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Destruction, Death, Survival, Love

// May 24th, 2008 // 10 Comments » // Music Monday, Wordless Wednesday

Yes, I know it’s physically impossible to have Wordless Wednesday and Music Monday categories on the same day (which ironically enough is NEITHER of those days…), my categories need fixing.

The beginning of this week were official days of mourning in China. Imagine the nation standing still with only foghorns, car horns, and sirens in the background for three minutes. That’s what happened at 2:28 PM Monday. I’m just touched by the humanity of it all - newspapers and websites donning a coat of grey and black in mourning, journalists breaking down in tears in the middle of live reports, the leaders going to the front line, children’s bodies found with pens in hand as they had no time to react, clocks stuck at 2:28, a man saying “thank you everyone” when he was lifted out of the rubbles after three days, only to pass away minutes after.

In Beijing, after the three minutes of silence, people erupted into cheers that haven’t been heard in Tiananmen Square in… ever (video)? I find that Chinese people don’t usually go out and cheer for something they love, especially their country, so this is rare and historic indeed!

I guess the pictures can speak for themselves.

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Beichuan Secondary School, taken a day before the earthquake at a seniors event. Two thirds of the people in that school would not be alive the next day.

Newspaper covers collected in a collage, the giant words mean “Mourning” (source)

Migration - a couple carrying everything they owned to move to a new place.

Rest in peace.

Oh god.

Candles surrounding the words Wenchuan, the county at the epicenter of the Earthquake in Sichuan.

Every bit counts. Donate to the Red Cross today.

Awww <3

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Why Use Firefox?

// April 11th, 2008 // 34 Comments » // Wordless Wednesday

Because it’s written in the stars!

Man, Mozilla is really missing out not hiring me as their catchy-business-slogan-maker. Btw, aren’t you glad this isn’t one of those “top reasons for blah blah blah” self-help/productivity/completely-devoid-of-creativity entries mentioned in Sarai’s enlightening article?

Firefox in Space

The one on the left is a photograph taken by the Hubble space telescope on December 17, 2002, featuring the variable star V838 Monocerotis (source). It’s just rotated and the tail of the fox is slightly doctored.

IE FAILS. GO FF (for some reason when I reread this I saw “IE FAILS, Go F*** OFF haha). TGIF & Happy Weekends! My category choice also fails. Oh well.

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Happy V-Day!

// February 13th, 2008 // 11 Comments » // QOTW, Wordless Wednesday

Remember Valentine’s Day in highschool? Yep, we’re all too busy wasting all of our money sending paper roses and four-buck-a-piece chocolate and grams to be delivered to our friends/s.o.’s classes. Ahhh… the good life.

QOTW: How do you plan on celebrating/boycotting Valentine’s Day? Thoughts on the day itself?

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New Year Activities

// January 9th, 2008 // 11 Comments » // Academic, Fashion, Personal, Wordless Wednesday

Baked: peanut butter oat bars (see recipe) I’m surprised at how much ingredients I had readily available at home.

Peanut Butter Oat Bars

Ate: Plain sushi and Californian rolls. Mum’s first attempt of making them was a complete success!

Californian Roll Sushi

Bought: Hoodie from Garage (pics as close as possible), print dress from Costa Blanca, and brown belt from Suzy Cher. Call this my post-unable-to-get-anything-on-Boxing-day splurge. Don’t you hate it when after Boxing Day, only the Large and Xtra Large sizes are left?! What about us small people, grr!

3/4 Sleeve from Garage

Print dress and belt

Addicted to: HOUSE. Can’t believe it took me till now to settle down and watch it. Episodes of House interspersed with university application essays completely saved my sanity. Finished season one, woot!

House

Neglected: Solids of revolution in integral calculus, BAHHH!

Integral Calculus

And that’s what I’ve been doing so far in the New Year. Oh yea, speaking of calculus, yesterday I fell asleep as soon as I got home (6pm), napped for 5 hours, got up at midnight and did 2 hours of calculus, then went back to sleep . I forsee much more of this in my IB future.

P.S. - My minicity is born!

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Found

// January 3rd, 2008 // 13 Comments » // QOTW, Wordless Wednesday

Found in December in the Organic Chemistry section of the IB Green & Damji Chemistry Textbook.

I relate to you, somehow. I wonder who you are, how you were, and where you are now.

QOTW: What have you found written or tucked away in books that you’ve picked up? Now I know why people like the PostSecret experience!

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