This week I learnt the term " cognitive dissonance", and experienced it for myself while watching a video about evolution called " What Darwin Never Knew". Our professor screened it during our class. While watching it, it struck me that there were a lot things which made sense, but also a lot of things which required a leap of faith, a real ( Read more... )

It has been 15 days into the New Year, but it surely doesn't feel like a New Year - yet. I think it will once the new school semester starts. Right now it just feels like an extended 2012 ( Read more... )

Originally posted by exceptindreams at 1600: A Poem for S. | Jessica Greenbaum
"A Poem for S ( Read more... )

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APPRECIATE.

Before you start laughing at how stupid this post is ( which it isn't), let me tell you how this all started.

I've been having a terrible problem with a pair of shoes that I own. They're from Caterpillar, and they're great and amazingly hardy and durable( especially for someone who abuses their shoes like I do) but the only problem is that the laces ( Read more... )

I'm not the biggest fan of piano music - not for any real reason, but just because I guess I always found it a little too sedentary for my high octane, fast-paced living( har har). Perhaps it's just the fact that I like hearing human voices sing as opposed to musical instruments, so for that reason piano music has always sort of been a " oh that's ( Read more... )

I apologise for the long periods of absence( for my f-list) and for the even longer periods of absence( for everyone else, whoever you are). I have just started college, and am madly excited about being a student again. But that has also meant that I'm extremely busy and engrossed in studying and have had very little time to post any updates.

It has ( Read more... )

Nothing much to say, except that the lyrics are haunting and the lady has a haunting voice.

Other People - Beach House


So you thought it would happen
Good love goodbye
I know where no one can reach you
No I don't mind
It's your world why would you fake it
These days go by
As you turn around-ow-ow-ow

Other people want to keep in touch
Something happens and ( Read more... )

Crazy night busking.

After the jazz gig at Hotel Rendezvous for the Engineering PhD students, where we tried to pretend "Sunday Morning" was actually a jazz song, and where I forgot a few lines from the only song I had to learn, we( KY, Val, Jiawei, I) decided it was high time to go to Holland V and strut our stuff, jiggle our jazzfeathers so to ( Read more... )

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I love this duet, not just because of how much fun they seem to be having, but also because of what they're singing about " Let's call the calling off off". What a line. Armstrong and Fitzgerald sound like such good friends. I wish I could know what that's like, to be friends with Armstrong. Or Fitzgerald. What an honour.

APPRECIATE.