January 2011
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also must cherish this moment:
i think i’ve really learned to embrace, in this little life of mine, those abundant moments of irony, absurdity, and hilarity.
i [can’t stop, won’t stop] laughing. =]
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dear family & friends,
i want to share this moment with you. without going into detail, i wanted to say that while this past year and a half, i had not given up all hope, but perhaps had just plain given up.
without the voice, the power to truly affect change, i was only a few steps away from walking away from this place, this work, this passion - everything i’d cultivated for about 10...
life’s full of surprises. end. =]
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i’ve been researching anthropological terms (you know, for the ethnography i’m going to write), cataloguing which ones are applicable to my experience here:
Diglossia (n): The use of two markedly different varieties of a language in different social situations, such as a formal variety at work and an informal variety at home
i knew learning this crazy hue accent would benefit me in...
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hey, meet linh. she’s a sneaky one, this linh - she absolutely refuses to take pictures, so i had to cunningly snap this one.
if you can spot linh, she’s usually eating. haha - that’s her one trademark - she’s always got some sort of snack. and if she doesn’t, one of the staff will probably offer her something, cause she’s just so clever to use her charm to...
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(i don’t like how this picture is off-center, but it’s the only one i’m actually in.)
there you have it. the rare, once-in-a-blue-moon pictorial proof that i’m here. with my kids.
so, christmas has never really been a happy time for me, but i never imagined spending a christmas consoling my girls, who were crying for a multitude of reasons. twas an interesting...
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i spent a significant amount of time journaling yesterday - reflecting on how much i love these kids, because no matter what my “job description” says, i’m mainly here to be a presence for these kids, encouraging them, and loving them.
for example, lately i’ve been reading much about the “habits of the mind:” 16 habits which promote positive thinking and...
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didn’t i tell you that this year, i want to try my best to be a 17 year old (hip) vietnamese teenage girl?
yesterday, for some reason, i decided getting my hair permed was a great way to spend 5.5 hours of my saturday:
this ultimately resulted into what i can only describe as my semi-hip-korean-afro.
oh, and later i went to watch this dreamy vietnamese pop star perform:
and...
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howdy. ca fait longtemps, non?
i work in an “office” most of the day, but i get to come “home” to:
precious faces…
…in precious places:
[floating window panezz]
=]
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huh? how come i don’t take my camera & take pictures of my friends?
this past weekend was just full of social activities with adult friends (from breakfast dates to lunch dates to going away parties to international dinners to dancing the night away) and i don’t have any pictures. pathetic. (well - in my defense, i gave my point & shoot to my brother and who wants to carry a...
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uhm, thanks to this one, i’ve only been scouring wedding photography blogs for the past five days. thanks, kim. ><
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i spent the last week in kuala lumpur for via’s annual conference, which should have an entire lengthy updated in itself, but i just wanted to give you guys a window into how i spent the better part of 5 days:
for having a “hen house” full of girls, there was relatively little drama, but whoever decided having +15 girls in a cramped...
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“But, vague vagabond, you will seem to divagate, while in reality you will keep...”
– Umberto Eco, William Weaver, The Island of the Day Before