December 2009
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“Kurt Vonnegut
Eight rules for writing fiction:
1. Use the time of a total...”
– Vonnegut, Kurt Vonnegut, Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons 1999), 9-10. (via baringmysoul)
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““But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five
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“Smile, what’s the use of crying
You’ll find that life is still...”
– Nat King Cole
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Hello, tumblr, now that redquicksilver has joined you also, I will now TRY to post more of my dreams, so he can help me decipher them. Thank you, tumblr.
Also, thank you Melissa Li, from Good Asian Drivers, for facilitating a good workshop about pop music today. I’m glad I decided to go last minute (just like ice skating yesterday).
Also one last thank you to Owl City. On the topic of...
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I was on the train today listening to my ipod as usual. These 5 black guys get onto my car and they walk all the way to the back (I was in the last car). They had such a jolly aura to all of them. And then they proceeded to sing acapella. I realized it was my favorite panhandlers on the N train (I don’t mean this in a bad/offensive way/context). I love those guys, they always made my day...
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I got off the train station at 42nd Street Times Square today cause I couldn’t find Eva at the last car of the N train station stop. Whatever, no biggie, I was a wee bit late (turns out she was later than me). But it’s not like I could’ve decided to stay and wait there. The second I decided to leave and took two steps, an announcer came over the speaker and said that due to an...
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Flashback! Let’s go back to summer from Freshman-Sophomore year. I had ONE crazy dream…
During that time I worked at a library, and the superintendent of the library was uber mean and scary.
So! onto my dream…
In my dream I was in the library telling everybody about a dream I had, including the superintendent (Yes there was a dream inside a dream). And it was all fun and games...
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inside every teenage boy, is a....teenage boy.
Phil Jeng
sup
William Kwan
IM MAD YOU DIDNT COME
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you would’ve enjoyed ice skating
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we all had mad fun!
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i hear sue yee wouldve been my slave ._.
William Kwan
helping ming and ben skate abit!
William Kwan
HAHA YES
William Kwan
you missed that
Phil Jeng
lol
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that is not a good idea
Phil Jeng
just saying
12:38 AM
William Kwan
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The Superhero of Mediocrity
Not quite strong, in fact weaker than the average Joe. Not quite fast. No laser beams erupting from his eyes or explosive energy blasts shooting from his hands. He was just the Superhero of Mediocrity. He controlled the mediocre things in life.
And those minor nuisances in everybody’s lives just made it go from normal to mediocre. So he decided to remove minor nuisances from the world. And...
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“If I ruled the world
Imagine that
I’d free all my sons, I love em love...”
– Nas
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“Oh I just can’t wait…TO BE KING!”
– Simba
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The feeling of familiarity, knowing, and precognition, but not quite deja vu.
Things just fit into place, and things just feel “right.”
General feelings become themes of the scene, like danger and anger.
Shutter vision.
Scenes looping over and over again.
Eternal torture, and the meaning of life is thrown into question.
The existence of everything else is formulated in relation...
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You ever have one of those bored days, or bored moments, where you actually wanna go do something productive, but find nothing to do?
I call those days, “Self Improvement Days.” It just seems like those are the days where you’ve got nothing to do but just…work on being yourself. Or bettering yourself. Whether it be working out today so that the next time you see your...
Hmm, the end of December 2009 already? Damn was 2009 a good year. The last year for all those fantastic 200- New Years glasses too!
In just a couple of days I’m gunna be stuck doing that slow rehabilitating process of crossing out/erasing 2009 whenever I write the date.
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fuckyeahkaren:
williamkwan:
People say, “You fight fire with fire,” (in a non literal sense).
Personally, I’d fight fire with water.
Just think about Rock, Paper, Scissors. You throw Scissors, I throw a Rock. No stalemate or anything.
Who’s laughing now?
WAIT! When I was posting that I totally was gunna type Rock and then Paper, but I realized that I never understood how Paper could beat...
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People say, “You fight fire with fire,” (in a non literal sense).
Personally, I’d fight fire with water.
Just think about Rock, Paper, Scissors. You throw Scissors, I throw a Rock. No stalemate or anything.
Who’s laughing now?
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i wish there were no such thing as affirmative...
fuckyeahkaren:
but then colleges would be like stuy
WAITTTT. i just had like an hour long talk with dan ping, sue yee, kevin, and ruben in red mango about affirmative action. I DONT LIKE IT. and they’re all for it -_-
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It’s kind of funny, cause I realized through multiple conversations with people still in Stuyvesant that when they tell me that they’re doing bad in school, they need to specify what kind of bad. Let me demonstrate in a hypothetical dialogue with, unfortunately and very lame-ly, myself.
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Will: Damn, Billy, I’m doing bad in school.
Billy: What, Will?
Will: Yeah...
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It’s 53 minutes into the-most-wonderful-time-of-the-year! I’m kinda jealous I never had that Santa Claus or staying up till midnight to open my presents experience. My family isn’t very Christmas-y =(
I feel a bit lifted and happier, but it doesn’t really feel like Christmas yet.
In any case, I’m sitting here listening to Mariah Carey - All I Want for Christmas,...
13537.) Hi, you. Yeah, YOU. You are amazing! You...
(via blogsecret)
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The following is an actual question given on a University of Washington chemistry mid-term. The answer by one student was so “profound” that the professor shared it with colleagues. Bonus Question: Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothrmic (absorbs heat)?Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle’s Law (gas cools when it expands and heats when it is compressed) or some...
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Time flies when you’re having fun…
therefore…
Time goes by slowly if you’re bored…
So thus, in order to have a long, long life, you oughta sit there and be bored…all the time…right?
That’s some Catch 22 logic for you. And quite frankly, it’s almost flawless…
The guy just sits there all day because he wants to live for a long time, so...
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It just struck me…I’m never going to see witness feel New York City’s October for the next three years. That’ll be four years in a row…
That goes for the other months too, like February…
Weird thought…
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The snow is actually pretty nice out. It’s even cooler cause it’s really windy so all the snow flies around and is blown off the floor. The drafts of wind that carry snow on the ground is the prettiest thing ever…does anyone know what I’m talking about?
Also, it’s some kind of amazing that you can’t see the block ahead of you because of all the crazy snow-wind....
Sometimes when I’m opening the doors to my house, I pretend there’s a murderer behind me so I rush to open the locks on my door. It seems like a noticeable difference between my regular door opening speed and my murder-behind-me opening speed. But I know if it ever happened, I would probably pull a record time low and end up dead T_T
X_X <—Dead Billy
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12:16 a.m.
uglykaren:
fuckkk i still didn’t finish my homework much less start studying for my chemistry test i fell asleep for an hour before i just took a shower and tied up my hair and can’t go to sleep now unless i want to get sick i should be able to get three hours of sleep tonight ish
That’s a Chinese-Mommy myth! You don’t get sick if you go to bed with wet hair…unless your...
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With all these Pokemon as people’s profile pictures, I kinda wanna play again…
I wish I was young again…
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a two lover's ride
His hand reached for hers, their fingers interlocked. She braced herself for the impact and the embrace that would envelop her. Her eyes clenched tight together, while his, they surveyed her from head to toe, admiring her beauty when she was wet. She did a soft cry, but it was inaudible to his ears in moment. She opened her eyes, finally taking in the moment for the first time. She was on the...
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“Breathe, stretch, shake, let it go”
– Mase
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engineering handout
I found this in on one of my engineering handouts…
It was the assignment where I had to learn to manage my time and plan out my weekly schedule (sleep habits, etc.) that I don’t follow…
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To realize the value of ONE YEAR
Ask a student who has failed his final exam.
To realize the value of ONE MONTH
Ask a mother who has given birth to a premature baby.
To realize the...
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