The Curse Of Knowledge

Everyone seeks knowledge, that is the facts, information, and skills acquired through experience or education. Knowledge is what empowers us, but after deeper inspection it may also seize something from us. Something neglected, innocent but more importantly unrecoverable, and that…

AI Is The Next Internet

the growth of artificial intelligence graph

Artificial Intelligence or AI is everywhere. You hear and see the word AI almost every single day. From mundane tasks to the creative, the list of things the power of AI can do goes on and on, and is too…

Lessons About Love From The Before Trilogy

The “Before” trilogy is a landmark in cinema. Directed by Richard Linklater, each movie was released 9 years apart, following up on the previous one. Each one shows how love evolves between two people along their relationship in real time.…

Freaks and Geeks & The Golden Child Syndrome

lindsay weir - freaks and geeks

I was watching Freaks and Geeks for the first time recently while I was also reading the book “How to overcome your childhood” by The School of Life. I wasn’t thinking of correlating the two in any way, but when…

Living Life Through A To-Do List

To Do List

I’ve been living through my to-do list for the past year, or I hope it’s only been that long. Everything I do is on “the list”, my list, yet not really mine. Whenever anything I want to do comes up…

The Case Against Video Games

Perfect Vermin

Video games seem to get the most bad press among all the entertainment medias. Not films, not TV shows, not books, but video games are seen as the black sheep among the flock. Maybe it’s because video games are still…

Imagine Yourself In Layers

You are not just who you think you are. Your present habits, ideology and personality traits take the spotlight because they are the only things that are immediately visible. “Who we are” is the combination of “who we were”. Our…

Youth (2015) – That One Scene

Youth (2015) telescope scene

I have so much to-do, yet so little time. I feel death coming a step closer, each time I blow that candle off my cake. Then I look at my parents, and I see eyes filled with time. They have…

Anxiety

ceiling fan

It was a pleasant day, sunny outside, hot air blowing into my room. I was lying diagonally in my bed, one leg dangling at the corner, watching the blades of my ceiling fan move out of my vision, one after…

Reviewing Every Hayao Miyazaki Film

Hayao Miyazaki movies

I had previously only seen 2 of his films, and thought they were good, but didn’t think much of it. This was due to my lack of appreciation for the art that goes behind these films and my inability to…