The One With the Strange Soup

Tune Jo Na Kaha, from New York (rendered by Mohit Chauhan)
I had the chance today to return to my campus after the span of a year, which is a long time when you consider the chunk of time we as students spend in our college campuses. I always loved my college campus. As I’ve written [...]

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Thank you, Randy.

Randy Pausch, who influenced the lives of millions of people with his Last Lecture, died today, Friday July 25th, at his home in Virginia. Everyone knew it was inevitable, but if its affected all the strangers who had been touched by his words and wisdom, like myself, I can’t imagine what his family is going [...]

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Randy Pausch and Hope

I was watching Oprah today and, because he’s everywhere on the news, Randy Pausch was on. Along with Dr. Mehmet Oz. If you haven’t heard of either, you haven’t been watching the news. Wikipedia ‘em both. Randy Pausch is the famous professor dying of pancreatic cancer, whose powerful last lecture has become famous universally. Dr. [...]

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Warmth on an Icy Day

The Snowy Night 
[신화 (Shinhwa), Winter Story 2007-2008. Its all the buzz and excitement amongst the official and unofficial Changjo. According to their fans, 신화 has this strange capability of making people happy. I respect this band for sticking through for almost ten years despite being six very different people. I might not always love their music (except [...]

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A Glimpse of Fall…and the First Snow

I’d been planning to take some shots for a while, luckily I managed to finally do it just before the first snow fell.
(I really wish I could stream music now…my favorite tunes to match the mood…but the best I can do is upload em like this…Yay! thanks to merriwether I found another way [...]

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I want another dog…

Watch:
A 10 minute Japanese short film about a girl Mika and her dog Marimo. This film comes from the compilation of short films named All About My Dog (2005). Credits to director Atsushi Sanada, and solasura.
This video made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside, and also all lonely and sad. [...]

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Life is a box of chocolates

“Inside the chocolate case is the life of a person. In Forrest Gump, the main character’s mother says “Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’ll get.” Whatever I do or pick up, changes the chocolates inside…..There were good ones and there were bad ones. But there’s nothing I can do [...]

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