I just realised that with Kai wen's ORD, I am effectively reduced to myself talking to myself about philosophy, social behavior, or in fact, anything regarding the humanities or stories and literature that I read (so much like my post-suicidal, post-graduation and post-enlistment days!). Sigh. I must admit that if NS has everything bad going for it, at least it gave me the time to discuss stuff people normally find to dry to talk about, and allowed me to meet a person drastically more knowledgeable than me in certain academic areas, thus spurring me to read even more (of course this was not the only good thing lah! Learning Carter's "any mother son...ni chi bao mei?! is also another educational lesson! I'm leaving this for another post though!)! I hope I don't sound arrogant, but it's really been some time since I have met someone to truly spur me to push the envelope of my mind's capabilities. There are some of course, like the immortal Guan Yin (haha...for those not in the know, this is not the goddess ok! I do NOT desecrate religious idols! :P), or Mr pau li bu xiang rong (or in English, Pauli's exclusion principal) back in RV days (I think only Chen Yu knows who he is), but ya, I guess I easily sink into complacency when I appear to know something of everything, and thus can con any random dude into believing that I am knowledgeable hahaha....Did you know that polar bear skin is black! Or that string theory is a combination of 5 separate theories (knowledge of which I have all ashamedly returned to Prof Brian Greene. Thanks for the educational ride though!). Or that String Theory postulates a Calabi-Yau manifold as THE 7 dimension space within our perceived 3 dimension space (what on Earth is a manifold?!?!?!)! Bet you didn't know that! Eh, what the hell am I talking about? Getting incoherent.
Anyways, I presume Kai wen doesn't read my blog, but if you do! Thanks for all the intellectual stimulation you have provided me over the year! From Ayn Rand to Fukuyama, Timurlane to Napoleon (and Samarkand! We MUST visit it one day!).
And no more kai wen to go "chee byeeee! I believe in discordianism ok!" lol...
Yes, I would never have declared myself agnostic in an official personnel particulars list if you hadn't claim yourself a "discordianist"!
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