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An eclectic mix of thoughts and views on life both in meat-space and in cyber-space, focusing more on the informal observational/inspirational aspect than academic rigour.

Saturday, November 28, 2015

Ping and Observations

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Ah. The end of November is upon us again, and soon December will arise. Already there are noticeably fewer people on the roads, which of c...

Select→Move Idiom in GIMP

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GIMP is extremely powerful for a cross-platform free image manipulation software, but it has some... oddities. The most fundamental oddity...
Saturday, November 21, 2015

Post Oblivion Rant

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Double post much? There's of course a good reason for that: this is the traditional post-NaNoWriMo rant. And I don't really want t...

Past Is Past

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I don't usually like to talk about or even think about the past, not because there are things from there that have hurt me before that I...
Thursday, November 12, 2015

Les Novembre Bleues

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I shouldn't be writing this now. No, really, I mean it. I'm at work. I have around 14k+ words left to go for NaNoWriMo. And I ...
Thursday, October 22, 2015

October-End

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So one of my younger sisters got married recently. I'm happy for her, and wish her all the best. The day itself had been rather tirin...
Friday, October 09, 2015

The Blind Owl

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It's a Friday again, and I'm glad for a variety of reasons. The primary of which is the coming of a hard-earned rest over the weeke...
Monday, September 28, 2015

Unintentional Snobbery

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It is of no news that I have cut back on my use of Facebook. Part of the reason was that I found it dull from the many reposts, as well as ...
Saturday, September 26, 2015

Beat, But Alive.

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*flops down onto the imaginary couch* The past 9 days were rather hectic, to say the least. There was a medium-scale performance (for us ...
Saturday, September 12, 2015

September

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It's a Saturday once again, and we are now nearing the midpoint of September. There were at least two other occasions where I felt the...
Monday, August 31, 2015

Long Overdue Update [Perhaps]

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To say that an update is long overdue is to understate it by a whole order of magnitude or so. The past two weeks have been quite... hectic...
Monday, August 10, 2015

Bloody Long !@#$ Weekend

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I probably should be grateful for the long weekend that is SIN city's golden jubilee celebration, but frankly, I feel anything but grate...
Wednesday, August 05, 2015

Sickness and Keys

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Let's be upfront -- this has been a trashy week. I suffered from a horrible tension headache episode last week that escalated into a f...
Saturday, August 01, 2015

Delusions of... Normalcy

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It's late and I should be asleep. I know that SGDQ is running now, but it is late and I have two different rehearsals/practices tomor...
Sunday, July 26, 2015

Singularly Mundane

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Being singular in perspective and behaviour can be a very difficult path in a world where there is an increasing amount of ``social connecti...
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Saturday, July 18, 2015

Lollipop

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Man, that was a doozy. I've had my Nexus 10 for a while now . I still haven't named my Nexus 10 yet, though I am veering towards ...
Sunday, July 12, 2015

Negative, Positive

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Recently I was told that I ``sound too negative on my blog'', or rather, I have a tendency to be all ranty and what-not instead of b...
Wednesday, July 08, 2015

Hub, Spokes, SLAs

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Unless you are living not in SIN city, by now you ought to have heard of the massive MRT failure along the North-South and East-West lines. ...
Monday, July 06, 2015

Call Me Annoyed

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Call me annoyed. I really dislike waking up and feeling completely out of it, the exact thing that I felt this morning when I rolled out o...
Monday, June 29, 2015

Flutes and 笛子

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Some things to consider: The 口笛 has no equivalent. I don't even know how to explain this other than: an open pipe either 5 to 6 cm long...
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