Posts Tagged ‘scholarship’
blase-ness
the entire scholarship application and pre-departure process is a testament to my growing ability to take things as they come without worrying overmuch. where i would previously have cried in frustration and become severely depressed, i now shrug my shoulders and focus on something more practical (or at least, more interesting), even if i cannot quite laugh about [...]
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Tags: chwee kueh, japan, scholarship, school, translation
the unexpectedness of it all
spam is so convincingly written these days, it’s amazing. have you ever received spam comments that sound really sincere (i like your writing! i added you to my blogroll. will be back!), and you would never really know if it were a real comment or spam… because… hell, mr. make serious income (or whoever) may [...]
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Tags: japan, scholarship, spam
the beginning…
… but the end of the long wait. i’m so grateful i could weep. or dance around wildly. i don’t know how to react because i’ve been waiting for so long. it all seems so unreal. i’m going back to school!
i’m sure the fear will set in at some point in time, but for now… [...]
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Tags: christmas, scholarship
shinobu
i have this little piece of calligraphy standing on my desk, given to me more than ten years ago by a schoolteacher in japan. it is just one word – 忍, or the verb, shinobu. the word means the same as what it does in chinese – to endure.
my life is not quite so awful that [...]
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Tags: enduring, scholarship, shinobu
lux aeterna
ligeti’s lux aeterna is beautiful. when performed by a choir like kammerchor stuttgart, it is ethereal beyond words. eternal light. it makes you think.
have finished an exhausting two-day interpreting assignment, spent mostly interpreting make-up tips from a japanese make-up artiste. i have a splendid idea of how to color the face now, and my feet… [...]
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Tags: lilies, lux aeterna, make up, scholarship
whispering out loud
i’m on fibre pills again, on top of the other three medicines i have to take for the wheezing. not good.
went to meet a little miracle of life today. babies are sweet. they can’t help it. they don’t have to be anything but the small little wonders they are, and you feel like melting when [...]
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Tags: babies, scholarship, whining
stalkers
what a day.
first, the wheezing (always the wheezing). wheezing is a really terrible thing to have happen to you. the sound itself is enough to send anyone scuttling to the other end of the room. air may be a free commodity, but the pain you experience when you have to tear out your lungs to [...]
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Tags: scholarship, sick, stalker, wheezing, whining, work
