February 2012
A case for penned letters
I adore the notion of writing. When I write someone, I put the sort of attention, effort, thoughtfulness and consideration one usually gives little or not at all in a text message or instant messaging conversation. Our generation, those born into the age of computers, fast pictures on TV, mobile phones - smart phones now! - we all have short attention spans. We are too obsessed with instant...
Where Have All The Flowers Gone?
Where have all the young men gone; Long time passing? Where have all the young men gone; Long time ago? Where have all the young men gone? Gone for soldiers every one. When will they ever learn? When will they ever learn? Where have all the soldiers gone; Long time passing? Where have all the soldiers gone; Long time ago? Where have all the soldiers gone? Gone to graveyards every one. When will...
This is how pencils are sharpened in factories. →
the-absolute-best-gifs:
i can’t stop looking at it.
Special
We all know that special person. That one person who is just so amazing. You beam with pride just acknowledging the fact you know him/her. You want the world to see his/her greatness. You want to tell the world. But then there is no way you can express the person’s overwhelming greatness in words. Words would come out too belittling yet still unconvincing. So you take not to that impossible...
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind.
The Kiwi Probably Never Forgives Its Children
(from 7 Species That Got Screwed By Mother Nature, #2)
Most baby birds hatch as scrawny, helpless little things that need tons of parental care. But why is that? There’s a significant evolutionary advantage to having your chicks born bigger and healthier. If you just lay a larger egg, your chick will have a higher chance of survival after hatching. Flawless logic, right? Evolution...
ACT.
We’ve all seen the picture. I first saw it when I was in Secondary One. I can’t remember if it was a school-assigned reading article or from a newspaper clipping. But I definitely remember the photo. And to this day I still remember the photographer’s name. Kevin Carter. It was an image so disturbing and inconvenient, that it was etched so deeply into my brain, haunting me to...
And yet.
Sometimes I wonder how I got to be so weird. →
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When i have to wake up early for school: →
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Watchbeardickpunch:
the meaning of life
Dear Professor Vogel I refer to the 14 Nov 2011 Straits Times print of excepts from your new book on Deng Xiaoping. You said Lee Kuan Yew came of age fighting colonialism and was leader of our country’s revolutionary struggle. That statement is not accurate. Anti-colonial and nationalistic sentiments emerged amongst the local populace soon after the end of the...
