Dear Girls

• Incertus

  2021-01-07
  Bring DVDs or an HDMI cable for your laptop. It was really fun for me and Daddy to watch movies in the hospital, and it made the whole experience feel more like a vacation. A vacation where your body explodes, but still, you’re not at the office.
• Incertus

  2021-01-07
  After a while, I couldn’t see my vagina when I looked down, because all I could see was my belly. But when I stared at myself in the mirror, my vagina just looked like an ancient, wise Chinese man from a fairy tale that got stuck in a cave and survived off yams. The hair was so damn long and neglected.
• lifelibertylov

  2020-12-02
  Your mother and I feel in love because we loved discovering the esoteric and hidden spiritual parts of ourselves, and each other, because we loved food, and because together we grew.
• lifelibertylov

  2020-12-02
  They all thought they were going to marry their high school sweethearts (so naive!). Older people know that you have to go through multiple relationships to find the right one.
• lifelibertylov

  2020-12-02
  People who don’t know who I am always assume I tool his last name. And it never bothers your father - he always says afterward that he’s proud to be Mr. Wong.
• lifelibertylov

  2020-12-02
  Studying in a developing/third-world country is way more intense and formative than studying in a first-world fancy country. It makes you so much more open-minded, adaptive, and confident. You become so much more real. When you have to shit on two little bricks into a hole the size of a tennis ball at an elementary school in the countryside, or sleep in a farmer’s yurt after not bathing for five days, you become a much more easygoing person. It teaches you to value experience over material things real fast.
• lifelibertylov

  2020-12-02
  You can be friends with ex-partners, don’t believe the bullshit that you can’t. If a person was once inside of you, that automatically makes them a special and unique person in your life.
• lifelibertylov

  2020-12-02
  Asian women live forever, and having kids is like a 401(k) for companionship.
• lifelibertylov

  2020-12-02
  And no, I don’t expect a man to take care of me financially, but I want him to want to, to take the opportunity, to make the gesture of doing something nice and giving right away.
• Cor.

  2020-08-18
  After that I did my best to convert my grief into a celebration of my unexpected but suddenly extended independence. I decided to view it as a bonus round of opportunities, to do whatever I wanted. That is to say, I discovered the joy of edibles.
• 野摇光

  2020-02-29
  They‘d use pork fat as their cooking oil for everything,including vegetables, tofu, and soup. It certainly made everything tasty--you don’t have to be Vietnamese to understand that pork fat makes everything better.
• 野摇光

  2020-02-29
  Asian cultures often teach us to be silent about our sexuality and filled with shame. Your mother breaks that up and transmutes pain and shame into power,like a mystical priestess.
• Incertus

  2021-01-07
  Stand-up is not supposed to be warm and fuzzy or welcoming. If it was, everyone would do it. Some people think that stand-ups are all dysfunctional or have mental health problems or bad families. But I think all you need to be a good stand-up is to have a unique point of view, be funny, and enjoy bombing in front of strangers. You really do have to learn to like bombing a lot. Even now, when the audience is too good, sometimes I think, I didn’t deserve that. You’ll know you’re a stand-up when, after a spectacular bomb, you don’t feel like you want to quit, but instead the opposite: You want to go up again. If you don’t bomb, you’ll think you’re good and there’s no work to do. But there’s always work to do. That’s the beauty of stand-up. A joke is never finished. There’s always more materia...
• Incertus

  2021-01-07
  Doing the open-mic circuit is real stand-up comedy class. That’s when you really find out if you have the strength and stamina to make a real audience laugh. The audiences for those stand-up comedy class shows are made up of friends and family of the students in the class. It’s not a real audience. Those laughs aren’t genuine.
• Incertus

  2021-01-07
  You gotta want it really bad to constantly put yourself in those situations. You have to really love stand-up and embrace every shitty thing that comes along with it.
• Incertus

  2021-01-07
  The act of doing stand-up itself isn’t that hard. Getting onstage in front of strangers, writing and performing jokes, and even bombing, is the easy part. It’s everything else surrounding it that’s so difficult. The road. Traveling. Spending hours on the Internet to book the cheapest flights possible. Eating a boatload of fried food with ranch dressing because there are no other options. Fending off creepy-ass men. Steering clear of your idols and funny colleagues who you’ve learned tend to sexually harass women.