February 2012
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please show that you care for the person who cares for you
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January 2012
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I am detecting plenty of Chinese shame going around the Chinese descent community (yours truly not excepted). Sure a great percentage of us is still maintaining the Confucian tradition, but few has embraced the aesthetic quality of our ancestors. The younger generation is distancing themselves from their roots possibly due to fear of being associated with the Mainland Chinese population, still...
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Drinking to avoid making tough decisions is a favourite pastime of mine. The beautiful thing about it is it isolates you from all of your problems, the downside is it isolates you from the solutions as well. I think pre evening self intoxication makes me look like Roger Sterling, although I probably look like a dickhead drinking single malts at three in the afternoon.
December 2011
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Maybe because I don’t really believe that it’s going to work and...
– Beginners (2010)
November 2011
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As far as cliches go...
there is none bigger than Paris. The Parisian cliche certainly has its place in turning Paris into the most visited city in the world. It is easy to create a hasty negative impression of Paris on arrival, the droves of American tourists demanding non smoking tables, sipping sparkling water, clogging every street and narrow alleyways of St. Germain on weekends. Regardless, there is a certain je ne...
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Finally the world has the first non punchable Taiwanese musician
October 2011
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The best way to enjoy Kyoto, in hi-tec Japanese running gear
September 2011
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I could use the company but I can’t go through the pain of getting it
– The Finkler Question, Howard Jacobson
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When you are small it’s hard to survive. When you are big you get a whole...
– Interview with Dirk Mönkemöller, Monocle Magazine
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