Well. *blows off the dust* whooo wee it’s been a long while since I’ve been here. More than a year, in fact, judging from the date of my last post. So much has happened in the past year, I’m tempted to break it up into multiple posts rather than write some ginormous thing that will [...]

And finally my Ph.D applications are over with. My god, such a completely soul-draining experience. Applied to 7 schools this round, which will be my last. If I am unable to get into a decent program with financial aid, then I’ll have to start looking for a job again. In a sense it’s actually quite [...]

Kinda silly but fun. Speed typing test that I found from Kirith Kodachi’s blog. 89 words I got 93 on a previous try but had 2 errors so wasn’t very satisfied with that. Guess I type fairly fast but that’s not too surprising for someone growing up in the computer age and who did a [...]

So after a whirlwind tour of the games available out there, I might as well give a little mini-review for each of them for anyone interested. Command and Conquer Red Alert 3 I’ve always loved C&C. In secondary school I remember going to a friend’s house to watch him play the first ever C&C and [...]

So… I ninja-stopped blogging way way back in July 09, for many reasons. First and foremost was of course the fact that I stopped playing WoW, which was previously the biggest focus of this blog. Of course, I never claimed it to be the sole focus (a good lesson I learned from Tobold in one [...]

Paladin Schmaladin has a post about a documentary which sounds interesting. It echoes almost perfectly my own feelings about religion. I’m so anti-religion that it’s practically my religion All the so-called benefits of religion can be provided by a chess club. In the end, religion is nothing but an outdated form of social education that [...]

I think I’m very lucky to be married to a very wonderful panda. We get along so well and have so much fun together that it often totally boggles me when I hear of the kind of problems other people have with their spouses. They’ll say how amazing it is that we still hold hands [...]