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A Break from the Real World

I’ve been out of the blogging world lately, getting hopelessly lost in the real one. Sometimes, I swear I know what I’m doing, and then the next thing I know I’m pulling tufts of hair off my head, trying to figure out what I did wrong and how I should go about this whole Life thing. This is…
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One Rainy Day

Towards the end of June, my friends and I decided to have one last summer hurrah: a picnic in a park. I wanted it to be a sort of photo shoot as well, so we put effort into the menu (sandwiches or hotdogs? salad or pasta? how about wine – red or white?) and making the food photogenic…
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Scenes From Around Inle Lake

These were from my week-long stay in Myanmar. We took a plane from Yangon and flew to Heho, a peaceful and sleepy town in the North. The weather was pleasantly cool. The people were kind and hospitable. The layout of the lakeside town was not complicated; we felt very safe biking along the streets with…
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Why Myanmar?

“Veree beeyootiful?” The boatman calls out in a thick accent from the end of the boat. His face breaks into a huge grin, revealing teeth stained red from chewing betel nut. It takes me by surprise as he hasn’t said much throughout the boat ride; he’d usually answer our questions with nods and smiles, saying…
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To My Uncle Nato
“Time is a goon.” I came across it recently in a book and it hit me hard. What does it mean? That Time creeps in unnoticed through the cracks of our doors and windows, and steals bits and pieces of our lives right from under our noses? That it devours people whole and whisks them away without even a word or…
