*miserychick is actually happy

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Can I make that round trip, please?

One of the on-going social debates in Thailand for the past few years has been around the idea to have a separate public toilet for the 3rd sex, the transgender community.  Specifically, in this case, they’re talking about males who turned females.  More than any other country, Thailand has a very open attitude towards transexuals and you [...]

We’ve been doing another marathon tv-watching session, this time it might be our record-breaking: all 5 seasons in 3 weeks, a total of about 60 hours of TV, of my life I’ll never get back.
It took me a little bit to get into it, but once I started following the story line, I was [...]

Funny how a little software/firmware upgrade can make your old toys feel like new.  I now have WordPress on my iPhone!  That’s in addition to all types of apps I haven’t even explore.  Ah, what will they come up with next?
Let’s test adding a photo…

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[now editing on my laptop]..  and it worked!  like a charm! [...]

Because finally, here’s someone worthy of being a leader of a powerful nation.
Now the world will watch and remember what we do here - what we do with this moment. Will we extend our hand to the people in the forgotten corners of this world who yearn for lives marked by dignity and opportunity; by [...]

Yesterday, I stumbled across tilt-shift photography, which sent me googling and looking up all sorts of photos that are either real tilt-shifted, using lens, or faking via photoshop.  Tilt-shift miniature faking is a technique that turns photo of real locations to look like a picture of miniature scale models. Some are really quite amazing.
For [...]

Ever since this new upgrade to wordpress 2.6, my site keeps disappearing every now and then.  if you’re reading this on the front page, you’ve come at the right time.  at the wrong time, nobody will see anything.  so i don’t even know how this message would be relevant, but yeah… just thought i’d let [...]

Because of all the revamping of this blog, I’ve been going through my blog archive that’s been built up for the past 8 years and wondering what to do and how to organize them.  It feels a bit like when you’re packing to move:  you read through all your old journals, look through things that [...]