The first steps. Learning by explaining. |
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Lately, I've come to realize that appreciating great ideas as I encounter them is one thing. Retaining and making good use of them is quite another. The desire grew - and continues to grow - in me to start taking learning more seriously.
At the same time, inspired by the many samples of clear, lively exposition I've marveled at over the years, I wish to improve my (latent?) writing skills.
Here I hope to begin the ambitious, perhaps noble but undoubtedly naive attempt at my own explanation of all these things I don't want to just forget - because I find them elegant, shocking, illuminating, or, simply, beautiful.
Re: streem.us
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I guess I jumped the gun a slight bit with my last posting- it turns out that streem.us is *NOT* gone and is back online and running smoothly. I suppose the server must have had some sort of outage resulting in the down-time, although I am still a little confused regarding the placeholder page that was being used.
The moral of this story? I am quite satisfied that streem.us is back online.
She cried |
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That club going last night reminded me of her. Tonight I read Haruki's short story. There's a woman who cries in a man's arms. That brings me to the night when she cried hopelessly in my arms. I still don't know exactly why she cried. She was down all day. First real depressive side of her. I still don't know why she had to cry so hopelessly. She didn't tell me why. She just cried while we were watching some weird movie in my room. A lot of things I will forget. Unfortunately I will forget little details of happy moments that I spent with her. Somehow I am certain that if there will be one last thing that I will remember of her, it will be her trembling little body tightly clinging onto mine, sobbing endlessly. Why it is that I've developed this tendency of making big of sad moments, I don't know. I think I've managed to forget a lot of them. But if something persists its place in my memory, it usually is something sad.
I still remember the last glimpse of her, sitting right at the sofa right next to me right now.
Lipton is gone |
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Unbeknownst to me, someone appears to have polished it off. I guess that's how it was meant to be. I know. Who would have known the meaning that I've vested in that little nothing teabag. It does hurt me. I am watching my old self slowly dying. Mourn.
streem.us |
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I was very disappointed this morning upon trying to access my new account at streem.us; it appears that the website is no longer in existence. I had just registered for an account several days ago (streem.us/bradleyolson) and was looking forward to using the blogging tool as a supplement to my more active accounts (with WordPress.com, Posterous.com, Blogs.mu, etc.).
I'm keeping my fingers crossed that perhaps the page is simply being updated and will be back online soon, although considering the placeholder that now appears when you try to access http://streem.us I'm not going to be holding my breath.
sa.yona.la |
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I'm not quite sure yet what I am going to be using sa.yona.la for, but it certainly seems like an interesting application so I'm sure i'll figure out something.
Gulls fluttering |
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Having finished a book today, I thought I should take some walk outside. But the rain was pouring like a horny bitch. I gave up my journey at a bookstore and went to see the beach at the end of the street on my place. Having been here more than a year, I still haven't seen it in rain so far. It was charming, alright. Some gulls were fluttering around too. Looking at the see water under the heavy rain for a while, I was reminded of her again. Every damn thing in this little town reminds me of her. We've spent time together here long enough I guess.
Then I watched 'Tony Takitani', again.
What she has left behind |
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7 sachets of Lipton 'Honey & Lemon' tea, a half-full can of walnut drink powder, a near-full can of men's daily facial cream, some avocado cream, perhaps some shaving cream leftover, a few sachets of moisturiser samples, a few sachets of men's skin products samples.
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