally a staple in my pseudo-vocabulary, but this time it’s quite the anomaly. I’m graduating tomorrow, and supposedly, my life should be stress free as an almost graduate. We’ve been practicing movement and songs only. I, however, have more than just practices…
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Photography: Arch
Our Visual Arts Elective has officially ended. While I don’t think I became a brilliant, or even remotely good, photographer, at the very least I can now hold and use a DSLR without killing it by pushing or turning a button. Yeah.
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Poetry (Spoken Word): Rebirth of a Dream
Rebirth of a Dream When I was younger, there was this one time When I dreamed of being a rockstar, a rebel, a rocker, a hedonist a ‘whatever-ist’ But that dream I buried deep, deep down All the way to the depths of my heart Because no one says go, not a word, not even…
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Books: Room by Emma Donoghue
It’s amazing. I am not kidding anyone. Read it. Read it NOW. Title: Room Author: Emma Donoghue Book Summary: The summary published with the book was very poignant; it reads, “To five-year-old Jack, Room is the world. It’s where he was born, it’s where he and his Ma eat and sleep and play and learn. At night,…
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Prose: the flight of angels//Opinion: On Sunday Masses.
WARNING: I don’t seem to know how to make short posts. Be warned of the coming 1700 odd words. the flight of angels He holds in each of his many hands the image of a bird’s egg, large and small and unique. He nurtures them; his fingers, the least of which holds the strength of the…
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Photography: My Amateur Foray
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