Opportunity cost: Going for competition in exchange for studying for blocks ( Read more... )

Cadets today. In pools I lost 3, won 2, then got eliminated 15-14 in the 32 bunch.

It was fun! And I learnt new things... and made new friends... I lost 5-0 to an Australian fencer in my very first one, but she was so nice that it wasn't anything at all. :D Yes, fencers are a nice bunch. Unfortunately I think I was a bit hoppy in the elimination ( Read more... )

The tail end of an interview with Jeremy Brett, speaking of his wife: "...Don't be surprised if, after about two or three years, you still suddenly find yourself with tears, and even then, crying,... in the most extraordinary place like the elevator or driving a car. Remember that it takes longer than you think. God bless you and thank you, bye bye ( Read more... )

MY BROTHER HAS RETURNED!

:DDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

Besides my big, unfulfilled dreams (daydreams!) like going to Harvard (or Amherst to study Russian) and the hope of being able to do something meaningful as my job for the rest of my life, I have many little desires which I call "light ambitions". They have little or no bearing on my future, but they're things I'd really like to do, which would ( Read more... )

Oops. I kept a sock that hadn't been washed. One of the pair had already been washed and dried, but the other was in the washing machine. I thought it had dropped in so I picked it up.

...what? It smelt washed!

My brother's coming back in the middle of the night on Friday yay yayayayayayay!

:DDD

...for the weekend, then off to Malaysia for research for many weeks, then home again for a few weeks, then off again.

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This seems kind of familiar, doesn't it? This boasting thing is probably applicable to Singapore as well. Well, actually, any place where you have ( Read more... )

Burma 'guilty of inhuman action'

I should have thought it was inhuman inaction. At least China's holding up much better. But I realised something: in earthquakes, it's the buildings that collapse and trap people that kill people, not the earthquake itself, right?

:(

1. YouTube

Natalie Dessay in the Tales of Hoffman really looks like a doll. And she has a nice voice. And Offenbach composes nice music... can you tell that I spend too much time on YouTube?

2. School

As I was saying to Jiawen today, JC feels like a glove that fits my hand exactly, except for the thumb. I like the lecture-tutorial system, I like the ( Read more... )

Most emailed on BBC right now: "Great tits cope well with warming"