- it's like loving the idea of someone from a distance. I'll never be disappointed.
- In what ways are participants' circumstances shaped by global flows and hierarchies that inhere in English language and teaching?
- I don’t have any easy answers, but I think we urgently need to bridge disjuncts in media spheres, in terms of the news we consume and the language we use to articulate our positions on social issues. Perhaps what is more concerning about the Zaobao article itself isn’t that these views exist—it is that some of us were shocked that they do, and that those who had agreed with its views were similarly shocked that others had thought otherwise. I am reminded of how much I live in a bubble, a bubble that blinds me to other views even within my own family.
- I haven’t quite figured out how to bridge these gaps, but I know that efforts like these will surely extend beyond myself—it would take an entire community to help. Perhaps forum discussions alone might not address them, but we need to figure out a way to translate not just across languages, but also media spheres.
- Understanding their views doesn’t require us to agree with them; it simply asks that we start from a position of active curiosity, and empathy. It asks that we listen, even if they might say things that strike us as deeply offensive or simply wrong.
- said testily
- parry journalists' questions
- gazetted place of safety
- the unfolding scenes have proven a lightning rod for national concerns
- disingenuous to suggest
- pontificated on what exactly she was referring to
- a part from the continuous and increasingly exorbitant iruption of new words
- hallowed tradition
- the childhood experience stayed with him and sharpened his sense of the unfairness of a world in which children could live or die based on the strength of their country's healthcare system
- preparing to bring a new human into the world left very little bandwidth for anything else
- don't discount the fact that it may happen here
- electic
- aerosols that are so anathema today
- farcical
- resuscitate a relationship that is physically estranged
- I had a beatific vision that I, too, could not only survive the crisis, but make use of this sudden gift of time to become the Best Version of Myself
- grandstand about your struggle
- struggling to maintain some semblance of normalcy in abnormal times
- absent of all the pomp and circumstance
- specific contours of those needs
- flag these issues
- in a monologue reminiscent of Orwell's doublespeak
- nebulous
- but neither I nor humanity can escape our problems simply by moving to Mars. because chances are, we'd be taking all of our baggage with us. / you know the saying, "everywhere you go, there you are." / different planet, same old vaudeville act of greed, apathy and destruction.
- to put this in modern parlance
- mired by its flaws
- serve as cautionary lessons for us to improve aspects of the reality we live in
- we all need to be willing to buy a ticket and take the rollercoaster ride of hope and disappointment that is life on earth
- cathartic power of escaping into a science fiction audiobook
- he continued phlegmatically that he was..
- the connection becomes more tenuous
- the gulf between Alvin and his parents' culture
- protracted and angsty
- there is a schism between who I am and who others see me as
- these social media posts offer us voyeurs living in our bubbles (one we ought to burst) a glimpse of what life is like for this community
- so much more to them we remain blind to
- multiculturalism personified
- self-reflexive
- some grain of truth to
- hold views so disarmingly different from others
- he says this in a humorous, self-deprecating tone, but - maybe I'm projecting - I hear, and feel, an undercurrent of sadness in his voice, that of someone who has yet to find unconditional acceptance from the place he calls his home
- fundraisers and the like
- complemented by conversations welcoming plural perspectives on relevant issues
- observations resonate with many
- well-heeled youths
- (Wilhelm von Humboldt) appreciated how learning a foreign language can transform not only one's communication habits, but also one's perception of the world. he said that "Each language draws a circle around the people to whom it adheres which it is possible for the individual to escape only by stepping into a different one. the learning of a foreign language should therefore mean the gaining of a new standpoint toward one's worldview." elsewhere, he speaks of individual languages as 'webs' that simultaneously unify and set boundaries on one's thinking
- “This is my life—but I never give any thought to it.”
- “bouts of melancholy, insecurity, listlessness, and free-floating guilt”
- “As I stared out the rain-spattered window of a city bus”
- “The sight gave me a jolt of recognition: that’s me, I thought, there I am.”
- “I wasn’t depressed and I wasn’t having a midlife crisis, but I was suffering from midlife malaise—a recurrent sense of discontent and almost a feeling of disbelief.”
- “I had everything I could possibly want—yet I was failing to appreciate it. Bogged down in petty complaints and passing crises, weary of struggling with my own nature, I too often failed to comprehend the splendor of what I had. I didn’t want to keep taking these days for granted.”
- “How could I let go of everyday annoyances to keep a larger, more transcendent perspective?”
- “The bus was hardly moving, but I could hardly keep pace with my own thoughts. ”
- “When life was taking its ordinary course, it was hard to remember what really mattered; if I wanted a happiness project, I’d have to make the time.”
- “I needed to change the lens through which I viewed everything familiar.”
- “All these thoughts flooded through my mind, and as I sat on that crowded bus, I grasped two things: I wasn’t as happy as I could be, and my life wasn’t going to change unless I made it change.”
- “twenty-minute disquisition on my initial thoughts on happiness”
- “to read at whim”
- “I wanted to let go of envy and anxiety about the future, yet keep my energy and ambition.”
- “Was I searching for spiritual growth and a life more dedicated to transcendent principles—or was my happiness project just an attempt to extend my driven, perfectionist ways to every aspect of my life?”
- compulsive note taking
- “Many of the greatest minds have tackled the question of happiness”
- “some people are more naturally ebullient or melancholic than others”
- Cyberloafing may act as a relief valve for workers, helping them recover from stress
- The internet is approaching 50 years of age and spreads data through objects and bodies so pervasively that it’s become quaint to even use terms like online and offline, upload and download. We now all serve as nodes in streams of data, carrying or wearing powerful computers, constantly online, constantly uploading personal data
- desiccate soil
- the oil industry had been seeding doubt in the solid climate science that might have helped convince the world to rethink its most destructive habits.
- The worsening effects of climate change have also posed extra challenges to those in the industry
- a playground of possibilities with a safety net and support network, springboard into a better you
- a new character is born who brings the question of existential anxiety even more to the fore.
- A motley crew of toys
- Assembled from a plastic spork, a broken popsicle stick, a few globs of modeling clay, two googly eyes, and a pipe cleaner, Forky (voiced by Tony Hale) is a sorry specimen of a toy, but Bonnie’s love for him brings him to instantaneous if utterly befuddled life. For his first few days of life on Earth, his only instinctual goal is to fling himself back into the trash whence he came. He aspires to be Oscar the Grouch, no matter how much the other toys assure him that his calling is to be there for the child who created him. Seeing how important this sentient utensil is to Bonnie, Woody makes it his job to save Forky, repeatedly and hilariously, from his headlong dives into the nearest garbage can.
- But there’s a quiet contemplativeness at the movie’s heart, exemplified by a long scene in which Woody and Forky make their way along the shoulder of a highway, plastic hand in pipe-cleaner hand, discussing the meaning of life as a plaything. Theirs is a mentor-mentee relationship, but also, in its way, a parent-child one: “Carry me,” Forky demands intermittently, dragging his popsicle-stick feet on the gravel. By the end of that walk, Forky has begun to understand his purpose on Earth, and Woody is a little closer to reconsidering his own.
- The choices Woody and the other characters make as the movie draws to a close don’t feel as necessary as the ending to Toy Story 3 did, but the emotions they evoke are similar: nostalgia for a lost past, hope for a yet-unknown future, affection for long-familiar companions.
- “Put your thoughts to sleep, do not let them cast a shadow over the moon of your heart. Let go of thinking.”
- Saturnine - gloomy
- Years later, she and Ahmed would be vacationing in Barbados and, under the gibbous moon, with Ahmed’s snores now a lullaby, S2 looks up at the stars, tracing each celestial dot until it resembles a crooked path. Where does it lead, she muses.
- Right Here, Right Now - “All the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.” As far as quotes go, this one is oft-spouted by many Coelho fans, but this mantra is something that Heng lives by. “It’s weird, uncanny,” she says. “I feel that everything - even the sad parts - has moved me in a certain direction.
- Ennui - a feeling of listlessness and dissatisfaction from a lack of occupation/excitement
- Spurious
- Gravitas
- Demur
- Fighting my compulsion to kiss him for sounding so erudite
- He squeezes my hand as we shake, unleashing a swarm of butterflies beating against my abdomen. I haven’t had that in so long, and I love how transcendent it feels - like I’m weightless, or free-falling through space. It lasts for only a second, though, before the past flashes before my eyes and I fill with dread. / Now I’ll be spending the next who-knows-how-many days waiting for him to call/text/Facebook me. Then, if he ever does, I’ll devote who-knows-how-many hours to reading into every word and deliberating about how to respond so I come off as available but not clingy.
- She couldn’t hold herself back any longer. “You!” She yelled. “I’m acting like this because I’m afraid you’re going to die!” After a while, the question came. / “Why, is it such a bad thing to die?” / Why, is it such a bad thing to die?
- The whole situation was undeniably bizarre, yet she displayed an almost total lack of curiosity, and indeed it seemed that this was what enabled her to maintain her composure no matter what she was faced with. She made no move to investigate the unfamiliar space, and showed none of the emotion that one might expect. It seemed enough for her to just deal with whatever it was that came her way, calmly and without fuss. Or perhaps it was simply that things were happening inside her, terrible things, which no one else could even guess at, and thus it was impossible for her to engage with everyday life at the same time. If so, she would naturally have no energy left, not just for curiosity or interest but indeed for any meaningful response to all the humdrum minutiae that went on on the surface.
- He was living with a new intensity. / ‘I used to be dark’: there were times when he wanted to express it this way. I used to be dark. I was in a dark place. The monochrome world, entirely devoid of the colours he was now experiencing, had had a calmness that was beautiful in its way, but it wasn’t somewhere he could go back to. It seemed the happiness that had enabled him to feel that quiet peace was now lost to him forever. And yer he found himself unable to think of this as a loss. All of his energy was taken up in trying to cope with the excitement, the heightened awareness of living in the present moment.
- I wish I were dead. / I wish I were dead. / So die. / Unable to understand why the tears were streaming down his face, he clutched the steering wheel and set the wipers to frequent, only to realise that it wasn’t the windscreen that was blurred but his own vision. He couldn’t understand why the words ‘I wish I were dead’ were ceaselessly being hammered out inside his head like an incantation. Nor could he understand why the words ‘so die’ would inevitably follow, as though the response was coming from someone inside him, and yet not him. And he couldn’t understand how that simple mantra, like a conversation between two strangers, could be sufficient to calm his shuddering body.
- If only I could sleep. If I could shrug off consciousness for even just an hour. The house is cold on all these nights, more nights than I can count, when I wake up and pace about in bare feet. Chill like rice or soup that has been left to go cold. Nothing is visible outside the black window. The dark front door rattles now and then, but no one comes to knock on the door or anything like that. By the time I come back to bed and put my hand under the quilt, all the warmth is gone.
- Halcyon days
- But lying next to the small, tanned body of her son, after sleep draws itself down over his guiltless young face, the night begins again for her. A time when there is neither sight nor sound of any other living thing. As long as eternity, as bottomless as a swamp.
- When she shakes her head to dispel the image, summer tress in broad daylight flicker in front of her eyes like huge green fireworks. Is this because of the hallucination Yeong-hye told her about? The innumerable trees she’s seen over the course of all her life, the undulating forests which blanket the continents like a heartless sea, envelop her exhausted body and lift her up. Only fragments of cities, small towns and roads are visible, floating on the roof of the forest like islands or bridges, slowly being swept away somewhere, borne on those warm waves.
- There’s no way for her to know what on earth those waves are saying. Or what those trees she’d seen at the end of the narrow mountain path, clustered together like green flames in the early morning half-light, had been saying.
- Sleeping in five-minute snatches. Slipping out of fuzzy consciousness, it’s back - the dream. Can’t even call it that now.
- Dreams of murder. / Murderer or murdered… hazy distinctions, boundaries wearing thin. Familiarity bleeds into strangeness, certainty becomes impossible. Only the violence is vivid enough to stick. A sound, the elasticity of the instant when the metal struck the victim’s head… the shadow that crumpled and fell gleams cold in the darkness. / they come to me now more times than I can count. Dreams overlaid with dreams, a palimpsest of horror. Violent acts perpetrated by night. A hazy feeling I can’t pin down… but remembered as blood-chillingly definite. / intolerable loathing, so long suppressed. Loathing I’ve always tried to mask with affection. But now the mask is coming off.
- And we are different, changed in some infinitesimal way.
- What the ax forgets, the tree remembers
- The first hint of trouble came early in the morning
- When Lyle read, the black letters sometimes shuddered on the page. But when he listened, his closed eyes found a sort of repose behind the patchwork cerise of his lids.
- The injections gave her reprieve
- Visceral
- Blithely
- For the sake of a “usable past” — a historical narrative that serves the political needs of the present — some people get the yellow-highlighter treatment; others get the Wite-Out.
- Perhaps I’m overstating my case
- Gazing out placidly at the teals
- Too vast for my imagination to traverse
- I’d be likely to have the same reaction I had: a guilty pleasure. Guilty, because we’re supposed to be above such base hyenalike appetites, and pleasure, because those insistent bestial appetites are being so completely and utterly gratified.
- I steeled myself to do just as the natives did
- The instant I brought those shreds and chunks to my lips, I saw the light. I was instantly and irrevocably converted. Barbecue suddenly made complete and total sense to me. This was, hands down, the best meat I’d ever tasted in my entire life. Sweet, salty, succulent, with tender fleshy bits alternating with burnt crispy ones.
- Save for a sliver of moonlight and the darting beams from our head-torches, everywhere around us was dark.
- Clarion call of their mission
- Gustatory pleasures of the state
- They were intoxicated by their renewed belief in Love: ennobling love; love that hurtles toward blissful marriage; love that lasts beyond the grave. A perfect man waited somewhere for every girl, and her agreeable task was to find him.
- The real benefit is that regular exercises create a keystone habit. After you’ve trained literally for years, you won’t want to abandon this discipline. Over time it will compound into an impulse for progress.
- the book that argues that perseverance is a foundation of any results and can catapult you to a great level of success, the message immediately clicked in my head
- persisted in my quest for growth
- Asking such questions is often a prelude to taking action.
- With the advancement in 5G and media technologies, immersive communication experience will continue to be enhanced and this will definitely have a profound impact on the way we work, learn, live and play in a future smart city.
- Singapore is well poised to benefit from a fast-expanding digital economy in the region
- As with previous waves of technological and industrial advancement,
- An increasing number of companies are going cashless. The pace is quickening but worryingly, there seems to be imbalance and misalignment.
- On the surface, Singapore’s saturated mobile market might deem the island republic as one with an unsuitable climate for MVNO success. History backs this claim - in 2001, ... citing difficulties with operating with operating in the market.
- Produce content hosted online or broadcast on radio or tv
- Recent announcements reflect efforts to deepen Singapore’s capabilities and aspirations to become a global node.
- These initiatives will chart Singapore’s way forward towards the digital future.
- How we connect to each other is dictating the extent to which a particular technology evolves.
- The communications industry is undergoing a paradigm shift.
- The need to provide seamless, continuous connections across platforms, media and devices means a growing mesh of connected devices and applications.
- Unite disparate network technologies
- Consumers and businesses alike
- Platooning trials
- Additionally, Singapore’s Smart Nation initiative addresses a wide range of issues linked to high density living.
- The market is still nascent, and is supported by numerous initiatives which will ultimately consolidate...
- Notable examples include
- Access to cellular connectivity and smartphone affordability plays a pivotal role in evolution of the ride hailing sector.
- With the advent of upgraded satellite technology, the capacity and performance requirements are expected to be addressed in the 5G era.
- Augmenting networks with next-generation satellite capabilities may help Operators...
- Beyond the reach of other technologies
- Sluggish speeds
- Geographic expansion is just one piece of the puzzle
- Bridging the digital divide
- Deployed
- Ensure optimal end-user experience
- Invest in multifaceted delivery models
- The proliferation of IPTV privacy and streaming devices capable of accessing video streams represents a more complex and costly issue for providers
- Distributors need to accept there is no silver bullet for tackling streaming piracy - it entails relying on a multi-faceted approach, including new anti-piracy technology as well as industry-wide collaboration on a number of fronts, from legal action to lobbying for policy changes and consumer education.
- It is also important to address consumer needs and provide compelling content so consumers don’t feel the need to resort to piracy.
- Today’s digital consumers are no longer tied to linear tv schedules. Multi screen devices and services are ubiquitous - with viewers expecting access to content anytime and anywhere, creating a new crop of on-demand services.
- These transformational elements - the democratisation of the market, the rise of the mobile device and the expectation for on-demand - have arisen thanks to the transition from film to digital media.
- As the demands on infrastructure technology surge, older or proprietary infrastructure siphons Budget away from new revenue opportunities.
- Operators need to weigh in on how to best leverage their media assets to fully reap the benefits of on-demand services.
- The invention greatly accelerated the dissemination of beliefs, customs, practices and social behaviour throughout the country. The rapid increase in public literacy was due, in large part, to the fast spread of literature. The influence of the print-language also significantly contributed to developing a public culture and communicating the culture among the people in the country.
- the goal of informing the public of erroneous or prejudiced information
- Programs were primarily propaganda in nature and designed to deliver messages from the government
- The influence of foreign media products, technology and the stabilisation of the nation’s economy and politics coalesced to transform the culture of Korea
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