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Utterly Pointless Movements, Disappearing Targets and Thoughts on the Past

Watched three matches of the Denmark Open last night (two nights ago, actually). I haven’t played badminton for some time- it’s supposedly my favourite sport, since it’s the one competitive sport I’m actually good at (in a proper fashion, too). All I could ever do in football was kick the ball in a startlingly [...]

I'm over here. What are you looking at?

Josh came over to interview me for a journalism assignment of his about a week ago. I didn’t really get what it was about, something about ‘how everyone is special and yet the same’ or some kinda apparently deep nonsense like that. I didn’t really know how to deal with it, so I didn’t. [...]

Constructive Bashing: Public Transportation. Or should it be 'Putrid'?

Ever heard of the phrase ‘constructive criticism’? It sounds pleasant, but not for whoever’s on the receiving end, unless you were hoping for it. It’s quite closely related to one of my many hobbies, ‘constructive bashing’, where I basically tear the object(s) of my ire to charming little pieces. I’m not very patriotic, unless [...]

Get your horses ready, it's censor-lynching time!

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I’ve been hit. I suppose anyone who reads anything (Loan shark ads excluded) would have heard stories of Malaysian censors, from those of banned kiddy books (Remember Spongebob Squarepants? He’s at number 31 of this list) to torn out pages, and highlighted female breasts. Why they even bother doing that is [...]

Random Snippet of Wisdom 2

Think hard. If you were told that to achieve ‘enlightenment’ you must rid yourself of all your flaws, would you take the chance? Logically, if everyone were to achieve such a state, we would all be trapped in a constant, stagnant world- one devoid of everything that makes life worth living. It’s the same [...]

Requiem for an Emperor

The Emperor and his Witch

I finished watching Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 yesterday, after three sessions of four episodes sometime last week, the subsequent fifteen on Wednesday, and the final five yesterday (Here’s a summary of the finale). It’s been great, really, notwithstanding the news that director Taniguchi [...]

Sleep interrupted. Payment taken.

It really isn’t too bad when annoying kids (who just happen to be your relatives, by some sad twist of fate) visit you during the holidays, when you thought you’d have some free time to spend sleeping, dreaming, and wondering exactly how you’re gonna do those assignments you just got, when you have an [...]

Pregnant Delusions

Smells hit me hard these days- I really don’t know why. I was at a open-air hawker center with my dad and some other relatives when a familiar scent wafted its way, uninvited, into my lungs- and it hurt. This has never happened to me before. Two smokers on my left, and yet [...]