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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.

Monday, June 04, 2018

June?

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It is June once again. There is usually nothing fantastic about June other than the increased amount of ``summer rain'' and perhaps...
Tuesday, May 08, 2018

La Loca, 傻女, and 傻女的爱

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Remember La Loca and 《傻女》 ? I've finally found the Chinese version of 《傻女》 (it is called 《傻女的爱》). 《傻女的爱》——陈慧娴 今夜再度想起那被遗忘的故事 去年此时的相遇...
Sunday, April 15, 2018

Meandering Start

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Let me be honest---I'd be lying if I said that I felt a compelling need to write an entry here today. But that said, I looked at the pa...
Friday, January 05, 2018

Quick Summary

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So, a quick summary of what I had written in 2017: 1 poem posted here 8 essays/rants posted here 0 prose/story posted here 1 NaNoWriMo wi...
Saturday, December 09, 2017

A NaNoWriMo-esque Update

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This post should have gone out earlier, but well, things happen, so what's to be expected? I did not write anything about last year...
Monday, October 02, 2017

Belly-aching Against Ah Q

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Recently, I read 鲁迅's 《阿Q正传》 (``The True Stories of Ah Q'' by Lu Xun). It put me in yet another miasma of doubt over the weeken...
Thursday, August 31, 2017

Goodbye Edythe-II

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The inevitable has happened. Edythe-II decided to give up the ghost about a fortnight ago, and I was stuck in a strange position of not hav...
Monday, May 22, 2017

A Theory of Time Use

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Time is a very interesting resource to think about. There are, as at this point of writing, 86.4k seconds in a day, give or take a second ...
Monday, April 10, 2017

Information and the Line

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Information (and by extension knowledge) is a funny thing. The more one tries to suppress information, the more it tries to fight back and ...
Saturday, March 11, 2017

Marching On

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It is, for better or worse, almost the half-way mark for the month of March. I felt this compulsion to write something in this lightly negl...
Thursday, February 02, 2017

Goodbye Eirian-III

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I've had Eirian-III for quite a while now, and it is with great sadness that I'll have to retire this tablet. I've had Eirian...
Monday, January 09, 2017

Quick Summary

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So, a quick summary of what I had written in 2016: 6 poems posted here 18 essays/rants posted here 0 prose/stories posted here 1 NaNoWriM...
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Monday, December 12, 2016

December begins...but soon will end?

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Oh December! Where to begin? We're almost on the home stretch towards the end of the roller-coaster ride we call 2016, and as far as ...
Saturday, November 26, 2016

Here We Go Again...

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It's slightly more than a month since I had written anything here, and I assure you that all and any rumours of my demise have been exag...
Thursday, October 13, 2016

In Between Worlds

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I've said this before, I'll say it again: it is hard to live in between worlds. In general, I have not found myself to be a party ...
Wednesday, October 05, 2016

Intermezzo

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In case people were wondering, well, I'm still around. Nearly a month has passed since the last time I wrote anything here, and much o...
Monday, August 29, 2016

Just a Tad Depressed

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I'm a tad depressed. I think that I'm one of those people who really prefer stability over change, but am willing to take in the c...
Wednesday, August 10, 2016

An August Post

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This wasn't planned. Well, the others weren't really planned either. I just felt the urge, nay the need to write something just ...
Saturday, July 02, 2016

Beginning of the Second Half of the Year

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In the blink of an eye, we are now at the start of July, the clear demarcation of when the second half of the year begins. I'm not sur...
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Monday, June 13, 2016

Graphics Card Upgrade and 10-holed dizi

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Some time back, I picked up the news that the NVidia GTX 1080 was released. That got me thinking---was it time to update the GTX 680 curren...
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