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Blog entries by Geordie
You can't restrain the truth...
What do censorship, Wikileaks and glasnost got to do in common?
They involve governments' choice to with-hold information from the rest of the world.
I do not believe in restraining the truth. This is why I refuse to write in my school blog, despite my...
As the manager of an Aspie Facebook group, I can only say:
1. My group is too bureaucratic for its small size
2. My group is too serious without enough diversions (like even what did I just eat)
3. My group is too antagonistic and hostile for those who had not experienced the 'other...
I confess: I got a conflict with a fellow user here from Singapore, stemming from a past conflict we have over our interpretations of correcting our stims - because I feel, well, that's what we are, stimming, who are you to correct us when you got stims yourself?
He did tell me to stop...
In addition...
It's said that a rise in autism diagnosis is followed by a fall in mental retardation diagnosis. This accounts for just 1 in 6 of thee total ASD diagnosis. The other 5 are of PDD-NOS and Aspie stuff.
Is this the effects of Reaganomics? Did governmental spending cuts...
My thoughts on fellow Asians:
Asian (not Asian-American) Forum W users: They just appear to be out-of-sync with the rest of the users, for some reason. One of the top 20 users in post number is an Asian, but that's about it.
Asian Forum A user: Despite our conflicts, the way that forum...
I will never forget the Biblical story in the Genesis 11:1-9 that I read long ago in my secondary school days. Specifically, the Tower of Babel.
I am re-reading the same book I read in secondary school all over again - and I think this really leaves us a question: how do we possibly...
I am a Singaporean by birth and I grew up there. However, visits to the People's Republic of China (PRC) amazed me. PRC is where my great-grandparents are all born. The whole country is culturally rich.
Some Chinese call me a 'ermaozi', literally translated as 'son of a foreigner'...
"Today I don't feel like doing anything, I just wanna lay in my bed" - Bruno Mars
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLexgOxsZu0
I thought this Bruno Mars guy was writing a song specially for me!
Cos I am a lazy guy.
If you ever see me on the streets, I am simply lazy and I can't be...
In Singapore, where I currently live, three bookshops (including a certain Computer Book Store and a geomacy-themed book shop) will close this weekend, due to a combination of weakening demand and higher rents. In Britain, over this month, Harbour Bookshop and 2000 other book shops closed down...
If you want to be yourself, if this means breaking out of the norm while still keeping yourself bound to the external rules of society in the most comfortable way you feel, then why not be yourself?
I think for the time being, the form of expression I found is in clothes.
I found it hard...
The famous rugby legend Jonny Wilkinson was educated in Pierrepont School, which closed in 1993. The school was famous for developing its students' character through sports and outdoor activities. But as it was unable to produce good academic results for its students, it closed in an economic...
The biggest risks in life involve money and/or time.
Time, needless to say, is the biggest risk. If we do nothing now, we will get nothing while others get something. However, if we do something, we will risk losing some things that we would not have lost, had we not did anything. My...
I always refer the Global Financial Crisis as the new Great Depression.
Without governmental involvement, assuming the government does nothing to stop the Depression (which seemed to only make things worse), the economy would have definitely shrunk 10% or more. This fits into the technical...
I read Spinning Compass' post on Poverty. It ain't pretty, it ain't good. I dislike the idea of being hungry just to do what I love, like for example, writing. So I do not purposely seek empty dreams if this means I will be living in poverty.
However, I do not chase money alone, either. I do...
Sometimes, this term is used for an apathetic outlook. But then, for the usual person with special needs (especially autism and Asperger's Syndrome) - this term that he uttered means an optimistic outlook in face of extreme hardship.
As the famous Australian ASD advocate Garry Burge noted...
I think what Wall Street and K Street (the advocacy groups in Washington) did not see it coming, is that they bring about an age which we all fear. This is, the age of depression, suppression and regression.
The effects of the American subprime mortgage crisis has struck my country quite...
I have my own free will. If I am not the number 1 or influential number 2 in any organization, I will just leave - that's why I am frustrated at being the number 3 of any organization, because this means I have no purpose in life.
I am weird and spontaneous - and I should make the best of...
Geordie was born with extra-ordinary drive and grit. He is a born leader. He insists on his right to make up his own mind; he demands freedom of thought and action, and doesn't let anything or anyone stand in his way once he is committed to his goal.
He assumes the responsibility to be the...
I bought a cup of bubble tea just now. Nice smooth flavor with fragrance - however, the smoothness is not that emphasized - so I'm apprehensiv e of trying it again. Plus, I know it's already nice - without a coherent business plan that really suggests to us that the tea shop (ioi cafe) is...