June 2011
89 posts
“If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?”
– John Wooden
“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and...”
– Maria Robinson
It's a Taylor Swift kind of day.
Blasting “Dear John” while driving home in the pouring rain today felt so fitting. Dramatic, yes. Go ahead, judge me.
“Maybe it’s me and my blind optimism to blame.”
Here I go again. Playing the same old record. At least this time I’m aware of it, and you know, I think I’ve about had it. Yes, I was warned this would happen, WHATEVER, that doesn’t...
You’re hot then you’re cold.
You’re yes then you’re no.
You’re in then you’re out.
You’re up then you’re down.
You’re wrong when it’s right.
You don’t really wanna stay, no. but you don’t really wanna go.
Day #17 -- Heritage.
Isn’t it funny how you can live next to some place as amazing as San Francisco your whole life and take it for granted? This international hub has so much history, culture, and life, I just can’t help but be mesmerized every time we drive into the city over the Bay Bridge.
I love going out with my mom and my grandma, and am so happy that the three of us have such a tight bond....
“If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our...”
– Martin Delany
"To me, it was paradise on earth."
D&N Bookclub — Book #2: “Life of Pi” Nat in the lead! Dan: why aren’t you on my level?
“The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity — it’s envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or...
Back tracking: Day #12 - Bishops, pawns, and...
How could I have forgotten!? One of my proudest moments this summer thus far = learning how to play chess..and almost winning :)
"I would die for you. But I won't live for you."
“Charlie, don’t you get it? I can’t feel that. It’s sweet and everything, but it’s like you’re not even there sometimes. It’s great that you can listen and be a shoulder to someone, but what about when someone doesn’t need a shoulder. What if they need the arms or something like that? You can’t just sit there and put everybody’s lives...
i guess my mindset now is:
i will melt your heart
[source - touchballsengage:]
Day 13: Dear High School,
We pass the scientology store and potentially homeless white people with dreads playing guitar and walk into the corner book store on Castro Street. Prako turns to me and says, “Tasha, Senora is gonna get so mad at me for not emailing her the past couple of years.” And alas, there she is in her trendy brightly colored clothes, sitting and reading a magazine, “Oh my god,...
Spontaneity, adventure, nostaligia, and Indians.
Day 9
Eating Persian food and watching belly dancers at Arya Global Cuisine — feeling like I was living in a Yanni music video
Getting lost for thirty minutes (due to poor navigation and illegal texting) while driving to club #1 only to show up and have Prako text me from the parking lot, “PS it’s closed.”
Driving aimlessly for the next thirty minutes trying to ...
"And in that moment, I swear we were infinite."
D&N Book Club Book #1: “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” by Stephen Chbosky Nat’s progress: p.54 Dan’s progress: 63% — Apparently Kindles can tell you this shit.
It still feels like it was yesterday
It still feels like it was yesterday that you passed away.
I wish that by now, I could say that I can’t remember how long it’s been. But that’d be a lie. I can still count the months. Down to the exact hour, what I was wearing, and where I was when I got the news that you weren’t going to be around anymore.
I asked my mom the other day how long it would be before I...
Day #6
Seeing license plates like this:
Listening to talk shows on the radio in the morning while stuck in traffic - today’s topic: mothers who hate their children.
Did I mention how much I appreciate cable? I love being able to watch Pretty Little Liars on a TELEVISION screen with NORMAL commercials (No offense, Hulu. I still love you) and squeal and sigh and swoon and gasp til my...
The Real World WOULD decide to film in La Jolla... →
Day #5 - Spending time with grandma
I am so lucky to be able to call my grandma one of my best friends. Spending an entire day with her whenever I come home is always one of my top priorities. Though we are many decades apart, and have quite a few language barriers between us, we never cease to have long and fruitful conversations. She is my rock - one of the most inspirational people I know.
Today started off like usual, with a...
"Cable car stars on my heart it seems" - Back in...
I’m back. BUT not gonna lie, I wanted to die a little a bit the first day here. After living in the bubble that is San Diego for a year and having complete and utter freedom, it was a little hard to come back home and live with my parents. I have rules again and am expected to be home at decent hours. My face is being dissected — mom tells me that I have wrinkles and spots from being...
“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their...”
– Oscar Wilde
“So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is...”
– John Keating, Dead Poet’s Society
“The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn’t...”
– Thomas Edison
“Either write something worth reading, or do something worth writing.”
– Benjamin Franklin
Unfinished business.
I can’t help but feel that I’m leaving here unsettled. A lot can happen in 3 months. I wonder how everything is going to play out
…?
