{"id":767,"date":"2025-11-01T22:45:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T22:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/farisismail.com\/?p=767"},"modified":"2025-11-01T22:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T22:45:07","slug":"commonality-in-strangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farisismail.com\/?p=767","title":{"rendered":"Commonality in Strangers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Went to a friend\u2019s <em>makan-makan<\/em> (party) today and met a lot of undergrads, mostly in their early twenties. As we\u2019re from Asian background, i.e. all are Malaysian, there is a bit of hierarchy between us and also reverence towards me and my friend, who are well in our 30s. Despite that though, the conversation does take the form of finding the commonality between us. What is with strangers that we find something that is common between them  Is it the dopamine feeling that you feel that there might be some similarities to tie their life? Or people just don\u2019t want to be \u2018alone\u2019, even in a such small of a party. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don\u2019t know. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you for reading <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Went to a friend\u2019s makan-makan (party) today and met a lot of undergrads, mostly in their early twenties. As we\u2019re from Asian background, i.e. all are Malaysian, there is a bit of hierarchy between us and also reverence towards me and my friend, who are well in our 30s. Despite that though, the conversation does&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[92,139],"class_list":["post-767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-age","tag-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/farisismail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/farisismail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/farisismail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farisismail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farisismail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/farisismail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":768,"href":"https:\/\/farisismail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions\/768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/farisismail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farisismail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farisismail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}