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sieteocho's sister 11/8, 6:24pm holy shit it's not looking good sieteocho 11/8, 6:25pm I know. Can you imagine if Hillary needs Nevada to win? sieteocho 11/8, 6:31pm The last few precincts will usually...
View Article5 years
I don't know if I'm being superstitious or not. Interesting things have happened to me every 5 years. When I was 5, I started my music education. When I was 10, I got admitted into the gifted program....
View ArticlePatriarchal and Tribal Racism
The rise of the alt right in the USA and of far right parties in Europe have been met with dismay. When I was a teenager I used to seeth at the skinhead Neo Nazis and David Duke. But what happened in...
View ArticleWorks Well With Others
I can't really tell a lot of things about my life. Maybe there's a big void there or something. I can name 2-3 years of my life when I lived life with a great intensity – well maybe I dreamed dreams...
View ArticleRise of China (and its impact on Singapore)
Like many other people, some of us have been viewing the rise of China with quite a bit of consternation. At first, we welcomed it, because China had suffered so greatly under Mao. Then China entered...
View ArticleHow Society Falls Apart
The rapper KRS-ONE's name stands for "knowledge reigns supreme over nearly everyone". It is one of the tenets of the enlightenment that knowledge will win out in the end, that people will discuss the...
View ArticleLee Kuan Yew's Not Good 1980s
The 80s were not a great period for Lee Kuan Yew. Most of his mistakes were made during the 80s.1. Closure of Nantah. Nobody could have predicted that today, 35 years down the road, China would be...
View ArticleA New Building
I don't really have a lot of memories of the first few days in the new building. It was a grand structure. It was originally supposed to be Bishan Junior College. (Thank god it wasn't, because it would...
View ArticleMyth of the mid table club
You had the myth of the well-run mid-table club. I don't know much about what the Football league before the Premier League came about. How many clubs have never been relegated from the Premier League?...
View ArticlePhases of the English Premier League
Manchester City have a plan for global dominance. I think we can put the English Premier League in distinct phases. The first phase (1992 - 1997) was the era of Manchester United's rise to become a...
View ArticlePeace, prosperity and economic progress
Peoples' memories are short. I'm barely old enough to remember a time, in the 1980s, when WW2 was still being talked about, when people still remember the horrors and the savagery. This memory faded in...
View ArticleEmotional shelter
I saw this article about parents being concerned about how their kids saw the world. There was this parent who thought that climate change was going to make this world a terrible one for people to live...
View ArticleTen or Twenty Raffles Institutions
Something new has come up in Singapore. One of those issues is that people are wondering if Raffles Institution should be elitist. As with economic outcomes, on one hand we desire equality of...
View ArticleTraining safety in the SAF
Why we don't have a good safety culture. lousy attitude towards manual labourAfter leaving the SAF, I went to work at the factory. I've found that operational efficiency takes a back seat to workplace...
View ArticleRecent history of football and also why I should just stop being a fan.
There are certain indelible memories associated with football. My father and his family were football fans. For the first decade of its existence, the Kallang stadium was the site of epic Malaysia cup...
View ArticlePest control and squatting
I got back home one day and I found brochures of the termite tent. They told us that they were going to fumigate the whole premises. The most important things were to store up the food and put them in...
View ArticleFootball is meh
Football is kinda pointless. I've said this before. It was invented by the Victorian British, and as it gained popularity, it seemed to be really useful to give the working classes something to look...
View ArticleThe end of the end of history.
The big epochs of our history took place in 1989. We saw a transformation of the post cold war order. We thought that the US had won the cold war. As with World War 2, the end of the cold war in 1989...
View ArticleCollege admissions Scandal
I used not to wonder about this, but some of the things are getting less and less important. When I was in my younger adulthood maybe I was too concerned about things that maybe didn’t matter. Maybe I...
View ArticleAddictions
Apparently addictions are being blamed for the rise in unhappiness amongst Americans. There may be 3 things which are related to each other and are relevant in this day and age. One of them is the...
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