WIP

I want to make it a point to do annual reviews. Next year I’ll update it every month. But this is retroactive.

Written

• My education journey (discussion on reddit)
• Pondering the heat death of the universe
• One must imagine Sisyphus LOL-ing
• On baby abandonment
• Realizations
• #SexInSmallSpaces
• Statement origin story

Experiences

• Postmodern Jukebox – recommend
• Muse – recommend
• India Trip – Madurai
• Sadhguru @ MBS
• Statement showcase @ beach road
• Reservist
• started cooking (salmon, spaghetti, steak)
• August man photoshoot
• Borderlands

Home improvement

• drilled up kitchen paintings
• threw away bookshelf
• added night lights

Peopling

• D Yap Yakun
• Poached @ Vanns
• Pool w/ colleagues
• Coffee w/ Prakash
• Parveen Starbucks
• Nasi padang w/ Swe
• Jamming w/ musos
• Breakfast at yachts with Dames/Timmy/bf
• post-sadghguru w/ sis
• bro housewarming
• lunch @ frans
• t-ware dude si quan
• boss wedding!
• MIL’s graduation
• met lil’ wan
• 100k celebration
• beer with GK
• mich loke timbre+
• beer with yiwei
• late night w/ damien
• grandma’s 80th
• niece’s birthday
• tradegecko meetup
• cousin’s daughter’s 1st
• R&R’s wedding
• deepavali at sister’s
• deepavali at parents
• chilled at damien’s
• deepavali at shobha’s
• frans’ showcase
• vanns farewell and drinks after
• EW &BB’s farewells
• tea with yb
• ribs with bc

Purchases

• Logitech Mice
  • G402 – recommend, but would buy wireless 2nd time around, because wires are annoying
• Mac magic keyboard
• Powerpac PPMSF40-16 classic stand fan
• Asus MX27H Monitor
• IKEA Kallax 5×5
• Multiple Whiteboards

Books read

• Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!
• Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson
• Understanding Comics, Scott McCloud
• Leadership, Alex Ferguson
• Joseph Campbell – Hero With A Thousand Faces
• Jay Griffiths – A Sideways Look At Time (reread)
• Stuff Matters
• Disrupted, Dan Lyons
• So Good They Can’t Ignore You, Cal Newport

Movies watched

• Office Space
• Princess Mononoke
• Kung Fu Panda
• Pulp Fiction
• The Aviator
• Allegiant
• Meet the Patels
• Zootopia
• The Jungle Book
• Lord of the Rings Trilogy (rewatched)
• I Am Not Your Guru
• The Terminal
• Southside With You
• Merchants of Doubt
• 13th
• Barry
• La La Land

Shows watched

• House of Cards (abandoned around season 2-3)
• Horace and Pete
• Human Planet
• Bojack Horseman (S1 to S3)
• Game Of Thrones (S1 to S6)
• Silicon Valley (S1 to S2)
• Narcos (S1 + S2)
• Jessica Jones S1
• Luke Cage S1
• Designated Survivor (Ongoing… abandoned)
• Daredevil (a couple of episodes)
• Breaking Bad (Completed)

Other stimuli (videos, articles, etc)

• George Lakoff – metaphors we live by
• Michelle Obama + Oprah
• Creating the ultimate antagonist (‘competing for the soul of gotham’)
• Access Denied 
• Toxoplasma of Rage
• Social Gentrification