2.15pm 5/10/18 “Once I had a woman I could call my own Once I had a woman, now my woman she gone Once there was a river, now there’s a stone You know it’s evil when you’re living alone Water of love deep in the ground But there ain’t no…
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9.38am the first day of October, 2018 Image: E.E Cummings (Poetry Foundation) I was recently perusing an article on the pitfalls that people fall in when making websites (in HTML Hell, we use the blink tag…) and I was surprised to come across a minor point the article raised: content…
Comments closed2.06 pm 10/10/17 “Kaur is probably right; I’m pretty sure the reason her first book sells so well is not based on the inherent accessibility of her poetry, but because of its good placement within bookstores, aesthetically simple cover, and the massive Instagram hype around Kaur herself.” – Lindsey Adler…
Comments closedShould people who have not served NS have the right to talk about it? Many people seem to think they shouldn’t. For instance. Josephine Teo and Khaw Boon Wan have been criticized for talking about national service – one of the reasons being that they didn’t serve NS. Now I’m…
Comments closedI was thinking of algorithms. Or at least, what I will refer to as algorithms. And axioms – or rules of thumb. The thought started in a hospital: the hospital I frequent, where the pharmacy dispenses medicine through robot hands that transport the appropriate medicine (hopefully) from one end of…
Comments closed1) A person who creates is more interesting than a person who consumes. You can paint, draw, write, bake – anything. Write a screenplay. Paint still life. Add value to your world. 2) The creative portion of the mind is a muscle like any other: it must be flexed, it…
Comments closedI am sitting in the office, alone, typing this out on the first day of our block leave (which I did not take, as I had no more days of leave left). I notice today that it is exceedingly tranquil, and it got me thinking. I had an interesting discussion…
Comments closedI’d like to think that I’m no stranger to the history of money – whether it was tied to gold or fiat. I’ve been educated (in 2013) by no less than the great Mr Daniel Seng, who taught me the fundamentals of the history of the Global Economy between 1945…
Comments closed24/11/2015 I’m waiting for a reply from Oxford regarding my TSA results. Meanwhile, I’ve been pondering on philosophical thought. It’s 5.06 pm now, and I’m waiting to book out. I was thinking about what I would do if I was given free reign over an economy or country. How would…
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