I retract that title. The woods contained a countless number of roads. And that is an allusion to the paths that we choose in our lives. While I do claim myself to be an adventurous person who is certainly not on the risk-averse side, my path in my life has…
When I was 19, I had the great fortune of stumbling into the world of investing. I was enthralled by the idea of compounding interest, and the ability to become decently wealthy with a disciplined dedication to regular savings and a bit of luck in making the right trades. This…
I love reading about technical specifications (tech specs) of all kinds of electronic devicies: Laptops, handphones etc. While the general population may shy away from these mundane details, I actively seek them out, crawling the net for the article with the most detailed spec sheets of products. I learnt how…
The durian has been proclaimed as been unanimously proclaimed as the “King of All Fruits” by people all over the world, due to its strong taste, which also polarises the people’s opinion of it. There are only lovers and haters of the fruit, and none in between. I would think…
There are different phases in a Singaporean’s life: primary school, secondary school, JC/Poly, National Service for the guys and of sometimes, university itself. It is sobering to think that 3 years of university has already passed for me, and it seemed like only only yesterday that I was just a…
For unknown reasons, I have always gravitated towards the taste of raw meat and seafood. Beef steaks cooked medium rare, beef tartare, oysters and of course sashimi itself are all delectable delights that I would gladly eat for most meals if I had a choice. In fact, one of my…
If you are a windows user, you will notice that your laptop’s lockscreen wallpaper changes everyday to reflect a beautiful sight of nature. Chances are that one of those wallpapers have been those of the Himalayan mountain ranges, but you would probably just have taken a quick look and signed…
In the middle of June, just after circuit breaker measures were lifted, my friend invited me to join him for a bouldering session at a place called OYEYO Boulder Home. With time to spend after work and a desire to get back some semblance of my fitter days, I agreed…
Background story There are reasons why many developers choose to use WordPress for the purpose of writing a blog instead of hard-coding out one for themselves, and I learnt that the hard way. Previously, I created a blog using code with a Laravel backend and a WYSIWYG editor. I even…