Since I don’t have my handwritten diary with me right now (the high school volumes are in Singapore), I’ll just post here from time to time some random selections from my ‘Updates’ series – not the most original of titles, but they served well as regular emails/newsletters to friends during my high school days in [...]
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An old nature logbook
Was digging up some old stuff in my drawers when I found this nature logbook which I kept during 1997-98… I was barely 13 then. There’re some interesting observations, drawings and diagrams, and ’statistics’. I’ve got detailed notes on the handmaiden day-flying moth (Syntomis huebneri – yup, I even had its scientific name), its mating [...]














The Complete Essays (Penguin Classics)
The Gormenghast Trilogy
Making Globalization Work
What Next?: Surviving the Twenty-first Century 
Blackadder: The Whole Damn Dynasty
Dry Store Room No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum
Consilience
Cat’s Cradle (Penguin Modern Classics)
Pistache


















