one drop of rain that’s me and all the rest is you
Zulkifli Mohamad Nor, 42, cries in his home in Penang after describing how tsunami waves killed five of his seven children in Pasir Panjang, a popular vacation spot in Penang.
There are now literally millions of stories like this one.
Several weblogs have listed links you […]

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the eye of the storm meets the eye of the mind, sending it spinning
At the gas station late this afternoon, I swiped my debit card at the gas pump and shoved the nozzle into my car to fill up the tank. I was in the process of unlocking the doors to wait inside my car, […]

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from Ray Bradbury’s The Beggar on O’Connell Bridge
The snow was falling fast now, erasing the lamps and the statues in the shadows of the lamps below.
“How do you tell the difference between them?” I asked. “How can you tell which is honest, which isn’t?”
“The fact is,” said the manager quietly, “you can’t. There’s no difference […]

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and who is he, mr. rand mcnally?
About a week after we returned from our Thanksgiving break roadtrip to Santa Barbara, my father remarked, “You know, I think we should go on a trip again soon.”
“Oh?” I said. “Are the nomadic tendencies kicking in again?”
“Not really,” he admitted sheepishly, “It’s just that I kinda liked your […]

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we are hella paranoid, yes we are
I could almost swear that the girl who cashed my paycheck for me at the Bank of America in my hometown yesterday morning waved, “Bye, Yaz!” to me as I turned away from her counter on my way out. Neither her name nor her face were even vaguely familiar. […]

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clean up on aisle three
I love Safeway. I love it so much that I have no qualms about linking my favorite grocery store in a weblog post. One of the things I love about the place is that it takes exactly four minutes to get there. In case you didn’t know already, I have grocery […]

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Guest post by The Lovely L Lady, 12/2004
we missed u mucho.
yea i m at it again, eventhough i warned yasminay that with all these fake updates she would not be up for blog awards anymore- she didnt seem to care about that and i value life so i thought i could compromise the quality of […]

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i’ve been sailing around so long
Okay.
So the final exams are over.
And the term papers are over, too.
(The last of the latter was supposed to be 4-5 pages and turned out to be 9 or so; skillful use of 1.5-spacing instead of double-spacing, and lots of pseudo-subtle margin adjustment, did the trick, I think. Shhh, don’t […]

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vat dis is?
Anyone who knows me is well aware of the fact that I’m a total loser when it comes to gracefully accepting compliments. Seriously, I absolutely suck at it. So I was hella surprised and flattered, and even a little speechless, to find that this blog has been nominated for the Asia Blog Awards […]

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Rabi’a al-Adawiyya
“O God, the night has passed and the day has dawned. How I long to know if You have accepted my prayers or if You have rejected them. Therefore console me, for it is Yours to console this state of mine. You have given me life and cared for me, and Yours is […]

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we are all made of stars
brutella (11:09:24 AM): when i think pizza, i think cheese
brutella (11:09:28 AM): when i think yaz, i think crack
crackfiendserene (11:09:35 AM): dude, thanks!
crackfiendserene (11:09:37 AM): i’m flattered
crackfiendserene (11:09:38 AM): seriously
crackfiendserene (11:09:39 AM): hahaha
Thanks again, crazy child. And you better watch out, because diversity training is coming soon to a city […]

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you’ve got to get yourself together
I hit a milestone today, kids.
That’s right – I drank the first ever cup of hot coffee in my whole entire life. Okay, so it was chocolate-flavored, but I still think that counts, especially if it took me 23 years to get to the point where I could move […]

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So yesterday, my lovely L-lady finally returned from her THREE MONTHS in Washington DC, and I’m so gleeful about this, you don’t even understand. I hugged the crazy child nonstop, and told her that from now on she goes where I go, to which she made some smartass comment about keeping her on a leash. […]

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we don’t talk about the little things that we do without/when that whole mad season comes around
Just in case you were wondering – which you probably weren’t, but I’m telling you anyway, so pay attention – this weblog may now also be accessed though www.ramblingmonologues.com.
And I am not at liberty to further elaborate on this. […]

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borders, boundaries, blockades
and it’s the way that we will forgive ourselves
and it’s the way that we will for no one else
- Josh Kelly, Amen
I call my friend Z one morning to tell her that I am skipping all my classes and instead studying at the cafe of her favorite Borders Bookstore here in the East […]

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