And yes, Christmas has arrived early! We welcome the newest member of our family – Hipster the Robot. Yes, he exudes that hipster vibe, hence the name. Lila has been smitten ever since she laid eyes on him. Merci beaucoup, Pilou! Currently listening to: Real Estate Real Estate
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No more
No more fight left in me. Today I let my arms fall after keeping them up and moving for so long. No more fight left in me. Today I surrender. Empty shell. Today I stop hoping and expecting. Things will get better, and eventually I will get what I want, but the time between then...
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“Stinkerie”
Julien offered me a green mango this evening. I opened my bottle of bagoong (fish paste, a Filipino delicacy and habit, hehehe) and started to eat in the kitchen. When Julien entered the kitchen he held his hand over his nose, making gagging noises, staggering about and moaning: “It smells like a stinkerie!” (stinker-ie, as...
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Geography
I find it interesting that world maps are hard to come by in stores here in Qatar. So after combing the shelves of Carrefour (all three branches), Villagio, and that little bookstore at the 3rd floor of City Center, I decide to go to Jarir Bookstore along Salwa Road. I ask the guy for a...
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You think you can do these things…
Fucking hell, talk about itchy fingers! Four months after my attempt to give myself a haircut (and failing miserably: my hair is still uneven by 2 inches on one side), here I am again, fighting the urge to chop my hair off. I was mumbling my desire to give myself another haircut an hour ago,...
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Pirates
In France last year, Julien’s mum, his sister and I went to Sephora, where I grudgingly exchanged euros for make-up brushes, eyeshadow, mascara, and a whole bunch of other stuff that came in different colours and bottles. You’d think that I would’ve already known how to put on make-up. Well, I didn’t, at that time....
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Thinning Scissors
The other day, I bought a pair of scissors that hairdressers use. I found them at the pharmacy in the mall. “Thinning scissors?” I mused aloud, which made the Chinese pharmacist come over. “It’s used for shearing your hair.” “Shearing?” “You know, thinning your hair at the ends.” She touched her perfectly-thinned hair tips. “Thinning...
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Acute angles divide my path that I had lost
Damn, that’s what I get for editing the code! Originally I had written a long post with pictures and descriptions, but here’s the short version, as I seem to have mucked the post up: Things that happened in 2007: Lived in Paris Watched Explosions in the Sky and Clap your Hands Say Yeah Moved to...
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Imbalance
For Christmas, I got Julien a bag and Guy Delisle’s graphic novel Pyongyang. The bag was supposed to be on sale, and I was fairly disappointed when the sales lady informed me that the sale was over. Walking to the counter, I passed a stack of leather-bound notebooks, paused, then put one in my cart....
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Blinking lights
Today, I passed my driving exams !!!! On the first try !!!! Qatar is a very weird country… Currently listening to: Deftones Around the Fur
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In an Expression of the Inexpressible
Driving school in France: 1.You enroll in driving school. You pay the fee. 2. You will spend a couple of months attending Code de la Route classes in order to pass the theoretique exam. 3. Once you start driving, your teacher keeps an attentive eye on you and the road. 4. Your teacher tells you...
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