In this episode, I have five stories to share. All are work inspired, somewhat. * * Screw Bloggers At Your Own Risk * * Recently, a friend of mine forwarded me a link to a juicy gossip that finds its way propagating through the social networks. The subject of this gossip? A man who works [...]
Entries Tagged as 'My Abstract Life'
Snippet Of My Life Episode 24 – Obscure Observations Of The Ordinary Routines
February 18th, 2010 8 Comments
Life is simple. Most of the time, you are waiting for something to happen. And you spend a good portion of your life doing cut and paste activities. Or pure repetitive, routine type of work. Even the pleasure that we seek comes mostly in a variation of cookie cutter recipes. Or the same old thing that pleasures [...]
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Alcohol And I – A Story Of Our 2 Years Of Separation, Thus Far
January 25th, 2010 13 Comments
Last weekend, I have quietly celebrated the 2-year anniversary of not having a single drop of alcohol in my blood stream. I even faked drinking that glass of champagne on stage, during my friend’s wedding when I was the emcee and my sister’s wedding in Hong Kong and in Singapore. Of the many questions I have received over [...]
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Is Liking What We Get A Resignation To Life Or The Key To Contentment?
January 17th, 2010 16 Comments
My favorite writer Doris Lessing once wrote: We learn to like what we get. Seven simple words so accurately describe our current state of affair, in so many different dimensions. But yet when I shared this revelation with a friend, her immediate response was: That’s called resignation to life. Such is the beauty of literature. [...]
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Here Comes My Niece!
January 9th, 2010 6 Comments
And so the doctor turned to my sister and her husband and said, “Here’s your little princess”. Oh happy day. Time flies. The whole process comes and goes. I wonder when will I get to bring my little niece to the zoo and eat ice-cream.
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New Theme This Year: Be Committed And Do It NOW
January 3rd, 2010 9 Comments
Happy 2010! How did you celebrate the New Year Eve? Initially, Cynthia and I wanted to celebrate the countdown in a Spanish way: to eat twelve grapes, one on each chime of the clock. Alas! At the checkout counter of a grocery store, a few days before the New Year Eve, Cynthia asked if we [...]
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(Dear Plant) You Look Ugly But I Think I Can Live With You
December 9th, 2009 8 Comments
I woke up this morning and realized that nature has delivered a plant to me. Last night, I had a great dream. Not the type that I could remember in detail. But one that has such great sense of freedom. Like nothing else matters. Cool wind on my face. In fact, I could breath the freshness. [...]
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張子璘《早苗》- “Zoumiu”, Again, 9 Short Stories
November 13th, 2009 2 Comments
This has to be a coincidence. I randomly picked four Chinese novels to read from the library. The previous book is a collection of nine short stories. This books is also a collection of nine short stories. Relationship, especially in the form of divorce, is one of the themes of the previous book. Same for [...]
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Fragments Of My Dreams Episode 14 – Robot Coma
November 11th, 2009 4 Comments
This is my first field trip and our mission is clear: To secure the underground area next to the university. There has been disturbance inside the dungeon of tunnels made of steel, as reported. The robots do not normally venture so close into our civilization. We wonder what prompts the encroachment. Low in resource within [...]
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Snippet Of My Life Episode 23 – All Saints’ Day And The Ha Ha Ha
November 3rd, 2009 4 Comments
The working title of this drawing is “Body and Blood of Christ”, inspired by All Saints’ Day. Explanation of the composition is at the end of this post. Last Sunday morning, Cynthia asked while we finally settled down inside the Church, “Why this eagerness?” Nothing escapes her observation, on me. That’s scary. True, of all [...]
Tags: All Saints' Day · Catholic sermon · doodle
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