Joshua Bell plays the violin. So does Itzhak Perlman. Both men are world-class musicians, with world-class reputations. Joining this list is Takako Nishizaki of Japan. I just love the way she plays The Butterfly Lovers. These musicians are known the world over for their amazing virtuosity, as the violin is not an easy instrument to …
It’s hard to believe that it just happened. In fact, it’s so hard to believe, that only after years of ‘Googling’, I had just ‘discovered’ one of Google’s most powerful search operators: ‘define:’. Go ahead and try it! It works like a charm… =) Now, I am not writing this article to tell you what …
What a load of rubbish! This email is more ‘$#&%’ than ‘$$$’! This is a bloody hoax. And it is, as it had been circulating around the internet for a good 10 years or more. It is so very annoying. Bill Gates giving away his fortune? If that is true, he would now probably be …
That’s it! I’m back home, and as I’m writing this, I’m enjoying my mug of hot milk. I had never eaten so much in so long, and just to think of it, I have all the time in the world to do whatever I wanted to do, and that includes putting on a kilo or …
It’s 3.00 AM in the morning. I can’t sleep. I can’t eat. I can’t stop working. It’s ‘early’ in the morning and I have a paper in the coming few hours. Big risk? Yes. I found myself, yet again, doing something that I had been doing (quite successfully) over the past few months. I had …
I never thought so many people would remember my birthday! After all, the last time I had a cake was nearly 8 years ago. I can’t even remember what it looked liked. How sad… No cake? No problem. At least that was what some of my best pals thought. Here’s how the cake looked like. …
It’s that time of the year when students over here at UTM are struggling to finish their assignments and final year projects. It’s also one of those times when I wish I had more in common with instant messaging software like Live Messenger; I really wish I can walk around carrying a ‘busy’ or ‘no …
Friday the 13th was ‘supposed’ to be a bad day for everyone, at least that was what most people would have thought. I wouldn’t be surprised if the superstitious among us would have made sure they got up from the right side of the bed in the morning (or is it the left?) or even …
I used to wonder, and I am still wondering even today, how long can you keep a computer running without switching it off. It’s not difficult to imagine how much we use computers today, with the advent of the internet as the ‘in’ thing. Computer addiction is a real problem these days, with kids spending …