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January 2010 Archives

Zero Degrees of Separation

By Ophelia Chong
January 29, 2010



Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon is based on the concept of the small world phenomenon and that you can tie any actor to Kevin Bacon within six degrees. With the world moving at the pace that it is, we can narrow that down to almost zero for our relationships.

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Those Sounds
Come & Gone

By Ophelia Chong
January 25, 2010



On my Facebook page this past Saturday, I posed the question: "What are the once iconic sounds you no longer hear? Typewriters, rotary dial tones, film cameras, analog cash registers... what else comes to mind?

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Apple Tablet: Just a Thought?

By Ophelia Chong
January 21, 2010



A few years back I was at a restaurant with friends having dinner, all of sudden in the middle of my main entree, I looked up and said "there was just a landslide outside my house". Everyone looked at me and asked "how do you know that?", one person laughed at me and said "you're weird".

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Backwards and Forwards

By Ophelia Chong
January 15, 2010



I left Hong Kong at 11:40PM Wednesday and arrived at LAX at 8:15 PM Wednesday. I had a chance to relive the last 21 hours.

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Smoke and Wishes

By Ophelia Chong
January 8, 2010



What do you wish for everyday? What did you wish for in 2010? There is a moment in each day where we need the impossible and hope for the best.

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Tread Lightly

By Ophelia Chong
January 1, 2010



Nothing makes you pine for LA traffic more than being in a city that has traffic jams on the sidewalks. Traffic? Hanoi laughs at your LA traffic.

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