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I was trying to articulate what went wrong with pop music over the last 10-20 years. There’s a lot of blame to go around: music being distributed for almost free, more visual forms of art supplanting...
View ArticlePositivism
I think about a lot of things that I learnt from Snowy Hill and I'm wondering how much of it is really useful. There is this strain of thought, which is “positivism”. It says that there are a lot of...
View ArticleChaos vs Lawful
A lot changed around the time that I hit 40. I was in a good place at that point in time, because I was living in Mexico and had a good job. But in retrospect things were falling apart. There were...
View ArticleCuration
There was one time when I was around 15. By then I had been in 3 different schools. I was digging REM. There was one time when I heard their song “Perfect Circle”. For a while it was my favourite...
View Article1992 in the UK
1992 was a real interesting year when I visited the UK. IT was an enchanting place, but it was a tour bus tour, and I never got to really walk around. Still there was the charm of the music stores,...
View ArticleWorld Cup Random Observations
I was just pondering over France in the World Cup. They never seem to have a normal world Cup. It's either heaven or hell. 1990 - din qualify. 1994 - din qualify. 1998 - champions. 2002 - out at group...
View ArticleQatar 2022
I said that I was going to boycott this world cup. When I was younger, I talked to my older relatives, and they said that they were big Malaysia Cup fans when they were younger, but it didn't last. It...
View ArticleCrush
I'm a bad boy. I sometimes do things knowing I shouldn't be doing them. Things weren't that great at work. I had gone back to the place that I used to work for, and for some reason they decided to...
View ArticleINFP
I'm an INTP. And if you've been reading this blog (I don't really think so) you'd know that. But I feel like I'm morphing into being an INFP. I have an INFP side. The one who has crushes on people, has...
View ArticleLiterature 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...
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