tags: light
2002
February
- 2002 Feb 26
- For Want of a Filipino Restaurant
Activism in all shapes and forms. Remembering history is definitely one of them.
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March
- 2002 Mar 1
- And Yet, I Am Surprised
I don’t know. Maybe I’m just an idiot.
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- Acute Distress
Don’t give up? Please don’t patronize me.
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April
- 2002 Apr 1
- I Don't Want to Feel This Way Forever
OK I give up! Someone untie me!
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May
- 2002 May 18
- but now what?
I know I was supposed to learn something from this, but I can’t for the life of me figure out exactly what.
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June
- 2002 Jun 11
- Blowing Chunks
Even more fear and loathing in Las Vegas.
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- 2002 Jun 27
- Typical Scenario
Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again
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July
- 2002 Jul 6
- A Thin Line
Between entertainment and trauma.
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2003
July
- 2003 Jul 11
- Jesus, What A Mind Job
Why do I feel like I am once again, in the calm before the storm? I suppose I could be paranoid.
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2007
March
- 2007 Mar 24
- a decade’s worth of bittersweet memories
I ended up watching two out of the five bands playing at Lolopop, which featured Filipino American musicians. The one that drew me (and the only one I recognized) was Julie Plug which I blithely described to Andy as a girl-fronted alterna-pop band (which was apparently the fad in the late ‘90’s) I first heard about them in the waning years of my college career, introduced by Manny. Their first CD ”Starmaker” rapidly spread virally amongst my friends and there are quite a few memories attached to some of their songs (in particular ”Sometime in June”) We watched a couple of shows, the last of which was in SF in 1998 after we all graduated.
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September
- 2007 Sep 27
- last thoughts of the day
My mind has been everywhere today. I suppose one of the good things about getting older is that there is a wider field for my brain to wander. I could probably keep myself usefully amused for several days just letting my thoughts meander.
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2008
April
- 2008 Apr 8
- inspiration and sacrifice
So talking to S has inspired me. And reminded me of all the things that I've given up to follow this path that I'm on.
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- trying to characterize what makes me sick
The irony is, I'm terrible with details. I can't figure out the right threshold, the right setting. Either I actively ignore the minutiae and pretend they don't exist at all, or I end up mired in the trivial, and I end up taking hours when it should've taken minutes, and every task becomes a variation of Zeno's Paradox, getting halfway there, then halfway again, then halfway again of that, but still no closer to the finish line. This leaves me extraordinarily tired and frustrated, with a bunch of half-finished or maybe three-quarters finished projects lying around.
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May
- 2008 May 6
- color me frustrated
I first found this test (or a variation of it) back in 2002 while I was in the throes of studying for Step 1 of the USMLE and dealing with the fact that E didn't like me in That Way™. I'm not sure if this test is even vaguely validated by any sort of study, but it's entertaining nonetheless. I can already tell that it's highly susceptible to the Forer effect, but whatever. You can find meaning wherever you want to. That's what the human brain does, after all.
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