Ropes

By the way, if this imports in to Facebook and you’re reading it from there, this post (and alot of my other notes) are from the blog I share with Kenneth Ho, called Reflectables.
I don’t post a lot, but when I do post, I’m usually thinking pretty heavily about something. So please, do head over [...]

The Trouble with Things

I was presented with a rather disturbing yet comforting thought today.
“How do you talk to someone about something, when that something concerns the person you want to talk to?”
More precisely, what happens when the only person you know you can talk freely to about your feelings so happens to be the one your feelings are [...]

Chapter’s

I was duly reminded of this bookstore chain – a favourite in Canada. Think of it like Dymock’s or Ingido. Or a not-so-long-ago offline version of Amazon.com. It is this reminiscing that got me interested in tonight’s (or should I say this morning’s) reflectable.
Sometimes along the many travelled and less travelled paths of life, we [...]

Apology: əˈpɒl.ə.dʒɪ

When we do things we end up regretting, often times, we apologize.
There are two somewhat different definitions to apology itself. First, it can be a form of expressing regret after doing something that affects the feeling or wellbeing of others – the one we all care about. The other definition? An apology can also be [...]

Highway 401

Highway 401, also known as the McDonald-Cartier Freeway as it passes through metropolitan Toronto, is an extremely long and high-capacity paved highway extending from Windsor, Ontario (immediately across the border from Detroit) to the Ontario-Quebec border, becoming some Quebecois-named road before terminating in Montreal.
What’s so special about this particular highway, and why write about it? [...]

So…how many shots do I get to call?

Humans have an amazing ability to look into a crowd and pick one, just one person, and get to know them more than you’d ever realize you possibly could know someone. Some say it’s like the “back of one’s hand”. Others suggest that it’s the “experience of a lifetime” understanding someone on such an intimate [...]

Mac vs PC – Part 2

So, in case you haven’t been following, yesternight’s reflectable was on why I think Apple beats PC’s. In order to ensure I can deliver the “Linux is best” punchline in a couple days, I’m going to be fair and say why I think some people may prefer to continue (or switch…although I find that profoundly [...]

Mac vs PC – Part 1

I really have heard enough of this to be able to make my own argument, one for each side. Tonight, I’m gonna do the Mac side of things first. It’s easier to argue for anyway.
To me, there are two main types of computer users. The techies (me included) – people who are familiar enough with [...]

Life and tidal bores

A tidal bore is a tide-induced phenomenon that affects rivers at their mouth, where they meet the sea. As the tide rises, it eventually reaches a level higher than the average level of the river that’s flowing into the ocean. Since water always flows to the lowest point available to it, the sea begins to [...]

Start of Something New

No, I’m not restarting blogging by posting lyrics to a High School Musical song.
You don’t realize how much you’ve changed in your last year of high school until you finish it. Really. Maybe that’s just an IB thing, as many things are when you’re surround by terms like CAS, EE, Group 4 project, cover sheets [...]