tags: reminiscing

Check it out. I haven't written in this journal for tow months. No better time but now. I'm thinking much too much again, but I suppose that is why I am writing: to rid myself (temporarily) of this madness. I guess I'm taking a mental shit….

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2000

November

2000 Nov 9

aswang

Why I chose this name

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2001

January

2001 Jan 4

A Space Odyssey

My mind is obviously on another planet right now. The wonderful world of tyramine and other sympathomimetics. Michelle and Rodel broke up!

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2001 Jan 5

Music makes the people come together

I can’t live without aural stimulation. Why do I like “Gladiator” so much?

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2001 Jan 15

Calm

Am I nothing but a clockwork orange? Louis-Ferdinand Céline. Calvin and Hobbes and the Myth of Sisyphus.

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February

2001 Feb 15

Sunlight and the Ocean

Santa Monica, Venice, high school memories, and my daily requirement of sunlight.

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August

2001 Aug 3

Anno 3 in Exilio (An Acute Bout of Homesickness)

Where in the hell did this come from. Some random eruptions from the subconscious.

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2002

January

2002 Jan 25

Commando

Caveat: Zippers really chafe.

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November

2002 Nov 4

Annum III in Exilio (What the Hell Am I Doing with My Life?)

Oh, no. Not again. (Very famous last words attributed to a bowl of petunias which I will quote again and again incessantly.)

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2007

September

2007 Sep 5

no desire

why this dream now,
disinterring the past
I thought I had buried it deep
buried it well

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2007 Sep 30

the roots "complexity"

This song seems curiously apt with regards to the thoughts flowing through my head in the last 48 hours or so. This song actually reminds me of those days when the evil resident was raping my soul and somehow it ties everything together and closes the loop.

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2015

April

2015 Apr 28

Random Glimpses of the Future?

A prediction from 2001 that now appears to be a forecast of 2014: “…it’s some fairy-tale of the future—someone to have kids with, to grow old with, to buy a house with, to go on vacations to Hawaii or Puerto Vallarta with.”

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July

2015 Jul 22

Rediscovered Wisdom (or Madness)

It's been four(!) months since I started migrating my 14+ year old blog to a new domain and to a new blog engine and I am entertained by [some of the things I've forgotten][2]:

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2015 Jul 24

Smiling Makes You Happy

So I was reading this old blog post that I wrote after being post-call on my internal medicine rotation during my M3 year in med school and I mention this study where they concluded that forcing yourself to smile can actually make you happy.

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