Almost one year
This past year seems to have passed very quickly. As opposed to my last quarter in University of Mexico, when I was finishing up. Every day I go to work. Then I come home and I fix dinner. Or I don’t...
View ArticleIf Only / the Post Fuck Up Analyser
Sometimes it’s true what they say that the saddest words are “if only”. But I think there are even worse situations to be in, such as if you don’t even regret anything because if you had to live your...
View ArticleRecurring Dreams
I had that recurring dream again, where I knew that I was going to drive to a certain part of the city that I’d never been to, which had great hawker food. But I wasn’t that sure that the city that I...
View ArticleQuora
Maybe a month and a half ago, I joined quora. It felt great at first, and I did have a lot to write about. I actually managed 100 posts in that time. But then I had to stop. I was turning into a troll....
View ArticleAllconsuming is dead
A few weeks ago I received news that allconsuming, which was the online app that I've been using to help me organise my reading list, is dead. I'm thinking about it - I've devoted so much of my life to...
View ArticleNotes about "Lost"
When I was working for the Factory I remembered that there were people out there who were talking about "Lost". They were watching it so much that I was curious about what the show was really like. I...
View Article2 corny jokes with sexual content
1. I really admire those Chinese friends of mine who marry angmoh zhaboh. You could say they put the "asian" in "caucasian".2. My friend got caught by his mother when he was masturbating. You could say...
View ArticleGreat teams are champions of World Cups
There are people who are always wondering why Lionel Messi, Ronaldo and Wayne Rooney seem to perform below par for the World Cup. My theory is that most of the time, World Cups are won by teams which...
View ArticleIs there a power shift in the World Cup away from South America and Europe?
David James raised the possibility that World Cups might be shifting away from South America and Europe. These are the great powers of football: Brazil, Argentina, France, Germany, Spain, Italy,...
View ArticlePink Dot vs Religious Conservatives Confrontation
It has been very interesting Pink Dot session. Earlier on I had written a piece about why I thought that LGBT groups were taking the wrong tack. In the intervening years that followed, it seemed that a...
View ArticleAbout that Vincent Wijeysingha allegation
Lately I’ve read a few conservative commentators – and a few of them are friends on Facebook. They have been complaining about the way that they’ve been treated by the pinkdot gang. They almost sound...
View ArticleExpansion of the Euros to 32 teams
This post was written shortly after Euros 2012There has been a little bit of hoohah about expanding the Euros to 24 teams. People were praising the quality of this tournament, saying that there hasn’t...
View ArticleBrazil laosai vs Germany
That was unexpected. Brazil got whacked 7-1. Every tournament has had a moment that got everybody talking, and I think that has to be this tournament’s. To recap, here are the ones from previous...
View ArticleDid I like the outcome of the World Cup?
Sometimes I wonder whether World Cups throw up the outcome that the team that you back eventually wins it.In 1982, the first world cup that I was vaguely aware of (probably some Panini stickers...
View ArticleDisplacement
One of the more interesting things I’ve read in the last year is the first few chapters of Tony Judt’s “Postwar”, in which he mentions that one of the biggest effects of WWII was the displacement of...
View ArticleSopranos and Existentialism
There was an episode of the Sopranos where AJ, Tony Soprano’s son starts quoting existential philosophy and ruminating on the essential emptiness of life. I was a bit like him when I was his age,...
View ArticleExtra Curricular Extra Curricular Activity
I was looking back at my school record and I was wondering how I ever got the reputation for being a lazy person. Probably it was that I didn’t really work very hard all the time. I was a B student who...
View Article10 great Singaporean government policies
I actually wrote this 3 years ago, in the wake of the elections of 2011. Funny thing is that I might not have to change this much. I was going to title this blog entry "10 great Singaporean government...
View ArticleTwo types of annoying people.
Today there were two little annoyances. I boarded the trolley to get to work. (Isn’t it nice that Mexico still has these slightly archaic modes of transport. It’s the equivalent of the LRT in...
View ArticleBack to books
When I look back upon my life, one of the more significant events took place when I was in my first year in college. I had applied to and entered Snowy Hill as an electrical engineer, because...
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