One would sometimes wonder about the future or the parallel universes housing the ultimate sly fox, aka human beings. During one of my wondering sessions, I brought the idea of human beings living and

I remember the first class of my university. My lecturer entered with hopes of a bunch of academic, literate students with a few potential Kafkas and Joyces among them, and instead he met this bunch of young chaps whose biggest accomplishment was saying "wotah" instead of water, as in a British acce...

Last night as I was net-surfing and wondering about the meaning of life while headbanging to some rock music as a part of my pre-bedtime ritual, I came across the horrifying news of the singer having hung himself a couple minutes before. As the news was sinking in (which is a difficult process when ...

Socializing with dwarf-sized, hairless evolved monkeys (aka. human children) is supposed to be fun and nice; it used to be, at least. I personally am not comfortable around creatures able to think and operate by themselves (applies to humans and politicians). Therefore, it is only natural to feel un

Stephen Hawking explains in his book, A Brief History of Time, that the universe is expanding and getting bigger as time goes by. It is a rather known fact to all of us that the number of blogs, websites, social media accounts and so on is growing everyday and the number probably has more digits

"Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself." Blaise Pascal- I came across this line and I simply couldn't take my eyes off it for how true it is. Why is it that we admire vices more than virtues? One reason could be that humans love it when someone does something whic

When I first read the article "Begi ing Greek, Again and Again" by James Romm, the first thought that crossed my mind was that what an absolute pain it must be to teach a rare language like Greek or Latin. I can already see the gray hair among their black fellas on my French teacher's head, and she

I remember the first class of my university. My lecturer entered with hopes of a bunch of academic, literate students with a few potential Kafkas and Joyces among them, and instead he met this bunch of young chaps whose biggest accomplishment was saying "wotah" instead of water, as in a British acce

Perhaps the first thing that comes to mind when we hear 'digital humanities' is the existence of e-book. As citizens of a country in which copyright has as much meaning as peace and quiet in a Metallica concert, free e-books have been a real sight for poor students' sore eyes. Personally, I prefer t

As a child of the digital generations who has been generously rewarded with communication apps throughout my whole life, I detest all sorts of talking which does not involve two people actually standing in front of each other and looking into the other person's eyes. The young generation (between th

Last night as I was net surfing on my laptop, I suddenly received a text from one of my friends, asking if I had time. Minutes later, I was informed that my friend is suffering from brain tumor leading to cancer, and I stared at the screen for a good ten minutes, fighting back the tears and emotions

I remember the day my lecturer asked my classmates and I to create a blog and update it regularly clrear as day; the sweet task of writing freely about your emotions and conce s became the excruciating homework in our procrastinator eyes, and I personally neglected it. Now as the long-awaited last

The process of decision making has always been a torture for me. From deciding what to eat in a restaurant to deciding whether I should punch someone or now, I always take a long time, during which I look at the waiter or the aforementioned person with a loose smile on my face, like this . Of course