August 2011
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Superstition
A Chinese fortune cookie, “You will win success in whatever calling you adopt.” How timely this little message comes to me. I am not an overly superstitious person, but I choose to believe that this is a message from the heavens. There has just been so much going on my little world these past few months, and the ‘situation’ is still evolving. It’s fascinatingly fluid, and I’m ready to jump at...
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Vacation from my exLife
A vacation to hot Houston and spending quality time with friends and family had awoken something in me. New thoughts, new ideas, new feelings, I am changed for the better. It was not just a getaway; it was a wakeup call, a call to action.
Insanity, doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting a different outcome. We do this to ourselves when it comes to our career, our love life, raising our...
July 2011
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A modest Option on the US Debt Crisis
Only after studying it deeply, dissecting the problem, understanding the problem, internalizing the problem, and attacking it from all angles and direction do we hope come up with a solution. It’s often too easy to throw around solutions and suggest ideas when you don’t know too much about the problem. I had started this blog post some time ago, and never got around to finishing it. I first...
June 2011
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Unintelligible Pain
When was the last time I was happy? Does my life just suck like grass? Is my life just a chain of unfortunate events? Life is full of misery, just look around you. People are sick, student loans overwhelming, cars need fixing, kids are crying, flowers wilting, and puppies are dying. Even the Greeks are having their own Greek tragedy. It does feel like there is a gray cloud of doom and...
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I am
Quirky, Interesting, Happy, creative. loving. funny. Original. Open. Ambitious. Tangerine. Romantic. Black. Motivated. Emo. Artistic. Determined. Smooth. smile. Productive. Metro. Viet. Crisp. Virgo. Chocolate. mint. franco. Driven. SEXY. Power. Dork. Technology. Epic. Rain. cry. cuddle. Soft. kiss. puppy. ticklish. cherry. Wings. fly. White. pure. feathers. Roses. thorn. pain. Clouds. chaos....
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All that Remains in the Final Weeks
The sky is gray, the wind is still, there’s fresh snow on the ground. 2075, I will be 90 years old and dead. I don’t often think about when I’m going to die, or the method of my death. What I do bring up frequently is ‘the list.’ The list of people who will be there, all that remains in the final weeks, days, minutes, love and relationship.
When my family moved...
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Courage to Express Feelings
Humans are complex creatures more than any other known living things on this planet, Earth. For all of our infinite wisdoms about metaphysics, biology, the constitution, and derivatives of derivatives. We forever longed to understand the human emotion, the human soul. We often use metaphors to communicate that special ‘butterfly feeling’ or that ‘anxious sweaty nauseous puking...
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Didn't Work So Hard
I wish I didn’t work so hard. Born in the year of the Ox according to Chinese Astrology, I proud myself in being a hard worker, I have been a hard worker all my life. Society rewards those that work hard. Successful people are often quote saying things like, “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” But does working...
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Being Authentic
I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me. This sounds ludicrous at first glance, but when you dig a little bit deeper, I think that a lot of people would agree with that statement. But what does being true to yourself even mean? We live/work such busy lives that we do even stop to consider what is most important anymore, I don’t regret...
May 2010
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Social Media and Disrupting the Signalling Theory
For instance, a potential employee sends a signal to the market about their abilities by acquiring higher education at a prestigious university. The informational value of the credential comes from the fact that the employer assumes it is positively correlated with having greater ability. The assumption is that a graduate of a prestigious university will be a high producer/ profitable to the...
April 2010
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Listening to (and Saving) the World’s Languages →
Language is an identity.
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Budget & Mint.com
Personal financial management is difficult. It is hard to stay within a pre-determined budget, especially if you don’t make that much (income). I have a good idea as to what my income will be each month, because I work for the man. I try not to spend (expense) more than I make, thus achieving a positive net income. Don’t spend > than what you make is pretty easy to understand. That’s easy...