2024-04-18 16:19
As far as I can tell of what's going on, everyone is trying to be tougher than the next guy. Everyone wants to show that they care less than anyone else. I spent the whole evening… Read More
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2024-04-14 12:50
We're involved in a "yeah... but" culture. Have you ever seen real purity in your life? Purity of an idea, a self-standing element of action or thought? Or has it just been contin… Read More
2024-04-08 10:59
If you're a loner like me and stay home all day, you will be depressed. Not because I'm a special case of loner, but because if you don't get out of the house, you will feel a growing… Read More
2024-04-06 12:21
Especially on an electrifyingly hot day, the humble plain white tee holds a unique place in the realm of fashion, carrying with it an air of effortless cool and understated elegance. While i… Read More
2024-04-05 08:49
She felt tired and overrun and, reaching over in her woolen blanket she held me first, in the girth of her hollow hand, under the heaps of fabric. It is a funny thing how easy it is to hold… Read More
2024-03-23 09:02
All is golden like a flashing rollercoaster when we hit the ground. Peace only to be found in the soil. Scuttling like a mangy dog I turn around to each of my friends, fate bitin… Read More
2024-03-15 14:52
Empathy: The ability to understand and share the feelings of others is essential for building meaningful relationships, fostering cooperation, and promoting social cohesion. Empath… Read More
2024-03-14 11:08
This is who I am. To all the ones I've loved and who loved me back until... that day came when they found out that I was really quite the weakling.Until the culture surpassed me like a viole… Read More
2024-03-11 12:37
2024-03-10 06:27
Psychological Impact: Negativity breeds pessimism, leading to a constant state of dissatisfaction and despair, which can severely impact mental health.Social Impact: Negative attitudes can s… Read More
2024-03-09 01:07
When Maestro packed his day, he made sure to do so with the greatest of care. He never held back on the things that counted. And when he made his prize-winning sandwiches, it was the sa… Read More
2024-03-05 11:15
Society does not look out for its own. It will eat itself up with AI. It will literally tear itself apart by making of the entire history of humanity an automated, cannibalized aggrega… Read More
2024-03-05 02:09
Often things are more obvious than we realize. On the other hand, we often we don't recognize things that are too obscure. There is no rule to distinguish between the two. Often things… Read More
2024-03-04 02:39
Today we all have many things- not only to cover in the sense of completing tasks- but to uncover, and discover, and recover. This life is like a huge cavern that meets the sea… Read More
2024-03-01 16:36
Even though I'll be old and crunkled and not my former self Even though the poetry in my heart won't show on my faceEven though I'm hard to get along with at the best of timesSomeone wi… Read More
2024-02-29 00:50
So right now everyone's cutting out their heart so they can function as a real-life automaton. Trouble with that is that no one actually is hardcore deep down. The more strong they app… Read More
2024-02-28 02:22
The frenetic pace of modern life has led to many people checking out. We feel we have no anchor to hold onto any longer. Our jobs feel mechanical, our relationships formulaic. We… Read More
2024-02-25 13:51
The DilemmaIt has to be the ultimate nightmare for a guy: Getting the hottest, most beautiful hipster girl in the world only for her to leave you and never look back. I mean... At leas… Read More
2024-02-18 01:15
So your flirting didn't make the grade. The girl left in the middle of the chat.Or you lined up the second date but your crush ditched you, so you're a trainwreck now.What was was the thing… Read More
2024-02-17 16:33
Hi it's me. The guy you met who never lost his humanity. It kind of made you feel guilty so you shut me down anyway. Hi it's me. The guy who is still searching at 37. He's lost al… Read More
2024-01-10 23:45
"I just can't bear the sadness anymore!" The voice I hear in that statement is my mother's. She was against all types of unfairness in life even though she at times could be unfair herself… Read More
2024-01-08 02:15
As you embark on a journey through a palladium wasteland, the landscape unfolds before you in shades of silvery-white. The air is still, and a faint metallic scent lingers as you traverse th… Read More
2023-12-31 02:03
Many of us are struggling and in survival mode as it were to prevent a number of our juggling balls from crashing down around us, and, especially since we'd rather just hold and admire… Read More
2023-12-26 02:15
The ants are truly industrious. Their lives are pointed in color-strokes of Nine Inch Nails and Ramstein. If they don't get their daily quota, you feel, they will die of regret. That's… Read More
2023-12-01 00:51
A few years back, when I started work as an English teacher in Thailand, there wasn't very much to it. It was just a case of working the maximum number of hours and getting paid. The b… Read More
2023-11-29 22:42
When a woman says "I need some time to think about it," in response to a heartfelt message that you love her and you want her to be a bigger part of your life, you can more or less sta… Read More
2023-11-29 00:16
She made all my sunny mornings depressive ones, and even long after that time I used to think that I wasn't meant for happiness. Kelly whose name means church, was more like a "churnin… Read More
2023-11-28 09:02
Do you know, all of this talk about swine puts me in mind of the saying of John Stewart Mills who was famed to have said "A man satisfied is better than a pig dissatisfied."But even if… Read More
2023-11-28 00:16
As much as I cared, she never once thought I was worth her time. And it's become set like that. Even to this day, it feels like I'm stuck in an airport. It feels like someone's debarri… Read More
2023-11-26 16:16
Jeeze I had the maddest Hollywood toned dream about living in a world where the God thereof periodically taunts the inhabitants and prevents them from leaving. Every time you hea… Read More
2023-11-08 15:35
"Thailand is a bunch of lightweights and they ought to know it" said the bald, ruddy little Brit, looking straight at me without the slightest hint of shame. " NO. Listen to what… Read More
2023-10-09 15:45
The story of Noah is deeper than any of us realizes. He sent that dove out not as a means of getting to understand nature. This was no ordinary hobbyist testing his favorite race-dove… Read More
2023-10-09 00:13
Never had I imagined that I'd be open to meeting someone who didn't hold exclusive sway over my heart, but instead holds the hearts of a few men. But here we are. She changed her profi… Read More
2023-09-29 03:59
There is a tremendous yawning void between what is and what should be. People nowadays crave idiocy, even as they reject Truth. This is no mere manner of speaking. In a place wher… Read More
2023-09-26 07:44
Last time I was in BKK I was passing through Siam station and a schoolgirl was being stopped from committing suicide by the police and a large crowd that had gathered. I just cried and… Read More
2023-09-24 13:37
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2023-09-19 16:03
2023-09-18 01:22
Imagine you woke up only to realize that your toast is burnt, and only to realize that instead of toast, it's actually your life that's burnt. Wouldn't that be a sad and crazy thing? T… Read More
2023-09-16 15:09
Becoming proficient in machine learning and natural language processing (NLP) and eventually working on large language models (LLMs) like GPT-3 as a rookie is a rewarding but challengi… Read More
2023-09-16 09:49
2023-09-16 02:53
So I bought this 5 liter plastic water container and put some rocks in it and some plants and then I added some ornamental shrimp to live inside. The first few days 2 of them die… Read More
2023-09-15 05:47
I would rather make 1 cents on this blog, punching out my ideas on the keyboard than 2000 dollars a month working in a soul-sucking job. You heard that correctly. I'm willing to w… Read More
2023-09-14 19:20
The stranger who lives outside of usThe road is not the answer, nor can the journeysome writer conjure up something that doesn't live there. That's why he has to seek out the novel thing on… Read More
2023-09-14 17:33
There is something awfully wholesome about a person who, finished with their day climbs straight back into bed to savor the sweet taste of rest. They may not even have time to shower. All th… Read More
2023-09-14 17:00
What else could account for the depression we feel when using it? We were trying to escape the world of lost opportunities, and now we're in another space where only a few at the top ge… Read More
2023-09-13 18:26
Mos Def, also known as Yasiin Bey, has not been widely reported to have a speech impediment. However, the perception of his enunciation or pronunciation may vary from person to person… Read More
2023-09-13 17:25
Kloof in Cape Town is and was a Bohemian paradise. If you were looking for somewhere hip and definitely subtle yet energizingly ancient you wouldn't want to miss Kloof. I've gone… Read More
2023-09-12 20:06
If you're feeling like a loser right about now you're not alone. There is an increasingly small number of people who have sway and an increasingly large number of those who don't… Read More
2023-09-12 11:54
We are the voice of many Lazaruses. Though you eat well at the table now with your bread and your lamb-grease, Though you are satiated now with your whores and your bread-sticks… Read More
2023-09-12 06:06
This life is full of areas of possible failure and sudden madness. You may be flying high one moment, and the next, find yourself on the floor with years of nothingness and failur… Read More
2023-09-12 04:51
Would you sell your soul and health for 1000 CAD a month? If so please contact the hiring team at Dingus and Zazzy. They've blown through their last contingent of hires and would l… Read More
2023-09-08 14:06
Boys enjoy stories too.Take to heart the following facts: It's a myth that men just want to their wand played with.There is a deeper need to have a good story involving a family a… Read More
2023-09-07 15:59
Were the Palestinians kicked out of palestine by israel or did they simply refuse to be ruled over by a jewish government? ChatGPTThe history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is com… Read More
2023-09-04 05:28
A dog and Pony Show: Creds: Unknown Artist… Read More
2023-09-01 04:08
Young women infatuated with fun always think they'll be teenagers forever. At the bottom of this lies a sense of overwhelming terror. &n&hell…Read More
2023-08-30 01:14
The first time I tasted the real world was when I broke my arm. A kid called Fransie used to send kids up into the stratosphere and not give a damn if they landed safely or not. He had… Read More
2023-08-08 12:04
When all the chips are down and you're totally alone in the world, writing is the last bastion of sacred hope; writing and prayer, but writing serves a different function. Whoever igno… Read More
2023-07-31 04:05
In an age of brazen, callous, sometimes one might say, deadly society, we are seldom wont to focus our minds on something loving, tender, soft, nurturing. Most likely this is because we have… Read More
2023-07-30 07:38
Kafka said: "A book must be an ice axe to break the sea frozen inside us.What we need are books that hit us like a most painful misfortune, like the death of someone we loved more than… Read More
2023-07-29 03:38
Staring in at the world, these things seem calculated to annoy me: 1. I am reaching the age where babes will be out of my grasp except if I become rich. 2. I am winding down physic… Read More
2023-07-26 14:24
Somewhere in a carefully curated bedroom in Toronto, a swarthy, pleasantly-built girl with a remote tinge of the Asiatic, sporting a bob-cut, and smiling demurely, sits behind her Apple comp… Read More
2023-07-07 05:35
I've recently had two tinder dates in Bangkok and neither of them have made much sense. The first was with a social rights professor from Australia. A woman of 37. Somehow she mus… Read More
2023-06-15 08:41
Dearest Sibling in ChristGod has pressed me to deliver a message to you. Let me begin with something of a riddle. From the sinner's point of view it does not exist. From the h… Read More
2023-06-15 01:15
In our lives, we seldom face a painful problem that we don't try to solve either immediately, or by putting some general steps in place that can solve it in future.. One way or the oth… Read More
2023-06-12 11:04
I was 36, had not agedShe was splendid in her thoughts which ran from her mindand through her eyes like silent, cool blue firesBurdens were sharedThings I could notFeel … Read More
2023-06-12 10:00
Are there any kafkaesque lessons in the bible?ChatGPTThe term "Kafkaesque" typically refers to situations characterized by absurdity, confusion, and bureaucracy, often derived from the… Read More
2023-06-08 05:32
In this life, if you don't have access to a sauna every day after work, or a loving family, or something that takes the edge off things, you find yourself slowly sinking. The heaviness… Read More
2023-06-08 05:24
Sitting alone in a dully lit room, probably untidy and probably well-overdue for a scrub-down, in front of a grimy computer and nothing to do all day is the perfect setup for one thing… Read More
2023-06-08 04:23
This morning I woke up ugly and upset, on the cusp of 37 with no job to my name, nothing I could rely on in terms of hope, not even the flotsam and jetsam of an idea, and nothing on my… Read More
2023-06-02 06:27
The boss has suddenly gone silent. I started working for him 2 years ago as an English teacher and him as the boss of the English Department and all was running like a pipe dream… Read More
2023-05-30 11:56
Title: "The Paedocrats Are Coming: An Exposé of the World's Rich and Powerful"Introduction:
In the shadows of wealth and power, a sinister truth lurks—a secret network of… Read More
2023-05-30 03:32
Thanks! I always say. Thanks for your time. Thanks for the thing you gave me. Thanks for the compassion. It rings hollow though. Like a knock-off gold necklace hitting the table wi… Read More
2023-05-28 15:18
Back in 2000 when I first attended Wynberg Boys High School, there were already signs that the place was going to the heap where moldy peaches go to rot. This kid once sold me old moths… Read More
2023-05-28 14:31
It's not like an accolade, this heavy drink you seek,
But you drink heavy, mind and body weak,
It's not good for ya, this self-destructive path,
What is your favorite SEA country? Let's do t… Read More
2023-05-21 07:48
We are all taking our cow to the market place some day, and when that cow get slaughtered, the gig is up, we've fallen in love. You can't really argue with love. Love is a doe-eye… Read More
2023-05-09 12:14
Call it luck, or call it fate or destiny or whatever, but life always hits you with a surprise when you least expect it. I was in no mood to go for a walk this evening, but say I did… Read More
2023-05-09 12:14
Between you and me he said, M... and I almost split. I keep that confidential I do. I don't know why you'd tell me this Steve. My life's a mess, but not in the way yours is. You're ove… Read More
2023-05-08 07:40
People have a funny way of destroying sacred things. This goes for inner peace as well. Have you ever heard of, or read, or watched the movie based on the work "The Secret Garden"? &hell…Read More
2023-05-06 17:47
My Thai girlfriend gave me endless hell. She was 22 and I was 35. That episode of my life involved so much pain and trauma, that a year later, I had to revisit all the places we h… Read More
2023-04-29 22:39
"I'm making merit", my Thai girlfriend used to say, before a job interview or some life-changing event that was about to come up. I never realized how central that phrase was to Thais… Read More
2023-04-23 11:15
She walked into the room like a flame, all red and heat and hunger. I didn't stand a chance. I knew I was in trouble from the moment I saw her, but I couldn't help myself. There was so… Read More
2023-04-20 14:58
We are rejected on all sides, but still we press on. There is no tomorrow and no yesterday. Everything is as it was when nothing had ever happened. We inhabit perfect stillness. People… Read More
2023-04-16 01:45
What about the Goblet of fire as a container in which the psyche is contained consisting of a combination of societal constructs and the mind of the person that such constructs inform?… Read More
2023-04-10 11:46
When in doubt, believe. There is a higher purpose to this dance. It is not the end when isolation seems the only conclusion. Silence is a question,and not the answer you seekand as the… Read More
2023-04-06 16:03
I was a whacky kid always on the edge of willful madness. Too popular for a popular kid, and too lowly to fit in with the losers. I made it through three art teachers in my time in high scho… Read More
2023-04-04 10:07
Once upon a time, there was a man named Harold. Harold was a peculiar man, with a peculiar hobby - he collected taxidermied animals. His home was filled with all sorts of creatures, fr… Read More
2023-03-31 11:12
I think of her as a child in her home town, she looks like her fists are clenched and she's in a bad mood. Her dad in the next photo is so very proud of her. When I think of that, I wish she… Read More
2023-03-29 11:07
M y m o u t h w a s f o u l e d b y p r o m i s e sI n e v e r k e p tA n d m y  &hell…Read More
2023-03-28 04:18
I n t h e w e s t t h e r e i s t h i s r e a l s t r a n g e d i c h… Read More
2023-03-24 06:25
I've been an English teacher in Thailand for two-and-a-half years and I'm not going to do it again. Come if you're a loud foreigner and like drinking. Come if you're an extroverted A type pe… Read More
2023-03-23 04:18
YES So I'm back in Thailand after a hiatus in South Africa to help my mother with her lawn service after she contracted covid. This time I took my mom on holiday. That's not as gen… Read More
2023-03-22 02:40
Hi from across the world in amazingly beautiful Koh Phayam! I am staring at some pretty lovely looking beach bums across the beach and I'm not talking about the hippie variety. I mean… Read More
2023-03-21 00:40
I took my mother to Thailand. She's not a hippy momma (or Pachamama as some might say). She's just the run-of-the-mill conservative type who judges everything she comes across. I… Read More
2023-03-11 15:46
Think of the ignominious freaks of your school days who never made it in any club: The popular, jock, nerd or cool squads... Well, these are the people you are dealing with at the horrible D… Read More
2023-02-25 21:18
My mother is almost 70 and I've pretty much ruined her chances of retirement. The reason? Fapping.It's not even a good reason, is it? It's the kind of reason you want to disappear… Read More
2023-02-25 20:49
Returning to a reclusive porn addiction can have serious negative effects on your mental, emotional, and physical well-being, as well as on your personal and professional relationships. Here… Read More
2023-02-24 09:17
Remember the first time you went to college? Or the first time you picked up a musical instrument you loved? Remember going to the beach with your parent/parents? Or the… Read More
2023-02-23 16:39
I've been laid low the past 4 days by a crazy fever that left me feeling like my brain had been badly scalded with hot water. In this rare moment of reflection, I thought about my life;… Read More
2023-02-17 15:29
All of what follows is a true story. It happened a while ago, and it's the reason I left the country.It happened one night in a bar where my friend worked. He said, "I've been seeing this gi… Read More
2023-02-06 21:41
My dreams are dark, my friends. Nothing seems to offer any hope when I'm in one of them. And then AI comes along to compound the problem. The gnashing of teeth hasn't stopped since abo… Read More
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