January 2010
68 posts
“…time can be a greedy thing - sometimes it steals all the details for itself.”
– The Kite Runner (via kari-shma)
“If you are tired, keep going; if you are scared, keep going; if you are hungry,...”
– Harriet Tubman
“The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity-it’s envy....”
– Life of Pi by Yann Martel (via chmns)
Trials
NYU School of Law, Harvard Law School, and the Advantage Testing Foundation has partnered to announce the 2010 Training and Recruitment Initiative for Admission to Leading Law Schools. This is a residential, full-scholarship program. Applications are due February 15th. Please take note of all the application requirements. Below you shall find the original email sent by Trials.
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Sagittarius: For the week of January 18 - January...
This week, your diaphanous wings begin to flutter as the Sun and Venus enter social butterfly Aquarius. You’ve cocooned yourself away for long enough. Now, lift your nose from the proverbial grindstone and go connect with the world. A tight budget doesn’t have to limit your interactions. Be up front about what you can and can’t afford. You can meet the girls for a glass of wine or a few rounds of...
Heartbreak and Home Runs: The Power of First... →
psychotherapy:
This is another one of those articles where you really should make some time to follow the link and read the entire thing. It’s quite interesting:
…Beginning in our late teenage years and early 20s, we develop and internalize a broad, autobiographical narrative about our lives, spelling out who we were, are, and might be in the future, says Dan McAdams, a psychologist at...
eh humanity
in rewatching The Cats of Mirikitani, my heart grew a little. i still can’t manage to hold back the strong emotions i have when seeing humanity at both its best and its worst. the travails and
UCLA & UCBerkeley Law School Admissions Workshop...
In preparation for the upcoming law school application cycle, we would like to inform you that For People of Color, Inc. will only conduct four law school admissions workshops this year. Unlike past years, no law school admissions workshops will be conducted in the summer or fall. This change is being made in an effort to provide essential information regarding the application process to...
hey gingeryuen :D
TEARS OF THE BLACK TIGER
TEARS OF THE BLACK TIGER takes a journey back to a lost past – the heroic years of Thai genre cinema, when influences from Hollywood and everywhere else were subsumed into rollicking Thai melodramas for an audience of avid fans. Sasanatieng’s film is a brilliant pastiche of vanished themes, styles and characters, almost all of them easily recognizable as variants on the prototypes from other...
WatchTears of the Black Tiger (Thai: ฟ้าทะลายโจร, or Fah talai jone, literally, “the heavens strike the thief”) is a 2000 Thai western film written and directed by Wisit Sasanatieng. The story of a tragic romance between Dum, a fatalistic, working-class hero, who has become an outlaw, and Rumpoey, the upper-class daughter of a provincial governor, it is equal parts homage to and parody...
WatchPBS Independent Lens - The Cats of Mirikitani
“Make art not war” is Jimmy Mirikitani’s motto. This 85-year-old Japanese American artist was born in Sacramento and raised in Hiroshima, but by 2001 he is living on the streets of New York with the twin towers of the World Trade Center still ominously anchoring the horizon behind him. What begins as a simple verite...
ask the d, she shall tell....hmmana hmmana hmmana →
Greatest pickup line? Or GREATEST pickup line?
You: Hey baby, can I buy you a drink?
Her: Sorry, I have a boyfriend.
You: Really? I have a goldfish.
Her: What?
You: Oh sorry, I thought we were talking about shit that doesn't matter.
“A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be...”
– Paulo Coelho (via kari-shma)
