{Expat Diaries} When Distance Matters
It was past 10 pm on a national holiday, but a bunch of us were still in the office, brows furrowed as we stared at…
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Youth is Wasted on the Young
When the movie Before Midnight came out last year, I realized that perhaps it was time to finally watch the first two movies that came…
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Unhappiness is…
… reality falling short of our expectations. That’s what I realized from watching 500 Days of Summer. It’s true, though, isn’t it? So I guess…
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Pain is a Necessary Evil
Recently I had some unpleasant news. As I cried about it to my friends, one of them said something profound. “Maybe, just maybe, this pushes…
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Great Expectations
“So, are you an honors student?” I asked the boy. At the age of 18, he was hardly a boy, but our age gap made…
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What Goes Around Comes Around
“Thanks again for everything, especially for you-know-what,” my friend, let’s call her K, wrote in her card to me. “I will always be grateful for…
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It’s Okay to be a Damsel in Distress Sometimes
“What happened, actually?” the doctor asked me after he had tended to my wounds. “I… ummm… fell,” I explained ruefully. “So clumsy.” You’d think there…
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When Your Bestfriend Gets Married
The second episode of Sherlock season 3, “The Sign of Three” made me weep. It is the episode when Sherlock’s best friend John gets married,…
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7 Traits of True Friends
When my friend Anne shared my blog about our thanksgiving dinner on Facebook, she said, among other things: “Amidst all that happened, I realized who…
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Thanksgiving Dinner with my Second Family
One of the cons of being an expat is being far away from your family and the people you grew up with, the culture that…
