Excerpts from a blog I kept during my semester as an exchange student at the National University of Singapore between July and December 2010.
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Reflections at 30,000 feet
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During the intermission in my travels abroad, enjoy refreshments in the reception area.
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Speak now or forever hold your peace
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In which taking linguistics classes makes me overly conscious of how people sound.
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In the event of an emergency
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Oh, that was easy,
says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.
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Attached
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What’s the difference between spam and university-wide announcement e-mail? One generally gets deleted unread; the other is spam.
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Where’s the beef?
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How to pack the better part of a continent into your stomach on just dollars a day.
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Truth in advertising
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Living with precipitation on an island where rainy days are less suited to poetry than to heavy metal.
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On the blink
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The Internet and sleep tend to be at cross purposes.
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I wanted to go to Japan in the first place, anyway
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There’s a fine line between
adventurous
and suicidal
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One step forward, two steps back
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Where I spend my first full day among the merlions.
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There’s a Narita in Illinois, too
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The next flight to Singapore has been delayed for approximately 30 micro-Mehrans. We apologize for the inconvenience.
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Prologue
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Going abroad always starts with confusion at the international check-in counter.