• As you repeat this selection process, you increase your sensitivity to joy.
• When something sparks joy, you should feel a little thrill, as if the cells in your body are slowly rising. When you hold something that doesn't bring you joy, you will notice that your body feels heavier.
• And when you discard anything, don't forget to thank it before saying goodbye
• Tidying is the act of confronting yourself; cleaning is the act of confronting nature.
• If it brings you joy, but you can't see yourself wearing it outside, there's no reason you shouldn't wear it inside.
• Type As are thought to have a stronger desire for neatness than Bs
• I know that complaining is actually proof that a person still has the energy to carry on

• Salt and Lychee Soda
• Pocillo (2 oz espresso)
• Lemonade and Soursop Nectar
• Frozen Coffee
• Acerola Juice
• Black Out (Two Scoops of Vanilla Ice Cream, Coke)
• Plum Iced Tea
• Salted Lassi
• Basil Lemon Mojito
• Freshly-Squeezed Orange Juice
• Green Tea Cheese Cream Milk Tea
• Strawberry Milk
• Grapefruit Soda
• Mango Juice and Yakult
• Caramelized Onion and Mushroom Havarti Melt
• Curry Croquettes
• Cheese-Baked Seafood Rice
• Butter and Sugar with Lemon Crepes

• the pearl daisy eclair
• adding soft, warm luminosity of handmade washi to the eyes
• a gentle translucent green just like washi paper
• Je prend une baguette, s’il vous plaît.
• indian menu/malaysian menu
• vegetable gravy : potato, paneer, cauliflower, mushroom
• “Creator for the food, and for you, I thank you”

This was the traditional Haida blessing that preceded the meal. The octopus was harvested underneath a rock on her beach during low tide, and was then transformed into the best octopus ball we’ve ever had.

• strawberry lime soda
• spicy coconut lemonade
• mango lemonade (ramadan special)
• creamy cashew milkshake
• fresh peach lemonade
• spicy chicken fried rice

Asians who immigrated to the United States as children have higher rates of suicidal ideation and suicide attempts than U.S. born Asians. Asians who came as adolescents and adults have lower rates than either of those groups.In addition, more Asian female students reported suicidal thoughts and behaviors than Asian male, White female, or White male students. In a survey of students attending high schools in Hawaii, Native Hawaiians had a significantly higher lifetime prevalence rate for suicide attempt (12.9%) than non-native Hawaiian students (9.6%).11 In another survey of Hawaiian high school students, Native Hawaiians (11.5%) and Filipinos (13.6%) had more than twice the rate of suicide attempts in the past 12 months than Caucasians (5.6%). Cultural identification: Among Asians, higher levels of identification with Asian culture, such as a sense of belonging and affiliation with spiritu...

• yaira - to enlighten
• neri - my candle
• maori names - anahera, ataahua, tui, te aroha, awhina, tui, te ao
• l'kolech. Hashvil bo esah hu shvilech

Ima Adama Panayich chamot v'otfot Adama - Einayim chumot bi tzofot

Hein bati mimech, micheikech - adama V'at atidah l'shakech - adama Et kol k'evai, et leilotai, et yamai Olam umlo'o lach modeh - adama

Adama - notenet piryah l'chulam Adama - tova utmima l'olam Adama - lamdi na et b'nech ha'adam

• (prettypleasedesign)
• it's been a pretty minute'
• doesn't everything taste better when it's pretty
• (kevin nadal) : our brown skin, slanted eyes and spanish surnames often confuse people. Sometimes, we are told (directly or indirectly) that we aren't really Asian; that our skin is too dark; or that we are among the lowest of the Asian totem pole. Because these messages are often communicated by East Asian Americans (e.g., Chinese, Japanese, or Korean Americans), many Filipino Americans report feeling more affinity with Pacific Islanders, Latinx, and Black Americans, and some build coalitions with South Asians to proclaim that Brown Asians exist.
• So, even if many of us are taught to be proud of our ethnic identity as Filipinos, we can still carry with us an internaliz...

• Un e'te', il y a longtemps - one summer, a long time ago
• 천철
• 오래전에
• 웅장한
• 유리
• 약간
• 독특하다
• 막바지
• miro por la ventana y veo fortaleza y esa ensenanza que todo con fe y amor se puede alcanzar

ONE NOTE

• persian love cake and chocolate pavlova for my dear family
• the women Im grateful for
• pretending to be in provence
• such a serene looing work space
• bouquet of glass spoons
• reeds, fresh air, views!

• Capucine
• Haya
• Priyanka
• Fifi Leuchars
• Hannia
• Garrascal
• Teboul
• Paloma Hevia
• Souttar
• Sassaman
• Alix Salas
• Pasco
• Elif
• Fahime
• Anita Fiorillo
• Masi Mozayan
• Malagoli
• Carme Catalunya
• Riquelme
• Catalina Paz Heap
• Aitch Heliana

• crab fried rice at Gerry's (too salty)
• cream cheese, nutella filled star bread
• grilled tender juicy hot dog lol
• homemade iced latte with almond milk + hazelnut creamer + cinnamon
• eating a fat ass piece of watermelon with a spoon
• mom's homemade thick hummus
• my homemade no recipe sparkling lemonade with honey
• roasted oolong milk tea at t4, basil popcorn chicken is only good while it;s piping hot smh
• coffee milk tea and boba loca (tasted like straight up nescafe..)
• inka potato chips (bland but lovely texture)
• SPICY chicken kofta, basmati rice, paneer naan. sooo delicious so satisfying exccept the paneer naan. wasn't cooked enough ( i like my naan slightly charred, this w...

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• afsaneh (persian - "fairy tale")
• luningning (tagalog - "brilliance")
• rosario (spanish - "rosary")

• chinese clay pot rice (bo zai fan)
• ethiopian wat with injera - tried!
• mango kulfi
• persian jeweled rice (javaher polow)
• turkish ayran
• turkish doner kebab
• saudi arabian fish kabsa
• jamaican ting soda
• jamaican beef patty
• indian dosa
• indian samosa - tried !
• struffoli
• roti canai - tried !
• canadian nanaimo bar
• sesame pancake
• shakshouka - made!
• huevos rancheros - tried !
• semla (swedish creme-filled cardamom buns)
• dolma - tried !
• malaysian wantan mee

IN USA

• los angeles theatre (theatre) , los angeles
• madonna inn (hotel) , san luis obispo
• mill rose inn, half moon bay
• lolo's food shack (restaurant) , nyc
• kaihalulu, hana

IN IRAN

• golestan palace, tehran
• darband, tehran

IN INDIA

• the raj palace grand heritage hotel, jaipur
• city palace, jaipur
• mysore palace

IN INDONESIA

• maimun palace, medan

IN ITALY

• iquitos, peru
• trujillo, peru
• sidi bou said, tunisia
• barcelona, spain
• sevilla, spain
• cordoba, spain
• castro del rio, spain
• cartagena, colombia
• ashgabat, turkmenistan
• kazan, russia
• rio de janeiro, brazil
• goree, senegal
• havana, cuba
• samarqand, uzbekistan
• reykjavik, iceland
• vieques, puerto rico
• valladolid, mexico
• taxco, mexico
• carcar, philippines
• puerto princesa, philippines

• Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini (novel)
• A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini (novel)
• Kira-Kira - Cynthia Kadohata (novel, a childhood favorite that I've read four times)
• The House of the Spirits (novel, Isabel Allende)
• Beloved (novel, Toni Morrison)
• Frankenstein (novel, Mary Shelley)
• Geisha : A Life - Mineko Iwasaki (autobiography)
• When Heaven and Earth Changed Places - Le Ly Hayslip (memoir)
• Complete Short Stories - Ernest Hemingway (compilation of short stories, some of my favorites are Indian Camp, Old Man at the Bride, Hills Like White Elephants, The Capital of the World)
• Family Matters - Rohinton Mistry (novel)
• La Belle Dame Sans Merci - John Keats (po...

• First
• Svea
• Mirina
• Melou
• Full
• Sahar Ghaheri
• Homayoon Ershadi
• Last
• Semchenko
• Lao Tzu Dao De Ching Notes
• The Taoist's Heart-and-Mind Is a Bright Mirror. It reflects But does not absorb.
• high seriousness and wise wit
• "If my own body is not mine, whose is it" "It is the form lent to you by heven and earth. your life is not your possession. it is a harmony granted to you for a time by heaven and earth. your life-destiny is not your possession. it is a flow gran...

• ashen light, green baize, cognoscenti, ionosphere
• some celestial espionage
• Pauline Oliveros, Katie Peterson
• humblebrag, happenstance
• extant, nexus, less learnedly
• in the afternoon, the time of christ's death
• the full moon always rises around sunset. eaxing gibbous moons rise before sunset and waning gibbous moons rise after sunset and as a result can be seen in the morning sky before sunrise.
• substance of the soul being left on the moon - plutarch
• to descry new lands, rivers or mountains in her spotty globe - john milton
• in the full she appears like a tart that my cooke made me last weeke; here a vaine of bright stuffe, and there of darke, an...

• grand prismatic spring
• A poc a poc, com neix la lluna;

a poc a poc, potser és amor el que ha nascut com una espurna de l'amistat que hi ha entre tu i jo.

Little by little, as the moon goes out Little by little, perhaps it's love whatever has been born from a spark of the friendship which exists between you and me

• Sous aucun prétexte je ne veux

Avoir de réflexes malheureux Il faut que tu m'expliques un peu mieux Comment te dire adieu

Mon cœur de silex vite prend feu Ton cœur de pyrex résiste au feu Je suis bien perplexe je ne veux Me résoudre aux adieux

Je sais bien qu'un ex amour N'a pas de chance ou si peu Mais pour moi Une explication vaudrait mieux

• zucchini cream soup
• buckwheat porridge boiled with butter and milk
• astrakhan triple fish soup
• baursaki (yeast dough dumplings served with honey based solution, typically fried in a cauldron. take with tea)
• moscow open pies ( rasstegai) - in the shape of a woman's shoe, stuffed with fillings such as red salmon, sturgeon. traditionally are poured over with rich broth and butter
• gingerbread from a small town near moscow, traditional jam or condensed milk stuffing
• baked apples soaked in various syrups
• apple pastilla with honey and sour apple

• agata honorata mikrut
• leyva, maietta , kiantos, oloshove, hallihan, ophelie, agoston , beamud
• selver yildirim, mathieu dutan, oroma elewa, betty adewole, mame thiane camara, hao zeng, lina zhang,
• solitude in the garden
• a girl with silk cocoons
• maison martin margiela bathrobe
• tiger playing in the snow
• luminous melting cleanser
• couture fairytaile

• fruit salad - a bountiful array of market fruit
• CAKE FOR BREAKFAST! • $11

orange-almond teacake, white wine-roasted fruit & whipped organic cream (gf)

• SEMOLINA MILK CAKE

orange flower water, pistachio whip, pomegranate molasses, sesame shortbread •

• calpis sherbet with aloe and yogurt lassi
• calpis sherbet with kiwi sauce and mango
• jewis delicatessens are often lovingly described as sacred templed of meat.

is salami and eggs better than sex?

• there's the savory perfume of browning onions wafting off the gridle, the sunshine gleam of a halved grapefruit sprinkled w...

• the painter teaches the neighborhood kids his little american song.
• the boys are wearing striped t-shirts
• the rich woman is indeed charmed by the painter-man, she wears (is that dior?), a thin string of pearls, grey eyeshadow swept up until a little bit below the manicured brow, bright vermilion on her lips. she sashays in her gown to her barcart, gleaming with fragile glass and silver and pours drinks into small teeny glasses. they haven't even finished their teeny glasses until they've decided to drink from other teeny glasses, at a steaming jazz nightclub. the nightclub is absolutely packed with people, smoke clouds make way to reveal cave painting decals on the wall. a saxophonist blows away into the night, and couples sway in cheek-to-cheek disarray. old men drink orange juice out of straws, not only are there teeny glasses of ...

• dissolved in plasma - ions, proteins, blood cells
• 45% of plasma volume is cellular elements, the remainder is plasma
• precapillary spihincter- adjusts blood flow into capillaries. smooth muscle fiber wraps around capillary
• gastrovaacular cabity - allcells are exposed to steps of digestion. ingestion og food in cavity, fragmented by enzymes. only one opening to environment, with food in and out there.
• factors that increase heart rate
• sterlings law, law of continuity
• diastole vs systole
• trace path of red blood cell from heart to systemic to heart
• four ways blood gets back to heart
• three gradients in capillaries
• blood pressure at capillary ends
• four components of blood

• Russian Menu
• Russian Tea Cakes
• Sweet Chocolate Braid
• Zucchini Croquettes
• Mushroom and Potato Soup
• Frosted Cranberries
• Chai Po-Russki , Russian Tea
• Kotlety (Russian Beef Patties)
• Sharlotka (Apple Cake)
• Borsht
• Cabbage Pirozhki
• Turkish Menu
• Lemon Chicken, Artichokes
• Baklava Rolls
• Stuffed Chard, Stuffed Eggplant
• Simit (Sesame Rings)
• Naneli Limonata (Mint Lemonade)
• Cream Stuffed Apricots

ethiopian coffee with ginger honey and cinnamon on buttered turkish toast

• thou are present in my shadowiness
• and thine early morning gladness
• my life with its bell of crystal and of silver
• shaken in a hush, to the jubliance of flowered Easter
• my head absolved in a rose and amaranthine turmoil
• a cloud, a passenger aboard
• thy saintly face, and a shroud of snow for my desire. thine anagram is youth and grace and love.
• thine alone alleviates my coward dusk.

• Yağmur - unisex, turkish "rain"
• Cosima - Greek, "order, decency"
• Arwa - arabic, gracefulness, fresh
• Al-Musawi, arabic surname, denotes coming from prestigious family with transnational identity
• Merve - feminine, turkish "pebble"
• Linh - vietnamese, "soul/spirit"
• Latif/Latifa - arabic, "kind"
• Eun Yeong - korean, eun " kindness" yeong "flower, petal, hero"
• rahim - arabic, "kind, compassionate"
• Caoimhe (Keeva) - irish "beautiful, gentle"
• afaf - arabic
• Adalet - turkish, "justice"

• many asian american students feel uncomfortable to speak up in class
• silent in "thought"
• quiet = traditional asian culture?
• native english-speaking asians as shy as limited english-speaking asians
• "situational non-assertiveness" "internalized oppression"
• Paulo Friere says that oppression makes the oppressed dehumanize themselves
• oppressed people come to believe that the source of their problems lie in themselves, and not in their oppression by other people
• memmi "are we timid because we let ourselves be oppressed?"
• oppression hinders one's ability to think and reflect, they cant easily perceive the structural conditions of their lives
• they dont look critically at their stereotype "they fatalistically accept their ex...

• Lemongrass Tofu Banh Mi
• Turkish Dried Figs
• Homemade Sparkling Water with Navel Orange Pulp
• Mango Coconut Pasty, Oven-Roasted Turkey with Tzaziki Sauce + Cucumbers + Tomato on Croissant, Cappuccino = Andersen Bakery
• Classic Rose Tea, Takoyaki = T4
• Gumbo Jambalaya Pasta, Huevos Rancheros, Thai Lettuce Wraps = Cheesecake Factory
• Hot Hokkaido Milk Tea = Sharetea
• Raspado de Fresas - Surf City (fucking 6.25)
• Thai Peanut coconut Chicken Wrap with ginger cream cheese and spicy peanut sauce, sliced cucumbers = starbucks
• white peach calpico (not as good as lychee one)
• romaine lettuce and yoghurt sauce i made (put just one garlic clove not two damn)

• mettre la table - to set the table
• napperon - place mat
• nappe - table cloth
• bol - small bowl
• saladier - large bowl
• verre a vin - wine glass
• soucoupe - saucer
• plateau - tray
• batterie de cuisine - pots and pans
• roti - roasted
• lieu - place
• proche - nearby, close
• eux - them, they
• gite - holiday cottage, shelter
• le pire/ plus mauvais - the worst
• devinette - riddle
• balai - broom
• robinet - faucet
• bourricot - donkey
• increvable - tireless
• malheur - misfortune

• SKINCARE
• Mellow Milk Mist - white tea and calendula extracts, marsmallow root and oat milk
• Calm Water Gel - turns into fluid upon application. Apple fruit extract and water-biding cactus pear
• Antioxidant Serum - Chinese tea extract, coffee and apple
• Plum Oil - Omega-3 fatty acids, natural sunscreen booster
• Mud Mask - increases circulation, carrot seed and olive oils
• All Over Balm - with organic honey and dandelion. Powdery rose scent, good for the whole family.
• Rosa Rubiginosa Seed Oil - reduces scarring
• Radiant Priming Serum - with hibiscus, aloe, betaglucan
• Gold Lame Body Cream

• Lingering at the threshold between word and image.
• A glutinous dollop of brown paint, a delicate disc of wispy white paint, and a shiny coin-shaped form in graphite pencil.
• A persistent compulsion is invoked into the viewer.
• Writing comes in waves, rolling funnels of cursive script, gestural inclinations of the hand's becoming.
• If a thing loves, it is infinite.
• Say it with flowers, or Babylon's gardens.
• 
  archeological labor of love.
• Oscar Wilde - "To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance"

• hinoki (japanese cypress) atmosphere mist comes in natural cotton bag
• face creme with oat base, a complex which forms a hydrocolloid film on the skin toprotect against water loss, plum oil, vitamin b5, meadowfoam, rosehip, calendula and chamomile oils.
• best saffron in spain - grown by a small family. hand toasted and hand harvested. They need about 200 crocus flowers to obtain the gram of saffron you find packed in this bottle.
• wood fired roasted piquillo peppers - smoky intense flavor, ideal for stuffing. produced once a year. Once they run out of peppers jarred from this harvest, you have to wait until the following year to order more! acts as beautiful accent to paella
• stone ground taza hot chocolate - from sp...

• fruit and whipped yoghurt sandwiches. a colorful fruit exhaustion. parfaits with fragrant melon, lemon jelly, ruby grapefruit, white peach and blueberry. starbucks lemon yoghurt frappuccino with cheese and sweet sake.
• scone and champagne in hand. a top tier of petit fours.
• breakfast buffet on the seaside terrace.
• kusina felicitas - vigan longanisa, Kamatis nabagasan Longanisa Ken Keso - Ripe tomato stuffed with whole longanisa and topped with melted cheese, sinigang a bangus, Diced Bagnet & Radish in crispy cup, poqui poqui balls. The building materials used in Vigan are terracotta, wood, shells, stone and lime.

wedding - Exactly 13 Arras, or coins, are carried in a pouch and brought to the altar by the coin sponsors. The Arras are then blessed for the groom to gift his bri...

• The modifications created unusual handling characteristics. In essence, it was found that the aircraft had a tendency to lift its nose upwards, particularly when it was already pitched at a steep angle.

This was unhelpful, because an excessively high “angle of attack,” as it is known, can cause an aerodynamic stall - suddenly robbing the wings of lift and causing the plane to lose altitude.Boeing’s engineers developed a control system called MCAS - Manoeuvring Characteristics Augmentation System - to ensure that the way the 737 Max behaved in the air remained consistent and matched that of previous generations of the plane.

This piece of software brings the nose of the aircraft down automatically, under very specific circumstances, without the intervention of the pilot.Investigations into both 737 Max crashes are still under ...

• counter current heat xchange - arteries contain warm blood and as that blood travels to its target it gets cooled, cool blood in veins returns warm. the warm blood gives off heat to the blood returning , saving energy
• a protein complex is made following the four protein structures
• primary structure - amino acid sequence
• secondary structure - H bonds to make alpha helices, beta sheets (backbone bonds)
• tertiary structure - all bonds included (covalent, van der waals, ionic) among the amino acid side chains. this determines the overall shape of the polypeptide
• if there are two or more polypeptide chains, this determines the overall shape of the protein. (multi subunit complex). the chains will bond to each other
• synthesis of mRNA to DNA -

replication - a DNA helix is split by hel...

all day I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps. Your sleek laugh, hunger for the pale stones of your fingernails, I want to eat your skin like a whole almond. I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your body. She added cardamom to everything. Coffee, of course, and tea. Steamed milk, curries. A reason for chronic night sweating - the patient is totally healthy and is actually running in a dream, or frightful in a dream. The sweat is the consequence of acting out the dream Engulfment is a moment of hypnosis. The gentleness of the abyss : I have no responsibilities here, the act of dying is not up to me: I entrust myself, I transmit myself (to whom? To God, to nature, to everything) I lose my structure as a lover. This is a factitious mourning, without work to do. Half in love with easeful death. Then I hav...

Mint water - headaches, heartburn, bad breath

• abatido - dejected
• cordonerrie - shoe repair store
• el atentado - attemp, assault
• tiroteo - shooting
• no obstante - however, nevertheless, in spite of
• tarumbo - confused
• no se ni como fue - i don't even know who it happened
• clavel - carnation
• sin cruzar palabra - without words
• knowns : outset, precipitated by, endorse, efficACY, cultivate, confine
• contest - struggle for victory/superiority, dispute
• vincular - (sp) to link
• conterminous - having a com
• vociferous
• pariah
• recalcritant

• Language is a place of struggle , Bell Hooks
• We shall enjoy rice as long as the moon shines at night
• a halo of dust was floating over the city like pollen
• we were presented with a myriad of tea samples on a tray. i opened bottles and bottles of blends with intriguing names like pearl of the nile. once my fickle mind was settled, the chosen blend came in a little teapot, perfectly steeped.
• you tiao just came out a vat of bubbling oil
• bowls of baby shrimp, scallions, and pickled vegetables to be stirred in a bowl of salty soy milk.
• With loving flight down my hell
• thy spring's sortilege
• the golden sepulchre for my sighs, Octavio paz

• Chapli Kabab (Beef Patties with Peshawari Spice, Pomegranates, Cilantro), Fresh Tandoori Naan
• Malai Chicken Tikka (Chicken Marinated in Cheese, Yoghurt, Mild Spices)
• Empanadas de Rajas (Roasted Poblano and Cheese)
• koofteh berenji (persian meatballs with rice and raisins)
• koofteh shevid baghali - dill and lima beans kofta
• ghalieh mahi - fish herb stew
• Hobak Pajeon (Zucchini Jeon)
• Gochu Pajeon (fresh cut chillies)
• Greek
• Tiropita (Greek Pie with Cheese)
• Prasopita (Greek Pie with Cheese, Leeks, Onions)

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• Aw ru Nat'yemma : Gadelo' me shim nes hailayu, Gadelo' baqim nes hailayu, Aw ru Nat'yemma gaderoh, Aw ru Nat'yemma takram gil shemat hanasyiw. Vano dalim saq ba shim nes, Vano dalim sag, Gham rabiswe' vano?, Balayiw shehmargh i'ivarat kim, Nesu yarahvi holekh, Nesu yarahvi banow, A'yi nehlachi voy ant. Aw ru Nat'yemma ba hruvim? Sheiluyadar tasmi qe'lu ba? Sheiluyadar a raw him Gadelo' vah nabi, Uryu' gadoli se shim heht? Beyma nes tohri Nat'yemma bdel!
• Va ru dis nehmalu yahev, se khranabi osh toh morech. Gadoli se heht mim raqowl bis niwv. Va ru dis gha helayuv ima', barudis helayuv ima'. Bey danis veh shawlayim beh ru chahs. Beh na ru viyachilaw tah no'ereh la vaiye. Vaiye behshelwi gadis 'em Nawrvut. Gadoli se heht bawlki, qaruvi sheh mest lawsqi, me'enaw rahi bay mek mahlistu.

• Sweet Soy Bean Milk, Sweet Soy Bean Curd, Salted Soy Bean Milk, Salted Soy Bean Curd, Crispy Dough, Sesame Cake, Scallion Pancake, Crispy Dough, Fried Bun with Chives and Egg, Steamed Buns
• kathi roll (egg washed housemade flatbread, onions, pico kachumber)
• pani puri (semolina puri, potato garbanzo mash, cumin tamarind water)
• kabab pav (chicken kofta meatballs on buttered pav bread, pickled onions)
• buttery flaky focaccia panini
• vegan fruit and nut salami withpistachios, dried figs, dates, apricots

• de meme - likewise, too
• faire de meme - do likewise
• tout de meme - all the same
• de meme que - as well as, along with
• le bruit - the sound
• la tonnerre - the thunder
• la loi - law
• le chiffre - figure, number
• le tableau - chart
• ainsi - therefore
• le fond - background
• ceci - this
• se laver - lavarse
• vous pouvez - you can
• peur de noir - fear of the dark
• surpoids - overweight
• tu devrais - you should
• lancement, accueil, ensuite, suivre, parcours, tige, toit, le gant, soie, chacun, souvent
• sous la pluie - in the rain

they took so much of us it was like throwing berries into a basket how many filipinos buried in the same colonial casket adorned with a cross, gold, like the imperviousness of ivory and the gradual decay of bronze walls, leaving bare the core of brown self-ness; so gone, so gone it was taken away and made equated to hell i see paintings of the devil why is he portrayed as blackened why is he portrayed like my ancestors my history is sepia depicting threadbare savages barefeet, bareminded, bare civilizations of paganism and animalistic virtues my history is the white man, the savior in layers of stuffy clothing and swathed in the scent of spanish uncleanliness and the acridity of their god's damnation intermingled with the rosewater vapors of their god's promise of civilizacion my history is either pre-hispanic or post-colonialism it is never without either of these labels my history is sha...

• Pandan Brioche with Coconut Jam
• Lightly Battered Banh Xeo Broccoli
• Salt Cod Beignets with Tartar Sauce
• Yucatan Lime Soup

The sun sets on the lives of the young boys and girls before they're even born. child marriages turn tender aged children into adults overnight. they become bearers of economic, domestic, parental responsibilities. I was 10 when i was married; i could not study. my childhood was taken away from me. my mom said i could study after i got married but i knew that wasnt going to happen, i was no longer their daughter anymore. my sorrow began once i got married. i had no idea what marriage meant.all the money we had was spent on the wedding. my first child happened when i was 14. it is a child giving birth to a child. the doctors said my child died because i was too young. they face pressure to have a child within one or two years after marriage. if we marry them young, the family honor remains intact, we hear about young couples eloping and bringing dishonor to the family. this is our old beli...

• Ger = large round felt-covered tent
• Hoomii = overtone singing
• Morin huur = horse-headed 2 string bowed lute
• Shingshil = vocal vibrato, ornamentation
• Tsohil = glottal stops,
• amyrga = calls deer during hunting, 2 and a half feet long
• Urtyn duu = long songs
• Bon = Tibet's indigenous religion
• dung chen trumpets may extend 15 feet, very low sustained sound
• rgya-gling = loud double reeds
• kungling trumpets = made w human bone
• rul-mo cymbals
• nga chin = double headed drum
• brdung = beat

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• el arce - maple tree
• aterizar - to land
• astro - planet
• acorazado - battleship
• arrepentirse - to repent
• acertar - to guess correctly
• apartado - isolated
• albergar - to house, to hold, to bear in mind
• a lo lejos - in the distance
• agudo - sharp
• agudizar - to sharpen, to make worse
• agitar - to shake
• arrollar - to defeat, to run over
• agasajar - to celebrate
• apresuradamente - hurriedly
• acontecer - to take place, to occur
• atropelladamente - hastily
• ansina - like this
• apoderar - to authorize

• tabbouleh
• rose milk tea
• small white peaches
• rambutan
• mango (eaten with hands)
• talenti pistachio gelato
• pistachios in general (esp toasted and californian)
• dried cranberries
• hainan chicken rice
• parsley>>>cilantro
• anything with san pellegrino
• topo chico
• la croix any flavor
• grilled eel rice bowl
• water
• iced americano with honey
• iced coffee with coconut milk
• trader joes gummy penguins
• see's candy cafe latte lollipops

• chiringuito - refreshment stand
• blusón - smock, large blouse
• remendon - cobbler
• peca - freckle
• cecear - to lisp
• bobote
• pomulo - cheekbone
• leve - light, slight

• Great India, San Francisco : chicken tikka masala, vegetable biryani, garlic naan; everything 5/5
• Mimi's Cafe, Oakley : brie and mushroom burger 3.0/5 (a little bland, but that brie was amazing, came with a undersalted and very skinny fries),

french dip sandwich with salad 4.2/5 (not as good as the au jus sandwich i had like four years ago in Solvang but still pretty tasty), grapefruit juice, and the best cheesecake ive ever had ... the first bite was a very sensual experience - creme brulee cheesecake .. all of this served by a very handsome guy with jet black hair

• Venustiano Carranza, Siqueros, Sinaloa
• Aringay, Ilocos Region

• a fountain made of sweet chili sauce
• pretty packaged asian snacks (pearl powdered drink
• lush green land in Vietnam that doesnt seem to end

• to be excited - estar ilusionado
• to be jealous of - tener celos de
• to be lucky - tener suerte
• to beat - batir
• beaten - batido
• to beautify - embellecer
• to become - hacerse
• beforehand - de antemano
• behave well/badly - comportarse bien/mal
• behavior - la conducta, el comportamiento
• behind - detras (de)
• to belong - pertenecer
• beneath - bajo
• for the benefit of - a beneficio de
• besides - el billar
• bitter - amargo
• blanket - la manta
• to boil - hervir
• boiled - hervido
• boring - pesado