February 2012
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“As teachers, I believe that we must ask ourselves who is going to show these...”
– Jaime Escalante Math Program
(a search on how to be a better teacher)
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“You have your fans, I have my fans. Some day, your fans are going to work for my...”
– Alex, Modern Family
BBC News - 'Failure week' at top girls' school to... →
They should definitely do this in Taiwan.
January 2012
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Green Island, Pet Deers, and a Barf Party.
The adventure really began when we realized that 5 grown adults simply could not fit into the trunk of a Mitsubishi Zinger. But the Taiwanese, being a cost-efficient and problem-solving people, quickly fixed the situation so that the next 8 hours from Keelung to Taitung, Mico and I were comfortably nesting on a memory-foam mattress among a bed of luggage in the back. It was truly first-class.
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When you don’t like your job | Fibonacci Faith:... →
Finally cleaning out my mailbox after a long vacation, and this definitely caught my eye. Thanks Roomie (:
9:12am
Just finished reading “The Help” in one sitting.
It’s time for bed.
And yes, fabulous read.
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Lunar NY Vacation: stuffing chicken and purple...
First official day of vacation: sleep in. Chat with sister. Cook pumpkin pancakes and scrambled eggs for lover and myself.
Fail to wash face/brush teeth all day, and still looked fabulous. (=well-rested. and no eye snots.)
Cleaned ! Spring clean, in the tradition of Lunar New Year. For about 4 hours. But we broke in our new vacuum cleaner, purple little dirt devil, and it’s the...
Francis Drake, A Prayer (1577)
Disturb us, Lord, when We are too well pleased with ourselves When our dreams have come true Because we dreamed too little, When we arrived safely Because we sailed too close to the shore.
Disturb us, Lord, when With the abundance of things we possess We have lost our thirst For the Waters of Life; Having fallen in love with life, We have ceased to dream of eternity And in our efforts to build a...
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Seven Different Types of Single 35 Year Old Women →
7. The Zen Mistress
This incredibly flexible, vegan, Zen koan-quoting quasi-Buddhist is concentrating on her body instead of some man’s. From her incredibly complex yoga schedule, to her weekly early morning power-walk with her Peace Corps buddy, to the food scale on her counter, she is in control of her life. Her therapist and her acupuncturist agree that she has made huge strides since she hit...
My Mom Was Right About You →
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“Another way that you love your enemy is this: When the opportunity presents...”
– Martin Luther King Jr. (via firstbreath90)
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GREEN ISLAND for lunar new years !! →
Thrilled thrilled thrilled.
The Most Powerful Photos of 2011 →
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A girl in isolation for radiation screening looks at her dog through a window in Nihonmatsu, Japan on March 14.
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Mihag Gedi Farah, a seven-month-old child, is held by his mother in a field hospital of the International Rescue Committee in the town of Dadaab, Kenya. The baby has since made a full recovery.
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US gay service members march in a gay pride parade for the first...
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Rectal Tenesmus
THERE’S A WORD FOR IT: The feeling of incomplete defecation.
wowza.
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when it rains,
Life takes you on a journey, hustling and bustling and on every corner is a door and on every street is an ending but the road a beginning. Time moves and life shifts and things GO ON, but when everything stops, there is only silence.
I get it now, the ‘currents’ of life, the ‘turning’ of time, and it’s so easy to get swept away, to become just one of those...
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Reputation vs. Character →
4. When you work on your character, you’re working on the stuff that happens when nobody is looking. This is infinitely more difficult than misleading and deceiving people. But it’s the stuff that really sets you apart. It’s the stuff God rewards.
December 2011
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bizarre christmas.
Merry Christmas ! (: 2011 has been….The Year.
I’ve moved 8 times, got engaged to the man I love, and together we bid farewell to all we know and cherish to move overseas to Taiwan.
The weekend called our friends the McColls and Chez down from Taipei, and finally put our guest bedrooms to use. It was, to put it lightly, quite a bizarre Christmas ! The first where we are not...
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got up to pee,
and couldn’t sleep.
Started chit-chatting with my baby sister, and this is what she says to me:
baby: I learned. The pineal gland secretes melatonin and it only does in the dark. So when you go pee at night, don’t turn on the light. Memorize your apt now.
love it.
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Cafe Sofa: 沙發客 →
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11 Things to Know at 25(ish) →
deeshoo:
What you need to know to be a real adult.
11. Don’t Get Stuck
This is the thing: When you hit 28 or 30, everything begins to divide. You can see very clearly two kinds of people. On one side, people who have used their 20s to learn and grow, to find God and themselves and their dreams, people who know what works and what doesn’t, who have pushed through to become real live...
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Updates:
Went running in the rain with Stephen. I miss it so much, and I think we will do it much more often now.
Loving someone is hard, and it is an insanely humbling experience when you realize that the person you’re supposedly “loving” doesn’t feel loved all that much. Then you start to realize that all your ‘loving’ is actually a thinly veiled selfishness used...
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How to Leave Your Home Country and Travel the... →
ah la la.
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November 2011
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Confucius, my man.
The joys of teaching are endless, and so are the joys of seeing my father for a surprise dinner in the crowded city of Taipei.
I just wanted to say: Daddy I love you.
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One of the most challenging, and rewarding, aspects of teaching is realizing that in a classroom of 18 screaming second-graders, every single monster has a different need.
And discovering that need, finding out what type...
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Saboten Japanese Style Tonkatsu: 勝博殿 日式炸猪排 →
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“Is it because of the conflict that arises from your desperate need to pair-bond...”
– Sheldon, to Leonard. (The Big Bang Theory, S405)
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Bambino Bistro: 頒比諾義式小坊 →
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“As an artist, I am always trying to see better. I want to be surprised and...”
– The Write Practice
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Confession: I, of my own free will, walked into a theater today and purchased, with real money, a ticket to watch Twilight: Breaking Dawn, Part 1.
And. (Can I say this ?)
It was quite good fun.
Much better than the book.
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Raman Bar: 拉麵吧 →
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A post by a good great friend, an uncompromising and intensely passionate man.
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If you commit to be on someone’s side, be there no matter what. And, a thousandfold, be there, steady, when times are tough and you are tested.
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I just wish things were better. I wish people were kinder. I wish food didn’t spoil. I wish Sarah Palin was never picked to be McCain’s...
“How else express glory in the presence of eternity, if not by the silence of...”
– Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel