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March 6, 2011

Royal Roads and Insanity

‘There is no royal road to pomegrenades.’ I find that this paraphrasing of Euclidius is a fitting way to begin this entry. Simply because…

February 13, 2011

The Songs of Distant Earth, A.C. Clarke

February 12, 2011

On Cassini and Persistence

“Between 1671 and 1684, however, Cassini discovered no fewer than four additional Saturnian satellites…”  — I. Asimov, “Asimov’s New Guide to Science”

February 8, 2011

Stargate SG-1

It’s a pity how quickly people are apt to disregard sci-fi just because it is sci-fi. That is both disrespectful towards the shows (or…

February 8, 2011

Languages: Japanese, Part III

Continuing from where I left off last month. So, this is what I set out to do: improving usage of katakana //very limited success// familiarizing…

January 15, 2011

‘Swimming’

I came across this poem when I was writing my essay about the Chinese Three Gorges Project.

January 8, 2011

Languages: Japanese, Part II

I just drank a glass of sparkling (mmmm, 🙂 ) since this place managed to destroy the post I had written. 🙁 (sparkling was…

December 8, 2010

Languages: Japanese, Part I

So, after taking up a book by a crazy Irishman which explained how to learn languages well and effectively, and so that they could…

December 3, 2010

Iroha

September 20, 2010

H. Sienkiewicz, ‘Trylogia’

Just finished the masterpiece of Henryk Sienkiewicz, the Trylogia (composed of three books, ‘With Fire and Sword’, ‘The Deluge’, and ‘Fire in the Steppe, or Pan Wolodyjowski’), a…

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