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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.

Friday, July 17, 2026

Rapid Fire Round

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Okay okay... I'm still alive. Am on leave, in fact, and the second such Friday-leave since the one last week. I have so many things t...
Sunday, June 21, 2026

Miserable Ass-Blasting Weekend

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Urgh... I've been utterly miserable over this weekend. The reason? Having the runs. It all started on Friday. I was at AWS Singapo...
Saturday, June 06, 2026

Fast Fashion and Generative-AI

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You know, I had this conversation recently with GY and a few others, and I think there might be some logic behind the mess. Like all good r...
Monday, June 01, 2026

...Ending with a Whimper

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I wanted to make it a lark and talk about how the week of hedonism went down with a big bang and me wanting to never want to get back to wor...
Monday, May 25, 2026

The First Three Days' Adventures

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It's now a Monday. I'm officially on leave for a week and a bit more; I might have mentioned that this leave is a long time coming....
Monday, May 18, 2026

Bombshell

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First off, sorry for the malformed entry before. In my addled-ness, I forgot to run the raw text through my Blogger-Br tool that inserts t...
Sunday, May 17, 2026

Egalitarianism is a Dead End

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Class separation and eventual struggle is inevitable as long as human societies are going at the size that they have been going at since th...
Saturday, May 02, 2026

Yet Another Labour Day Weekend

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So it's the Labour Day weekend. I've always found it very strange that for SIN City, the union leaders are unabashedly the same fo...
Saturday, April 25, 2026

Hard to Disband

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This'll be a short one, I think. Something about having too many high-stakes external meetings and shifting of my lifestyle from fully ...
Saturday, April 11, 2026

Flavour of Life

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Let's start by linking to the latest earworm: It's an old piece by Utada Hikaru. When I first heard of it, I understood nothing ab...
Friday, April 03, 2026

April Lah

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Ah. It has been a while. Feels funny/good to be writing out here again. So at some point between then and now, I finally concluded that ...
Saturday, February 28, 2026

Out of ``Jail''

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I'm finally out of ``jail''. It has been a rough week. It all began with a dull pain in my left eye ball (it's always the...
Monday, February 09, 2026

A Small February Thought

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Ah, it's now February. Well actually, more than a week into February proper. What a luxury! Anyway, what's there to say? I th...
Friday, January 23, 2026

Not Quite Stream of Consciousness

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Well well well. Here we are again. Shall we begin [the storytelling] then? I started the day loading up my slim hip flask with Maker...
Friday, January 02, 2026

Quick Summary

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So, a quick summary of what I had written in 2025: 2 poems posted here 68 essays/rants posted here 1 prose/stories posted here 2 pieces of ...
Monday, December 29, 2025

Comically Oversized Apple

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I ventured farther than ``downstairs'' today. All in the search for this: Okay, I did more than just look for a comically oversized...
Saturday, December 27, 2025

Decide...

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When a choice is made, it necessitates an excision of all other choices other than the one that one has chosen to proceed with. Such is the...
Friday, December 26, 2025

Good Ol' Times?

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Were the old days really good, or is it one of those delusions that come from the fact that [human] memories of events passed are always rew...
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