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Foodbuzz Festival 2010: It Is Done

November 11, 2010 blog meet-up

It is done. I finally just finished my 10-page research paper on the Santa Clara River Watershed. Including plotting my own graphs, googling the best maps and downloading the stream flow data. Fun, jazz, whoopee! Not. To be honest, I hated every minute of it. Well, except for one part: the part when I wrote [...]

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My Parents’ Vacation

August 13, 2010 eating out

When a group of people travel together, you’re bound to have to make some compromises. Most likely, you’re gonna want to travel with people who share the same interests as you, but when you’re stuck traveling with family…well, God bless them, but sometimes, you just can’t get along. Especially when you all have different ideas [...]

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New York City: We Clicked

August 3, 2010 blog meet-up

God has the most amazing, perfect timing. Just when I was starting to feel stifled in my home in Northern Virginia…just when I was starting to feel a bit lonely…just when I was starting to feel insignificant and unconfident…just when I was getting a bit annoyed by my lack of privacy…God sends me to New [...]

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It’s a Man Bite Man World

July 21, 2010 God

I recently got into a little friendly debate with my friend Jane. She once wrote on her facebook update: “People I will never understand: dog haters, people who don’t like swimming, and murderers.” I had to reply immediately: “I’m a dog-hater. I also don’t like swimming. I’m not a murderer though…forgive me?” Now, the last [...]

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Goodbye For Real

July 12, 2010 My story

This will be my last post on Singapore. Okay, writing that made me pause for a long time. I’ve been staring at that sentence for many minutes, letting it sink in, my heart aching. I’ve only left Singapore about a month ago, but somehow it feels like…years. As if it’s a past distant dream, to [...]

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Eloquence is Overrated

June 16, 2010 eating out

My throat is better now! I can’t belt out a note yet (actually, I never could) but I can actually talk! I can’t tell you how relieved I am to be able to even say “Need to pee, NOW!” I’ve been wondering why God took my voice away, just in time for the church retreat. [...]

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