Archive for October, 2007

Print iconScrew the sciences

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

More often than not, the people around me tend to get very defensive when I point out their infractions of the rules of the English language. What they don’t realise is that I’m not aiming to berate them; I’m just trying to help […]

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Monday, October 29th, 2007

I’ve been comfortable with the way things have looked around here for a couple of years now. In many ways, I still am, but here are a few ideas I’ve been toying with every now and again. I was wondering if you had […]

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Friday, October 26th, 2007

Much of the recent silence you’ve been noticing is because I’ve been busy tying up loose ends, and attempting to return to some semblance of normalcy. It’s proving harder than I expected to get out of “technical writing” mode and into “daily whiner” […]

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Sunday, October 21st, 2007

If you think I’m odd, then you haven’t met some of the people I hang out with on occasion. I happened to be in a curious conversation with one of the more colourful ones earlier today about the joys of cross-dressing. This is […]

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Friday, October 19th, 2007

Over the last week, I incorporated some minor changes that were suggested during my defence to my final document, and handed it over to the University. This, along with a ton of administrivia, has resulted in me being officially declared a PhD!
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Sunday, October 14th, 2007

But it feels like a drill.
It’s curious how easily a habit so carefully inculcated over so many years can be broken. It’s not been very long since I last wrote wrote, […]

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Friday, October 12th, 2007

After ages of not having much news to report on, here is another juicy tidbit: I just turned 27.
Yes it’s something of a coincidence, but no, not really; this was the […]

Print iconDone with the defence!

Wednesday, October 10th, 2007

Onto trivial changes to the document and voilà—Dr. Me!

Print iconLet it never be said, that the romance is dead

Sunday, October 7th, 2007

Cos there’s so little else occupying my head.
This entry (or a couple, I haven’t finalised on how I plan to put these thoughts across) will surely ruffle some feathers, but […]