A Little History

I spent most of yesterday on an errand that took me to Bristol. I didn’t really mind, because that meant many hours of reading without distractions. I read E.H. Gombrich’s revised A Little History of The World (English translation: the original is Eine kurze Weltgeschichte für junge Leser, first published in Vienna, 1936) during the [...]

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Summery musings

It’s almost June, and the arrival of summer also heralds the end of the academic year. Part-time students in the firm where I work, of which they are many, have been busying about in the office on their college days for some weeks now, preparing their presentations and portfolios. Former classmates on the other side [...]

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Un croissant, sil vous plait

Yesterday night I returned from my week-long break in France, in Lille and Paris to be exact. It was blisteringly hot (by European standards) and my skin acquired a slightly more recognisable Malaysian tone as opposed to the pasty hues it has taken on in the past year.
I have been extremely lucky to have had [...]

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What’s that? two consecutive weekend breaks? Oh, I’m gonna need a third one.

While I am certainly not as productive at blogging this few days as compared to Flora I have been busy… using Google Street View to plan my trips! That’s not actually as productive as it sounds to be. It actually wastes more time as I’m just “moving about” in the city checking things out when [...]

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ABCs

From early April until this weekend, our agenda has seen plenty of B’s – among them Belfast, Birmingham, Bath, Bristol, (Royal) Botanic Gardens in Kew and the British Museum, where the ignorant me was much surprised to find friezes and other sculptures of the Parthenon so far away from the Aegean Sea. And they exist [...]

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Money Money

When we go down to London, we take the train, and Flora never lets me reads on the train because she gets bored. So we talk. On a particular trip – the conversation turned to money.
Have you ever noticed the effect of money on the people around you? Your colleagues, your classmates, your friends, your [...]

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Infopollution #3

I must concede defeat: I have now lost battle against the endless stream of information afforded by my internet, both the wheat and the chaff… I’ve raising the white flag, retreating from the battlefield and am planning to flee… just trying to keep up with news and latest developments in my areas of interest, as [...]

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But I digress…

Going by the standards of the last Sunday post, today was an extremely good Sunday. I managed to clean my sneakers, with a toothbrush no less… Why toothbrush? Well, because my dirt-encrusted Onitsuka Tigers are so well-worn that brushing it with anything else would likely render it beyond any possibility of future wearing. And, they [...]

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Lessons from TVB #1

For all their banal, far-fetched, cliched and totally predictable storylines, I still am a hapless fan of TVB serial dramas. In fact, the more ridiculous and trite a series is, the more I like them. Why? I have absolutely no idea.
It has only been the past couple years that I started watching them in earnest, [...]

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