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So after I mentioned in my last post that I was trying out jrnl for journalling, and said that I’d blog about it if it stuck, this is that blog post. But first, let me begin by talking a bit about my history with journalling. I wasn’t always a regular daily diarist, though I’ve always kept some kind of a record of my life in ways sporadic and diverse, whether through occasional notebook…
I’m currently trying out jrnl for my journalling needs. I assure you no one is more surprised than I am that after nearly four years of journalling in Obsidian (with detours to Day One, Diarly and other dedicated journalling apps, but always returning to Obsidian), a command-line program is what’s coming closest to dethroning it. There are a number of reasons why I like jrnl, but I want to see if…
I was sad to hear about Keigo Higashino’s death. Just a few days ago I was in the bookstore browsing his latest works in translation and looking forward to reading them soon. With the next book in the Detective Galileo series due out later this year, it feels quite surreal that he has left us so suddenly, although, of course, as a reader, you don’t know anything about the course of illness in a…
I spent a few hours today playing No Case Should Remain Unsolved , and felt so profoundly moved by it that I had to come and make this blog post. All images courtesy of SOMI Games. I bought it last year while looking for other mystery games after The Case of the Golden Idol (which I also enjoyed a lot). I can’t remember now how I found No Case Should Remain Unsolved because I don’t think I saw it…
I’ve been down a deep, deep self-hosting rabbit hole this past month that began innocuously with an attempt to get away from Plexamp and ended with me setting up a full-blown external VPS, in the process learning a lot . I’m not going to document every step of the process here (no one needs to read about how I learned to create SSH keys and disable root login, and if you do, email me). But I had a…
When I embarked on presence as my theme for the year, I hadn’t expected to learn about boredom. Half a year in, I’ve realised just how closely intertwined the two are. Boredom, in essence, seems to me to be the homelier and less glamorous twin of presence. Presence is easy to market. In a time when we can feel our attention becoming hopelessly fragmented, it feels like a very real oasis in a…
This past weekend, I had the great pleasure of watching the taiko troupe Drum Tao with my family. They were amazing—absurdly high standard of performance, athleticism, coordination, production values, and just super fun energy. I had such a great time. Sitting next to me was a girl who couldn’t have been much older that thirteen or so. She definitely read tween to me. On her other side was her…
Last week, my friend shared with me a story of travel woe brought on by very divergent travelling personalities, which got me thinking about my own travel style and experiences. I would consider myself a fairly laid-back traveller. People who know how organised I am in daily life are often surprised that my holiday planning process, more often than not, stops once I get my flights and hotel…
Often I feel hampered from writing by the feeling that I have nothing to write about, or that the thing on my mind is too insignificant to warrant a whole post, but at the same time I feel an itch like I want to write, because I like writing. So this morning I’m just opening up my text editor and doing a stream-of-consciousness check in. To be honest, this is something I feel I could stand to do…
I started doing the NYT Crossword about two years ago. Perhaps this is an unusual admission for someone who loves reading, writing and words in general, but I actually never really got into crosswords for most of my life. I found them to be overly culturally specific, too clever by half, obtuse, boring, or all of the above. It was only because I was already playing Connections, Strands and Wordle…