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Daily Post Day 21: Sound of Laughter

(I know, the picture doesn’t match the topic of this post)

Interesting topic for today:

Describe what your laugh sounds like. Who in your family is your laugh most similiar to, and most different from?

My laugh can go from girly-giggly to boisterous. I notice that my laugh varies depending on who I’m with; the people I’m closest/most comfortable speaking with, I laugh loudly, hysterically. With acquaintances, I hold myself back a little more and just lightly laugh/giggle.

In my family, we all have various laughs (just like we all have various sneezing styles, haha). I suppose I am most like my mom in my laughter: shy with others but with loved ones, anything goes. I love the way my mom laughs because it makes me smile.

So, how does your laugh sound like?

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family time

Daily Post Day 15: Time Machine Thoughts

Tokyo streets.

Oh, don’t we all wish for a time machine at points in our lives. I know for sure I’d want to go back in time to my earlier years and rearrange a few events around. But I know then that’ll affect the present and the future. As science fiction movies say, we’d only mess up what we currently have.

I would like to spend one hour in 1951. I’d be in China and I’d see how my grandparents and my father lived there. I’d uncover some family mysteries.

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family weather

Daily Post Day 10: Snow Day Entertainment

If you asked me this question any other year, I would tell you, “I don’t quite remember snow days anymore.” This year will be the fourth (and final) year of residing in San Francisco. As most people should know, it doesn’t snow out here. Instead, we battle rain and fog along with crisp and clear sunny days.

But last month I was back on the East Coast and saw snow after being away from the climate for quite some time. It was peaceful to look at, and, since I was technically on vacation, I could enjoy my snow days without guilt.

While snowed in, I:

– read from my Kindle

– knitted while watching Kung Fu Panda

– ran on the treadmill

– spent quality time with my family

Not so shabby for snow days.

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family friends My San Francisco Chronicles

Daily Post Day 5: Talk vs. Text

The Daily Post is asking me whether I prefer to talk, text, or some other communication medium.

I seem to lean upon the answer of “it depends” for many questions people ask me. So that’s the answer I’m going with for this prompt:

– With family and close friends, I prefer a grab-bag of email, text, and phone calls. Of course, the most ideal form of communication would be face-to-face, but with the physical distance between us all, the other three will have to do.

– And then, with most others I associate with, I prefer email or Twitter. If I know them a little better, text. But generally, phone calls are reserved for people I am most comfortable with.

Today, I arrived back in San Francisco. I can’t say that I missed the city, but I certainly missed my loved ones here.

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family life Who I Am

Re-start–

It’s the first Monday back to work after five weeks of recovery and rest. Day by day, I continue to be in disbelief over the series of events that have occurred in the past month. Life is as it is, and many times we can’t fully explain if this is all real or just a hazy dream.

I’ve been in the process of rearranging things in my life, including my goals and my timeline. Sometimes we forget to slow down and enjoy each moment; we’re always on the go to find the next best thing, impatient to have time pass by a lot faster.

It’s amazing to see how easy it is for people to brush off long absences from the Internet as just “a hiatus” and nothing more. People move on from the Internet and its amusements everyday; friends come and go even in the virtual world, as some find out that they would rather spend time building relationships in the real world than the virtual world. People move on; when an online friend disappears for a long time, you may just think “Well, they’ve moved on with their life and they have better things to do than the Internet.”

I wish I could say that the past month away from the Internet was just a simple hiatus, but it wasn’t. At the time being, I am not ready to disclose fully what had happened to me–the memories are still too fresh for me, as are the feelings that are brought up when I think about the incident and how my family suffered through that first week watching me as I teetered back to life after that near-death experience.

For now, though, I will distance myself from that situation and start back on my life, however normal it can be now. There’s a time for everything, and right now, the time is to focus on the present and moving forward.