I had to clear my store, or to be exact, the boiler room where I store most of my junks, because the boiler engineer had to come and inspect the state of the boiler. It’s a good thing. But when I had to put the things back in, I had to face the fact that…
While in a meeting today, my colleague remarked that the weather was nice. I looked outside and I saw clear blue sky, and agreed silently that it was nice. It just occurred to me that a few years ago, I wouldn’t understand how a 14 degree Celsius temperature and the sun shining fully on you…
Apple has released a new version of iOS and it has Liquid Glass. It’s just a change of design in the UI. Just. The change seems to use skeuormophic (I don’t think I spelled that right), i.e. digital objects mimic real objects. A note app looks like a notebook, complete with binders, dog-eared pages and…
My wife and I were watching a clip about a parliamentary session, where the politician gave a very vague statement, something like, “We do not condone bad behaviour.” My wife complained that the speaker didn’t answer the question. Of course he didn’t, he’s a politician. He gave a political statement that can be interpreted either…
Recently went on a short binge of YouTube videos of tidying house and life, and it motivated me to start with something small, which is my wardrobe. Also it was the easiest as I already had a lot of shirts that almost can’t fit me anymore. I know this because I was reminded quite often…
On the first of September 2025, Wan Muzni passed away at the age of 72 years old. She was attended by her family and friends. Others who heard the news were also grieved by it, I am sure, as I was. Madam Wan, as her students normally would address her, was my favourite teacher. She…
It was the first time that I heard about the word proscription, and I thought it was related to people being pulled into the army, i.e. conscription. Apparently it is not. The formal definition is the action of forbidding something, or banning. The ‘pro’ in the word proscription made me think that it was something…
My son came and ask whether the Apocalypse is real. What kind of apocalypse, I asked back, and he said something about zombie apocalypse. That’s too much Marvel, superhero and Minecraft for him. Anyways I said it depends on whom you ask the question but Muslims believe the world will come to an end, the…
If you read Games of Thrones, or the Song of Ice and Fire to be exact, a common phrase is Winter is Coming, and the north is always depicted as somewhere cold and desolate. Even the undead/zombies are from the north. In some ways the north of England, which is Scotland, is cold (as a…
Recently I went to Scotland and visited the Isle of Bute. We took a short ferry trip from Wemyss Bay, which had a small railway station. I was very surprised that for a small town, it had quite a big terminal station. One can take a train from Glasgow, step off the platform at Wemyss Bay railway station, and walk…
