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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.

Tuesday, December 07, 2021

What’s the Point If We Can’t Have Fun?

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What’s the Point If We Can’t Have Fun? is an interesting article. Maybe it can be a different way to look at how we treat our ``work life...
Monday, December 06, 2021

Why?

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Why? Why, in this time and age, are people still deciding to wilfully ignore medical advice from practising medical doctors, especially wh...
Sunday, December 05, 2021

Quiet-ish Sunday

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T'is quiet. Not completely quiet, but quiet enough . Somehow, I think I will look back upon this sabbatical year with fondness, and ...
Saturday, December 04, 2021

``Limited Breathing Capacity'' Issue w.r.t. Flute Playing

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In reply on the Flute Forum about a 13-year-old flute student being unable to play a 4/4 measure at 90 bpm with a comment from OP that it wa...
Friday, December 03, 2021

Common Carrier?

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Should payment processors and currency ``warehouses'' like banks be neutral parties that only ensure that the transaction itself inv...
Thursday, December 02, 2021

I Don't Like Dishonesty

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Dishonesty is something that I particularly dislike. There are two different levels of dishonesty though: Deliberate untruth (either in the...
Wednesday, December 01, 2021

Welcome to Month 12 of My Sabbatical---The Last Month

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Welcome to the start of the last month of my sabbatical! It's a month full of things that are going to happen. For instance: I'm ...
Tuesday, November 30, 2021

Unintentional Physical Labour

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Man... unintentional physical labours are really unwanted in this heat, that's for sure. I was digging through my careful stacks of st...
Monday, November 29, 2021

Music in Accent and Language

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The music of People  X for any X has two parts to it that often get muddled. The first is the accent of the music---this is what most pe...
Sunday, November 28, 2021

History Being Written and Rewritten

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History is both written and rewritten every day, the former fueled by the [major] events that occur, and the latter as part of an update to ...
Saturday, November 27, 2021

暂时换个口味……

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又过了一个星期六。 也没什么好写的,只不过花了大部分的时间来读《Zero to Sold》而已;已读的页数为485/564。傍晚时分上一上教堂崇拜,过后就坐了个顺风车回家。路上下着雷阵雨,能见度低,但我们始终平平安安的回来了。 也就这样,无惊无险的过了一天。 写到这儿...
Friday, November 26, 2021

Time Compression

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Today's another reading day. I spent time on Zero to Sold , while finishing the last bits of the Persona 5 speedrun . I also watched ...
Thursday, November 25, 2021

Reading + Wither Smackdown

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I spent much of today catching up on Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine (20th Edition) , with Part 2 (Cardinal Manifestations and Pr...
Wednesday, November 24, 2021

The Quarantine Zone

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It's a quiet day. I completed my nether railway to about 3k blocks away from the main portal to create a path to an overworld location...
Tuesday, November 23, 2021

Privacy: Accomplished

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What a day! I went to pick up Aurelia from WW today, and dropped off Azumi for her ``spa'' session. Azumi requires a bit more wor...
Monday, November 22, 2021

On My Faith...

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Ah, Monday. The day passes very differently when one isn't actually playing any video games, for example. I finished up the rest of U...
Sunday, November 21, 2021

Winding Down

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Well well... what did I do today? Read more Unspoken Sermons . I also fixed some minor issues with my .htaccess file for my web site , ...
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The Search of Your Perfect Flute

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In reply to someone asking for advice/opinions on handmade flutes by someone who claims to be intermediate and is interested in perhaps upgr...
Saturday, November 20, 2021

DSA and Other Busy Things

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Let's talk about the Direct School Admission (DSA) for secondary schools for a bit. The intent is noble---to allow admission to excell...
Friday, November 19, 2021

A New Phase?

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It feels so funny to have completed NaNoWriMo. For eighteen days, I seemed to be operating on a completely different domain, with daily str...
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