simcity
2024sep4: I started playing a new game of Simcity 2000 in my browser, mainly out of nostalgia and curiosity. I never really un
chaotic monkey mind
For as long as I can remember, I’ve had a chaotic monkey mind that’s been both a blessing and curse. When I stop to think
babel
Historyproj… SG1990… Tamils…India…nonamerican… multipolar world… sidenote on english… gumroad readers… 3rd cul
my life in pictures
This post exists to help me, at a glance, get a sense of my own life over the years. 1990 – 1996 1998 2001 2003 2004 2006 20
The Statement / JIBABOM! story, so far
Statement is a t-shirt company that we started in 2011. I posted some ideas on Facebook, and they were pretty well-r
Why I stopped blogging in 2013, I think
Before I start with this, I want to take a moment to summarize a 2014 blogpost, “Why should we blog?“ It allows fo
Helm Of The Arse Gods
Oddball confession: one of my first life-shaping experiences on the Internet was lying on a video game forum (Darkstone, Delph
Bestof 2018
todo: search twitter for “from:visakanv 2018” FB Jan happy new year I want to go to the moon (hilarious) trippy gl
My National Service Experience
Wrote this a few years ago. While I was still in NS. Around Dec 2011. I still remember when I went for my medical check-up a f
Bestof 2017
FB Jan Emotional labor thread and discussion “Was 2016 dangerous for celebrities?” – clever use of Wiki article
June 2017 status update [vomit 0684]
(I wrote this in June 2017, while I was on reservist) Dear Visa, How are you? It’s me, your oldest friend, who’s always be
belonging
belonging – a place to call your own I was thinking about ‘belonging’ earlier, and how I have always felt like I
Memoirs
I have always been a somewhat scatter-brained person, and I’ve also always felt this sort of compulsion to catalog every
4 years together
Fun fact: Sharan Kaur and I got married 4 years ago today. It was kind of a secret. We did it over milkshakes and hotdogs at a
Early Employee
source +1 to this. I’m a relatively early employee at my team, and while my founders don’t really mind whether I&#
Annual Reviews
Every year I make it a point to do some reviews of my life. Here’s a list of what I’ve done so far. 2009 birthday
Goals are a way of making sense of the chaos around us, giving us a vision of the future to live into
2017 update: This post is hilariously vague. I need to add some measurable, achievable targets to prove to myself that I have
Ways in which I’ve been a misfit + how that’s shaped who I am
I made this post because I want to make sense of who I am. I’ve had a funny relationship with being a misfit. Initially,
Travel
I’m not much of a traveller. I’d like to change that. So far, I’ve been to… Johor, Malaysia Batam, Ind
My journey from underachieving student to moderately competent adult [2016]
An older friend told me that a parent wanted to talk to ‘learn about my educational journey’ and ‘understand
life-summary
1990 – Born 1994 – St Hilda’s Kindergarten 1997 – Opera Estate Primary School 1998 – Burnt hand 2000 – St Hild
Surprises reveal the limits of our expectations
I started smoking again. Thought I would’ve quit for good. (Quit again in 2016) people are stupid. keep assuming that th
The media is critical to how we make sense of ourselves and our reality
Why does this post exist? I think the media (in all its forms) is a very important part of what it means to be human. It’
Making sense of my childhood and how it shaped me
I was born on June 6th 1990, in Singapore. George HW Bush was President of the USA. The Berlin Wall fell, East and West German
An oral history of the games I’ve played
What’s the first video game you ever played? I’m not entirely sure. I recall watching my brothers play games on th
Starting work – excited to be among thoughtful, kind, high-functioning people [2013]
2014 EDIT: Just to avoid confusion; this was written at the start of 2013! I’m still working here and having loads of fu
Buying a HDB flat [2013]
He sits in an empty house with the woman of his dreams nestled in his lap like a kitten, only bigger, more beautiful and more
Penang 2012
This is an old post that was sitting around unfinished for a long time. It’s still unfinished. Posting it anyway. I’m
No, I Won’t Be Going To University [2012]
I wrote this in December 2012. I have been thinking about the University question for some time, and I decided to get some inp
2012 review – it’ll never be perfect so just do it
I didn’t want to do anything for new year’s. I didn’t want to spend money unnecessarily, because lately I
was it worth it?
During my Signals course, there was a day where we were supposed to make these wire joints- 20 per person. Quite labour-intens
2:25am
It is 2:25am and I am alone. The air is still, and cold. I am not wearing a shirt. I light my cigarette with the open flame at
snippets of my life
I’m an ordinary guy. I found school to be generally boring and uninspiring, so I almost never did any homework, often cu