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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.

Sunday, February 27, 2022

Fine-tuning Timestamps, and The Great Aquarium

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Ah. Night time. Not quite stupid o'clock, but I feel like writing something here. I spent some time working on a little bit of code ...
Tuesday, February 22, 2022

Jump Cuts

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I just felt like I needed to say something on this date 2022-02-22. First of all, it's no palindrome in ISO-8601 . It's kinda lik...
Monday, February 21, 2022

Demons Came Out to Play Today

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The demons came out to play today. But I managed to keep them at bay. For now. I was walking home from the bus, and just thinking to mys...
Sunday, February 13, 2022

Metaverse?

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Okay, let's talk about something a little different. The ``metaverse''. An old concept that was recently made new all over ag...
Saturday, February 12, 2022

An Early Will

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In the event that I am dead, here is roughly what I would like done: Cremate and scatter my cremains into the waters off the Singapore coast...
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Sunday, February 06, 2022

Clearing Some More FPSes in My Steam Library

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I feel much better today, with the much cooler weather and having a good night's rest. I completed Serious Sam 3: BFE . Man, it was s...
Saturday, February 05, 2022

My First [Proper] Pyramid in Minecraft

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This is a prepared entry; it wasn't written near the time in which it was posted. This week... it has been a bust of sorts. I had bee...
Monday, January 31, 2022

More Goodbyes

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Well well well... yet another New Year's Eve, this time for ye olde Chinese Lunar New Year. To many it's a day of the fabled reunio...
Sunday, January 30, 2022

The Most Valuable Thing That You Possess

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What is the most valuable thing that you possess? To me, it is you , the you who is willing to spend time with me. Goods perish, money/as...
Saturday, January 29, 2022

On Flute Stands...

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In reference to a post on Flute Forum by someone who was seeking advice on making their own wooden flute stand for piccolo, concert flute, a...
Wednesday, January 26, 2022

The Demons Are Strong Tonight

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The demons are strong tonight. I wonder if it is because of just my draining my brain juice from work, a lack of sleep, or listening to som...
Saturday, January 22, 2022

The Day That Isn't Really Mine

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On this day some thirty nearly forty years ago, the grace of God and my mother's hardship allowed me to appear in this world. I did no...
Sunday, January 16, 2022

The First Stupid O'Clock of the Year

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Well well well... it's stupid o'clock. Whatever should I do? Ideally, I should go sleep. But as the season for feeling old rolls...
Saturday, January 15, 2022

Well... A Fortnight Has Passed...

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With the blink of an eye, the work week is over. And that was the second week. Working in a mostly empty office is a mixed blessing. On...
Sunday, January 09, 2022

And There Goes The First Week

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I had originally wanted to write something about how the focus on stopping the objectification of women is misplaced because the reality of ...
Thursday, January 06, 2022

I Really Need to Remember to Set My Alarm When I Sleep

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Okay, so I'm not out of three hundred dollars---it's roughly half of that. I ponied up some spare change to grab myself a puny Red...
Wednesday, January 05, 2022

It's Day Three and I'm Getting 'Nam Style Flashbacks

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I'm getting some 'nam style flashbacks, all because someone I have not met before decided to add my personal cellphone number (how t...
Tuesday, January 04, 2022

Back to Work!

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Alright, I'm not gonna lie, the momentum from entries nearly daily over my sabbatical year doesn't die completely like that---I sti...
Sunday, January 02, 2022

...?

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... What, you're expecting a post for today? Fine, I'll oblige, but bear in mind that since my sabbatical is over and I'm off...
Saturday, January 01, 2022

Quick Summary

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So, a quick summary of what I had written in 2021: 15 poems posted here 393 essays/rants posted here 4 prose/stories posted here 1 NaNoWriM...
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