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Let me speak
More on the meme of the week. For some reason I was thinking of the “Por que no te callas?” incident (the king of Spain told the president of Venezuela to shut up, for those who don’t know and are too lazy to click through) and the comparison was irresistible.
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Mini pencil
Let me tell you why this adorable mini pencil makes me angry. It’s because I can’t have one. My spouse is an American citizen. Let’s call him Mr. Potato because he’s from the Midwest and he’s kind of that shape also. He used to live in Singapore with me but he’s gone back to his…
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Forum Suara Mahasiswa UUM
Finally getting around to watching today’s viral video. My reactions: (also check out Ameno World’s take on it here) Right off the bat, this woman is a horrible emcee. WTH is this ikrar thingy? Honestly, Bhavani’s not a great speaker. She’s running too fast in an attempt to stop being interrupted and waving her arm…
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Seorang Hobbit
Finally got around to seeing The Hobbit – it had been embargoed to my sibs and me because our parents wanted to watch it together. Overall it was pretty good, although as with the live-action Lord of the Rings films, I’m not happy with the Jacksonian (for lack of a better word; since he’s not…
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Frisbee Sundays
This will be one of the most enduring memories of our time in Singapore – fortnightly Sunday afternoon Frisbee. Although I personally dislike field games, it was something that some young adults from our church including my spouse started doing, and it just became an institution (the reason for alternating weekends is that some of…
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Stuff I learned on this trip
(1 week holiday in the UK, 2 weeks tech transfer at contractor’s plant in Germany) The “Tube” does engineering works on the weekends, and not all of the stations can accommodate disabled people or tourists with enormous luggage. The reason stuff in Oxford looks like Harry Potter is because a lot of the HP movie…
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Flying to London
I’m going to the UK fo the first time. It’s the haj for postcolonials. We’re somewhere over the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent, an expanse of sharply striped gray and brown mountains themselves in long parallel rows. In my part of the world, it’s credible only on an abstract, intellectual level that mountains are…
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Kelambu ikan
Because my dwarf puffers don’t wake up early enough in the morning to eat the mosquito pupae that rocket out of the gravel to shrug off their wormy skins to take to the freedom of the air…and the torture of my family. This isn’t anthropomorphising the puffers, by the way…they really sleep, as in not…
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Internet Blackout Day
I’m not going to update on the nail polish experiment today because I’m joining the Malaysian Internet Blackout Day in protest against Evidence Act Amendment 114A. This has been gazetted. It has been passed into law. If someone wanted to, they could f__ up your life by creating a blog or a Twitter with your…
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Design of Manicures
Design of Experiments is a concept that I really think science majors, especially those who are going into life sciences where one has to deal with a great number of messy variables, ought to be taught at an early age, but aren’t. The practical side of life science education up to postgraduate level is sadly…