Entries from September 2008

September 6, 2008

Mystery Jets – Making Dens

To love this band as much as I do, a little education is required. The Mystery Jets hails from a forgotten part of Britain called Eel Pie Island. The frontman (Blaine Harrison) was born with Spina Bifida, a condition which means he could only go as far as his crutches could take him.(which is a [...]

September 6, 2008

Michael Chabon – the Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

Through the story of two hopeful Jewish immigrants trying to strike the match on their individuality among millions of others, the reader is guided into the overbearing sadness and wayward tragedy of Josef Kavalier and Sam Clay’s world as Micheal Chabon gently paints his literature into a perfect portrait of the boundaries of human emotions. [...]

September 6, 2008

Kazuo Ishiguro – Never Let Me Go

Why!!! Why do I always find myself reading depressing books like this! It’s books like this that puts other books like “The Ashepumante Code” on the weekly best selling list…..
Kazuo Ishiguro’s newest book is literature with such unbearable lightness, you’ll find yourself ironically pinned under a ton of heartache. Unlike authors such as Micheal Onjaatje [...]

September 6, 2008

One is The Loneliest Number

“He knows now, why people go to church. It’s a simple calculation but you have to believe it. Because what does 0 = ?
0 = an additive entity such that 0 + a = a. For example 0 + I = I, and that is all you ever need to know about 0, not what [...]

September 2, 2008

Serangoon Happening!

As a long-term resident of Serangoon Ave 3, it is my civic duty to spread the word out on how happening the place is. Serangoon is, simply, a neighbourhood of epiphanies. In fact it’s so happening that the house elf wants to loiter around it’s void decks every morning, afternoon, night and midnight.
The evidence:

Looks like the RC is [...]