December 2008
18 posts
November 2008
44 posts
Sitting
After all the walking around in Europe, sitting seemed like such a simple yet pleasurable activity:
Walking
People make just as interesting subjects when sightseeing:
Stop Poverty Now, One Pixel At A Time
My friend QD, whom you have already met in this post, just guided me to an astonishingly simple and powerful Web site called Stop Poverty Now. Through this interactive donation site, The Grameen Foundation, which supports microfinance programs that enable the poor to lift themselves out of poverty and make better lives for their families, is truly putting the “social” in social...
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Window Shopping
Believe or not, we actually didn’t buy a single thing on our three-week trip to Europe, except for a couple of jackets for the dire need for survival in Prague’s unseasonably cold weather. It’s no small feat, considering how much I love shopping. I just constantly reminded myself that we were living on borrowed money (thank you, Skadden Arps) and that we couldn’t possibly...
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Everything is Illuminated
I’m just going to let the photos speak for themselves.
Illuminated:
(Budapest, Hungary & Vienna, Austria)
The Most Irritating Paragraph
Researchers at Oxford University put together a list of the top ten most irritating phrases. I decided to put them all together and create the most irritating paragraph, fridge-magnet poetry style:
“(5) With all due respect (3) I personally think (7) it’s a nightmare. (1) At the end of the day Superman (6) absolutely (8) shouldn’t of obsessed (9) 24/7 over what people were...
Dad Won
Of all the elation and celebrations that took place last night, this loving moment between a very happy father and an equally excited daughter particularly stuck with me.
The first thing that popped into my head, of course, was, that I miss my dad.
At the tender age of ten-years-old, one’s father or mother is often a little girl or a boy’s biggest hero, President-Elect or not. I...
“Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
