Literature and Nostalgia
IT was very jarring to hear that a few friends of mine were totally not interested in literature. And I remembered why I never volunteered to like literature: because I didn't want a situation where...
View ArticleCuration
Life move outwards in an ever widening circle. I remember the time when I was 15, and it started occurring to me that there would come a time when I would lose the connections that I had with my...
View ArticleAlex Ferguson
There's this article that said that Alex Ferguson didn't have any former player who became a great manager. And in many ways it's true. Gordon Strachan and Mark Hughes have made a decent fist of their...
View ArticleSingapore, Malaysia and the unevenness of good governance
The future is here. It's just not very well spread out. The diffusion of technological advancement has never been even. Why is it easier for some countries to make that leap into developed world status...
View ArticleData Science vs IT
Data ScienceITIdeasActionScienceEngineeringPossibilitiesEventualityNerdGeekContent of dataFormat of dataSubstanceFormPythonJavaTruthfulness /...
View ArticleRat Race
Do you remember a time when Singapore was considered a cheap and casual place compared to the US and the West? It seems that things have changed so much.There are a lot of things that you can no...
View ArticleErgodicity of Football
Ergodicity is the idea that, given enough time, a system will go through all the possible states. I used to wonder why football fans drop out after a certain amount of time. That's because football is...
View ArticleScrum Master
Quite a few things happened with the crush situation at work.I tried guessing her MBTI type. I guessed ISFP, mainly because she was dealing with UX, and because I was projecting on her that she was a...
View ArticleEnd of the Affair
Scrum master could be quite a braggart. Maybe she was an egoist, or maybe she just had a healthy ego. But she bragged about wholesome stuff: about staying up late, or being scolded by bosses. Maybe she...
View ArticleZodiac Killer
I've come to realise that for me to “return” to the factory, I would have to get over 3 obstacles. The first obstacle shouldn't really be an obstacle, but it is. It's having my head in the right place...
View ArticleIdleness
There was a time when it looked as though the world were built on idleness. Leisure was some kind of goal to achieve. When I was young, we ended up living in a nice townhouse. I thought of school as...
View ArticleAfter Klopp's departure
Jurgen Klopp is leaving Liverpool. People will talk about him as one of the great Liverpool managers of all time. His place in history is secure. There have been good Liverpool managers in the past....
View ArticleDragon
Many cultures have their own version of the dragon. IT's likely to be because somebody stumbled upon some old dinosaur bones and realised that there were ancient creatures which roamed the earth....
View ArticleCoaches coaching coaches
There was this debate about whether Guardiola or Alex Ferguson is the greatest manager. I've actually done a search and found that at one point I wasn't sure. Alex Ferguson's great strength is his...
View ArticleRise of the Middle Powers
The history of the world since 1945 is that World War 2 was the great anti-colonial war. The biggest impact of 1945, in retrospect, was that the power shifted from the imperialist to the natives. The...
View ArticleJC Years
I've had the opportunity recently to think through what my JC years were like. The funny thing is that I mainly remember the good parts. I did enjoy a few good albums. I had to remind myself about the...
View ArticleEngland in the finals of the Euros
So England are in the finals again... I'm now thinking about England doing well in a tournament. It happened in 2018, 2021, 2024. IT's happened with some regularity. Every time they did well in...
View ArticleHoarding - Analysis Paralysis
Before I went to Mexico, and that was when I was young; more than 10 years ago. I had one or two good years in my career, and probably I moved from being on the lowest rung to the next lowest rung....
View ArticleEnd of the GEP
When the GEP ended, there was a lot of mourning for what it was, what it meant. I was at first quite critical of the fact that GEP people were shut off from the rest of the school and given our own...
View ArticleAmerican Beauty Redux
Watching “American Beauty” all those years ago had enough of an impact on me that I’m still thinking about what it all meant, all these years later. Because it informed my thinking about what it meant...
View ArticleHow to talk about Israel on the internet.
One issue that I've avoided a lot is Israeli politics. And yet the pendulum has swung so far against the Israelis that there seems to be a way to start knocking some sense into the Israelis who for...
View ArticleLast Week before Kamala Harris vs Donald Trump
There are a few troubling signs ahead for the elections. In 2016, I could feel that the movement against Trump was very vociferous. People literally thought that he was going to destroy the US system....
View ArticleRI Petition
Something interesting caught my eye the other day. Somebody from RI, my alma mater put up a petition calling for the removal of the principal. I think it only made the news because of the sheer...
View ArticleFuture of Western Democracy
There's been a lot of handwringing about liberal democracy in the West. My thoughts are these: 1. The West has gone through worse. They've gone through the nightmare of the middle of the 20th century....
View ArticleSomething to Die For
I read a review of “wicked”, and one of the things is that it was revealed that Elphaba was actually a bit of an animal rights activist. She turned against society because of how animals were...
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