The Proximity Effect

I was caught in another traffic jam today – a normalcy, I guess, when you live so close to a mall, a district, even, where the equivalent of mall sales are done on a day to day basis.

For most of the year, I guess, the reasons are pretty straightforward. Of course, there’s the more situational [...]

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Willingness to Hope

“I’ll sleep na,” I finally replied last night. “Hopefully, when I wake up tomorrow, an epiphany will come.”

It was something of a lie, actually, as I wasn’t really able to sleep well – a hangover, I’m assuming, from a whole afternoon feeling very distracted since the ideas have been floated a couple of days back. [...]

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Gravity

Picture courtesy of Grant MacDonald
Maybe it’s me figuring out that even with a pnp transistor, the same loop equations apply as with an npn, given you don’t start your analysis from the voltage source as Ma’am Asilo had done – something that apparently dooms my first digital electronics quiz to a meager passing rate as [...]

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Nineteen Years of Silence

Picture courtesy of KellyB.
I’ve had people walk away from me, barely three minutes into getting to know anything about who we really were.
Because I’m boring. I don’t watch the NBA like most others do (and I don’t give anything about whoever wins, unless it makes for a good segueway). I’m not into sports; I’m not [...]

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Oh Baby Baby Baby…

Picture courtesy of Sir Mervs
My dad’s been in some sort of CD-making frenzy lately. You know, like the one he had exactly one year ago, where he focused on pop songs from the 70’s and 80’s? It was something like that, only this time, he decided he wanted to do contemporary Chinese songs.
So, for the [...]

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