Why does it take me 5 hours to read 15 pages of philosophy? I'm exaggerating a bit, but the point is: what has happened to my concentration?!!

"Life is not what you deserve, it is what you negotiate." - some wise man

Everyone in my family and everyone belonging to my family's culture has had and still has arranged marriages (although things are starting to change). Therefore, unlike other people in the world, having "game" is not a trait that has been passed down from generation to generation in my culture. No one really practices their "game." Does that make sense? I seriously doubt that "game" is something that the individual develops entirely by him/herself... something completely free from the influence of family and culture/society.

A pretty interesting word association test.

not been a good past few days with the authorities...
went to Franklin St on Halloween as a Japanese swordsman, only to have my foam sword confiscated by the cops!
then last night I got written up at Maxwell for holding alcohol... that's so stupid, I'm 21...
where's the sense in all this?

Research proposal -
Get a decently attractive guy and girl to go around campus and ask people to have sex with them that night.
Hypothesis -
In a normal college, all the women asked would shy off immediately. All the men would look at their watches and say, "Yes, I'm free at 8.30!"
But would this really be the case at Duke??? I have no clue actually. I think this might be interesting to do here. Especially if we have hidden video ;)

Everything you always wanted to know about comic adaptations, but were afraid to ask.

You have claim to your actions only; to their fruits you have no claim.
-BHAGAVAD GITA

Must get myself ready for a taekwondo tournament against UNC!!! No one will hit my head this time!!!

I can SO do with a Hainanese Chicken Rice set right about now...

Sitting shirtless and eating chicken tortellini from the BC cafe while listening to "Smack my Bitch up" after a gruesome hour at the career's fair is (just about) the best thing ever...

I just got very excited!!

always outnumbered
never outgunned

- The Prodigy

"Are you hungry for a little more than you've had before?"
-Kosheen

"There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, especially in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible."
- PJ O'Rouke
(I have no idea who this person is, or what the car looks like, but it's a pretty cool quote)

He remembers those vanished years
As though looking through a dirty window pane
The past is something he could see but not touch
And everything he sees is blurred and indistinct

- from "In the Mood for Love" by Wong Kar Wai

"I think and write, and think and write, and think and write; but the more I work and the more I torment myself the less it works -- then, from inside: voila! There it is."
Hayao Miyazaki (works on Studio Ghibli anime)

"Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being."
Lyrical and Critical Essays, Camus

There is nothing as naked as human eyes: they haven't even got skin over them.

"You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question."
- Camus