All my life, I’d shied away from things I couldn’t imagine. My basic feeling had been that if I couldn’t imagine it, it wasn’t a good idea. It was the same with my mother’s illness: imagine the worst and you can protect against it. If you can’t imagine it, then there’s no protection. Not good, not good ( Read more... )

"What does it mean, you see, that the first thing every American child knows about Germany is Hitler? What if the first thing you knew was something else? And maybe some people would say that now it's important, after the Second World War, its ethical and vital that Hitler is the first thing a child knows. But someone else can argue the opposite. ( Read more... )

No, obviously what strength was all along was the ability to say "Fuck off" to the lot of it, to turn your back on all the suffering and contemplate, unmolested, your own desires above all. Men have generations of practice at this. Men have figured out how to spawn children and leave them to others to raise, how to placate their mothers with a mere ( Read more... )

//First of all, what the blooming hell happened to LiveJournal? Ugly ugly ugly.

I've been experimenting with various task systems and apps for the past year or so. Well, I've always been somewhat fascinated with task management - that's what reading Lifehacker does to you! - but I've never really had proper opportunity to use one.

Funny, it should ( Read more... )

The bunch of friends that I've been meeting a couple of times a week: I definitely hadn't expected all of us to click so well. When it all started in December? January? I wouldn't have seen it coming. Staying up all night and waking up at ungodly hours, wolfing through lunch to meet up under the blazing sun during our precious lunch breaks, and ( Read more... )

At some point, 140 words do begin to seem insufficient so... guess what? I'm back. Sort of ( Read more... )

When I first started work and stayed back quite a lot about half the time, I thought that perhaps that was a tight period ( Read more... )

Looking through the photos here suddenly makes me miss Canada. Sorta wonder if we would have felt better, moved on with our lives, if we had indeed bought that gorgeous house ( Read more... )

Taking medical leave tomorrow to clear a bunch of medical to-do items off my list. It still sounds ridiculous to me to have to "time" my sick leave, but I gotta admit, it's inevitable. Unless the illness is truly debilitating, it's so much more trouble than it's worth to take leave on a day where you've got tastings or meeting to attend to. You ( Read more... )

A Tour of America's Test Kitchen

I want want want want to work there! If only there were such facilities here in Singapore too, that test things so rigorously for Asian recipes and with products found here. Or if at least I can buy some of their discarded products during their sales. Boo!