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Singapore Skyline

I want to write a quick blogpost about the Singapore skyline. I’m not an architect, or architecture student, or even any

The oldest Hindu temple in Singapore is Sri Mariamman Temple. It was founded in 1827 by Naraina Pillai, eight years after the

Some people think that safe spaces have a coddling effect. And maybe that’s true sometimes. And the examples are pretty

Essay WIP. I find myself thinking about an Alan Watts lecture, that you can find on YouTube titled The Human Game. And he talk

I’ve had this recurring conversation with a friend about how there’s a deeper consciousness in each of us, that w

I believe that it’s important to properly come to terms with death in order to live well. This is something that’s

https://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/the-universe-is-scary Wait but why Neil Tyson’s the universe is in us, we stopped dre

✱ I think there’s something interesting about how yoga went from being a spiritual way of being to becoming a commodif

The Philosophy of Logical Atomism (1918-19) Lecture 1: Facts and Propositions By Bertrand Russell (The following articles ar

People are usually quick to demonize the mother in these situations. It’s interesting (and sad) to me. There’s a v

The following is my attempt to update George Orwell’s essay Politics and the English Language [1946] for modern reading.

Life, particularly in modern civilization, is an absurd circus. We’re all clowns living in boxes trying to amuse ourselves w

(I wrote this in 2013 in a a conversation with a friend, and decided to tidy it up a little and publish it for future referenc

MBTI: I remember when I first encountered MBTI. It was introduced to me over beer, by a friend of a friend. He was a self-prof