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Food General Review
• 4 min read

Hezhen 6.8 Inch Nakiri Knife

You know how sometimes you buy something–such as a new knife–and you whip it out thinking that it's sharp but you never really know how sharp it is until you do a paper test and it just goes shhhrrrrrkkkkk with the paper just giving up and submitting to the will...

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General Knowledge Life
• 1 min read

Useful Meaningful Lifehacks for Great Utilitarian Purposes

Every so often, you come across something that eases your way around life. "Lifehacks", as they call it, are tips and tricks to make the things we do easier. Anything that makes a task easier is always good in my eyes. So, this post is dedicated to sharing lifehacks that...

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Gaming Programming
• 4 min read

Rolling Pythonic Dice for Catan

I got introduced to Catan several weeks ago. I think it is the best board game I've ever played. Its mechanics and gameplay appealed to me with a nice blend of strategy and player-involvement. Even if one player falls behind, they can still influence the gameplay. However, there is one...

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Life
• 2 min read

Go Back to Work but Don't See Each Other

It's nearly the end of 2021. COVID-19 and its variants still haunt every conceivable corner of the globe. Yet, in a few days, up to 50% of the workforce is expected or can return to work. We can expect crowded public transport and packed malls. Though they may not be...

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Life
• 2 min read

Recognising Incompetence

Have you ever met someone so wildly incompetent that their mere presence just sinks entire projects, stalls workflows, and absolutely baffles your mind as to how they could live, breathe, and operate in a complex world? While that was mostly a rhetorical question, I suppose the follow-up question would be...

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Life
• 2 min read

Human Beings Are Complex Creatures

Having been in a 'people business' for quite some time now, I reckon that a particular observation should be fact (if it isn't already obvious) and bears mentioning: If one person is angry at you, maybe that anger was misconstrued. If two are angry? There's still the chance that such...

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General
• 2 min read

When 11.55PM Strikes

It's official. My second final semester has ended. For SUSS students, there is no feeling in the world like seeing your analog clock strike 5 minutes before midnight, reading 11:55 on the digital display, or seeing that number on your taskbar. The deadline for your assignment is well, truly, deadly...

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Gadget Guide
• 2 min read

How to Add a Samsung 980 NVMe M.2 SSD to the ThinkPad P1 Gen 2

It is really easy to add a Samsung 980 NVMe M.2 SSD to a ThinkPad P1 Gen 2. The only tool you will need is a screwdriver. I used the Xiaomi Wowstick 1F+. A pry tool also helps, but you don't absolutely need one. My 3-day-old fingernail will suffice. Let's...

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Movie
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Movie Review: Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

Nearly a century later in the fabled land of Hollywood, we now have a Marvel movie featuring a stellar cast of Asians. In Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Simu Liu is Shang-Chi and Shang-Chi gets to fight Tony Leung AKA the real Mandarin. Now, if you are...

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Gadget
• 1 min read

The Samsung 980 NVMe M.2 SSD Has Arrived

I ordered the Samsung SSD 980 NVMe M.2 1TB drive on the 3rd of September and received it today. Installation on my ThinkPad P1 Gen 2 laptop should be a breeze. Stay tuned for images and a short installation guide!