Category: Going Mental
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This week’s Tweeting…
Started writing through tweeting…these are three of the tweets: 1. The story begins before I was born. But, I can only share where my part begins in an exotic Asian land that remains so to me even today… 2. Even though my part of the story begins in that exotic land unknown to me, blurred…
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It’s one of those days….
Got woken up at 3.30am by a sleeping giant who thought I was his mortal enemy. Spent time writing a draft for an exam that my colleague completely ignored and thus made his own without discussing or considering my perspective and sent out as his gift to the world as if he is the assessment…
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Twitter…
I always thought that there was no way that I would join another social networking site and most especially I was NOT going to start tweeting on Twitter. Well, I suppose I should learn that eventually anything related to technology will win me over, even if I fight it. What pushed me over the…
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Happy birthday to my BFF!
37 years old and looking gooood!!! Hard to believe we’ve been friends nearly 16 years – how the good times fly! Happy birthday, hope it is a wonderful one! 🙂
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My Adoption Journey – 3
So, now that I am ‘free’ish again, I am focusing my attentions on more details of my adoption journey. Thanks to the world of Facebook, I have found a couple more possible people and written them messages. Diane Ehnes – who was my foster mother between adopted family 1 and 2. I found someone who…
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TESOL Arabia 2012
After a four-year hiatus, I gave a presentation at this past weekend’s TESOL Arabia conference. My presentation was titled “EFL Professionals’ Perceptions on Research and Leadership”. It was based on research that I had started while in Japan and then received a start-up grant to complete it when I arrived here about three years…
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My parents are here now…
Nothing like Mother Nature to remind you of how insignificant our lives are in the grand scheme of things. 😀
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My Adoption Journey – 2A
An update on what I’ve learned so far – A woman who lives at the number that was left in the post called me back. She said that Cathy used to live with her, but that she hasn’t heard anything about her for 12 years. She said the last she heard, Cathy had moved to…
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My Adoption Journey – 2
It’s been almost six months since I wrote the first post about my adoption journey. The idea back then was that I would write more regularly about my experience as I try to make time to write my dream novel. Maybe one of these days I’ll find enough discipline and motivation to actually do that.…
