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June 2013

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“So far I have felt the normal feelings of a man my age — like an old tree that is losing all its leaves one by one: this feels like an axe-blow near the roots.” —

J.R.R. Tolkien in a letter to his daughter following C.S. Lewis’s death in 1963

The duo were very good friends that helped the writing career of each other.

Jun 17, 20132 notes
#cs lewis #jrr tolkien #friendship #death
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Jun 14, 20132 notes
#quote #cheerup #true
Jun 14, 20131 note
#amor #text #author #dahl #motivation #writer #beautiful #book #childhood #cheer up #face #love #90’s #happiness #memories #Roald Dahl #happy #quotes #hope #mathilda #inspiration #ugly #lovely #thoughts #fitspiration #magic #truth #quote #verdad #the witches
Jun 13, 2013
#lotr #freakout
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Jun 13, 20132 notes
#mindy gledhill #whole wide world #lyrics #dreams
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Jun 11, 2013130 notes
NTU researchers launch new anti-dengue app which relies on community participation → straitstimes.com

Researchers from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) have come up with what might be the answer to Singapore’s dengue woes. Called Mo-Buzz, the system is a free mobile application which relies on community participation. The programme taps on historical data in order to track and predict dengue hot spots up to a month in advance.

This is from my research centre although it’s not my project. Hopefully it turns out well =)

Jun 11, 2013
#cosmic #social media #data mining #ntu #dengue #mobile apps #health apps
“The idea that the future is unpredictable is undermined every day by the ease with which the past is explained.” —Daniel Kahneman, in Thinking, Fast and Slow
Jun 10, 20131 note
#future #prediction #psychology #quote
Travel agent woes

I totally just blasted the travel agent handling my London flights (albeit in a very nice way).

Next time in the future if you are changing the flights from one quotation to the next, please inform me (or whichever person) that you have made certain changes and state the reason why (e.g. full flight). Apologies but not all of us have the time in the world to go through every single line of the quotation/itinerary, we usually just skim through it assuming things are directed as before. And it is very stressing to finally realize the change only much later when it’s too late to make anymore changes.

How can you go ahead to book an itinerary with that single flight change without informing me and telling me the reason why? That quotation has 4 flights for me to look at and I can’t be reading every single line (don’t even get me started on the style of display of that quotation pdf…you have to trace lines mentally in order to see what is what). I would already come with the assumption that you would book the quotation I confirmed. And now it’s too late to change the flight and thus I have to make separate transport arrangements. Ugh! NTU dynasty travel…please have better customer service thanks.

Jun 10, 2013
#travel agent woes #rant #work #flight
Jun 9, 20131 note
#toast #tea #brekkie #scrambledeggs
Jun 9, 2013
#pitchstop #pizza
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Jun 9, 2013
#devour the day #good man #hard rock
Jun 9, 2013
#vscocam #cow
Jun 8, 20131 note
#vscocam
“Evangelicalism has taken the Extrovert Ideal to its logical extreme…If you don’t love Jesus out loud, then it must not be real love. It’s not enough to forge your own spiritual connection to the divine; it must be displayed publicly.” —

Susan Cain, in Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking

This is why I don’t like it when in modern church services they always ask you to identify yourself, and go forward for altar call or if you want prayer. Suddenly it’s not enough just between you and God.

Jun 7, 20131 note
“Introverts, in contrast, may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and business meetings, but after a while wish they were home in their pajamas. They prefer to devote their social energies to close friends, colleagues, and family. They listen more than they talk, think before they speak, and often feel as if they express themselves better in writing than in conversation. They tend to dislike conflict. Many have a horror of small talk, but enjoy deep discussions.” —Susan Cain, in Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking
Jun 7, 20134 notes
#Introversion
Jun 6, 2013
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