Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Sunday, November 01, 2009
Friday, October 30, 2009
thursday nights, oh how I miss you so
Thursday nights are gone. Those were the nights when one felt most alive and most depressed, those were the nights which the week culminated in, the climax of the week-long struggle. And every Thursday night was a battle where the feeling of helplessness evolved into hopelessness then into desperation and after much strenuous intellectual gymnastics and heaving, a paper emerged with soft cries in the wee hours of the morning, a paper one was not really proud of but a paper nonetheless. From a blank slate at 10pm to something of questionable substance at 5am to talking about it in class at 2pm to the disbelief that the professor actually thought the paper was worth an 'A' a week later. Thursday nights used to keep the week in check, one had to be vigilant with time, with readings, with work to avoid being overwhelmed on Thursday nights. It ordered the disorder of college life. But those times are gone now and I sit around on Thursday nights feeling a little deflated, feeling the bittersweet taste of Thursday night past on the tip of my tongue without being able to savor the satisfaction of purpose that it use to give.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
guatemala roadside food fun
Chicken meat, cow meat, lamb meat and mystery meat with grilled spring onions, frijoles and heaps of tortillas and sugarcane juice under naked bulbs on a dark alleyway, under an umbrella as shade from the moonlight. In the mornings, the market food of arroz con leche, gruel with chicken bullion, tostadas and chuchitos as the flies landed and lifted off the food, and it's sights like these that make the food taste so much better. For snacks, lunch, dinner and everything else in between: fried chicken EVERYWHERE! None of that touristy lonely planet restaurant crap which are usually empty, expensive and where the only locals present are the staff, avoid them like the plague! And for fortification: lots of Gallo. These are a few of my favorite things. And the people too, really the nicest and most polite people I've come across thus far! And this is not some tourist brochure junk crap propaganda. I kid you not. Life just feels so much more alive!
