December 2009
3 posts
weebl.... arthouse pie →
November 2009
1 post
October 2009
3 posts
September 2009
7 posts
"Dark and Stormy Night Contest" (run by the...
10) “As a scientist, Throckmorton knew that if he were ever to break wind in the echo chamber, he would never hear the end of it.” 9) “Just beyond the Narrows, the river widens.” 8) “With a curvaceous figure that Venus would have envied, a tanned, unblemished oval face framed with lustrous thick brown hair, deep azure-blue eyes fringed with long black lashes, perfect...
a very important question.
what is the difference between living and just existing?
let’s discuss!
August 2009
17 posts
the mathematics of work
role merit = f(work + challenge + opportunity + location)
the merits of each role is a function of the work, the challenge it presents, the opportunity to learn or grow, and the location of the project.
each role should be evaluated on the sum of these inputs. for example, interesting work would be a (+), and might mediate the (-) effect of a bad location. if the work is challenging and...
new rubbish-but-entertaining website
www.whatgoogleknows.com
found more change in your pocket than you thought... →
pickpockets turn good! love it.
in this time of economic crisis, instead of taking money from people, they are putting money back into people’s pockets - crazy!!!
and we are still feeling the effects →
“Two years after the start of the worst global financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s, policy-makers from around the world gather this week to think about how to prevent it from happening again.”
Has it really been 2 years already?
how could you, kinokuniya
1) I found book that Kinokuniya did not have - ‘The Plot Against America’ by Phillip Roth. Flabbergasted. It never occurred to me it would be out of stock in Kunokuniya since 2008.
2) Remembered the annoying thing about Kinokuniya - they wrap and seal their books in the literature section, so you can’t have a browse through the pages. how very not conducive to browsing!
welcome to your quarterlife crisis! →
are you in your twenties? do you feel lost, confused, and unfulfilled? do you feel like you are not living up to your potential, that life is not as it’s supposed to be? welcome to your quarterlife crisis!
“They can’t make any decisions, because they don’t know what they want, and they don’t know what they want because they don’t know who they are, and they don’t know who they are...
July 2009
37 posts
an assortment of entries from MLIA
Today, I wanted to comment on a friend’s status, but it was only a few seconds old and I didn’t want to seem like a stalker. I waited a few minutes and then commented. MLIA
Today I received my degree in statistics. My life is averages. MLIA
Today I got 100% on my math test. It was normal, I’m Asian. MLIA
Today, I realized the word bed actually looks like a bed. MLIA
Today,...
my friendster profile, written when i was 17,...
i have occasionally been known to use phrases such as “i look like an underwater nun.”
pajamas with barnyard animals are cool. cows, pigs, whatever.
mills and boon novels make me laugh. my tall dark handsome mysterious prince with rippling muscles and smouldering eyes is about to rock up to my door on a white horse at any moment now. traffic can be a bugger at this time of the day.
...
a simply enormous pink bunny rabbit →
donnie darko threw it down from outer space.
alternatively, raving rabbid escaped from wii.
thanks, yaz, for passing me the link!
must-read book list
In no particular order….
1. the reluctant fundamentalist - mohsin hamid
2. on beauty - zadie smith
3. atonement - ian mcewan
4. on the road - jack kerouac
5. chess - stefan zweig
6. norwegian wood - haruki murakami
naked girls plow field for rain →
sadness is...
… ordering a REALLY HOT dress from a UK website, and having it get lost in the mail from singapore to brunei.
i bet it was brunei’s fault. damn u, brunei.
oh, our empty materialistic consumerist ways.
i bought a lot of stuff in hong kong, but not as much as i could have.
damn my own financial prudence and practicality! why not buy 3 wallets instead of 1, i say!
