I Love

Eggs. I can probably eat a dozen a day.

October 2003

If a man says to you, "Cheer up love, it might never happen,"

tell him it has happened, and do not force yourself to smile.

Smiling is not a duty, but a freedom. It's up to you now:

you are liberated from the expectations and conformities of youth.

-- Justine Picardie

Enough!

I Am Thankful For:

(I know it's a long time away from Thanksgiving but I thought I'd get a head start and do this in June because I truly have a lot appreciate.)

1. God, because I couldn't have accomplished what I have without His grace and blessings.

2. A very loving, understanding and supportive family-- Mom, Grandpa, Dad, Brother, Aunts, Uncles... and of course, my PURPIEZZ!

3. My [hilarious] best friends I've grown up with; the ones that helped me move past my sad times so I can smile and celebrate my happy ones.

4. A job I LOVE, in an excellent company whose culture I fit in with.

5. A business degree. Often times, I hated dealing with so many pretentious wannabe brokers and i bankers, but I'm glad I chose to stick it through. I'm even more grateful I made it out alive. (Mind you, despite the stress and CORE, SMG did have the most extravagant class day in BU).

6. Being able to afford things that I want. My spending habits are quite outrageous but they've also been supported to a reasonable extent by my parents who understand retail therapy. I'm forever in debt to them, literally and figuratively speaking.

6A. An iPhone and a Viao laptop. Not quite sure what I'd do without them. NOT THAT APPRECIATIVE FOR MACs THO. SORRY.
6B. My toys.

7. All my experiences, especially the sucky ones because they do make me stronger. I'm also really grateful for the fact that I haven't become all that cynical after them.

8. The awesome people I meet everyday and the relationships I am able to build with them.

And finally,

9. The Justin Bieber tickets I'm about to purchase with my credit card (which is also the only card that will give me preferential treatment to this show)... as soon as I make sure my 15 y.o. cousin will come with me.

9A. The 3 summer days off that doesn't count against the allotted personal days my work has granted me.

(via Yeefers who had a Twitter account but cancelled it so I can't link it to her anymore.)

Corps

(via Luxirare)

Quiz

For years now, I've been an serious follower of fashion and design. I love the asymmetrical cuts, lines, and all things "pretty"... but sometimes, things get too far.

I'd like to make it absolutely clear that despite my love for the arts, I want to have nothing to do with the pompous "fashion connoisseurs" out there that will never hesitate to initiate a "fashion-off". Everyone can study fashion history and memorize the previous CCOs of all existing fashion house but that doesn't mean everyone has style. A piece can look so ordinary but really not be because there's beauty in the details. It's really a modest piece. And modesty is how the fashion world should be.

Snaps for anyone that has balls to speak up to the obnoxious Ms. Wintour. LEON VERRES??

Umeshu

The evening she had lit a bonfire in the yard and burned all of the letters from Kagoshima. She burned the family photographs and the three silk kimonos she had brought over with her nineteen years ago from Japan. She burned the records of Japanese opera. She ripped up the flag of the rising sun. She smashed the tea set and the Imari dishes and the framed portrait of the boy's uncle, who had once been a general in the Emperor's army. She smashed the abacus and tossed it into the flames. "From now on," she said, "we're counting on our fingers."

The next day, for the first time ever, she sent the boy and his sister to school with peanut butter and jelly sandwiches in their lunch pails. "No more rice balls", she said. "And if anyone asks, you're Chinese"

"And I", said the girl, "am the Queen of Spain."

"In your dreams," said the boy

"In my dreams," said the girl, "I am the King." (Otsuka 75)

The boy put on a coat and stared at his reflection in the broken mirror. His hair was long and uncombed and his face was dark brown from the sun. The coat hung down past his knees. He narrowed his eyes and stuck out his two front teeth.

I predge arreigiance to the frag...

Whatsamalla, Shorty?

Solly. So so solly.

He poked his thumb through a hole in the wool.

"Moths," she said.

"Try bullets," said the girl.

Their mother pulled out a needle and a spool of black Boilfast thread. She pulled out a thimble.

"Let's have a look," she said. (Otsuka 89)

Excerpts from When the Emperor Was Divine