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Two years since my last post. Wish I visit here more often so that I don't feel like a visitor to this place anymore. I finally am back with a clearer head, happier heart, and brighter smile

It has been more than a year since I last wrote here...do I even live here anymore?

It is that time again, in which the heart tries to mend itself in its own futile ways. I am tired of opening my ribcage, exposing heart, and then having to sew the sutures back in. It's exhausting at the least. Other than that, life is stale. A...
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June 27, 2005, another sad day in the life of Thanh Nguyen.

June is really the month of gloom for me. I should learn to expect that great things rarely occur in June, only depressing, heart wrenching events present themselves in the month of June.

I am glad June is over.

She was sleeping in the garage, being her usual self. Little did she know...
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As the year curls up on its tail and slumbers to rest, another one springs from beneath its legs. And so another year full of dangling strands, unmet expectations, and pleasant surprises closes itself upon me. I'm one New Year's older, and oddly enough, I feel somewhat new. My mind is clearing up more and more, and I've managed to stop reveling in my thoughts....
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The rain is my salvation and my destruction. It is the only pure thing that lingers in my heart to rinse away the melancholy. It brings temporary happiness, temporary light, temporary redemption. I wish it weren't temporary...If only I could make this feeling last forever...

The thoughts in my mind ruminate and I can't seem to capture them and put them in my own little...
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Dear Lah,

It's been over 3 years since you've been taken away from my life, and I want you to know that I'm doing ok with everything that's been thrown my way. I've continued to grow and make it through college.

I just want you to know that I've moved on and left the guilt behind. The guilt of not saying goodbye when I had...
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If I were a software to be developed, what features would I design for myself as most important? Well...let's see here...if I prioritize correctly, I will put the most important features in the beginning. Then, if my incremental milestones come to a point where I can't increment anymore, I will only have lost the least useful features...what would they be?

That's what Microsoft does...they pick...
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This is my first time being on SG. Please be gentle with me.