Many things ceasing to matter

I did not see this coming. I had thought, only myself mattered to me.
All my ambitions, my career, my studies, my Go, my self-development … they all don’t matter now.
Isn’t it crazy to let go of things that I have fought for all this while, for something I barely know?

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Techpiece

It has been for a while since I wanted to be a more serious blogger. While telling about my life, opinion and feeling on this blog serves my emotional and psychological needs pretty well, I always had hoped to have a higher purpose of existence on the Internet.
Techpiece is my attempt to realise that. It’s [...]

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Wonderful Saturday : Go + Food + Friends + Orchestra

Go, Food and Friends constitute a common formula for my Saturdays. Honestly I am content with living on such formula for foreseeable future to come. Yesterday however was especially wonderful because I kind of had an overdose of each of them, plus attending an orchestra performance.
For Go, I had three games against Boon Ping [...]

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2nd day of Daicon. No promoting Go, just enjoying the cosplay!

During the times when I watched anime really a lot, I had two things in mind. Dreams, and fantasies. With dreams, I aligned myself to the story line, got myself to learn Go, kendo, and boxing. I dreamt of being as good in those as Hikaru, Kenshin Himura and Makunouchi Ippo.
With fantasies, I dont think [...]

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Daicon – Celebration of Japanese Modern Visual Culture

I attended the first day of Daicon at Multimedia University in Cyberjaya today. Daicon, for those who dont know, is a celebration of modern Japanese visual culture. Well, I actually dont know much about the purpose or message of Daicon, but I sure did enjoy the presence of cute university students in anime-like appearance or [...]

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MIT Free Online Course Material

For people like me, who are not keen to go back to university, but need some guidance for self-study initiatives and effort, free online courseware is perfect.
I haven’t tried the materials available yet, but MIT Free Online Course Materials seems to be a good place to go to.
While MIT stands for Massachussets Institute of Technology, [...]

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Specialist vs Generalist

… and you, Marcus, you have given me many things; now I shall give you this good advice. Be many people. Give up the game of being always Marcus Cocoza. You have worried too much about Marcus Cocoza, so that you have been really his slave and prisoner. You have not done anything without first [...]

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