February 2012
1 post
If you think your pyramid scheme of a company is a start-up, newsflash kid, you have no right to come in and tell me that there was no way a social shopping site would have succeeded. 1) You never worked in the start-up industry in the first place and 2) you revealed your lack of competence when you brought up Goodreads as an example of a social website that succeeded and pinned its success to its...
January 2012
3 posts
DO/MD or bust.
Most likely DO (Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine).
Right now I’m planning on going into Family Medicine, since I want to work with a broad spectrum of patients and diseases. The residency is shorter (3 years) and relatively uncompetitive. A uncompetitive residency is important to me, since I want to stay close to my family and California is known to be hard to land a residency in. Physical...
“10% luck,
20% skill,
15% concentrated power of will,
5% pleasure,
50% pain,...”
4 months ago I was scoring interviews with companies like MTV, and signed on to a job for a company that’s pretty notorious in the social gaming industry. Immediately after taking the job, I received multiple interview requests from poachers on Linkedin. That’s how big this company was in the industry. I was being contacted via Facebook by advertising start-ups that wanted me to use...
December 2011
5 posts
Weirdest pervy pickup attempt ever from a few...
Him: Hey Annie, sit with me. *pulls me onto the couch next to him by my hand before I can react, puts a pillow on top of our laps, and tries to caress the outside of my thigh*
Me: *overwhelmed by the ridiculousness of what was going on especially considering that I had rejected his advances all night, stands up and leaves without saying anything*
Weirdest nonpervy pickup attempt ever from a few...
Me: *emo, greasy-haired, makeup-smeared waiting for the BART since I was too lazy to take it off before bed last night*
Him: *tip-toes into my peripheral vision* Oh hey...did you do your eye makeup like that on purpose?
Me: No, I just didn't have time to fix it last night or this morning. *secretly afraid that he can tell how emo I am*
Him: Oh OK, just wondering. I like girls who do their eye makeup in weird and interesting ways. *smiles*
Me: Oh...oh look, there's my train.
Him: *follows me onto the train, sits next to me* So where are you from?
Me: I'm going to San Jose right now, I go to school in Berkeley.
Him: Oh I'm from a city right outside San Francisco *continues to try to make small talk with me for two stops* Anyways, here's my card... *hands me his moocard* Feel free to contact me if you want to.
Me: Ok... *still emo, but at least somewhat distracted*
“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.”
– John Lennon
Trying to learn to forgive...
but how do you forgive someone who wanted you to feel insignificant or unimportant in comparison to other girls,
or someone who betrayed your trust in a crucial, sensitive moment after he promised that he would never want to hurt you in that way again,
or someone who was supposed to be one of your closest friends but couldn’t remain loyal to you and has seemingly been constantly putting...
October 2011
1 post
“What must it be like, I wonder, to live in a world where food appears at the...”
– The Hunger Games
June 2011
1 post
1 tag
May 2011
2 posts
“Without cause God gave us Being.
Without cause, give it back again.”
– Rumi
“Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or...”
– Henry David Thoreau
April 2011
3 posts
“To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability...”
– Martha Nussbaum
March 2011
2 posts
“You enter the forest at the darkest point, where there is no path. Where there...”
– Joseph Campbell
Wael Ghonim: Inside the Egyptian revolution |... →
“The power of the people is much stronger than the people in power.”
Wael Ghonim, the Google Middle East and North Africa executive that was detained for 11 days by the Egyptian authorities, speaks on the Egyptian revolution. It’s so easy to get caught up in the daily grind and begin to forget our voices.
February 2011
1 post
“It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to...”
– Alex Karras
January 2011
1 post
“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than a sincere ignorance and...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
December 2010
2 posts
October 2010
7 posts
“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”
– Oprah Winfrey
sad.
is fidelity possible in a relationship? im so tired.
:)
“It’s like living: life is happening, and there is nothing to figure out...”
– Cheri Huber
Peter Principle →
“The Peter Principle is a special case of a ubiquitous observation: anything that works will be used in progressively more challenging applications until it fails. There is much temptation to use what has worked before, even when it may exceed its effective scope. Dr. Peter observed this about humans.
“…members of a hierarchical organization eventually are promoted to their...
September 2010
19 posts
Proof that I think way too much.
Isn’t it so mindbogglingly amazing that the concept of 0 and infinity have so much in common, but are virtual opposites of each other? Both are boundless in their quantity—one boundless in its nothingness, the other in its substance.
</geek>
Two balls. One girl.
Balls cause I dislike my job and I need a raise.
Balls cause I’m taking a leap of faith.
“Light and shade, long and short, black and white, can only be experienced in...”
– The Lankavatara Sutra
“Everyday, think as you wake up, “Today I am fortunate to have woken up, I...”
– Dalai Lama
“And I am aware of my heart: it opens and closes / Its bowl of red blooms out of...”
– Sylvia Path
“Envy is an insult to oneself.”
– Yevgeny Yevtushenko (via kari-shma)
“Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold....”
– Alan Alda
“We do not “come into” this world; we come out of it, as leaves from...”
– Alan Watts
“Now if you want to win any battle you have to do one thing. You have to make the...”
“He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his...”
– St. Francis of Assisi
Rebelution - What I Know
Destination unknown but I had this vision In my mind’s eye This is my decision Every single dream, every single fantasy, every single love, every single enemy It’s all for me Do you believe that you can change the world? Do you believe that you can change the world? Freedom of speech, freedom of truth, your freedom to do What the fuck you heart wants you to do, it’s all for...
“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”
– Oscar Wilde
“You are so young, so much before all beginning, and I would like to beg you dear...”
– Rainer Rilke
blood & bones.
“Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death...”
– William Shakespeare, “Julius Caesar”, Act 2 scene 2
August 2010
9 posts
“Your journey has molded you for the greater good, and it was exactly what it...”
– Asha Tyson