someone sent me an email, recently: Americans, even at Harvard and Yale, are accepting of other points of view, sometimes to the point of blandness, because they don’t want to upset anyone. At Oxford, all ideas are subjected to relentless testing, and if you have got a point of view you express it and never [...]
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indecision
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged universities on May 25, 2009 | 3 Comments »
some things i don’t say out loud, and art pieces
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged art, books on May 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
there are certain things i don’t say out loud. one part of it has to do with it being somehow politically incorrect, like anything remotely related to not subscribing to a faith. (two dollars a week in the collection box, please, and you get a lifelong subscription to the possibility of heaven! —> never out [...]
inordinately gleeful
Posted in Uncategorized on May 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
a brief spillover of glee here – being compulsively anal about studying last year had its dividends: a £100 gift certificate from Amazon.co.uk, courtesy of the CIExam board. like the book fiend i am, i spent about four hours agonizing over a combination of books. what can’t i get in malaysia? what can i get [...]
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