Temporary TCKid Home

I tried to copy-paste what I wrote, but it was too long…I’ll just lazily put direct link to my blog 🙂
 
http://kumasim.wordpress.com/2010/12/28/parallel-conversation/

Lately I’ve been hearing a lot of talk about missing people. I guess it has to do with the season. Its made me think again about missing people. I don’t know why and I don’t understand it but I don’t miss people. […]

Wrote this when I was about 13. Thought I’d post it 🙂

Another Arabian Night

My bike skidded to a stop on the hot asphalt, flinging rocks through the air. I climbed off and passed quietly through the wooden […]

Nights blessed mantle lies heavy on dawns stringsruptures of light bleed through the palette creating ribbonstaut ribbons like angelic trails lifted from fairy talesdeep water curls between trees like damp […]

Life was a continuous struggle of finding a ‘place of peace’ where I did not have to feel sorry about myself. If there is anything remarkable about my life so far, let it be my cross-cultural experiences between […]

http://heyitsjohnnyc.wordpress.com/2010/09/29/the-difference-between-traveling-and-living-in-other-countries/
One of the things I was once criticized over when applying to work as a travel agent was that I wasn’t […]

…constantly confused by the changes in seasons, I cannot get used to the sun rising and setting at different times.…shop in small shops with limited choice, preferably with someone who speaks Hindi behind the […]

Originally taken from http://heyitsjohnnyc.wordpress.com/2010/09/19/you-are-what-you-eat-third-culture-kid-diets/

You are what you eat, and this must mean I’m pretty sweet!

When I was young, one of my dreams […]

…started speaking English or your “mother tongue” with an accent when you meet up with someone else who speaks with an accent?
…used steel wool to better your reception?
…seen someone in a National […]

Taken from http://heyitsjohnnyc.wordpress.com/2010/08/11/third-culture-kids-as-superheroes/

Hope is the key, compassion is the flag of the righteous man.

When I was younger, I used to dream of having super […]

Taken from http://heyitsjohnnyc.wordpress.com/2010/08/03/does-telling-people-where-youre-from-really-help-them-to-understand-better/

Do you grok this?

Does telling people your life story or experiences as a […]

Hello everyone, as you may recall, a few months ago, I was on the verge of oblivion in light of life circumstances. My father had died, my family had fractured, leaving me alone, and all my money disappeared going […]

Taken from http://heyitsjohnnyc.wordpress.com/2010/07/30/third-culture-kids-as-magicians/

The Magician

The word “magic” usually conjures (no pun intended) a lot of different reactions. Whether it is the fantasy […]

Taken from http://heyitsjohnnyc.wordpress.com/2010/07/27/southern-california-obon-matsuri-festival-season-2010/

Living without a routine and going beyond my existing network is a daily practice in opening my eyes […]

June 7th, 2010 marked the 25th anniversary of the classic adventure film of the 1980s, The Goonies.
For those of you who have not seen this wonderful film, shame on you. For those of us who remember fondly, it was […]

Been so many places in my life and time ..
That line always rang true, even though it was a hit song when I was young.

I’m turning 50 this year and haven’t been this depressed this I turned 20. They’re two of I […]

So, the whole world is abuzz about the Russian spies and their kids, and their
2.5 dogs and station wagons, along with blandly decorated houses in the
suburbs. I predict several things:
1. All these individuals […]

My dance company and I will be traveling to DC this July to perform and teach some dance-based workshops using cross-cultural and TCK references. I hope you can attend! Please let me know when you are coming so I […]

Watching the world cup reminds me of an experience a couple of weeks
ago. My roommate is Swedish, and a mutual colleague of ours had married a
Swedish woman. She had heard that there was a get-together […]

Many expats try to sell their stuff through expat community within their country of current residence. Why? Because there is a difference between what expats use and what locals use. For instance, when drying […]