February 2012
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a few horrible literary pick-up lines.
(there’s some filipino, but i’m pretty sure you’ll get the context.)
miss, si karen hesse ka ba? kasà you just took my heart out of the dust.
miss, si alfred bester ka ba? kasà whenever and wherever i’m with you, it’s as if the stars are our destination.
miss, si lemony snicket ka ba? because i think our getting to know each other is anything but a bad beginning.
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hint: it's not gwyneth paltrow's decapitated head.
so i have a bunch of spinster septuagenarian (or octogenarian?) great-aunts living in new jersey (if i get shipped there, it’s basically the plot of james and the giant peach just waiting to happen) and, like most loyal filipinos living abroad, they send huge-ass balikbayan boxes over here every so often with kitchy little things, overly patriotic american things, calendars of the US olympic...
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“you don’t settle for the good girl. you settle for the interesting girl.”
– ma’am tope, my cl 40 prof, on cao xuequin’s dream of the red chamber.
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thepurpleletter asked: Might I suggest the band Newvillager? Also, did you like Norwegian Wood? Because I know he's supposed to be this whole ~hipster phenom~ but his style just seems kind of amateurish to me...
January 2012
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Watchfeist - the bad in each other
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a few relevant things from my short-lived reading...
(page 50)
there was something strange about naoko’s becoming twenty. i felt as if the only thing that made sense, whether for naoko or for me, was to keep going back and forth between eighteen and nineteen. after eighteen would come nineteen, and after nineteen, eighteen. of course. but she turned twenty. and in the fall, i would do the same. only the dead stay seventeen forever.
(page...
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never judge a blog by its headers
by now you’re probably thinking i’m from indonesia.
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