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2012- A Photo Blog
What I love most about the new year is all the possibilities it brings. It seems like a new beginning, a time of rebirth, a needed re-invigoration, a renaissance of the self. With each step forward we make into the future, pivotal moments … Continue reading
Posted in Cambodia, Japan, Life, Tokyo, Toyama, Travel, Trinidad and Tobago
Tagged best friend, Cambodia, cherry blossom, favorite, hanami, Kyoto, love, Namerikawa, photographs, pictures, Sensoji Temple, Sihanoukville, Tateyama, Tokyo, Toyama, Yurikamome
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If The World Ended Tomorrow
Sitting in the crowded train all I could see was my tainted reflection. My fascination for the sky longed to see the night’s velvety black carpet slowly creep over the dark blue yonder to shower it with tiny twinkling dots. … Continue reading
Posted in Japan, Life, Love, Trinidad and Tobago
Tagged childhood, End of the world, family, grandmother, grave, happiness, love, memories, reflections, regrets
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Four Years Later
My first night in Japan, I stepped out of the grandiose Keio Plaza, walked the streets of Shinjuku, devouring everything around me with child-like innocence. And then I saw it!…a devastatingly beautiful Japanese woman, with an unpretentious air of sophistication … Continue reading
Posted in Japan, Life, Toyama, Travel, Trinidad and Tobago
Tagged anniversary, Japan, JET Programme, Keio Plaza, life, Shinjuku, trini
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Someone Like Me
The first time I heard Adele’s heart wrenching “Someone Like You”, I bawled, blew my nose, wiped my tears and then put it on repeat and bawled again. Adele had committed emotional plagiarism and had purposely stolen the story of my … Continue reading
Posted in Life, Love, Music, Trinidad and Tobago
Tagged Adele, broken heart, death, grandmother, heart break, loss, love, Someone Like You
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Life Lessons Learned: Cambodia
The Kingdom of Cambodia is one of those rare places that makes an eternal imprint in your heart. Like many travellers before me and the many who will come after, I fell in love with this remarkable South East Asian country. … Continue reading
Posted in Cambodia, Life, Travel, Trinidad and Tobago
Tagged Angkor Wat, Battambang Circus, Cambodia, dreams, help, hope, Kampot, Khmer Rouge, Killing Fields, life, life lessons learned, love, orphans, Phare Ponleu Selepak, Siem Reap, Trinidad and Tobago
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Compliments to you (Archives)
I feel like a million dollars right about now. I am absolutely radiating from my insides out. Hell, truthfully I am blushing and that says a lot because a brown person blushing is nothing short of a miracle. Why am … Continue reading
Posted in Archives, Life, Trinidad and Tobago
Tagged A Little Princess, Angelina Jolie, beauty, Brad Pitt, compliments, difference, smiles
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Mary Mia
Once upon a time Mary Mia, a simple Indian girl living in a small Caribbean island in the 1800s married a poor indentured labourer, who her parents bought. He was tricked by the British to come and work under sordid conditions … Continue reading
Posted in Trinidad and Tobago
Tagged childhood, family, grandmother's love, indenture ship, love, The FlowerIndian
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Picture This (Archives)
Have you ever had one those mornings where you look at yourself in the mirror and think, “Daaaammn, I look gooooooood today!” ? You know, the type of days where you look strikingly handsome, your skin glows, every strand of hair … Continue reading
Posted in Archives, Life, Toyama, Trinidad and Tobago
Tagged bird, Body Dismorphic Disorder, Ellen DeGeneres, Japanese crow, life, Namerikawa, Saddam Hussein, shit happens
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