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Science fiction short – part 1: Under This Dome of Pretence
Published on 2013-05-04 16:36:26
** A note from the vagabond: I posted a flash science fiction piece here a while ago. I ended up liking it somewhat and decided to try and expand it to 8 or 9 thousand words. I eventually finished it about a month ago will be posting it in small chun
An explanation unto my absence
Published on 2013-03-27 10:36:26
To all of my itinerant readers, an explanation for my absence. Here are a few reasons for the long break in my posts (three months). 1) I started a new job as a mechanical engineer/software developer for an energy engineering company. My time and e
Science and Human Behaviour – by BF Skinner
Published on 2013-03-27 10:11:08
For a long time I have considered myself an introspective person, and I have attributed what wisdom I posses to this attribute. Others have noted before me that the self is the greatest opportunity to understand the social world and its behaviours fo
Flash Science fiction 2: The man with the iron fist
Published on 2012-12-10 04:10:57
**author’s note: as per usual, the below story is unvarnished, but that’s what drafts are for, enjoy it** The man with the iron fist That’s the way it was with him. Always running, never fighting. “Welcome to Chit Lom” said the sign
Nok Krung Hua Juk
Published on 2012-10-21 18:46:49
We are all in a contest of who can shout the loudest. In Thailand there is a bird that lives its life in the cage of its enthusiastic master. It is called the Nok Krung Hua Juk – the Cage Bird Head Mohawk (a loose, literal translation as close as I can figure). As I [...]
Science flash fiction: “Meta-gods”
Published on 2012-10-05 12:32:38
** Writers note: I promised the internet and myself long ago that I would post some Sci-fi “flash fiction” short stories on this eclectic blog of mine. Well it has taken way longer than it should have for me to get anything up. This small piece should hopefully start a trend of more stories to [...]
The vagabond has more thoughts (part II)
Published on 2012-09-08 04:36:06
Everyone wants to know more about my travels and experiences in Asia, why haven’t I written so much about this specifically? Maybe I feel as if there is too much pressure, there is so much to write about and I have felt that I could not possibly do justice to the experience of it all [...]
The vagabond reveals his thoughts (part I)
Published on 2012-09-07 11:03:33
If I were to define myself with a single word, I’d hardly pause before making my choice: ‘Introspection’. I feel that this is often my greatest strength, and a great vice at other times. It’s hard to say sometimes whether it’s a good or a bad thing. I have spent the past 2 months more [...]
Conversations on depression (and faith)
Published on 2012-09-01 05:43:53
This post is a follow up to my last post on depression about a month ago. I felt that neither was it complete nor was it an satisfactorily accurate reflection of my thoughts. I realised that discussion or conversation may be the best arena for the topic rather than singular treatises. So accordingly, this post [...]
A treatise on depression (the first of many)
Published on 2012-08-01 02:43:31
** Writer’s note: for at least 3 years I have wanted to pen some of the thoughts that were resultant from my struggles with depression in the past. I have literally thousands of notes scrawled all over the place from during and after those periods of depression all representing bits and pieces of the over [...]
Mid-mission reflections
Published on 2012-07-19 02:12:33
* writers note: this is simply a section of writing a produced half written to myself a week ago. I could have adapted it for the blogosphere audience but decided to leave it as it is because any delays might become permanent as I tend to procrastinate such administrative edit-like practices. It also introduces a [...]
Moleskin scrawlings
Published on 2012-07-07 11:18:45
**Writer’s note: What follows are some thoughts directly transcribed from one of my favourite moleskin notebooks that I carry around and record my thoughts, questions and ideas in and in italics are my current thoughts on the transcription. These are mostly curiosities that may or may not end up as longer posts in the future. [...]
Singapore streets
Published on 2012-07-03 06:58:56
Ahh wow, Singapore – this city gets me, it understand me. It provides a 24 hour Starbucks 10 meters away from a pristine and perfect subway. It has clear and clean walkways for pedestrians and cyclists. It has the beauty of high rise buildings with their lights, blue tinted windows and gun-metal grey architecturally alluring [...]
Such a School
Published on 2012-05-30 15:01:06
This school can be a major challenge at times. The word ‘challenge’ is a euphemism of course – sometimes it can feel like a nightmare. Schools like this feel like black holes sometimes, just sucking up the light you bring without compassion or mercy. The latest struggle has been to simply have afternoon classes. The [...]
Into Thailand
Published on 2012-05-27 06:22:45
* Note from the Author: these are merely my thoughts. Some of them not put together or explained all that well. Read with grace.* Readers, supporters, friends, family, internet trolls: I am off on a journey to South East Asia. Welcome. Here are my thoughts: The idea snuck up on me like a ninja in [...]
Missionary Impossible
Published on 2012-04-29 16:32:38
* Note from the author: this note talks of topics not yet fully resolved in my own mind, and may be retracted or edited in the future, please approach it with due grace. It covers sensitive topics and I have somewhat skirted around a few areas related to my arguments. Sometimes in searching for truth [...]
Postcard from a vagabond
Published on 2012-04-29 15:14:04
Dear friends and family The past few months have been dense with learning experiences, challenges (spiritual, emotional, physical) and God. I arrived here 3.5 months ago and this fact surprises me every time I think upon it because it has felt a lot longer. I think part of the reason for this is that back [...]
Book Review: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K Dick
Published on 2012-03-28 08:27:54
This write up will simply entail my thoughts on the book rather than comprehensively review it. The first thing that came to mind after completing the book was that it should have ended a few chapters earlier than it did. Dick finished the more interesting story line and then spent the remaining two chapters on [...]
The Secret Stoic
Published on 2012-03-19 13:15:20
Athens. Greece. Philosophy. Socrates. The Areopagus. Do any of these words illicit interest? For me, ever since I was a small boy, these words have held interest with me. It began when my mom read me bed time stories from a book of Greek myth. The stories of Zeus and the Olympians, Heracles and the [...]
Frankenstein Theology
Published on 2012-03-18 15:56:33
In the quest to develop a vagabond doctrine: an all-inclusive and honest set of beliefs and philosophies with which to view the world, one must make use of many other people’s already well developed thoughts and discoveries. I have said before that all of us, every conscience person on the planet, must in the end [...]
Rural Ramblings: Kwadinabakubo
Published on 2012-02-24 15:35:50
I began to work in Kwadinabakubo Secondary School just 3 weeks ago now. I hoped to be like Keating from Dead Poets Society. I think I am making head way. First, an introduction to Kwadinabakubo Secondary School. One eventually gets used to saying the name, though it took me a few weeks. I have discovered [...]
True Creation
Published on 2012-02-24 14:14:42
I’ve discovered a few blogs of people similar to me, and with ideas similar to mine. People that are further along the path I too am on. Finding people like this and their blogs does two things for me, first: it makes me feel a little threatened – so strong is my desire to do [...]
Becoming Keating
Published on 2012-01-27 08:44:04
Have you ever watched Dead Poets Society? I watched it first as a much younger version of myself, no doubt because my sisters had rented it from the video store (yeah VHS – retro cool!). Of course I could think of cooler things to watch than what if I’m honest sounded pretty boring… I mean [...]
In seeking a solution
Published on 2012-01-26 04:42:20
The last thing that I mentioned was that I had completed my degree after 5 arduous and astoundingly special years at University. I was off on an adventure, with the first stop being an outreach to the LIV-village orphanage in Kwazulu Natal in South Africa where I was privileged enough to logistically head up the [...]
Imaginative excuses
Published on 2012-01-25 04:06:22
People keep telling me how they only way to ensure a good readership on a blog is to be consistent with posts and uploads. This has always irked me because I know that this will always be one of my failings, I am uncontrollably inconsistent and sporadic in content creation… This comes as a result [...]