Oh my.

What a realistic and detailed dream. And in the middle of the day too.
Maybe I should cut down on the M-rated fics. Or stop taking my after-lunch siestas. (And I’m not sure whether to be happy I woke up before the, uh, conclusion.)
Now I’m off for a cold shower.

New Academic Year, New Stuff to B*tch About

Namely, certain annoying lecturers who think 4 readings a week is sane.
Well, it’d be fine if they were short and with an easy to understand style, but the first one on the list is, while not long, tough enough that I can’t read more than one paragraph at a time before getting a bloody headache.
The [...]

What I Learn In Class

A list of random things I remember from going to class this semester.
1. facebook –> fessebook –> (as JW so eloquently puts it) arsebook, or why puns from language differences are funny
2. Of the 3 Dead White Men, Marx thinks we should all fish, Weber thinks we forget that we work to buy fish, Durkheim [...]

Random Fun Stuff

Typealyzer analyses the personality type of a blog. Apparently, I’m an

INTP – The Thinkers

The logical and analytical type. They are especially attuned to difficult creative and intellectual challenges and always look for something more complex to dig into. They are great at finding subtle connections between things and imagine far-reaching implications.    
They enjoy working with complex things [...]

Oh the Irony!

My brother was reading manga when I went to ka-chiow him, so I asked him what he was reading. It was a shoujo manga. I have nothing against a guy reading shoujo manga and as a feminist, obviously, dislike stereotyping people into gender roles.
The thing is, even as he reads mostly shoujo manga, I tend [...]

Who’s in YOUR Top 5?

Fun facts about social circles, [via Lifehacker]:
Average number of friends per person is 150:
They usually consist of an inner circle of five “core” people and an additional layer of 10, he says. That makes 15 people – some will probably be family members – who are your central group and then outside that, there’s another [...]

Anomie

“:social instability resulting from a breakdown of standards and values; also: personal unrest, alienation, and uncertainty that comes from a lack of purpose or ideal” – Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
Okay, that was probably excessive. I just wanted to share a video my french lecturer played in class, which I was reminded of by Wai Teng’s lecture, [...]

Random Thoughts

Tracking change is difficult. More so when all I have are scraps of evidence. Memories change, reinterpreted by the self. Gradual change only consciously noticed when something happens to point it out.
But if I had to hazard a guess, the last 3 or 4 years was a time of emotional and psychological development, the last [...]

Guilty Pleasures

Whenever I mention I (still) read fanfiction and unpublished original fiction, the usual response I get is “oh, it’s all crap”. I admit, a lot of it is pure fluff, is full of mistakes, and have weak, unorigininal plots.
But it’s when you find the rare, unpolished gem after sifting through hundreds of stories that you [...]

Spellcheck

I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid.
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the
rghit pclae.
The rset can be [...]