Reminds me of my dad

He likes me to scratch his head.

What if Pokémon were more... real?

I had always wondered what a Pokémon feels inside a Pokéball.

Does time past? What does a Pokémon remember of its time in a Pokéball.

Then I took a module on Einstein's relativity and I found an explination that helps it all make sense: Pokéballs work by particle acceleration up to the speed of light (which turns the Pokémon into what seems like a red beam of light).

Under this hypothesis, when the Pokémon is speed up to the speed of light, would feel nothing. In fact, it won't feel anything between capture and being sent out because the time would be quite insignificant as relativistic notions come into play. Time would thus pass very quickly outside the Pokéball from the Pokémon's perspective.

So you can keep an injured Pokémon alive by getting it into the Pokéball.

Okay anyway, if this was true, can you imagine what Pokémon would look like in real life?

Some people did...

This Squirtle looks legit.

Ho-oh is incredible!!!

I never want to see this Beedrill in real life!!!

It looked cool in the cartoon, but how did Ash ride this Rapidash?

YEAHHHH!!!!!

Okay those were the good ones. How about the ones that didn't look too good?

Geodude reminds me of Voldemort.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH.

The most powerful Pokémon don't look all that powerful.

I miss Pokémon! Okay maybe more like I miss the idea of it.

Dear people of my generation,

Can we all just agree to not judge each other by our kids in future?

Thanks

(I'm not saying this against the current generation of parents. I'm just really worried about my kids.)

I know most of you don't know much about Punggol...

I don't blame you.

This was taken at the LRT station closest to my house.

Turning Tables

This video looked funny when I first watched it.

Then I realised it plays into the notions of white-superiority.


In Korea, Psy is the biggest star of today.

Top girl-bands are merely his backup dancers.

But going over to America, he is but a back-up act to spice up an interview of a washed up star.


Psy was not given an interview even though he was bigger than Britney.

In fact, he had to interrupt Ellen to even be allowed to introduce himself.


-

Afterword: I wrote this a while back and queued it. Ellen just had him on her show putting up the performance properly. That's more like it.

Gangnam Style

Not that I understand Korean...



But if I had to judge this most random video by it's visuals alone...


I would say it's good to be a male k-pop star.

While the female stars need to go for gym and training and plastic surgery and dance classes and diets and what not just to look worthy enough to sing, all a guy needs to do is wear shades.

-O-O-

My friend was wondering if we could make use of the k wave to connect with youths in church.

I said it's difficult because inherent to K-Pop is the objectification of women.

If you remove the sexy girls from K-Pop, it's not K-Pop.

Sociological Nightmare

Most of our nightmares are psychological.

By that I mean our fears are manifested in the form of monsters or people trying to harm or kill us in our dreams.


But the most interesting nightmare I've heard of went beyond that. A friend of mine had a dream of a collective social fear, rather than a personal psychological anxiety. She was not even a student of Sociology when she had this nightmare.

She dreamt that Singapore's population had hit 8 million.

Less than a month after national day...

And this was the view from my window:

It's depressing.

The total number of people who put up the flag is 5.

The total number of people who put up the flag correctly is 4.

The total number of national flag streamers originally hung from the roof was 3.

The total number of national flag streamers still hanging from the roof was 1.


And that one streamer had gotten tangled up with the tree downstairs.

I really wanted to do something about it, but there were legal implications if I did something to a symbol of the state, even if my intentions are good. Alas, my hands are tied and I cannot restore the flag of our fathers to its glory.

See? Punggol people do care.

Woah

Showoff.

But still... Woah.

The dumbest thing I did this week...

Was to listen to two of Taylor Swift's albums on Tuesday night.

It affected me for the rest of the week.


I'm inherently allergic to love songs.

This is what epic is made of

When it all comes to this

When you know it is the end

How will you spend your last moments?

On Saturday, I wrote my 2000th Evernote.

I typed it, saved it, and watched my account hang and note-count reset to 0.

My heart stopped for a moment.


2000 notes worth of ideas just disappeared like that.

That's 2 and a half years of brainwork saved somewhere I've never seen before.


Maybe I have too much trust in technology.

But I still thought it better to have it saved somewhere else.

See even if I change computer, I'll still be able to access it online.


Anyhow, the notes reappeared after the next reload.

Phew.

Congratulate me for breaking the 2000 note barrier!

Yay!

And can someone help mark this occasion by buying me Batman?

I'm serious. (I'm just looking for any excuse to buy it.)

I actually really want this figure of Batman.

But I know it's expensive to buy on it's own, so I don't mind the keychain.

I want the Batman with blue cape and cowl, and the yellow logo on his chest.

$7.90, available at any Lego shop.


If you want to buy this for me, leave a comment below.

You are allowed to leave the comment anonymously, but do still comment if you're getting it for me so no one else does.

Question:

You are late for your friend's birthday party.

You didn't bring a present.

Do you go and buy a present or turn up empty handed?

I'm almost certain

That my lecturers arranged to make all the deadlines coincide this semester.

My left shoulder is starting to ache

It's quite bad actually.

Not a strain kind of pain, but a constant uncomfortable feeling.

The muscles don't have the sore feeling, but the joint feels funny.


It could have been because I used weights that were too heavy.

My right arm could take a lot of weight after being trained during fencing, but my unused left arm could not.


I might wear a sling to school today.

It was the day that all the women died

when the men realised they had

no one left to oppress but themselves.

I love how you compliment my eyes...

...as you clean up the vomit stains on the bathroom floor left from my bout of food poisoning.

Dinosaurs are the new Aliens.

Kimberly

"I think psychological things really drive me nuts."

I'm taking a module on Abnormal Psychology

Claire

Last Saturday, I met my cousin's daughter for the first time.

I thought that makes her my niece. Apparently not.

Technically, she's my cousin once removed.

It was the celebration of her first month.

She was the smallest baby I'd ever seen.

Her hands were softer than anything I've ever held.

She slept almost all through the party.

And I... got to carry her.

Something changed in me as I carried her for the first time.

There she was, fragile and delicate, yet trusting enough to sleep in my arms.

I think at that moment I began to understand a tiny bit of what it meant to be a father; There is nothing a good father would not be willing to do for the good of his child.

Sneaky

I celebrated a friend's birthday at a Japanese restaurant - Goimon at 112 Katong.

We all ordered our meal, but my Japanese friend was hesitating.

He explained that the Japanese words say that the regular set is for ladies, while the large set is for men.


All of us had already ordered the regular set.