Wins Art

Last week a former classmate told me that Uncle Win had passed away. I don’t think Uncle Win was his real name, but he was the proprietor of Wins Art, an art shop selling all sorts of art supplies. Because of its relatively cheap prices, it was a hit with most design students studying in the [...]

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Futuristic Super-Suits

Last week the issue of newspapers, quality reporting and their dwindling revenue streams was discussed on a few places on the internet, and by that I mean TIME published an article and there was a half-hearted discussion on several high-profile blogs.
The author of TIME’s article suggested using micropayments to “make reporting profitable again”, as it’s becoming quite apparent that many younger people [...]

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sound advice for trying times

I read in the news last week that a British teenager died on board a train in Thailand. Apparently he had a undiagnosed and rare thingy that caused a blood vessel in his brain to burst.  It’s also hard or impossible to diagnose it until it happens, which is a little too late. It’s triggered [...]

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A little bit of explanation

It doesn’t show, but I have been operating on a different modus operandi recently. If you come here often, you might have noticed updates were more regular recently then they ever have been. That’s because I now do all my blogging in a couple of hours in one day, usually the weekend, finishing 3 or [...]

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Summer + Farewell

As early as May, people start thronging the banks of the Graslei, singly, or in groups and in droves. Drinking, smoking weed and stoning  (Netherlands is but a short trip away), playing music, talking, snacking, hugging, kissing, anything… In waves they come, from early in the morning till late at night.
At midnight the lights of [...]

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Complicated Stories

After I returned to the UK from Belgium I was quite the anti-social hermit, but recently I’ve stepped out of my shell, and as a result I’ve had to answer the question that always comes up: where are you from, and what are you doing in a town in Hertfordshire?
It can get rather complicated at [...]

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Kindle 2 released: Malaysian schoolkids rejoice!

Amazon recently released its Kindle 2 E-reader in the States for a price considered expensive even by their standards. When China releases the Chinese equivalent at one-twentieth of the price (and quality I might add) I can well imagine its viability in Malaysia and Singapore.

Even when I was finishing primary school, which is a good decade ago now, kids were hefting [...]

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Utter Nonsense

5.30PM. Time to go home! I finished whatever I was doing, saved all my drawings, shut down the computer, put away my empty mug and glass, packed my stuff, left the office and DISCOVERED THAT THE SKY WAS NOT COMPLETELY DARK!!! (well it was 80% dark but hey) YOU KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS? SPRING!@!
Ok I [...]

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More George Carlins!

Last weekend was a quiet one with no plans and no money to make any plans. What to do? With the internet, it’s never too hard to think of something, of course – with the help of Youtube and Google Video (another sign of Google taking over my world) , I eventually ended up listening [...]

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In High Spirits

I pulled my jacket around me. It was almost midnight and I was in the next town (Hatfield), standing under pelting rain, waiting for the last bus. I’m soaked through, cold, hungry,  thirsty and I need the toilet. Badly. But I was in high spirits.
It was Monday night, and I just went for some capoeira [...]

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Blah blah everyone’s talking about the snow

So I will as well. It’s strange how perception messes with your mind; on Monday I woke up to a world of white, and I decided that it was normal and pleasing to my eye. (after all, weather repots have been harping about it for some days before that, and snow was falling pretty heavily [...]

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Infopollution #2

Remember when you were small and your parents religiously spent hours each evening hiding behind the huge pages of the dailies delivered to your house?
Oh well, perhaps not, but I do. I doubt I will ever follow in their footsteps (in subscribing dailies), but I do wonder about my religiously spending a chunk of my [...]

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Infopollution

On one of the days in Prague we hopped on the tram and crossed the river Vltava to Holesovice, the old industrial quarter north of the old town. We visited the DOX, or Center for Contemporary art, or something to that effect, and checked out their inaugural exibition titled Welcome to Capitalism!

It’s composed of four [...]

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Ghent Revisited

In October I returned to Ghent for a quick visit, mostly to cart all my remaining junk here (all 50kgs worth of it). The trips could essentially be summarized into 3 things – snow, beer and seeing old friends.

The best part was of course the beer the old friends part. An expensive, tiring and short [...]

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Fossils

Speaking of dinosaurs, I read an article today about the rising popularity of pod(iobooks) and the decrease, in general, of book sales. Podcast audio books? I’ve never downloaded a podcast of any type before in my life, and I generally stray away from e-books and audiobooks, but it seems as usual I’m stuck in the [...]

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