留白 Leaving white (space)

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A Portrait of (the Artist as) a Young Man(‘s grief)

My mother was slowly killed, I think, … by years of trouble, and by my cynical frankness of conduct. When I looked on her face as she lay in her coffin — a face grey and wasted with cancer — I understood that I was looking on the face of a victim and I cursed [...]

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Of Clashes and Renaissances, again and again…and a little sugar

That number one cheerleader for the ‘Asian Renaissance’ is at it again, waving and twirling his poms-poms like an over-enthusiastic high-schooler. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/12/opinion/12iht-edmahbubani.html Let me begin with an extreme and provocative point to get the argument going: Francis Fukuyama’s famous essay “The End of History” may have done some serious brain damage to Western minds in [...]

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Conjoint Measurement Part II: Iconic Rhetoric

[PiP] -applying conjoint measurement to the ancient noble art of rhetoric; term used in the spirit of Robert Pirsig’s thesis (as opposed to its current-modern pejorative usage), and as also by Yuri Lotman. -to show how overly-convoluted construction (ie poor/weak conjoint structures) of ‘shallow rhetoric’ reduces it to deservedly its current maligned status. (to highlight [...]

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Conjoint Measurement Part I: Risk Arbitrage

[PiP] -Prompted by a shared article by Taichiseal, led to recalling the theory of conjoint measurements -Supposed to show an application of conjoint measurements to risk arb, on conditional events; used in handicapping trades in the specific case of the Spore casino/integrated resorts tender bidding in 2006: positive example – the Marina Bay IR bid [...]

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Morpheme Morphology, Syntactically Speaking

[PiP] -This one has a little word-game which amused and intrigued me to no end a long time ago -Somewhat related to next 2 posts

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大地的箫声 The flute-sounds of the great earth

[PiP]-[Post in Progress] Something from Chuang Tzu here; related to previous post of course

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知音 — one who grasps your rhythm

After the previous posting of the classical chinese music of the 《十面埋伏》 / Ambush from All Sides from the 中国十大古曲, think I would be remiss not to mention one of the more celebrated pieces of music from that top ten list — the enduring symbol of classical chinese culture and art, the 《高山流水》 / High [...]

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Slowhands

This ancient Chinese music is considered as one of the ten foremost pieces of classical music (中国十大古曲) whose exact origins are lost but have been major influences in Chinese culture through the centuries. The 《十面埋伏》 or “Ambush from All Sides”, depicts the final titanic battle between 项羽/XiangYu of Chu and 刘邦/LiuPang of Han. The erstwhile [...]

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