the sweetest tongue

In high school and middle school in Puerto Rico, most of my best friends were Jewish. This, in the context of a 85% Roman Catholic population, with the other 15% being mostly Protestant, does catch some people off guard.
“Well, that’s just weird.”
“Isn’t everyone there Roman Catholic?”
Afterwards, I always explain that my friends were Jewbans, and [...]

My sister surprised me at work today by popping into the mall when I got off. She was doing some Christmas shopping, and wanted to surprise me with a visit. Luckily she caught me just before I was about to sneak out of everyone’s sight to get home. We had dinner, and had the most [...]

(Originally written on Thursday, November 23rd)
Happy Thanksgiving. The family is all around, and all is not quiet in the house as the girls (including myself) struggle to listen to the dialogue of Grey’s Anatomy as the adults talk in the background. Somehow, I believe that Chinese adults have a duty to speak to each other [...]

So on Wednesday afternoon as I was winding down at work, I got a phone call form my sister, who had just moved in to school not too far from where i lived.
Me: Hey, what’s up?
Sis: Not much.
Me: Is everything alright? Do you need anything?
Sis: Can you buy alcohol?
Granted, I did buy alcohol for minors [...]

I took three days off from work this week to go back to Puerto Rico for the Chinese Tradition of Tomb-Sweeping Day. Very similar to El Dia de Los Muertos, it is a day in which Chinese families get together to pay respects and give offerings to our deceased loved ones at their graves. In [...]

I went home to Lawrenceville Wednesday with the intention to spend some time with my younger sisters, and maybe watch The Incredibles on DVD with the youngest. What I got was a 3 hour long lecture/interrogation from the elder parental units after dinner.

It’s always the same questions. Why I wanted to go live on my [...]

I woke up at 7am this morning, two hours earlier than I had set my iPod’s alarm clock to. I managed to consume a cup of potato salad, and a bowl of cereal with milk, with no problems of nausea of dizziness. I went to class, and got ambitious, so I consumed yellow rice with [...]