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Strangely enough, distance is comforting

Mathematically and physically, distance is a numerical objects of how apart an object are.  In physics, it refers to a physical lenghts.  Somehow most of my life aspect is determine by distance, by physical lengths, actual lengths, by how further a city are and how far a country are.  

Distance, somehow the word has been a comforting ideas, at least in my life.  During my primary years of study, distance is something I avoided, something strange, the idea of being independent is just never occurred to me.  Until years later, my parents send me to the United States for 3 months experience, and thats where I found comfort, to run away from problems, to move on from a bitter moment, to find myself.  That’s where the idea of distance sound fascinating.  

After finishing high school, I was thrilled by the sense of independence I own, the time where I can finally make a decision, ambition and fight for it.  I decide to attend college far away from home, miles away from the metropolitan city just because I want to find a life, to learn about life, my thoughts are pretty much healthy and nice, since distance means that I can decide for myself.  Until I was thrown to a place called relationship and that’s where distance became blur, it became a stranger whereas at first it became my best friends.  Two years fast-forward to 6th semester, end of Junior year, I was introduced again to the idea of embracing distance as a way to learn and to find my niche in the world, I met a new friends, underclassman, mostly guys (and one of them became my boyfriend).  They are not exactly the type like most of my peers, they are a non-conformist, philosophical bunch and strange enough they are a loner type.  The way they created distance everyday, give me comfort and strength, although in not necessarily conventional way.  Distance, on the other hand now become my best friend, a way to challenge my patience to be able to learn and to face life.  

I manage to find distance as the way of seeing the Copenhagen interpretation, the Schrodinger’s Cat, it is until I really am being far away from everything, I can’t decide whether or not distance is a friend or a foe.   Somehow distance is a way for me to tell someone that I miss them, distance is the way to pray for someone on their well-being. I like distance because for me its a way to found out if I wanted something enough and is a motivator to be a better person.  from distance, there is always a closure.  

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Kitty, please get off my chair.

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teenvogue:

Take a cue from personal-style blogger Veronika Placek of Tick Tock Vintage, and try a chic head scarf as your go-to summer hair accessory. Check out more looks here »

Thinking of wearing it for my progress presentation and undergrad thesis defense, minus the head scarf and changing it with ponytail instead 

US swimming athlete Katie Hoff (above) and Dara Torres (under), I always like watching olympic games on youtube, and fascinated by the athletic nature of the competition.  My BF were enamored by Michael Phelps whereas for me I think both Katie Hoff and Dara Torres are the coolest.  FYI, Dara Torres is 41 years old, and still get what it takes to compete in olympics, I would really like her athletic body and wanted to stay fit until my 40s :D.  

lettersfromhere:

There are 5,393 carceral facilities in the United States, places where people are held in local jails, state prisons, federal corrections facilities, immigration detention centers – “anywhere where an individual can be sort of confined and locked up,” explains Josh Begley, “and, in some of the bigger instances, warehoused in one place.”

Begley is a master’s student in the Interactive Telecommunications program at New York University. He wanted to graphically represent what all of this means, to communicate not just the sheer quantity of prisons in America (a number that has been booming for decades), but their volume on our landscape. As part of a class project, he created the oddly beautiful website Prison Map, which offers a mashed-up birds-eye view of all of these places, taken from Google Satellite images.

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