Here's a post to prove I'm still alive.
I've not been writing frequently as well... I don't do travel posts anymore (by the way, Kunming was great).
Life's alright. And as I'm moving towards 2019, I've hastily set up a PRS account to start investing (in this case, into the government).
While it might not be the best choice, I'm sure I'll learn better when the consequences are real (ie losing money). One small step towards financial literacy!
Also, I had this random recollection of a kid's joke I never understood:
Question: What's a vampire's favourite food?
Answer: A giraffe.
Okay. Aside from remembering an obscure joke from a Halloween book when I was 11 (I traded my World Cup 98 picture book for this shitty ass thing), I have only recently found out why I didn't understand the joke at that point.
Here's a bit of backstory. You see, as a kid, my parents had unsubscribed to all the cartoon channels off Astro, a major network provider outside of the local channels. So in order to stave off boredom, my siblings and I opted to watch the Discovery Channel, Animal Planet and National Geographic. We all caught up on context? Cool.
So as a kid, I never understood why would a giraffe be an ideal choice (its for the neck, duh). As a predator, I'd pick a more sufficient prey. Why take an easy-ish target like a giraffe when I can snag the prey with the most blood-to-body-mass ratio? A giraffe was so inefficient, and this was me overlooking the fact that I'm role-playing a goddamn vampire, a fictitious entity.
Clearly I was overreaching with the logic gate there but hey, that was me back in the day.
Anyway, happy belated Christmas and here's to a better year.
I've not been writing frequently as well... I don't do travel posts anymore (by the way, Kunming was great).
Life's alright. And as I'm moving towards 2019, I've hastily set up a PRS account to start investing (in this case, into the government).
While it might not be the best choice, I'm sure I'll learn better when the consequences are real (ie losing money). One small step towards financial literacy!
Also, I had this random recollection of a kid's joke I never understood:
Question: What's a vampire's favourite food?
Answer: A giraffe.
Okay. Aside from remembering an obscure joke from a Halloween book when I was 11 (I traded my World Cup 98 picture book for this shitty ass thing), I have only recently found out why I didn't understand the joke at that point.
Here's a bit of backstory. You see, as a kid, my parents had unsubscribed to all the cartoon channels off Astro, a major network provider outside of the local channels. So in order to stave off boredom, my siblings and I opted to watch the Discovery Channel, Animal Planet and National Geographic. We all caught up on context? Cool.
So as a kid, I never understood why would a giraffe be an ideal choice (its for the neck, duh). As a predator, I'd pick a more sufficient prey. Why take an easy-ish target like a giraffe when I can snag the prey with the most blood-to-body-mass ratio? A giraffe was so inefficient, and this was me overlooking the fact that I'm role-playing a goddamn vampire, a fictitious entity.
Clearly I was overreaching with the logic gate there but hey, that was me back in the day.
Anyway, happy belated Christmas and here's to a better year.
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