January 2012
8 posts
happy new year/ sun tai geen hong/ gung hay fat choy
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BBC - Adam Curtis Blog: THE YEARS OF STAGNATION... →
towerofsleep:
Everybody is always remarking about how stuck our society feels these days. The music doesn’t change, the political parties are all exactly the same, and films and TV dramas are almost always set in the past. We are also stuck with an economic system that is not delivering the paradise that it once promised - but is instead creating chaos and hardship. Yet no-one can imagine a...
Sabrina describes vintage porn films:
With captions that are like “Darling shall we take a stroll in the garden”. Spoiler: they fuck in the garden.
Also she asks if he has a “fish skin” because she wouldn’t like a junior.
Sikolohiyang Pilipino
Is hiya related to the Cantonese ai-yah! in any way, I wonder? In any case, it is a densely meaning-ful word.
What to wear when travelling →
The varied impressions of What One Should Wear the world over. For women, mostly. An interesting, diverse, absorbing read for anyone interested in perception, travel, A Small Place, trans-cultural communication, and the sartorial.
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WatchI Want to Grow Old in China
December 2011
9 posts
Yawn, just wake me up when it’s 2012.
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Lunch List
Destinations:
Hope Key Daidoco Fol Epi Chicken on the Run (“broasted” chicken) I Kyu Noodle Phonomenal Vietnamese Cafe The Village (it has been years; I must return)
Serious sugar/ carb, salt, and cheese overload today. Nghhhhhhhh.
#headache #not feeling well #waiting up for the kitty
November 2011
6 posts
Well I don’t know about you, but there’s nothing I like better than writing a job application exam on a Saturday afternoon.
#I’m not even sure if I’m eligible for this job #Could be a giant waste of time #I’d rather be crafting
Oh, just freezing my ass off because I can’t get a fire to burn hot enough in this wood stove.
#but I was raised in cadboro bay! #why why why #gonna blame it on this shitty wood
Himono-onna life
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Cheese sandwich blog
He’s like, seriously flash.
October 2011
22 posts
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Saturday and Sunday, October 22 and 23, 2011.
BC Fruit Testers Annual Fall Fruit Show
West Shore Centre, 2945 Jacklin Road, Victoria. Saturday 10 am to 4 pm, Sunday 11am to 4 pm. A big display of apples, pears, kiwis, and nuts grown in south coastal B.C., apple identification (bring six good apples picked from the sunny side of the tree), heritage fruit information, Master...
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The blog for the film inspired by the book that drew on the material discussed in a class I once took.
good breading
leads to good bragging: I just made two badass loaves of focaccia for my office’s charity bakesale tomorrow. definitely blowing those M & M frozen cookie dough cookies and those banana loaves out of the water. just sayin!
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On Jens Lekman →
xamounts:
dragonauttt:
lame but i want to write about jens lekman. i think he’s a romantic conceptualist. the way he samples old romantic songs. it’s like that umberto eco quote about the cultivated man being unable to just say “i love you madly” and resorting to quotation, “as barbara cartland would put it, i love you madly” something about a sweet summer’s night on hammer hill reminds me...
“I’d like to think of myself as less civil servant, more civil cervantes.”
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"Person of color" = someone discriminated against... →
rosaflora:
(Inspired by the commentary on this post)
For the purposes of anti-racism struggles, that’s all you need to go by.
Yes, the term, “colored” is not normally associated with Asian people these days, but it was definitely used to label people of Asian descent in this country in the past. We have been and still are the targets of White racism:
Believing the fallacy that...
September 2011
18 posts
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Sundays:
competing foghorns in the strait