Okay, so I was talking to a friend about how beauty-centric our society still is even after all these years. You’d think that in 2009, we’d be a lot more forward-thinking, mature and less superficial about the issue but really, at the end of the day, we are still the homo sapiens (sans sapiens) that [...]

There are currently only about a dozen elected or appointed female heads-of-state (I’m excluding monarchs, because it’s technically a hereditary role) out of the 200-ish nations on the face of this planet. Pretty surprising, considering the three waves of feminism and how far women have come in the last 200 years. I guess we still [...]

So the power decided to go out just as I was about to complete my daily post. Awesome. That totally made my day. (And don’t even get me started on a phonecall I got today that reduced me to tears.) So far, I’ve had no problems at all living in Santa Clara in a somewhat [...]