December 2010
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Day 05 - A picture of your morning
Pictures from my 成人式.
Yup, that’s my real hair…
Two local women volunteered to spend hours doing my hair, makeup, and binding me in over 20 layers of cloth… Crazy, friendly, crazy-friendly.
Paying respects at the local shrine with my cousin…
This hopeful look brought to you by a menu full of Food®. It was delicious.
[Day 01, 02, 03, 3.5, 04.]
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that awkward moment when you don't know if a car...
osimplicity:
i’m usually like
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AHHHH! Most embarrassing day ever in 3...2...1...
Okay, so there’s this thing in Japan called 成人の日, or Coming of Age Day. It’s a generally fun little thing to celebrate the fact that a bunch of people in town are now 20, and an adult, blah blah blah. (Kind of like a quinceanera or bar/bat mitzvah.) You get dressed in a kimono, the gov’t officials make speeches about you, and you get presents. Usually the whole ceremony is held...
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snow.
Mmph. Kind of bummed that I’ve missed the first srs bsnss snowstorm of the season…
That said, I am SO SO grateful to the crews at JFK and the folks at ANA for getting my worried self back to Japan. I think a lot of people don’t get how much work it takes into getting things up and going in shitty, shitty weather… but. Some poor woman deiced my plane for 15min in...
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the indescribable feeling of being home.
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Ah, weather delays/cancellations.
Got the call at 4am that our original fligt had been cancelled from JFK-NRT. Delta auto-rebooked us onto Korean Air to connecting through Seoul, but forgot a minor detail: That we paid for first class seats. They had rebooked us in economy. Fine and dandy if we were going to be refunded the difference but they said that wouldn’t be possible unless we cancelled once and rebooked again on...
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The Porn Myth →
I will never forget a visit I made to Ilana, an old friend who had become an Orthodox Jew in Jerusalem. When I saw her again, she had abandoned her jeans and T-shirts for long skirts and a head scarf. I could not get over it. Ilana has waist-length, wild and curly golden-blonde hair. “Can’t I even see your hair?” I asked, trying to find my old friend in there. “No,” she demurred quietly. “Only...
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Frak.
Blizzard warning for NJ/NY with 16” of snow and gusting winds expected tomorrow when I’m supposed to fly.
I just wanna get home to Tokyo :’(
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Day 04 - A picture of where you went today
Went into the city to see Carrie, Miki, and Lisa yesterday! Somewhere on the way down to Rockefeller Center, we came across a gigantic, wind up Hello Kitty… And promptly took a KPL photo with it :P
Then we made it to the tree…
Theta Class!
Afterwards, we picked up lamb and rice at my favorite halal cart in midtown, and took shelter from the cold in the Sony Plaza (what a...
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Infidelity (or what I did today)
I admit to it.
Last night, long after Ben and I said our goodnights, long after I should’ve been asleep, I did a terrible thing. Casually perusing tumblr.com/themes, I visually undressed more than a few of the latest premade themes. My mistake came when I clicked “Install” instead of “Preview” on one of them. I didn’t love it, I don’t even remember its...
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this is your fault, tumblr.
Midori: i love you bb, sleep tight!
Ben: i love you too, but please stop calling me bb
Ben: i'm not a blackberry
Midori: ...i lol'd
Ben: T_T
Midori: you are mos def not a blackberry. sorry.
Midori: (...but it was such a convenient abbreviation of "baby")
Ben: well i do not like it ><
Midori: okokok fragile ego-ed iPhone user. goodnight, baby
Ben: oh, those two extra letters! so painful to type!! 50% more!
Midori: that's a lot of percents.
Ben: I DISAGREE.
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aaand done!
Time to catnap before my AM meetings tomorrow.
srs layering happened tonight. my list, fully minimized.
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Things I miss about Boston, pt 1:
Study/work aids in the form of pizza at 2am is completely possible.
[Thx to Jasmine for first tempting me with Spanish food, now pizza.]
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You know an ad campaign is kicking Midori's butt...
She’s over halfway through a box of chocolates and is still unhappy with it.
(Yeah, it’s unhealthy. Whatever, I’m working through the holidays.)
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we’ve come to realize that standing in a crowd of...
This.
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Day 03.5 - A picture of what you did today, pt II.
A few hours after I posted Day 03, I bundled up in my warmest coat, grabbed my camera and laptop, a scarf, and some chocolate, camped out in the SUV in the driveway and popped open the moonroof to watch the lunar eclipse. Here’s what resulted:
The last picture was taken at 3:17am EST, the time that it was expected that total eclipse would occur, but was starting to get sleepy...
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'Twas The Internet Before Christmas →
yourdp:
bajillionhits:
(A Social Media Powerpoem)
Twas the Internet before Christmas, when all through the tubes Not a website was stirring, not even social media gurus’ The bloggers were drunk on ironic Four Lokos and list-hits In hopes that Christmas vacation finally meant they could quit The iPads were nestled all snug on their docks While visions of checking them danced through our...
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12/20/10
If the year up top were just one less, this ticket would have had your name on it by now. Only, things change, and so did you. We gushed so many times how we’d go to Japan together someday soon… We’d shop and get fat and take photos and travel the way we wanted to. But things changed and so did you. I’m so bad at goodbyes that I still haven’t said them, and I’d...
6am.
oh hey, insomnia.
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do not tell your war-aged dad about any kind of...
me: I think the cut on my thumb's getting infected... it's swollen red, and my whole thumb's sore :(
dad: Hm. You're gonna need to cut it open and drain it. Go disinfect a knife in some fire! :D
me: O_O ohlookfoundneosporin! i'llbefinethx.
“If I had to make a list of every reason
Not to keep on keepin’ on,
Number 2...”
– You, Me, And Everyone We Know, A Little Bit More (via jumbleofnotes)
just realized.
Day 2 (tomorrow) is “A picture of what you wore today”. FML.
Well, guess you all get to be impressed with my extreme laziness and non-matching skills tomorrow! Yayyy moving days.
Also:
falaz replied to your post: 30 Day Photo Challenge!
oh you are so cute! :3
Some people are just way too nice! :)
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30 Day Photo Challenge!
…because I’m DONE WITH FINALS!!! (yay!), am procrastinating on packing (boo), need to revive my blog, and ‘cause my momma finds fun tumblr memes.
Day 01 - A picture of yourself
with my dance crew, wearing letters for the first time :)
The upcoming days…
Day 02 - A picture of what you wore today
Day 03 - A picture of what you did today
Day 04 - A picture of where you...
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the holidays.
I’m always more excited to give gifts than to get them, and this year is definitely no exception. Hopefully I’ll be making a few people happy this holiday… :)
[the one thing I hate: keeping it a secret. it’s the most painfully fun part, imho]
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Top 10 Skills that Impress Women →
benglert:
jessicachu:
Conversation
Style and grooming
Bedroom skills
Handyman skills
Athletics
Cooking
Dancing
Fixing a car
Playing an instrument
Speaking other languages
I surprisingly agree with everything… especially the fixing things part. However, I do think they left out “knowing how to manage finances”.
1. Uh… sometimes? I try?
2. Nope. I moved here from California with...
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no.
Midori: Can I bring my ukulele and practice in your living room?
Ben: Can you plug headphones into it?
Midori: ...
Midori: Baby, it's a wooden string instrument.
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Random thoughts: I miss Blink-182.
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Boston City Council proposes licenses for 25 food... →
!!! YES.
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Nurturing Instinct
johnholdun: guys what if tumblr lost a ton of data and are just nervous to tell everybody
johnholdun: what if they lost ALL the data
johnholdun: what if jacob bijani is now a dinosaur egg
johnholdun: what if they're ALL dinosaur eggs, the new tumblr office is probably drafty and they're never gonna hatch!
[...]
GoldenDelicious: wow tumblr is still down
johnholdun: they're all dinosaur eggs
johnholdun: whole staff
johnholdun: tragic, really
GoldenDelicious: don't you live in new york johnholdun
johnholdun: i do.
GoldenDelicious: go to their offices
GoldenDelicious: and demand a refund
johnholdun: you mean SAVE THEM
johnholdun: bring the eggs to my apartment, keep them warm
johnholdun: raise them as my own
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Update:
I just wanted to be nice T_T
Scooched over in my chair for someone who came into class late because he couldn’t get into the chair next to me. Unfortunately, I’m sitting on the end of the back row (two stairs up) and I shifted too far at the same time that he pulled too hard on the other chair…My chair legs went over the ledge of the stairs and I toppled over and down the...