There comes a time in a man's life, when he has to get utterly decimated by something.

That time for me was today

When I fail my A levels, I'm going to vocational school to become a code monkey!

That's quite literally (ha!) how I feel right now. Life has come to a complete standstill, pushed roughly aside to make away for the behemoth that is the A levels.

The gravity of the situation is nigh unfathomable. And frankly quite annoying.

Because of this, I am currently unable to, among other things:

1. Apply myself in deep intellectual pursuits like blogging about epistemology and political philosophy
2. Apply myself in nerdy pursuits like designing/writing unnecessarily grandiose computer infrastructure
3. Apply myself in frivolous pursuits like reading Leviathan, Nozick, picking up a new manga (or 2), and watching Gureto Ticha Onizuka (among other excellently (read: frivolously) produced Japanese drama serials).

Bonne chance tout le monde! Il y a 22 jours! 

Of all the random, pointless things I read, this is perhaps my favourite comic of all:

www.xkcd.com

Warning: A lot of the humour is nerd humour, like really nerd humour. My kind of humour, haha.

Many thanks to jumbiez for introducing me to this!!!

Argh! TSA!

Ok, the MCQ wasn't too bad, even though I am unsure about half the paper.

But argh! My essay! I never imagined myself writing something so bad! But for some reason in that half hour, everything went wrong. I was incoherent, I had contrived examples, and ARGH!

As the days go by, so do my dreams of Oxford; it's all flying away.

Ah well, the other options aren't so bad...

Cheerios

Everyone has a story to tell; stories about their lives, who they were, who they are, who they want to be. Stories tell you a lot about people, even when they're not explicit. Down to the little quirk in a person's behaviour can be explained by something. And once you have gathered enough stories, people become predictable. Not in a bad way of course, but humans were never evolved/designed to be unpredictable creatures. We are irrational, but not unpredictable.

What's your story?

L'espirit vagabonde quelquefois. C'est étrange.

Of all the music I listen to, these I like best:


Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor "Quasi una fantasia", Op. 27, No. 2, 1st Movement Adagio sostenuto (aka Moonlight sonata)
Played by Wilhelm Kempff



Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11, 2nd Movement Romance - Larghetto
Played by Li Yundi