i confess i am at a loss as to this blog. i want to keep it because it's nostalgia, it's 7 years of my life. but i've also become increasingly private and rarely post on this anymore (my lj, however, is very active). this will take a think.

taiwan was good. my mother, however, brought up setting me up with some nice chinese boys yet again. why can't i just be single? i love my life. i love my job and my friends and my family. also, i am 22. it is not unheard-of to be single at 22. and just because i don't tell my mother about my dating life, she thinks i am a spinster at home. blargh.

happy holidays dears.

in this next year i will:

reformat this blog
read more literature
settle in

Lately, I've

- met Somaly Mam. She hugged me & it was amazing.
- had awkward conversations with 1) a coworker and 2) a west elm employee.
- been on a dumpling tour in Flushing & ate delicious food at Spicy & Tasty.
- refocused.

Life's good.

I just read The Road of Lost Innocence and holy shite my life is so cushy and meaningless. I spend my days worrying about whether I should buy a $300 handbag or not and whether a boy likes me when there are girls out there who are being sold or kidnapped into sexual slavery where they are beaten, raped, burned, broken. Even as I type this I am sitting in my fancy apartment with my macbook pro. I'm kind of sickened right now.

Anyway, you all should read this book. Maybe not because you want to but because you need to. Either that, or just check out the website of the founder of AFESIP (an organization started by Somaly Mam, the author of the book, which helps rescue girls & school & house them so that they can go onto something better than prostitution): somaly.org.

I'm going to make a donation now.

All I ever want is to be sure of something.  Anything.  But I just don't have blind faith.

AHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

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