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- August 10, 2011
Ruffling
Have you ever faced an invisible wall? That’s how I feel now. Confinement. Constraints. Restrictions. Invisible because they are all in my head. Trapped in a hypothetical space shoddily built upon some flimsy but stubborn and evasive tissues and transported by erratic neurons. All the toughest decisions in life, all my ponderings and agony. You […]
- July 19, 2011
The Universal Equation
Besides a few constants in life, I have always thought that change is good. But I have never considered the possibility of fate and chance outwitting my meticulous calculations. And lately I have come to realise that, stripped down to its barest, life is really just about parameters. We are all going to die. What […]
- April 4, 2011
The Hard Problem
Why do we feel the way we do? How is feeling related to consciousness? What is the origin of our conscious mind? Is reality merely a perception? Where does consciousness reside? Do we have a soul? Do you see red the way I do? How are cognitive experience linked to our construction of what is […]
- March 2, 2011
Open Closure
The truth is, sometimes when I think of you, I still feel sadness. It’s not the bawl-your-eyes out kind of sad, but more of a tugging pain, or numb melancholy. The other day I chanced upon (how these things manifest themselves in the sneakiest way, I will never know) the song that I wrote for […]
- February 25, 2011
The Art of Simplicity
Sometimes while crawling the web I stumble upon a piece of article that tugs on my heartstring or makes me ponder. And I notice one thing they often have in common is this – they use simple words. I seldom need to pause in the middle of my reading to google anything in the article. […]
- February 19, 2011
Twenty Eight
And you sat there. The cliff overlooking a sea of could-be’s and would-be’s, and you ponder in bewilderment the scarcity of the choices you are confronted with. Kuhn would call this a paradigm shift, something revolutionary should be in sight. But what is soul rattling to you is the improbability of narrowing it down to […]
- February 17, 2011
Roaming Rome
I’ve always found Italy enchanting. Rome was no exception. It is a city built around history, literally and metaphorically. The colosseum is built right smack in the middle of a busy street. There are no barricades, no mountains, no ocean nor 354 security checks separating this magnificent piece of art from its people. Art. Everything […]
- February 17, 2011
Anti Denial
2011 Resolution #4: At least 2 blogposts a week. There are two kinds of fatigue. The first one, the one that you feel in your muscle, is fairly simple and has an almost fool-proof remedy – you sleep it off. But the second kind, the one that invades your consciousness, drills into your mind and […]
- February 16, 2011
Flow
She’s what we call “see-worthy.” S-E-E. See with your eyes. I feel like my transport should be an extension of my personality. Voila. And this? This is like my little window to the world, and every minute it’s a different show. Now, I may not understand it. I may not even necessarily agree with it. […]
- February 3, 2011
Higgs and Kitten
Note: This piece was originally published in the CERN Student Club’s “Creative Voices” in 2009. The website is now under major revamp, so I am republishing it here. One year ago before I came to CERN I had no idea what the Higgs boson was, I thought a wormhole is where birds are sent to […]