January 2012
140 posts
i personally find new year resolutions stupid. there is always time to turn over a new leaf, and waiting until the new year to do so is just putting off til later something that can be done now. which is also the reason why people who make new year resolutions rarely follow through - they dont want it enough to start immediately, regardless of the day, regardless of the event.
so if you want to...
December 2011
76 posts
sungkyunkwan scandal has officially usurped dalja’s spring for the title of best korean drama ever.
“I spent most of my effort liberating myself from being an artist to become a...”
– Ai Wei Wei
“It is man’s intelligence that makes him so often behave more stupidly than the...”
– Aldous Huxley (via nathanielstuart)
“Perhaps not the meaning of time,
but the time of meaning, & the fact that...”
– Seth Abramson, from “What I Have” (via proustitute)
1 tag
“Optimism can only exist when the world’s injustice is not only perceived...”
– Holz.
Watchinteresting because:
it is angry, and i am always a proponent of more emotion - angry or not angry, as long as youre not an apathetic zombie.
he tells what we are, and what we should be, but not necessarily how to we can get there.
he does however promotes new urbanism, which is interesting and has good points, but not something that i necessarily agree with. it strikes too much of postmodern...
i am so lucky.
1. my professor lost my essay, so i got a 95/100.
2. i lost my purse, but someone found it, thank god.
3. my boyfriend.
“It is hard to tell whether it is
mist or fog. Or the collecting gray. Or mere...”
– Richard Jackson, from “Endurance” (via proustitute)
“The man had killed the thing he loved, and so he had to die
Yet each man kills...”
– from The Ballad of Reading Goal by Oscar Wilde (via thedaysarenotfullenough) (via libraryland, loveintheshadowsistheonlykind)
“So that’s how we live our lives. No matter how deep and fatal the loss, no...”
– Haruki Murakami (via adessive)
On Being Uninformed.
i am going over my chinese notes again, more specifically about censorship issues, and i have suddenly realized how much less emotional baggage these people have compared to the more “informed Americans”. and since i manage to turn every passing thought i have into some sort of negative rant, ive started to relate this to my perception (and therefore my reality) of the world. and ive...
love architecture and hate architects.
1 tag
“I have seen it over and over, the same sea, the same,
slightly, indifferently...”
– Elizabeth Bishop, from “At the Fishhouses” (via proustitute)
