Louella Suque

Manila, PHILIPPINES


Joined April 29th 2008

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I am morbid minded. Thanks to my parents' (both physicians) daily discussions on hospital deaths over breakfast.

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Sylvia Plath, sour candy, sarcasm, poetry, period films, foreign period films, silence, imagining things in my hammock, paperbacks, minute vacations, sobriety, eyeliners, 3am.

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The Navel Ring Catharsis

July 1st 2008 06:41
February 14, 2008

My father twisted my arm blue after discovering that I wear a navel ring.

I argued that I have had the navel ring for six years now and that I believe he knew about it after I’ve had it for three years.

He, out of the blue, launched into a litany of ridiculous accusations, even associating me with the ‘whorish women he sees in the streets’ and telling me, with point blank assurance, that no person—men, most especially—shall never pay me any form of respect or regard.

Yes. All these blind and unfounded shit were slapped square on my face all because I wear a godforsaken navel ring.

I stood there by the dinner table, taking it all in as he threw one insult after another.

My mother, in the process, just sat quietly before her plate of apples, munching as if nonchalantly.

I finally crumbled and gave in. I told my father that it is surprising how he lectures me about false judgments and here he is basically naming me a whore all because of the stupid ring I wear on my navel. I stressed that he knows ‘I am no whore.’ and there is no point or reason of him labeling me as such.

Immediately, he grabbed me by the arm and my backpack and dragged me from the kitchen to the stairs. I yanked myself away from his clutch only to have my arm twisted blue in the process. After I caved in, he swung a slipper to my head but missed my left cheek. He screamed at me to shut up or else the neighbors will hear.

My mother appeared in the background, closing windows and sliding doors. Afterwards, she stood and watched from a distance.

Perhaps she must have heard me crying behind the home library door after it was all over. But she never came to assure me that none of the hurtful things my father had said to me were true and that things should be all right in the morning.

Instead, I heard her slippers softly padding down the hallway and a door creaking then closing.

He could have asked me to just take it out and never wear it again because he believes a navel ring is not me.

But instead, this: a streak of blue and orange on my arm.

And my father complains to my psychiatrist that he doesn’t know his own child.

And he complains to the whole world why I do my homework, locked up in my room, while a weekend family party is bustling in the gardens outside.

And he complains why I choose to shut up regardless of a thousand problems he sees looming over my head.

Go figure, Daddy.



Happy Valentine’s Day, all.

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Japanese anti-crime skirt


Examine the photo above.

If you think you're still fluttering about your neon-colored, Doreimon dreamscape of odd inventions, you are wrong. This is an actual, bizarre solution of the Japanese to alleviate their growing fear of crime (fanned by this sushi nation's sensationalist news media).

Ladies and Gentlemen of the jury, this is a skirt invented by fashion designer Aya Tsukioka: The wearer fashions it as a plain skirt and should a Sake-drunk maniac stalks the poor miss, she could simply lift the flap on the front of the skirt, hold it up fully open, step to the side of the road and elude her attacker by disguising herself as a soda vending machine. Atsu-jan!!!!

Akachibarachi!!!
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piss off


1. Ask people to prove everything they say


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Girl, constipated

May 13th 2008 05:28
Job interviews constipate me.

At age twenty one, out of boredom and a last attempt at convincing my parents that I am not the spoiled rotten brat that they raised over weekly shopping orgies, I sent out an application for a telephone operating job. Yes, I wanted to be a telephone operator---despite the elite-college education under my belt and consternation among friends waiting to happen


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The Mormon Miseries

May 7th 2008 11:57
Disclaimer: The following are based on the author's personal opinion.


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According to the American College Health Association, about 44 percent of students were so depressed that it was difficult for them to function at some point in the 2006 school year. It also found that nearly 10 percent reported seriously considering suicide at least once last year.
Richard Kadison, chief of Harvard University's mental health services, said most students tackle the often overwhelming demands of student life such as developmental issues, parental and societal pressures, and economic hardships with "incredible strength and resilience." --CNN.com


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That is so 10,000 BC, dude!

May 4th 2008 10:29
Palden Dorje seated beneath a pipal tree.
I came across an article, Christmas Day, about the re-appearance of a Nepalese boy believed to be the reincarnation of the Lord Buddha. Ram Bahadur Bomjon, also known by his official buddhist name Palden Dorje of Ratanapuri Village in Nepal, has been seen collapsed in deep meditation, clothed in dirty tricivara (triple robe) under a pipal tree in the middle of a Nepalese forest. He began his meditation May of 2005 with hopes of achieving enlightenment in six years. Reports from the Nepalese media furthermore recount the boy's notable persistence to stay seated peacefully and in a prayer stance, refusing food and water.

A good, normal person would, of course, contemplate to himself and end up with a conclusion that the boy is a schizophrenia-suffering youngster who traded soccer, alcohol and speed dating to months of fasting and meditation in exchange of the sought-after experience among Buddha-believers: spiritual enlightenment


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Eat me

May 2nd 2008 11:05
Do you remember the impertinent email featuring a fetus-munching Oriental oddity which circulated the web community sometime in 2001?

I was a terribly neurotic medicated mess the time this godforsaken 'urban legend-posing-as-reality' bull was hot


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Holy Horrors

May 1st 2008 17:28
Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ never made even the slightest impression on me. I refused to watch this Oscar award-winning motion picture not even for the fact that its realistic and convincing ‘Scourging at the Pillar’ scene drove hordes of people to bawl their heads off over popcorn nor for gaining commendation from distinguished critiques like Scott Foundas of L.A. Weekly and Peter Travers of Rolling Stone.

Irrefutably, The Passion of the Christ has a brilliant cinematography and cast list. However, the movie failed to openly illustrate Christ as an epitome of vivacity and demonstrate his moral radicalism, charisma and fervent eloquence. Gibson, a devout Catholic and director/co-producer of the movie said that he financed the project because “Whether you're a believer or not, [Christ’s] death affects you


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Recent Comments

I don't expect such a thing to happen especially in a communist country. Which makes it amazing. Thanks for this post

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on Holy Horrors

May 14th 2008 12:55
Thanks for the visit! Much appreciated

Haha! There are actually alot of factors but yes, those may be considered too Thanks for the visit!

Comment by Louella Suque
on Can I Ask a Favour?

May 14th 2008 12:35
Wow. Where are the hot guys? I don't see any in that photo. LOL

Comment by Louella Suque
on Let's Talk Toilets

May 13th 2008 11:43
Thank God for you, another hater of dirty bathrooms.

I am totally disgusted with dirty, filthy, disgusting bathrooms. When finding hotels, I always make sure the bathrooms are sterile clean, with fresh, new and clean toilet bowls, shower and tiles.

Sorry about the Vietnam encounter

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on 10 brilliant ways to piss people off

May 13th 2008 10:53
You're welcome

Thanks for visiting

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on Eat me

May 9th 2008 18:59
@ Anonymous: Oriental refers to the people of three northeast asian countries namely Japan, Korea and China. It is regarded as politically incorrect that is why most people now use Asian to describe people from Asia.

I said alleged because it was not at first certain that the man was oriental. Get it?

Thanks.

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on Repeat After Me: I Am Free

May 5th 2008 20:48
This made my day. Thanks


PS Yes. We are never free.

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on How to Cook Rice

May 5th 2008 20:32
You know what's funny? I am Asian but I don't know how to cook rice

I suffer from manic-depression and it is never easy. However, I learned that emotions are manageable. All you have to do when youre sad is to look into your sad feelings, breathe deeply and discard it. Pretty much like what you do in meditation. I know it sounds silly; I thought so, too the first time but it remarkably helps.

Sadly, depression may be a part of us for as long as we live but it doesn't mean that we can allow it to control us. We have control over our depression.

And of course, there's always Zoloft