Of moons and spring

On the way back home from badminton tonight I saw the moon in the sky. It looked like a moon straight out of a children’s book – a small crescent wedge in the inky blue sky,  silvery and with a curiously radiant yellow tinge, a mysterious and unexplainable luminous arc.  Looking at the moon caused [...]

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More nerdy purchases

Other than used/second-hand bookstores, ( I avoid strange-sounding and ambiguous terms like PRELOVED) I also am compulsive book-buyer over the internet, because they also cost only a fraction of high street prices. I purchased another 4 books yesterday after chancing across a online bookseller with cheap prices. I find it remarkable that none of the [...]

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of random books and random culinary experiences

I am a compulsive buyer when it comes to used books – drop me into a used bookstore anywhere, with books in a language I can read, and I will always leave with a plastic bag in my hand. In London, there are used bookstores on every other street (ok fine that is exaggerating), and [...]

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Whittling down, 2 years on

I was lucky to have encouraging parents when I was growing up. I was also raised in an environment where I was able to try all sorts of new things constantly and sporadically. Besides, my parents bought me and my siblings a set of encyclopaedias, which I made full use of. It quickly became a habit to be curious and interested in new [...]

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A (un?)fortunate turn of events

http://www.oobject.com/category/15-skyscrapers-on-hold
To be frank – I don’t like any of them. Put on hold? Not a loss in my book! I admit that those are just renders and the built buildings might look different when built and might actually look nice, but still I think many, if not all of them are badly designed, and some [...]

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Back on Track

I returned from Oslo on Monday and promptly fell sick. Nothing major, just a bit of over-exhaustion, and I spent the next day sleeping it off. 15 hours of sleep later, I was perfectly fine. However, I took that as a sign that I needed a rest, so I lazed around for the rest of [...]

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Confucius is traveling to Europe, but 2500 years later

Two weeks ago, I read that after a visit to China, England’s schools minister Jim Knight wants to implement the teachings of Confucius in English Schools, saying that they would be useful as Confucian teachings ”respect and value the family and very strongly respect education”. The article went on to mention that this could possibly foster knowledge of mandarin and Chinese [...]

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Ice Spires

This is old news, but I chanced across it again the other day and I thought I’d post it up. I believe this is a project in Dubai, though I am not sure. I can’t say I am interested to find out more, to be honest. I mean, seriously?
It looks… I don’t know, really strange, [...]

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Strangely enough

After some warm days, Monday morning was much colder than I hoped it would be, and way too cold for my tropical bones. As I walked the kilometer or so to work my hands were cold, but I couldn’t be bothered to dig the gloves out from the depths of my bag, where I am [...]

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