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Past entries, in reverse chronological order.
a service that i've been using for over a decade is shutting down. although, honestly i haven't been using it much in the past few years. however, in the first few years, i was always on the top 10% or sometimes top 5% reader list at the year-end review (yeah Pocket was cool before Spotify). [ ]
Read entry →part 8: day three FROM THE ARCHIVES: I was #5K7♠︎, a geological engineer at Saarbrücken, the capital city of Saarland. I gave a hand when Germany decided to not be tethered to the rest of Europe anymore —— we pissed off the countries on the west side of us: Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Switzerland and [ ]
Read entry →part 7: day two FROM THE ARCHIVES: I was #5K3♠︎, a bookstore owner from Trier. My favourite genre is fantasy so that is our store specialty; but I despise Harry Potters. There is something weird about it that I cannot quite put into words, so you will not find any of the volumes in our [ ]
Read entry →part 6: day one FROM THE ARCHIVES: I was #5JN♠︎, a computational engineering science (CES) student at RWTH Aachen. The university went into flames pretty quickly after the Rainfall because it was the exam season, there is a rule that says that if there was a fire, everyone passes the exam automatically. The Pyros had [ ]
Read entry →saw the Prime Video advertisement of the live event a few days ago where running legend Faith Kipyegon attempted to be the first ever woman to run 1 mile (1.6km) within 4 minutes! i was squealing in front of the TV at the end of every lap and unfortunately, the women's mile is not sub [ ]
Read entry →life is hard, we should all celebrate small wins. but sometimes a win is smaller than small… it's mini. i am taking an elective mathematics course, where i am the only non-mathematician and also the only non-German in class. the materials are all in English, although the lectures are held in German (huh?). i was [ ]
Read entry →i recently went under the knife again, this time voluntarily, and then pretty much regretted it. good thing is, while recovering, i started posting more to practice writing. so the update: people around me say that i walk normally now, instead of "waddling like a duck/penguin" (yeah my previous walking style has earned a few [ ]
Read entry →well i can get by in France/Luxembourg/Belgium with gestures support… people always tell me how the French are rude to people who don’t speak French but maybe cos i’m Asian they don’t expect it and are usually very nice and patient with me while i try to express myself like a child… and most of [ ]
Read entry →maybe this will motivate/force me to finish reading faster… The Kamogawa Food Detectives by Hisashi Kashiwai How AI Works by Ronald T. Kneusel Venture Deals by Brad Feld ]
Read entry →part 5: the chosen ones The cyber community was called…drumroll please ——The Chosen Ones (TCO). By the way, I was in a few of such online groups —— two on Whatsapp, three on Reddit and four on Discord —— but TCO was the sole invitation-only club. I felt special. We all felt special. The interface of [ ]
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