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Apparently there was an earthquake last night in Taiwan, around magnitude 7 depending on who you ask. I heard about this not because I am particularly good at keeping up with the news, but because when I got into work this morning, nobody could connect to a number of overseas websites or services.
Evidently, this [...]

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I think Chinese people from a very young age must have all the pain receptors in their mouths systematically killed. I don’t understand how people go get these super hot foods and then immediately start wolfing them down.
Today at dinner, I went and grabbed a big bowl of noodles in soup, much [...]

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I told him I was worried about getting a haircut because I won’t be able to effectively communicate with the cutter.
me: What’s going to happen, in my imagined scenario at least, is I’m going to go in, and make clear I want a haircut, and that’ll be ok, then I’ll get sit down, and then [...]

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Sometimes I wonder if it really has all been done before.
Ok, that’s not really true, I don’t wonder if everything has already been done, but I do wonder if I will ever do something really original.
I feel like I’ve never really created anything, never come up with something new. I’ve [...]

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Well I didn’t really have any plans so when my great aunt called me up and said I should come over for dinner on Christmas Eve, I agreed.
While I was sitting around, I was presented with this bowl. What could be in these shiny wrappings? Candy? Yum!

But wait, what is [...]

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Usually when I am riding the metro to and from work, I do not really pay much attention to the ads that are being shown on the screens mounted all along the length of the train.
However, yesterday, in my idle passage of the time (note: I really should start carrying a book or [...]

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Well I finally decided to start using the heat in the apartment I’m staying in. I had managed to hold off so far, simply clothing myself in many layers during the day, but on Sunday I was sitting around trying to read, and I realized that it was in fact so cold, my hands [...]

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I was going to title this ’serendipity’ but then I looked up the word, just to make sure, and discovered that it means “an aptitude for making desirable discoveries by accident.” This doesn’t quite apply to me because it’s not quite desirable.
I was playing Warcraft 3 on my laptop. As I finished the [...]

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