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Dessert Blends at Raintree
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in EatAs Raintree is now me and C’s default go-to place on Saturdays, I just wanted to share about our love for their Dessert Blends! Before Raintree, I wouldn’t have considered buying anything that isn’t milk tea or tea. But their dessert blends have completely changed me. When we drop by Raintree, I don’t order milk…
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What loving life means
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in PonderThe past week I have struggled with some anger, hatred, frustrations at individuals, groups of people, circumstances, memories, whathaveyou. I haven’t been feeling affectionate or happy or understanding or patient. I just have moments when I’m just so dissatisfied no matter what I do and I forget that nothing will ever be perfect. I forgot…
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In which C buys me gifts I don’t deserve
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in LiveSome days I’m not the best person to love, and this week was one of those. Despite all the tiny fights and arguments we’ve had (mostly because I’ve been feeling, as I’ve mentioned, grumpy and discontent with other things in life), C got me some gifts today! Last month we went to MUJI at High Street…
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Salad and soup at Uncle Cheffy
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in EatJust to break the semi-serious and semi-delirious posts on my personal life, I come with two of my favorite dishes from Uncle Cheffy. I’m lucky that they’re basically just a street away from where I work so when I’m not in saving mode, C and I can choose to have lunch there. Which is how…
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Broken hearts heal with distance
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in LiveI begin this post with a poem: The Changed Woman Louise Bogan The light flower leaves its little core Begun upon the waiting bough. Again she bears what she once bore And what she knew she re-learns now. The cracked glass fuses at a touch, The wound heals over, and is set In the whole…
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Some of the things I wish to unlearn
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in LiveI am not proud to have learned to hate people. Hate is an emotion I wish life, circumstances, and decisions never had to trigger. I am not proud of feeling sick at the sight, name, and thought of certain people. I am not happy that a person can drive me to feel disgust because I…
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Letters I wrote but did not send
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in Ponderalways articulated distance, a withdrawal. Darling, there are just as many ways of saying goodbye as there are ways of letting you go. The boat is narrow like the width of my heart after impossible loss, cruel resignation; — an excerpt from “Boats,” by Cyril Wong I. I sent you two letters a year ago.…
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A first day well spent (literally)
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in LiveIt feels good to have spent the first day of January with my family — a visit to my grandmother — and then we went to Eastwood to have really early dinner at MyThai, sat two hours at Happy Lemon (with our tea, of course) just sharing stories, and then shopping for another two hours.…
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2012 Success Plan
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in PonderI wonder what other people feel like when they wake up on the 1st of January. Or if they have expectations for the morning? Half of me feels like nothing’s changed but half of me also feels a bit hopeful knowing that 2011 is over, curse it (haha) and 2012 is a blank slate for…