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u Min of Text 100 send me a copy of the Flight of the Conchords (FotC) CD on behalf of HBO Asia. I wasn’t sure what I would think of the CD, because although I’ve heard of FotC, I didn’t have a clue what their music was about.
After getting back home from Canada and settling [...]

Last year I checked out the Ontario Science Center while I was in Toronto, and while I think our local Singapore Science Center is a little bit cooler, one exhibit in particular really stood out for me with its interactivity and intensity.
The exhibit was a simulation of how it would be like to be in [...]

After a slow start with Last Son and a stronger arc with Escape From Bizarro World, Geoff Johns and Gary Frank unite to metaphorically blow my mind with Superman and the Legion Of Super-Heroes. A cocktail of my love for team books, a fond affection for the Legion of Super-Heroes, Geoff John’s masterful understanding of [...]

Today, in a casual discussion with my SJI friends, Shun Wei pointed out something that I guess I knew, but when such feelings are internal, you can self-rationalise and justify them away. But hearing it observed and interpreted by a friend makes it all the more real.
It reminds me of a similar situation last year [...]

I’m pretty obsessive about my music. I like the tags to be right, the cd cover image to be right, and all information should be correct. Windows Media Player does a good job of playing music, but not storing it as a library. Mediamonkey does the library function well, but doesn’t have enough worthwhile features [...]

Remember that post about traveling alone? I’m glad for four days out of my entire exchange experience I wasn’t traveling alone, but with one of my oldest and dearest friends, Chloe.
I still think traveling with people you don’t know well enough, can really kill either or both people involved. Luckily we’ve known each other for [...]

Three years after their last studio album, Swing Swing, The All-American Rejects are back after far too long with their new album, When The World Comes Down. Listened to as a whole, the album is as packaged as they come. Almost like Simple Plan’s albums. You have the standard angst song, a love ballad, a [...]

Last year I managed to read 17 books, a far cry from the annual 30 target that Wanida and I set since 2006 (actually, we’ve never reached it). It’s actually a slip from last year (19 books) despite the year being slightly freer than last.
Fiction
Austin Grossman – Soon I Will Be Invincible
Dan Abnett – Ravenor [...]

2008 was an awesome year professionally (or as professional as you can get as a student), but I’m not sure the same can be said of my personal life.
The first six months were pretty crappy. Between trying to keep a club on its feet despite some members who were an absolute chore to manage, dealing [...]

After living alone (yes, I have housemates, but we are fairly solitary) for four months, I’ve come to the conclusion that living alone really only affects three things:
1) How clean your sink is – This depends on how long you can put used plates in there and watch them pile up. Is your threshold when [...]