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Things are going well. Well, alrightish, I’d say. Been back for a weekish and it feels like so much has already happened… Things are moving on. As they should be. Except my life. I’m still stuck in transition. Willingly stuck, though. It ain’t that bad. Contrary to popular belief that post-college pre-working life is usually [...]
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Or… why we should embrace conflicts.
When things are not going as smoothly as it should or could be, it can be taxing, a little, yet it can be so fun and delightfully enlightening, if only we allow ourselves to take that step back to breathe and observe objectively. No matter how well you think [...]
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Graduation is such a joyous occasion - even though I did not attend as a graduand, I felt truly happy for my friends who were graduating. So many years of hard work… and finally the day has come. With everybody together in the house, families and all, it’s difficult not to feel the excitement. My [...]
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So. I’m here. Back. ish.
While I was away, my room was being used as a guestroom of sorts. I knew most of those to whom my room and housemates played host, but what I wasn’t aware of was how they were playing some form of round robin with my room and its assets. Used [...]
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When my only immediate reason for returning to London is so that I won’t miss my friends’ graduation…
When I don’t have to go to school, or work (yet), or attend any important events there…
When the only thing I can look forward to is to see my friends and QuGee who have been waiting [...]
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… for this year.
Away from the comforts and shelter that is my family, learning how to live can be a difficult thing. I am preparing, bracing myself for whatever awaits me over the other side. There is too much to absorb, to take in, to feel, to agonise over. Too much to face, both [...]
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A… modern? junk in the harbour
Central at night, with the Bank of China and Cheung Kong skyscrapers towering over the Legislative Council Building
All photos are up (only the first ~80 pics on the page; the rest are from before).
I’m now back in Singapore, and am endeavouring to finally get me bottoms off my comfy base [...]
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I’m watching the telly, and I’m trying to get used to how the show presenter is interviewing this Taiwanese celebrity, speaking in 100% Cantonese, and the celebrity would respond in complete Mandarin, and from time to time there would appear cartoonish English thought bubbles above both of them…
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I know, I’m late and overdue in doing a post on the environment for 15th Oct. But if it’s blogging in support of a cause, every day can be blog action day… there’s nothing too special about this post in that it isn’t anything I wouldn’t normally write about; the only difference being that I’m [...]
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There is a difference. It is hope that I have; it is high hopes that I hold for everything. Expectations I have none; I do not expect anything from myself or others nor do I encourage them to expect anything of me. I try, but I am still learning. Hope leaves doors open. Expectations closes [...]
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Dear Singaporean friends,
The Myanmar generals brutalising their people depend on Singapore — for banking and trading, private hospitals, even luxury Armani clothes. The government has now condemned the military dictatorship. It’s the first step. Now we need not just words, but action. Let’s send Foreign Minister George Yeo an urgent message of support and encouragement: [...]
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I feel that there is a need to reiterate… that it is a combination of the issues of evolution vs creationism, science vs religion, reason vs faith, the authenticity of the Bible, church history, philosophy, the concept of the Abrahamic God, the many contradictions that lie within the fundamentals of Christianity (and other religions), the [...]
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Here are some good passages that echo my own sentiments. I’ve only found this page today, and by George… what a relief… what a find! These are what I’ve been believing all this while, since young, only that I didn’t understand it as pantheistic then. I just knew I felt an affinity with nature. And [...]
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I like philosophy; I love to philosophise. It enables to understand me better, humanity better, and it betters me as a person. It might not have answers to everything, but it polishes the windows through which I think. Sometimes, it affirms my beliefs, and gives me greater happiness, and sometimes, it confuddles and puzzles me [...]
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These days, I can feel the sun’s heat on my back, even as I sit in my chair, at my usual workdesk in my room. When the clouds part, the sunlight that shines through my window is strong enough to make me squint, and I would need to draw the curtains to continue about my [...]
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Initially, today, we had planned on a family outing (or at least, for my sis and I) to East Coast Park to take a look at the World Animal Day carnival. In the early afternoon, while we were still lunching at home, the drizzle escalated into a foggy rainstorm, the sky turned twisteresque dark grey [...]
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Scientists, naturalists, and others from the biodiversity circles gathered yesterday at the Singapore Botanic Gardens to attend the screening of Expedition Linné, a film by the Swedish photographer Mattias Klum (of Nat Geog fame) and journalist Folke Rydén. Inspired by Carolus Linnaeus (Carl von Linné), the father of plant and animal classification, the film prompts [...]
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Dear friends,
Today, our petition to China and the UN Security Council to stop the brutal crackdown on peaceful Burmese protesters is being delivered to the world in a full page ad in the Financial Times worldwide — but the ad was rejected by other newspapers like the South China Morning Post and the Singapore Straits [...]
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I received a letter in the post today, from the Member of Parliament (MP) of the Tanjong Pagar Group Representation Constituency (GRC), writing on behalf of the Citizens’ Consultative Committee (CCC) welcoming my family and I to the Tanglin-Cairnhill Division, encouraging me to join the grassroots organisations (GROs), such as my Residents’ Committee (RC) or [...]
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Gripping, haunting, prophetical. My heartbeat quickens even as I think about it. George Orwell’s 1984 has now come to be one of the books I hold in the highest esteem. The negative utopia as described by Orwell, despite it being a work of fiction, does in many aspects remind me of the world we now [...]
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