Monthly Archives: November 2010

Possible One Month Hiatus

I will be off some­time today to con­tinue my thesis research in some secluded forest in Sabah until the end of Decem­ber. I shall miss the Inter­net and every online com­munity I par­ti­cip­ate in dearly. On the other hand, I will be rid of the greatest dis­trac­tion to my book-reading habits long cul­tiv­ated since child­hood,

Recommended: Bungaku Shoujo

This will be the first time any­where on this blog that I am expli­citly recom­mend­ing an animé for con­sump­tion. As a pro­lific taster of Japan­ese media, sampling a wide-range of animé, music, and manga, I can more or less pin­point the exact morsel to dig-into to evoke whatever mood I wish to invoke within my

Angelic Violin Beats!

I for­got how amaz­ingly touch­ing the Angel Beats! open­ing, My Soul, Your Beats was. This video also comes at a very oppor­tune time, which is when I need some motiv­a­tion to start prac­tising again.

Hitchens Vs Dembski

I have a dis­tinct impres­sion Demb­ski for­got the title of the debate, which is “Does A Good God Exist?” He lost on the tech­nic­al­ity of being dumb. Chris­topher Hitchens’ tal­ents were wasted, as dis­played by his over­whelm­ingly elo­quent open­ing. Des­pite his strange shoutout for Fran­cis Collins. When faced with Demb­ski not answer­ing the debate ques­tion. Demb­ski drones

明鏡 — meikyou

Cheating

I can’t give spe­cif­ics, but cheat­ing appears to be a com­mon fea­ture of the typ­ical uni­ver­sity. Per­son­ally, I lost my taste for it when the guilt of cheat­ing on a Chinese “listen-and-write” exam over­whelmed me when I was seven-years-old. By the time I reached high school, I real­ised the grades of the exams do not

Gun/Die-buster Marches

On my view­ing list. Even more so after hear­ing the tear-inducing marches. Plus, if you man­age to play both of them at the same time, you will stumble upon an awe­some third march!