Author: Tara
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Spanish Night Winnings!
A while back, P and I went to a Korean restaurant in the Cristal Salam Hotel after getting massages. It is a new Korean restaurant and, of course, I wanted to try it out. It is good, perhaps the best in the city at the moment, but still not the real deal. It’s close, though.…
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End of the Week Thoughts
It’s been a rather long week and thankfully today is the end of it. I cannot pinpoint what exactly has made it a long week as I imagine, like with most things, it’s a culmination of many things. So, to give myself a bit of a release, here are the various things that passed –…
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_Real World_ Natsuo Kirino
_Real World_ by Natsuo Kirino Last summer I was plowing through books like the world was going to end and so I put out a call on FB for some book recommendations. My high school Japanese teacher recommended _Out_ by Kirino, but as there was no Kindle version, I opted for _Real World_. As a…
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360 Degrees of Pressure
The other night I was having a moan about stuff I swirl around in my head related to others in my life and my friend said how it must be a lot of pressure on me. I realized that she was totally right and that I don’t often recognize the toll all the swirling takes…
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Post for the Sake of a Post
I didn’t have time yesterday to post…. It was a long day. Work started at 8 and it being the first day of the week, it was hard to get started. Then, we had a meeting late in the day rather than coming home early as we usually do with early starts. The meeting was…
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_The Casual Vacancy_ by J.K. Rowling
_The Casual Vacancy_ by J.K. Rowling After the last Harry Potter book came out, it was always a question as to whether or not J.K. Rowling could write another successful novel. With the Harry Potter books I was never convinced that the quality of writing was good, but the storytelling aspect was always effective. Therefore,…
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Wa-Wha-What? It’s March???
First, there are only 11 more days of my BFF’s 37th year…uwahahahah…. 😛 (Love you! hehehe) Second, I need to be making more of a concerted effort to get this literature review chapter done, which means focusing – does writing this blog post count? 😉 I think of my blog posts as warm up to…
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Playing the Victim
For some time I’ve been playing in my mind about this topic and wondering how I could write about it clearly so that it made sense – even to me. One of the things I dislike the most about living in the UAE is the fact that I am constantly ‘pursued’ by the male gender.…
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Wanderings of my mind…
It seems like my mind is always jumping to some new idea, but then I don’t stop long enough to formulate it completely or at least write it down for later to look at it again. Until recently, I’ve just figured that if the idea returns to me repeatedly, then it is something for me…
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Dissertation, what?
Yes, it is true…in my attempt to focus more on my dissertation, the more I write on my blog(s). I am on the literature review chapter, which should consist of about 60 pages. Yep, you read that right. So…how much have I written? As I type this…zero, zero, zero. By the time this posts, I…
