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NYC 4: Fed By the Jews

August 8, 2010 eating out

I once wrote in a college application that I wanted to study Judaism. It wasn’t a ploy to make myself more interesting and diverse to the college administrators; I really was (and am) very interested in Judaism and Jewish history. I would have liked to take classes on Judaism in college, except with my double-minor [...]

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Oh My Word

July 30, 2010 family

Unless you’re living in an island by yourself, and unless there is something seriously wrong with you, you’re bound to say many, many words to the people around you. Actually, it doesn’t just have to be vocal. In this digital age, we’re sending out tens of thousands of words a day to people at any [...]

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I Like Misery, Yes I Do

July 28, 2010 God

It’s been almost a month since I’ve been back home to Northern Virginia. And throughout that period, I’ve been up and down in a funk. To be honest, even after I had written that post about being in a funk, it still took me quite awhile to break myself out of opaque, leaden bubble of [...]

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Plastic Beauty on the Wall…Who Is the Fakest of Them All?

June 27, 2010 eating out

When you walk down the streets of Korea, you’re not just going to the grocery store, or to the bank. You’re making a fashion statement. Or more precisely, you’re joining the fashion statement of the season. My mother confiscated my flip-flops. Apparently it’s a social disgrace to walk around in “2 for $5” Old Navy [...]

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Stuffed, Happy, and Bored in Incheon

May 14, 2010 eating out

1. When it comes to overnight flights… …It is worth paying the extra money for business class on long flights, just to feel “rich”, if only for that one 13-hour long flight… …You just want to slurp delicious shrimp wonton noodles, despite the fact that your seat partner is a prissy old business man who [...]

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Blown Away. But Still Here.

May 12, 2010 Uncategorized

I am. Blown. Away. By all your sincere and empathetic responses to my last post. To be honest, my finger quivered a bit before I hit the “publish” button. I don’t know what I was nervous about: Exposing an image of myself when I was soulless? Sounding too evangelical? Being potentially triggering? But now, I’m [...]

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