laremy.sg

Found the bit that I like the most:

It angers me when after hundred years of importing aspects of other people’s culture some politician in a 4,000-ringgit Italian suit complains about Western values and such-and-such a thing is not from our culture. Our culture is everybody else’s culture. We’ve never had our own. You can’t arbitrarily draw a line to freeze its change and growth. And it angers me when people like Thomas Thomas expect me to be original, when in fact to be Malaysian is to be derivative. Deal with it and grow up. Would you like some coffee? No? It’s Colombian.

– Huzir Sulaiman. “Notes on Life and Love and Painting.” Eight Plays. Kuala Lumpur: Silverfish Books, 2002. 135.

• The real science of dream research.

You’ll like this if you watched Inception and liked Inception like how you like this.


• A Theory of Authority

“Managers looking to strengthen their authority are wise not to hire overqualified workers … An overqualified person may be difficult to maintain authority over. They can have a bad attitude that’s infectious.”

• The Secret Lives of Cats

I never knew they cared so much.

• Natural learning

“I think that the manicured walks mirror our schooling system. We have a centrally planned curriculum that … relies largely on the model of decontextualized delivery. It is efficient and predictable. But it is so embedded in our culture that most teachers, parents and students know no other way.”

• The Web Means the End of Forgetting

The dangers of posting TMI on the Web.

• Startup Country

Now if only Malaysia could loan us Johor for a bit…

• The Little Story of One HDB Flat

I feel very strongly about this issue because I am someone who has been excluded from the public housing market because of the astronomical prices.

• Jane Austen’s Fight Club

To hell with Inception… This is THE must-watch movie of the year!

• Navel gazing: Academic inbreeding and scientific productivity.

A paper which suggests that it’s good for universities to hire PhD graduates who have not been trained by the same university so as to encourage diversity in thought, cross-fertilisation of ideas, etc.

Am posting this up because I remember having this conversation with someone back in NUS about this policy – NUS seldom (or never) hires faculty who have NUS graduate degrees.

• Transcript of Dr Lim Hock Siew’s speech on the ISA.

How is this distorted or misleading?

• New Spice | Study like a scholar, scholar

BYU produces a stunningly good parody of the recent Old Spice ad.

• Familiar Horror Movie Scenes Ruined by the New iPhone

Why the future won’t the same – or as scary – with the advent of technology.

3:44:21 PM Laremy: hey
3:44:26 PM Laremy: wanted to ask you
3:44:31 PM Laremy: what is the ***[redacted: number of days]*** call-up for?
3:44:36 PM Melvin: lol
3:44:38 PM Melvin: ***[redacted: military activity]***
3:44:40 PM Laremy: oh
3:44:43 PM Laremy: i must go too?
3:44:58 PM Melvin: yah
3:44:59 PM Laremy: oh
3:45:07 PM Laremy: so even the ***[redacted: sub-unit]*** does ***[redacted: military activity]*** ?
3:45:13 PM Laremy: i thought we should be doing ***[redacted: more appropriate military activity IMHO]***
3:45:18 PM Melvin: yah so they say
3:45:32 PM Melvin: if nothing is done for us i will express disappointment
3:45:37 PM Laremy: how?
3:45:43 PM Laremy: shake your head and tsk very loudly ah?
3:45:44 PM Laremy: hahaha
3:45:52 PM Melvin: hahaha perhaps

• The Creative Process

A Subnormality Comic.

• 10 couples caught naked daily on Terengganu beaches

The 48-year-old volunteer, who claimed to have caught 1,200 couples on the beaches since signing up as a volunteer in 2004, said he had had enough.

“I cannot take it any longer and am thinking of giving up this work. I have decided that enough is enough after six years as a volunteer,” he said.

• Evolution and Creativity: Why Humans Triumphed

“[Collective intelligence] holds out hope that the human race will prosper mightily in the years ahead—because ideas are having sex with each other as never before”.

– LOL. (via)

• Meet the Schweinsteigers.

What Bastian Schweinsteiger’s surname actually means!

• The road to Farmville is paved with good intentions.

Win.

• External Validation

Oh, God – Yes!