May 2012
3 posts
The Hipster in the Mirror
ESSAY
By MARK GREIF
Published: November 12, 2010
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/14/books/review/Greif-t.html?pagewanted=all
A year ago, my colleagues and I started to investigate the contemporary hipster. What was the “hipster,” and what did it mean to be one? It was a puzzle. No one, it seemed, thought of himself as a hipster, and when someone called you a hipster, the term was an insult....
April 2012
17 posts
i hate that in season 4 episode 10 carrie gives in to fuckin big and can’t appreciate what she has with aidan and so i had to sTOP it and not finish the freakin episode even though i really wanted to as part of my de-stress activity
AIDAN IS THE SHIT AND WHY CANT SHE SEE THAT
i cant believe she married big in the end
Frank Bruni -- The Bleaker Sex
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/01/opinion/sunday/bruni-the-bleaker-sex.html?_r=2&scp=1&sq=Frank%20Bruni%20%22Girls%22&st=Search
The Bleaker Sex
By FRANK BRUNI
Published: March 31, 2012
THE first time you see Lena Dunham’s character having sex in the new HBO series “Girls,” her back is to her boyfriend, who seems to regard her as an inconveniently loquacious halfway point between...
wear sunscreen: "You talk when you cease to be at... →
(and this post that is linked above by bridget was so real and vulnerably honest that i wanted it in my archives too)
i just finished my arabic oral, and had my arabic (written) final yday. i felt a tremendous sigh of relief, even though i have 3 exams tmr. back to back.
arabic took up such a big part of my life this semester, but i wasnt even that aware of it i think. Arabic classes were:...
wear sunscreen: senior presentations →
this was just so funny that i wanted it in my tumblr archives
edibleshoes:
maybe i really am facing a case of senioritis.
for my Level 4000 course, my partner and i strolled in late, took our time to find a seat, didn’t practice for our presentation and (way over)confidently went up there when it was our turn….and i forgot to say one very important line (although it…
A million expectations: Help needed- let's change... →
very interesting way of mobilizing the online community!
edibleshoes:
amillionexpectations:
At the moment, when searching for ‘gay Muslims’ on Google, the anti-gay website ‘gaymuslims.org’ is top of the search results. For a Muslim struggling with accepting their sexuality, coming across this website when searching the internet could be disastrous.
I want us to get the search result for...
March 2012
16 posts
1.12 am 1st April I am a Fool
1) I love it when people reblog my posts *huggles bridget*
2) http://www.ottobib.com/
is a student’s best friend when doing BIBLIO FOR HONOURS THESISSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OMGGGG… of COURSE there would be an online program for generating biblio references.. just copy and paste ISBN number….
hurray 21st century
songs make you miss the past :(
but they also make you look forward to an imagined future :)
but it also makes you think of all those friends in all those different cities you were once at, and wonder how they are, if they are happy, and why don’t they reply your emails or letters
ok, time to sleep! too much work and no sleep makes me a nostalgic person
the many layered kueh lapis self
because today i just realized something so blindingly obvious that i didnt realize all those weeks ago
OR maybe now it wasn’t realization but renaming it something else
anyway… it’s nice to have that fictive somebody
but i think i ought to behave in a more mature manner
and stop behaving like a spoilt self-indulgent brat just because i subconsciously think that is the way...
The Internet is a breakthrough in human freedom. But over the past 20 years it has had a certain leveling effect. It hypes the cheap and glitzy, it reduces the worthiness of a thought to the number of clicks it gets.
It has helped set a new cultural tone. It is not a higher one than we’ve enjoyed in the past.
Our comics and commentators went with the flow, but it only flows downward. And...
Fascinating: Kseniya Sobchak, and Russian Protests
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/18/world/europe/kseniya-sobchak-russias-it-girl-dons-opposition-cloak.html?_r=1&hp
It is difficult to imagine a more unlikely standard-bearer than Ms. Sobchak, 30, the ubiquitous blond party girl known as Russia’s Paris Hilton. Most people here know her through her raunchy career in reality television, or the scandalous liaisons and broken engagements that make...
thought this was a measured response that...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/reality-check-with-polly-curtis/2012/mar/13/reality-check-kony-2012-reaction
Joel Ng is an associate research fellow at the Centre for Multilateralism Studies at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University. He worked on civilian protection issues in northern Uganda from 2005–2007 during a peak in the LRA’s operations...
just watched the video!
“Kony is like a Rorschach test on to which we inscribe our own simplistically naive ethical calculus”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/10/kony-viral-video-change-world
International Women's Day, 2 days ago
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/mar/07/feminists-international-womens-day
by Zoe Wiliams
I’m not that fussed about pornography. I never have been. I accept the practical point that a lot of porn degrades women intentionally so can’t be made without the humiliation of women involved in it; and I accept the theoretical point that it is made for the male gaze, so women...
I randomly remembered reading this article by...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/oct/03/charlie-kaufman-how-to-write
…
Storytelling is inherently dangerous. Consider a traumatic event in your life. Think about how you experienced it. Now think about how you told it to someone a year later. Now think about how you told it for the hundredth time. It’s not the same thing. Most people think perspective is a good thing: you can...
February 2012
21 posts
Gang life: First he builds trust. Then you help...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/feb/19/gang-life-interview
Lisa remembers the moment she knew her life had been overtaken by the gang. Her boyfriend of six months had called and asked her for a favour. Half an hour later she was in the kitchen of a small flat in north-west London looking at 2kg of crack cocaine.
“It all starts with, ‘Babe, can you just help me out.’ Then...
Singapore Law Blog: Of the same cloth →
republished at KRC with writer’s permission at : http://kentridgecommon.com/?p=14134
thanks so much lihang!!!!!
singaporelaw:
There has been some discussion of late regarding the lack of diversity among students at the NUS Faculty of Law. The new dean is leading a review of admission procedures that aims to broaden the range of backgrounds of future law students. While still in its...
