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Speed-Reading, cost me a couple hundred quid then, and I have barely utilized the skills. But sometimes, just sometimes… I feel myself reading faster than normal. Maybe it is just my subconscious innate ability. Hahah.Well well, two days ago I was just at a dentist who made me feel guilty that I missed my wisdom ...
What’s new for 2009? It didn’t seem that long ago when we were fearing for a global meltdown when we crossed into Y2K, now we have it in the financial sense.Resolutions never really worked for me, because I was a bumbling idiot who procrastinated more than worked at something. Thus, I will not make cliche ...
So the New Year has come and gone again… I have cleaned up well since 5 years ago, barely getting drunk on Christmas Eve (actually passing a breathalyzer at St James too) and even less drunk on New Years Eve. But whenever a New Year’s celebrations come up, I always think about the time 5 ...
I think I have been watching too many movies in the past few months that I even watched great classics such as Pulp Fiction and Happy Gilmore again haha. Other movies include shitty ones like Transporter 3, Ghost Town and Max Payne, comedies like Ron Burgundy, How To Lose Friends, Zack & Miri, Pineapple Express ...
Yep, I used to be cheap labour. For a couple of bucks per hour, I had to wake up each morning and go to the east ends of Singapore just to fix up Dell computers for primary schools. If enduring the long train rides were not bad enough, being paid a pittance that barely covered ...
I can’t believe I settled for a 2MP camera to take pictures of the decorations around my house so many years ago. Nowadays people won’t settle for anything less than 8!Well, that house has been sold for a while now and we didn’t even put up any Christmas decorations this year because my mum is ...
There are a number of things that are inherently different when you get to Finland.First thing you will notice is that people there drive on the right side of the road. I believe most European countries do the same with the notable exception of the UK. This is utterly confusing for me because I always ...
In the old posts to come, you would come to realise that I spent 700+ dollars of my hard earned money on a 4-megapixel camera shortly before going to Australia. How fast has technology advanced? Because I actually paid only 350 bucks to get my current 8-megapixel camera. Ouch for then.I never got around to ...
When I re-read the old post, I realised that it was during the time when I was still serving the army. But it was close to the end of my stint and I think I was just busy clearing my off-in-lieu and leaves. In other words, I was just bumming at home.I don’t think ...
I can’t believe I actually started this site running on my own PC so many years ago, I guess it was a combination of me closing the old blog and not wishing to continue using the feature-limited blogspot. But having it hosted on my own computer meant I had a very small bandwidth capacity to ...
As promised, today is a significant date because it marks five years of my blogging here on DS.org and I am very proud (yet at the same time ashamed of haphazard coding) to present to you my reminiscing of times long gone.After a fervent midnight oil burning session, I have created a reminiscing page which ...
I’ve got a bit of time to kill before I need to go so I thought I would write a bit of what’s going to change around here. Last night after going through my teaching materials, I got up, sat at my desk and started coding away… This idea probably came across my mind like ...
Two weekends ago, I was in the frigidly cold town called Rovaniemi - the very same place where Santa decided to set up shop, tending to little childrens’ wishes to sit on his lap and reiterate their goodness the past year in hopes of receiving presents on Christmas Day. Heck, I even crossed into the ...
With the action-packed events lined up for me ever since I touched down, I have barely slept a proper nights’ sleep. The longest sleep I’ve had over one night was six hours, shortest was forty minutes and averaging about four hours per night for three nights straight.I was busy doing stuff like scrambling for a ...
Helsinki to Rovaniemi is twice as far as Singapore to KL, but the time it takes to fly there is only a little bit longer. After going 700 kilometres further north, I landed into temperatur …
People who know me personally will know that I’m a practical person. Weighing pros versus cons is something I do with almost every decision I make. Yet at other times, a part of my inner self would send signals to my brain saying “FUCK IT”, making me occasionally spontaneous and willing to try just about ...
The Swedish Theatre in HelsinkiI think I have very very poor perception and that inadvertently my brain is trying to kill me.When I packed for this trip, I thought I brought six weeks worth of clothing… Six weeks in, 30% of my clothes are in the same condition as they were when I packed them. ...
It started to snow about three days ago, stealthily occurring overnight and in the next morning - a thin white sheet laid upon the ground but by the end of that day, it had pretty much disappeared. Then yesterday evening it began to fall more steadily and you could see the snowflakes drifting lazily down ...
Snuffing out my beating emberWhat is it that you rememberCold winds clear the clouded mindUndo whatever intertwinedSlowly coming to my sensesTime to put up its defensesPack it in the velvet snowHide them so they’ll never show‘Til the lines can cross the signsLet’s get high, Superfly
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