I placed my entire hand on a hot iron. For more than a few seconds - super dumb and ignorant.

Ended up having my entire hand wrapped in bamdages.

What about Glass Bottles?

I discovered Planescape Torment a few years ago - I can see how it would be impactful to a younger me. Even now I can still remember the moment the Undying One gave his answer to Ravel’s infamous question against the backdrop of the Fortress of Regret’s OST playing gives me a chill

Singapore - Mother Tongue is a compulsory subject to take up until Uni. Being classified as Chinese racially, I had to take Mandarin during my formative years - but I’m still not good at it lol

Interesting - in Singapore the widespread expectation in 2025 (at least among the elderly) is to get a plastic bag / food containers (sometimes multiple) from the shop whenever one buys something. Albeit since 2020 these now cost 5 & 30 cents respectively

Singapore

Or just fill it up with trees, bushes and flowers

If inflation is 3% per year, by the 25th year 1.03^25 = 2.09 ; everything costs double.

But yeah if it doubled within a few years something’s wrong.

How do you suppress FOMO though? Like logically what you said makes sense but it’s just hard to get your heart to agree

Singapore. Hot and Humid at 30C+ 24/7/365 - my neck frequently breaks out in rashes.

I don’t expect Singapore to be around within the next 50 years due to Climate Change tbh

Virtual Lego Assembler; the Virtual Legos are Libraries / PaaS APIs

It’s 7 days in Singapore 🫠

But most white collar jobs here are around 18-21 days.

A little partial to 2006 myself

Some days do be like that tbh

Thanks - eventually I just did my usual routine, but slightly later than usual. Wasn’t able to go back to sleep, both before and after exercising. It’s afternoon now and my head feels slightly heavy and my legs feel slightly “minty fresh” (sciatica).

I did think about just going for the exercise when it was 4am, but it’s always the question of “if I let go of exercising at 0630 would I finally be able to sleep / what if I could have actually slept more if I hadn’t woke up now” that gets me

What’s a (portable) traffic button?

Misread the first two words - thought it said YOUR DONG

Button Mushrooms / Cherry Tomatoes - my friend once commented that it felt like chewing eyeballs.

As someone that had a sterile childhood of all work and fenced play in Singapore - that sounds like an amazing and well-lived childhood, for the most part.

I feel down. I haven’t felt happy in a long while / few months. The danger of depression is there but I believe I’m not at that stage yet.

I’m down because I’ve made no progress at a project for work for a few months now. Everything seems to be breaking and out of my control, it’s a bit tiresome to deal with. Plus the Tariffs have derailed whatever FI plans I had, so I’m pretty much stuck here.

During lunch with my colleagues today some of them expressed that my home country is desirable to live in from a security and convenience perspective (from Singapore). But Singapore is also soul-less and boring, and that irks me. I still want to have the chance to live overseas in a cooler and more relaxed climate, but yeah with the job market being shit and tariffs ruining everything, I might be stuck in Singapore for life.