February 2012
9 posts
February Project: Who I follow
Sounds exactly what it’s going to be: myself, highlighting a blog or tumblr that I love to follow, and give you why. Give you a bit of bio background, how I know them, and why you should follow. This has been on my mind all day, so stay tuned.
“Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.”
– Doris Day
Moustaches, sideburns and toe hair: Ethnic girl...
That awkward I’m-not-a-girl-not-yet-a-woman phase happened so quickly during my middle school years. I became self aware about how I looked and would constantly compare myself to my blonde barbie friends; you know the type, the girls who shot up like a tree and skipped the gawky phase and went from being flat to a real bra in a matter of months.
Aside from the usual braces, glasses, and...
caite asked: Hey! Crazy, It's Cait from Inequalities in Health! I swear I'm not an internet stalker...haha.
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Job Search 101
So far, I have send 209 emails that contained a cover letter and resume to hundreds, literally hundreds, of companies within the Vancouver area…This is what I’ve wished I’d known when I sent out the first 100 emails:
Networking is the best way to find opportunities: About half of my interviews were through my career networks that were able to give it to HR personally, and...
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209 Emails
209 emails were sent out this month…two Hundred and nine! that must be a record of how many resumes and cover letters that were rejected by literally hundreds of companies at this point. I read somewhere from the depths of the internet that being unemployed is a full time job, and I whole-heartedly agree. I spend hours everyday, customizing my resume and cover letters, filling out forms and...
January 2012
31 posts
“I wonder if it’s possible to have a love affair that lasts forever?”
– Andy Warhol
Anonymous asked: Where was your interview that you just had? Good luck on your job hunt!
Good Friday
Breakfast was full of fruit, oats and yogurt that was swirled in with almonds that energized my morning and the rest of my afternoon. This breakfast was almost a nuance to what would be my afternoon plans. It was a mix match of stark seriousness and goal setting, and ended with fluid movements of my own pathway around Vancouver and ended on a sweet note with dinner with my cousin.
My interview...
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What would you do with an extra hour? →
This is an article my friend Jenny did for the UVIC newspaper a few months back. She contacted me because she needed to talk to a sociologist, and I was flattered to help! She’s a wonderful writer, and you can visit her tumblr site here.
Highschool Grad 2008
My friend, Natalie, brought up a good point about running into people in our small town, “At this point, you both can pretend that you don’t know each other and be okay”. She was referring to people that we went to highschool with, and are still around Port Coquitlam. I didn’t realize that it has been almost 4 years since highschool graduation of ‘08. It boggles my...
Reflex
My body feels aged beyond its years when I woke up this morning. A stiff with aches in the arms and chest is more than enough physical pain for me to shuffle across the kitchen floor and try to mend it with some tea.
It’s weird and uncanny that my body is so in sync with my thoughts and mental state. It is true when people say that when they look good, they feel good (or the vise versa);...
Baking binge
I was never much of a baker, or cooker for that matter. It was only maybe the last semester, or two, of my university life that there is more to food than whatever is in that KD Box. Sure, I tried to spice things up with some extra ingredients here or there, but it is nothing to what I’m doing right now.
Lumpias (spring rolls) are folded to perfection, and dough is rising to the perfect...
Your Feet
When I cannot look at your face I look at your feet. Your feet of arched bone, your hard little feet. I know that they support you, and that your sweet weight rises upon them. Your waist and your breasts, the doubled purple of your nipples, the sockets of your eyes that have just flown away, your wide fruit mouth, your red tresses, my little tower. But I love your feet only because...
Fire & Ice
Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.
- Robert Frost
Oh, boy!
My knuckles were as white as they were holding the black steering wheels with both hands at my 9 and 3. As white as the substance falling down in chucks and whirls on my windshield.
It was near midnight tonight when I decided to head home and that is when I noticed the layer of snowflakes lining my car. I had a slight panic attack. I just conquered a small fear of driving downtown commercial,...
To my present self,
I want to remind you that you can live in the moment. Actually, be the moment.
There is no shame in enjoying the bliss you had being in this transition. Revel in it.
You deserve to take a break after 5 full time, consecutive semesters, not to mention finishing school early; I mean, who does that? You’re allowed to sleep in a bit.
Learn things. Try different things. Be out of the...
Black Keys
It’s actually nice just to hear my sibling play the piano so melodically, instead of him giggling to himself into a pair of XBOX headphones.
A different noise I haven’t heard in a long time.
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unparalleled state
This is the only point in my life in which I am between school and career. My B.A. program finished up, and I am literally just waiting to walk across the stage in June for that awesome piece of paper to say that I am qualified for something.
So far, there there have been a few nibbles here and there, and using some of my networks to find a job. I have only been officially a statistic as of...
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I sit in the living room alone. The refrigerator hums from across the room to remind me that there isn’t much to eat around here when you have clogged ears and nose from the sickness of boredom.
I feel almost muted from inspiration because of the stagnant transition I had from school and career. Let it be a short and sweet winter.
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New Years 2011
A quiet evening with a few friends at the home brought in the new year. Drinks were shared, stories were brought up and laughed off. Some slept if off, the others, drank it off.
I don’t think I could have imagined it any other way to ring in the new year.
December 2011
23 posts
A real Christmas
Christmas day hasn’t been like this in a long time; at least 2 or 3 years. I had the greatest time with every single family and friend that showed up at my aunt’s home.
Although time flew by, there were just some noticeable difference from over the years:
The young ones are now in elementary school, and some of them are hitting puberty. I still remember them with awkward haircuts...
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whisperwordsofwisdommmm asked: hello! i noticed that you go to uvic, and i was wondering if you could tell me what your experience was like there? i'm considering applying there. also, if you wouldn't mind telling me what your average high school marks were coming into uvic? Thanks! :)
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Keys
My landlord is lovely. The night before I left to go back to Vancouver, she came over in her rob and slippers to say goodbye and gave me a hug. She greeted the others as they were her own.
The one thing I did forget to give her are the keys to the Wenman home. I don’t know if I should hand them back, like a good tenant would, or keep them for myself, as a special reminder as what was my...
“You still have a lot of time to make yourself be what you want. There’s still...”
– The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
A refresh
Enough with the instagrams and reblogs, it’s time to get back to my grassroots of writing. I can only abstain from something for so long until inspiration hits me like the unsettling reality of my graduation. No more school, or courses to take, but now bills to pay and student loans to repay. I can’t say I miss school just yet, but the yearning of education is still in place....