Mean Streak

Wonder if it is possible to bring out a mean streak in a person ? That for no apparent reason, one can make another want to cause pain ? It’s not necessarily based on hatred, but different dynamics and vicissitudes. Can there be a hidden gratification in seeing that you can inflict [...]

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Correlation between Gloom and Better Music

JCPenney’s announcement yesterday that sales were well below expectations added to the already gloom and doom prediction for retail industry. I’m not sure if possibility of recession leads to mediocre merchandising, but I had nothing in my hand when I exited a local mall this morning. It wasn’t because I was not [...]

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Routine 3

Found some time on my hand due to last minute change of schedule. A trip to NYC got canceled while I was heading out to the airport. Some of us were already in NYC when we got the news. One was on the plane already. I was the lucky one.
What is [...]

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Routine 2

Brilliant.

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Routine 1

As I try to get back to emotional routine (with occasional detour), I’m feeling like everyday happening stuff than what seems like a never ending blog catharsis. Plenty out there.
The first part of last week, I was literally cooped up in a hotel room very close to Vegas Strip. You can see the [...]

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Affliction to Epiphany to Healing

Wonder if blog style changes when one is going through personal crisis. I assume it does. The past several weeks, I have been tempted to achieve catharsis vis-a-vis blogging. It’s probably like diary writing yet it is not. But then, it does seem private. What you write feels classified, in a [...]

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Suffering

When I dare think “How can this be happening to me ?” I’ll think about, among others, Silda Wall Spitzer.

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My Parents’ Luck and Mine

I’m the eldest of four kids. I know my parents had real high hopes for me and invested a lot as they do for first born. I don’t know how the ROI turned out for them, for sure I know they wish it could have been higher. But they have two other [...]

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InArt Gallery, Tainan-Taiwan

There are things that people just keep on talking about doing. The Top 5 among some of our friends are opening: Restaurants, Cafe-Tea Shop, Bookstore, Art Gallery and Antique Shop.
We talk about : Bookstore Cafe ! Antique Shop Restaurant ! Art Gallery with Bookstore ! Sometimes, it does get one step [...]

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Blessings

I thought this might be a good time to count my blessings.
Aside from a somewhat life altering and unwelcome incident that is taking place, not much is cause for dejection. Yesterday, I got an e-mail from one that many consider to be the guru of design, telling me that he would like to work [...]

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