January 2011
13 posts
“If what doesn’t kill you will make you stronger, then… what kills...”
– Also, all medicine is poison taken in suitably small amounts that they (usually) don’t kill you. But what about pain and other suffering? What do you think you get out of that, physically and emotionally?
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ZOMG this website is safe for work but not safe for web designers. Ugh.
“To suffer and persevere is supposed to build character.”
– Kimchi Mamas: Guest Post: Raising Your Asian American Teen
“The parent depicted in Amy Chua’s WSJ excerpt (apparently just a...”
– Yishan Wong’s answer to Parenting: Is Amy Chua right when she explains “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior” in an op/ed in the Wall Street Journal? - Quora
It’s management, and there are so many terrible managers around that totally screw with your morale and esteem in trying...
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I can’t remember what I wanted to post about. Maybe it was the weather. I’m terribly tired so I can’t go through a month of my tumblr dashboard to find things to queue. This tumblog has been rather quiet. It helps not to feel when the environment is like that. Why is an iPod nano mysteriously resurrecting deleted voice memos? Why is there sometimes precipitation without thunder...
4 calendar weeks (luckily or unluckily the equivalent of three work weeks) down, 13 more to go!
“Chinese parents demand perfect grades because they believe that their child can...”
– Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior - WSJ.com
“ONE Sydney school produced three students who achieved the perfect score in the...”
– International Baccalaureate | 3 students score perfect 45 | IB
Extremely misguided article from The Sydney Morning Herald. It makes the following quote from the same article quite suspect:
Mr Valentine said he was aware of at least 26 Australian students who were yesterday notified they had...
List of common misconceptions - Wikipedia, the... →
Thanks to xkcd.