I haven't been going out much lately. I've been busy trying to catch up with the translations I'm doing.
I have though, met up with Pwen a few times. On one of the occasions, she came over and we baked scones and cake. I would put up the pictures I took but I don't have an imageshack account or anything like that. My blog has always been without illustrations anyways.
In our most recent get-together, we arranged to eat at Ma Maison but upon arriving, we were told that they had a break between lunch and dinner hours. So we took a bus to our 2nd choice, the Awon Korean Restaurant, and it also had that policy! In the end, we went to Menotti at Raffles City. It wasn't too bad but I still need to be convinced for it to reach my Die-Die-Must-Try list!
Not many people know this, but I caught two goldfish at the Natsu Matsuri (Japanese Summer Festival) in August last year. Well I had three actually and I named them 胆, 小, and 鬼. Because 胆 was brave, 小 was the smallest, and 鬼 was all white save for its red cap. Soonafter, 鬼 really became a 鬼 and there was an epidemic of tail rot that aroused this whole bout of panic and anxiety. I didn't know much about goldfish so I did my research and found that they fell in the category of Fantail Goldfish. (The one that died was an Oranda, if you wanted to know) They do have very mesmerising tails. Staring them is as therapeutic as your Hidamari. My grandma can stare at them for hours, so I would know. My dad bought another Fantail recently and I was shocked by the contrast in colours. I read somewhere that Goldfish turn white if they are not exposed to sufficient sunlight. Perhaps my 'faded' fishes are not getting their supply of Vitamin D?
I think as we grow older, we learn to take things in our stride. Or maybe we've just become more apathetic without realising it. I can't decide if it's a good or an unfortunate thing.
Music: 배슬기 - Tomboy
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Sunday, January 28, 2007
난 알아요
Oh god. Have you ever tried reading on Epistemology? Trying to read the explanations of what the school of thought focuses on is already a headache. And the theories are popping up from everywhere. Not taking into account arguments from so many other philosophers yet.
Simply put, "How do we know what we know?"
As confusing as it is thought-provoking. It also tackles as to what constitutes to the truth.
If I told you I've eaten this new burger at MacDonald's, and it's called the 'Prosperity Burger', you'd probably believe me.
1. You trust me.
2. You have seen Prosperity Burger advertisements and you take it to be true.
3. Many other people have told you that they had it too.
4. You have eaten it before.
But what if 2, 3 and 4 doesn't apply? You've never seen its ads, neither do your friends know about it, and obviously you haven't tried it. Would you deem it to be true because you trust me? The fact is: I haven't so much as smelt the Prosperity Burger, much less tasted it.
It has become such that knowledge in the truth isn't as simple as "Seeing is believing". I think PIs need to read up on epistemology. It would help them much I think.
This reminds me of Mr. Jeremy Lo, a really mischievous lecturer of mine at Ngee Ann Poly, who once told me that he's going to teach in Nanyang Poly. It was a complete lie, that bugger. But I wasn't particularly gossipy then and I didn't pass that message about. But once I did tell a friend and she bumped into him and asked him about it. Turns out he had totally forgot about it and he simply wanted to see how fast the news would spread. See where the truth is? The only truth is that I believed him.
But in the words of Se7en, 난 알아요.
Simply put, "How do we know what we know?"
As confusing as it is thought-provoking. It also tackles as to what constitutes to the truth.
If I told you I've eaten this new burger at MacDonald's, and it's called the 'Prosperity Burger', you'd probably believe me.
1. You trust me.
2. You have seen Prosperity Burger advertisements and you take it to be true.
3. Many other people have told you that they had it too.
4. You have eaten it before.
But what if 2, 3 and 4 doesn't apply? You've never seen its ads, neither do your friends know about it, and obviously you haven't tried it. Would you deem it to be true because you trust me? The fact is: I haven't so much as smelt the Prosperity Burger, much less tasted it.
It has become such that knowledge in the truth isn't as simple as "Seeing is believing". I think PIs need to read up on epistemology. It would help them much I think.
This reminds me of Mr. Jeremy Lo, a really mischievous lecturer of mine at Ngee Ann Poly, who once told me that he's going to teach in Nanyang Poly. It was a complete lie, that bugger. But I wasn't particularly gossipy then and I didn't pass that message about. But once I did tell a friend and she bumped into him and asked him about it. Turns out he had totally forgot about it and he simply wanted to see how fast the news would spread. See where the truth is? The only truth is that I believed him.
But in the words of Se7en, 난 알아요.
Saturday, January 27, 2007
The Fourth Saturday
Hi, I'm back in blogger.
I suppose I felt compelled to write. It's one of those days you feel especially thoughtful and talkative and you find yourself needing an avenue to express yourself. A few blogs has accompanied me for a very large part of my life and they safekeep many past memories and thoughts. So it's no surprise I start writing again, huh?
It's the 27th of January 2007. I'll be 22 this year.
Twenty-two seemed so far away back then. Now it seems like the big 3-0 is creeping up on me faster than I could have ever imagined. The future is never too far away it seems. And I'm making some plans for the future. I hope it is good to me.
I think I shall stop writing here. So much for being talkative.
Postscript.
Oh perhaps I should add, I have read horoscopes for the year/month and it seems like it has all turned out astonishingly accurate thus far.
Music: Clazziquai - Sweety
I suppose I felt compelled to write. It's one of those days you feel especially thoughtful and talkative and you find yourself needing an avenue to express yourself. A few blogs has accompanied me for a very large part of my life and they safekeep many past memories and thoughts. So it's no surprise I start writing again, huh?
It's the 27th of January 2007. I'll be 22 this year.
Twenty-two seemed so far away back then. Now it seems like the big 3-0 is creeping up on me faster than I could have ever imagined. The future is never too far away it seems. And I'm making some plans for the future. I hope it is good to me.
I think I shall stop writing here. So much for being talkative.
Postscript.
Oh perhaps I should add, I have read horoscopes for the year/month and it seems like it has all turned out astonishingly accurate thus far.
Music: Clazziquai - Sweety