October 2009
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Plan to do this in 1001 days starting October 8, 2009. Fingers crossed and all that.
1. Get a digital SLR camera
2. Restore old photographs
3. Master Texas Hold’em
4. Write a feature script
5. Watch all the Star Wars movies
6. See Radiohead live
7. Get a tattoo
8. Run a marathon
9. See a match at the Camp Nou (preferably the El Clasico)
10. Give up smoking
11. Drink only good whiskey
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pictures
i was looking at my parents’ wedding pictures the other day. it had been a while since i saw them and they looked so young. at this moment, you are thinking, “of course, you dumb bastard. they were young.” but that’s not the kind of young i am talking about. they had the look of a couple who don’t know what they were going to do for the rest of their life. it was a...
bastard
i get this feeling often that i am the worst asshole i know. i ruin relationships over the pettiest matters. at least that’s what people tell me. but then those matters are not really petty to me. they really do matter to me and it’s what matters to me that counts, right? if only life here was so simple. this maybe called the bastard’s life. but i have to play the good man role...
broken
i just realised a few weeks back that i have started stammering. it’s an unnerving feeling. as far as i can remember events from my uneventful childhood, i’ve never stammered or had any speech defects. there were days when words would refuse to form. they would just hang around my mouth. i would mouth them, feebly. sometimes i would be the only one to react to those words, but more...