Year: 2009

Need Advice? Ask Apricot!

One of  my blog friends, Ev’Yan, is launching a new project, an advice column over at  askapricot.com. If you are in need of any kind of advice about love, fashion, beauty, or anything else you’re having trouble with, this is a place you can go. Ev’Yan is a lovely, sensitive...

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Blind dates

I am well versed when it comes to having blind dates with complete strangers – girls, that is. (Gee, and define “complete strangers” – people, I have at least had a couple of email exchanges with, if not whole online conversations before the meeting, and of which I’ve possibly seen...

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F*ck off, cancer

Sorry for being so blunt, but I feel like nothing else but swearing today. I am just so done with bad news. Another girl I know (over the Internet) was diagnosed with cancer yesterday. It just scares the crap out of me that I know 6 people already, all around...

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Pork Belly

On Tuesday, I went to another meeting of the German Meetup group. We had coffee at a Starbucks and best piece of information of the evening was: I was told about a German butcher shop where I can get “Bauchfleisch” (pork belly). Oh, if you could see me drooling right...

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Baseball Season is here!!

Oh my freakin’ god, did you guys see the Boston Red Sox’s Jacoby Ellsbury’s home steal in the game against the Yankees last night?? A.M.A.Z.I.N.G. Ok, now, after you let out your collective sighs (because I know some of you think that watching baseball is the most boring thing in...

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