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I don’t really know if there was ever a specific point that I realized all of my friends hated me because I think a part of me already knew. Middle school is usually bad for most people. Some people consider high school years the best years of your life, that is because I think that it is such an improvement from middle school. There is also not a specific reason that middle school is so terrible. It may be the discovery of highlights or black eyeliner or it may be the longing to be in high…

hours, watching the line ahead dwindle as the Barnes and Nobles workers funnelled us into the store, prodding the line up three flights until we reached that lone table, stacked high with bright orange books whose spines and covers read, in black matte letters, THE GLIMMER by RICHARD DUKE. I’d already read it twice now, bought three copies and lined them on the bookshelf in my shitty little apartment living room neatly, beside all the rest of Duke’s books. Every year since I was seventeen,…

Shakira woke me up the next morning, and not the singer Shakira. No, it was a girl with curly blonde hair, nude matte lips, and brown eyes laced with so much mascara that they looked like cricket legs. Her name is Mara Shakira, after the celebrity, which is why she insists on everyone calling her so. She came at around noon, give or take when the rest of us were still snoring from our escapade the night before. Surprisingly, once the nuns found out it was Dahlia, and her little group, who…

When I was a kid, nothing compared to riding my bike around town. Since I obviously couldn’t drive, my bike was my ticket to freedom. I could go anywhere (in a manner of speaking), and I wasn’t limited to just hanging out at home. While I loved to ride, one year my parents got me a scooter to bomb around in instead, and that became my new favorite toy. While biking was great if I wanted to go far, the scooter was perfect for running to the store or playing around at school. These days, however,…

Oily skin: how I dealt with it Oily skin: the one thing in life that seemed impossible to get rid of when I was a young teenage boy entering the awkward stages of puberty. And it didn’t help that I fitted the ‘oily skin’ criteria: Asian? Check. Lives on the equator? Check. Going through puberty? Check. Screwed? Check. It plagued my life no matter what I was doing. Whenever I woke up, my face was drenched in oil and if you managed to touch it you would notice how briskly your fingers slid off…

Ancient Egyptians were the first of women to wear makeup. The basic motive back then was the same as it is today and just like modern day supermodels, the well to do women of ancient Egypt wanted to look their best all of the time. Ancient Egyptians used copper and lead ore to create the world's first cosmetics to the scientifically advanced products of today that can do everything from hide pores, smooth complexions, and turn the pale green of your eyes a vivid shade of emerald, makeup has…

Nanna, Avana Maneyalli ,avanalli panchami shashTi Sapthami sambhodane A Alli Mine / it’s Within, There Nanna hesaru guru Maneyalli yaaroo ilva? By adding ‘a’ to the end, one can frame a question. Ex :- hauda? , Alva?, ilva?, neevu software engineera? Entha is a charcter prbing question? Ex: idu entaa haNNU? (Answer could be oLLE haNNu or ketta haNNU). Aadaroo (Even then) when combined with questioning works, the meaning changes drastically. Ex:- yaaru + aadaroo = yaaraadaroo (Any…

comfortable. A primitive style bedroom unifies the casual comfort of a country home with the weathered rustic appeal of early America. Paint the walls a warm country color-rich barn red, soft taupe, muted golden yellow or dusty sage green. Select matte paint finishes that are flat and non-shiny. Use soft white or beige as an accent trim color on baseboards and window frames for a primitive bedroom design. The goal is to use paint colors that are traditional and friendly, but also look muted and…