5 years ago i began this obsession with piercing most of my pinna and a couple of facial orifices: rook, double helix, tragus, nose, triple ear lobe. one time i even considered stretching my ear lobe...
i just want to focus next year. nothing more, nothing less. “A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them” i’m afraid i know what i want. i’...
in the days and weeks leading up to my first full marathon, i was admittedly nervous. this had to mean something. it had to mean that i was prepared, mentally and physically. i even injured my hip tw...
i give people second chances when they fuck up or are especially godawful to me. i choose to look past the error of their ways and i make up excuses for them, assuming “maybe s/he had a bad day...
1. bear garden bear 2. coffee cup drawing 3. dog my mother met at a restaurant 4. thinking of me when they were eating this 5. charles river on a fall morning
i ran outside this afternoon. i usually run in the evening if i go outside. otherwise, it’s the artificial chill of the gym for me. city brat. the weather was nice. it wasn’t sunny, neith...
woke up at 8, turned on Food Network, and lo and behold Giada was on, making heart shaped scones filled with strawberry jam. i’m not much of a sweet tooth, but what’s not to love? Strawbe...
i have posted this quote before, on this blog, somewhere. anyway, everyone and their moms posted it on facebook today via iPhone, iPad, Blackberry, Samsung Galaxy. but today, more than anything else,...
Teenage girls, please don’t worry about being super popular in high school, or being the best actress in high school, or the best athlete. Not only do people not care about any of that the second you...
You have stood before some landscape, which seems to embody what you have been looking for all your life; and then turned to the friend at your side who appears to be seeing what you saw—but at the f...
today i channeled my anxiety into my legs: i ran too far and too fast in the rain. i imagine this is what the hulk would’ve done, too, assuming rage was substituted with anxiety in this instanc...
Frances Bean Cobain by Hedi Slimane she has her father’s eyes.
at some point during the day everyday, part of me loathes materialism. and then i don’t. just like that.
ONCE I LIVED MY LIFE IN CAPITALS MY LIFE INTENSELY PHALLIC but now i am sadly lowercase with the occasional italic - Roger McGough this morning, i woke up with a heavy heart. the air outside was R...
i remember the reason why i bought every article in my wardrobe. when i take out certain blouses and t-shirts from the cavernous underbelly of my horribly designed wardrobe, i am brought back to a ha...
i apologise for my absence, but this is what i’ve been doing all summer: making oatmeal and reading magazines on my bed. well, i’ve only eaten oatmeal once this summer, but i did so as pa...
it’s been a rough week. here’s hoping it’ll get better.
i’ve been behind on posting, but i guess that’s a good thing since it means i am not at my computer all day? ha. anyhoo. yesterday, i was in kuala lumpur. i ran 10km with my mom, r and a ...
I know I look like I don’t give a damn but I do.
i read an article today in the NY Times about how one has to lose oneself before you can determine what you will become in life, and how it is not your wish and desires that shape your future, but in...
Sri Harmandir Sahib, also known as Sri Darbar Sahib or Golden Temple, (on account of its scenic beauty and golden coating for English speaking world), is named after Hari(God) the temple of God. The ...
i went away for two weeks to the sub-tropical sub-continent of india. then i spent the past one week so-called recuperating and getting my life back on track. when you go away to another country like...
i wrote a good deal for my paper today, but i don’t feel satisfied. this is because i don’t know when to stop. i don’t know when to stop reaching and when to stop writing. it seems ...
I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
She was so extraordinarily beautiful that I nearly laughed out loud. She was famine, fire, destruction and plague, the only true begetter. Her breasts were apocalyptic, they would topple empires befo...
i decided to try on a lulu look last night in the process of deciding what to wear for a party. hehe. but then the heat got to me and i thought i’d be all girly and shit and wear my only floral...
i will continue to vacillate between stony cynicism and surreal romanticism. i dreamt of Estelle Getty (the only one not in the picture I included, ironically) last night. she spoke and laughed at le...
lover s/s 11 images: knightcat i know loud colours are back (i’m sick of jil sander ss11 the way i was sick of miu miu ss10 this time last year), but this is one half of what i’m really i...
What’ll I do When you are far away And I am blue What’ll I do? What’ll I do? When I am wond’ring who Is kissing you What’ll I do? What’ll I do with just a photogra...
would you get off your seat if you saw a chubby lady whom you suspect might be pregnant walking towards you on the train, and risk destroying her self-esteem if she isn’t?
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