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No, this is not the search-your-own-soul kind of self discovery. This is about the more literal meaning of self discovery, which is discovering things on your own (that really does translate to self discovery, right?). I’d say that this is one of the most important skills that can bring you far in life. It makes [...]

Lately, dreams have been frequenting my night sleep. Last night was something different. There was this advertisement somewhere about a game. If you want to play it, the organiser will send 5 people to your house to kill you. If you manage to kill them first, you’ll be awarded $25,000. I told them I want [...]

I’ve started walking to school (about 1.5km away) every morning since the first day of this semester. A lot of people have asked me why. Here’s a bunch of reasons why. Primarily, I walked to school everyday to train and get myself used to walking a distance with a load on my back (the first [...]

In the light of recent oil price increase and the supposedly ‘growing’ people’s discontentment against Petronas due to several politicians’ remarks that question Petronas’ integrity and transparency, I feel obliged to publish this post here. The content is composed and emailed by Petronas’ Media Relations staff and was forwarded to me by a colleague whose [...]

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I have been asked “What is the meaning of a multi-racial Malaysia to me?” Being multi-racial does not mean the same thing to every multi-racial country e.g. Singapore claims to be multi-racial but basically it is a predominantly Chinese State. Because of the refusal of the descendants of migrants from China and India to be [...]

The Carnegie Mellon University has a tradition of having its professors to give a talk titled “The Last Lecture”. The talk was basically for the professor to imagine that should it be their last lecture, what would they want to say to the audience and what legacy they want to leave behind. When it came [...]