December 2010
bye, twenty ten
This year I’ve made my mistakes and disappointed people I never wanted to - I could keep on regretting them but now I’ve learnt that people come and go. I know what I need to work on, what I think I want, who I can’t bear to disappoint again.
People, memories, it keeps getting better. I’m growing. Why I loved 2010? My first time living abroad with new people, being away...
bye, twenty ten
This year I’ve made my mistakes and disappointed people I never wanted to - I could keep on regretting them but now I’ve learnt that people come and go. I know what I need to work on, what I think I want, who I can’t bear to disappoint again.
People, memories, it keeps getting better. I’m growing. Why I loved 2010? My first time living abroad with new people, being away...
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leilockheart:
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the time of the year when..
my mother sorts/cleans/dumps her collection of ancient belongings and I get to fish out whatever I want for keeps. Yes! :)
my list of 2011 reads
that I will at some indeterminate stage check out from the library or splurge on (or steal from somebody’s bookshelf)
- White Oleander, Janet Fitch
- The Virgin Suicides, Jeffrey Eugenides
- Looking for Alaska, John Green
- Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
- my Japanese version of the Lovely Bones
- Hanamizuki that I purchased at the station on my last night in Osaka
- hopefully more Jodi...
If it weren't for other people, how would we know...
I really want a really comfortable armchair that I...
The awkward moment when next week is actually next...
starscolliding:
You do what you can do, and other people make up for what you can’t.
No, life cannot be understood flat on a page. It has to be lived; a person has to get out of his head, has to fall in love, has to memorize poems, has to jump off bridges into rivers, has to stand in an empty desert and whisper sonnets under his breath… We get one story, you and I, and one story alone.
itskatherinemae:
When someone points out a problem, you don’t make a “come back.” It’s not a whoever can point out the most flaw wins type of thing. You simply just listen & fix it. To benefit both of you.
“There is nothing we like to see so much as the gleam of pleasure in a person’s...”
– Don Marquis (via theuberblog)
“Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone,...”
– Salma Hayek (via marchelinn) (via happythings)
