Vignette A defining characteristic of my conversations with friends this weekend was their struggle with themselves to find direction in life. There was the friend who is graduating from college but realized he’s just spent 4 years in the wrong major. There was another who has a true passion, one that doesn’t pay easily, and [...]
This just has to be preserved for posterity: Kellerman asked whether the higher success rate of “arranged marriages” over what he called “discretionary marriages” suggested than humans shouldn’t be making important decisions. The human team said that maybe so, but that humans are still the ones arranging the marriages. In a stereotypically un-romantic way that [...]
This post will make most sense only if you have seen the show. First, a review, and an interview. Thoughts. This, too, shall pass. Great World, and the restaurant within it, was one of the fixtures of the Singaporean entertainment scene – but even fixtures are not fixed – only temporary structures erected by the [...]
I wanted to relate two thoughts I had during a recent conversation with a Peruvian friend almost a month ago.
“Death signifies nothing… the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.” – Einstein on April 18, 1955, a month before he passed. Maybe the Buddhists had it right countless decades ago when they asserted that past, present and future were one and chose the Lotus flower, simultaneously bearing flower and [...]
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