I generally don’t enjoy watching sports except for international football (soccer for the Americans). Why I’m not entirely sure. More recently though I’ve noticed that international games that have my country as a contender keep my interest. These past Olympic games in Vancouver had me staying up until 4am nightly watching the Canadians. The tension [...]
I find the duality pushed by the mainstream pop-culture to be very distressing. People are so often encouraged to live two lives. Think of how many times people tell us we should have two facebook accounts, one private one professional. Is it really that difficult for people to realize that the net is not private. [...]
Yes folks. I’ve reneged on my own decision. I’m going to be posting again, though there will be no schedule and the “flavour” of the place is likely to change. Hope you enjoy the new blog.
I’ve decided I’m not going to renew the domain name for this blog which also means I’m going to simply close it down. This blog began as a way to practice my writing. Someone, a fellow history student told me to write daily and to write anything I could think of. So I did and [...]
A while back I talked about society’s obsession with efficiency. Over the last few days I’ve been witness to something quite opposite. At least I would call it opposite, what is after all the opposite of efficient? Waste. The waste comes in the form of some sort of renovation or cleaning of student apartments. The [...]