My library

This list will be updated whenever there are at least 20 new additions to and/or removals from my personal book collection. (Last updated on 30 December 2008.)

In case you are wondering, no, I haven't read all the books in my collection yet. If you are thinking of buying a book for me as a gift, please refer to this list to ensure that you don't end up picking a book that I already have.

Please don't be misled by my list of Chinese books - just because I happen to own many books by certain authors doesn't necessarily mean that these particular authors are among my favourites. I bought many of them when I was 13 or 14, and my taste has changed drastically since then.

Not all books I own are recommended reads. Also, unless we know each other very well and unless you prove yourself to be a responsible person, don't even think of asking me to lend you my books.

If you wish to recommend a book or an author whose books you think I've never read or heard of, please leave a comment, telling me why I might be interested in these works/writers, or why you feel they are good. But please do not suggest titles that belong to the following categories:

- Audio books
- Childcare/Parenting
- Children's books
- Computer books
- Diet/Nutrition
- Education
- Family/Marriage
- Fantasy
- Horror fiction
- Self-help
- Teenage fiction
- Women's fiction (a.k.a. chick lit)

Thanks.

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English Books

Fiction:

1. Douglas Adams: The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide
2. Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice
3. Samuel Beckett: The Complete Dramatic Works
4. Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre
5. Dan Brown: Angels and Demons
6. Dan Brown: Digital Fortress
7. Dan Brown: The Da Vinci Code
8. Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason: The Rule of Four
9. Italo Calvino: If On a Winter's Night a Traveller
10. Italo Calvino: Numbers in the Dark and Other Stories
11. Italo Calvino: Our Ancestors
12. Albert Camus: The Plague, The Fall, Exile and the Kingdom and Selected Essays
13. Truman Capote: In Cold Blood
14. Anton Chekhov: The Kiss
15. J.M. Coetzee: Waiting for the Barbarians
16. Joseph Conrad: The Heart of Darkness
17. Joseph Conrad: Under Western Eyes
18. Roald Dahl: Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl
19. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: The Little Prince
20. Charles Dickens: Great Expectations
21. Fyodor Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment
22. Fyodor Dostoevsky: Notes from Underground; the Grand Inquisitor
23. Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Double and The Gambler
24. Arthur Conan Doyle: The Hound of Baskervilles
25. Nicholas Evans: The Horse Whisperer
26. Charles Frazier: Cold Mountain
27. Gao Xing Jian: One Man's Bible
28. Arthur Golden: Memoirs of a Geisha
29. William Golding: Lord of the Flies
30. Mark Haddon: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
31. Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter
32. Ernest Hemingway: The First 49 Stories
33. S.E. Hinton: The Outsiders
34. Khaled Hosseini: The Kite Runner
35. Khaled Hosseini: A Thousand Splendid Suns
36. Aldous Huxley: Brave New World
37. John Irving: The Fourth Hand
38. Kazuo Ishiguro: Never Let Me Go
39. Kazuo Ishiguro: The Remains of the Day
40. Kazuo Ishiguro: When We Were Orphans
41. Elfriede Jelinek: Wonderful, Wonderful Times
42. Franz Kafka: Metamorphosis
43. Nikos Kazantzakis: The Last Temptation of Christ
44. Natsuo Kirino: Out
45. Milan Kundera: Farewell Waltz
46. Milan Kundera: Identity
47. Milan Kundera: Slowness
48. Milan Kundera: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
49. Milan Kundera: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
50. Kuo Pao Kun: The Coffin is Too Big for the Hole
51. D.H. Lawrence: Sons and Lovers
52. Gabriel García Márquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude
53. Gabriel García Márquez: News of a Kidnapping
54. Yann Martel: Life of Pi
55. Ian McEwan: Atonement
56. Ian McEwan: Enduring Love
57. Ian McEwan: Saturday
58. Herman Melville: Moby Dick
59. Audrey Niffenegger: The Time Traveler's Wife
60. Michael Ondaatje: The English Patient
61. George Orwell: 1984
62. George Orwell: Animal Farm
63. Orhan Pamuk: My Name is Red
64. Orhan Pamuk: The Black Book
65. Jodi Picoult: My Sister’s Keeper
66. Annie Proulx: Close Range: Brokeback Mountain and Other Stories
67. Jed Rubenfeld: The Interpretation of Murder
68. José Saramago: Blindness
69. José Saramago: Seeing
70. José Saramago: The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
71. José Saramago: The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
72. Alice Sebold: The Lovely Bones
73. Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
74. Stendhal: The Charterhouse of Parma
75. Robert Louis Stevenson: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
76. Adrian Tan: The Teenage Textbook
77. Adrian Tan: The Teenage Workbook
78. Mildred Taylor: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
79. Josephine Tey: The Daughter of Time
80. J.R.R. Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
81. J.R.R. Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
82. J.R.R. Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
83. Leo Tolstoy: Anna Karenina
84. Voltaire: Candide and Other Stories
85. H.G. Wells: The Invisible Man
86. Oscar Wilde: The Happy Prince and Other Stories
87. Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest and Four Other Plays
88. Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray
89. Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse
90. Carlos Ruiz Zafón: The Shadow of the Wind
91. The Holy Bible (New King James Version)
92. The Koran

Non-fiction:

1. Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren: How to Read a Book
2. Philip Ball: Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another
3. Julian Barbour: The End of Time
4. Monroe C. Beardsley (Ed.): European Philosophers from Descartes to Nietzsche
5. Harold Bloom: Where Shall Wisdom be Found?
6. Bill Bryson: A Short History of Nearly Everything
7. Bill Bryson: Notes from a Small Island
8. Bill Bryson: Troublesome Words
9. Italo Calvino: The Literature Machine
10. Albert Camus: Lyrical and Critical Essays
11. Albert Camus: The Rebel
12. Noam Chomsky: Doctrines and Visions
13. Brian Clegg: Light Years: An Exploration of Mankind's Enduring Fascination with Light
14. Antonio Damasio: Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow and the Feeling Brain
15. Richard Dawkins: The God Delusion
16. Gilles Deleuze: The Logic of Sense
17. Daniel Dennett: Consciousness Explained
18. David Deutsch: The Fabric of Reality
19. John Dewey: Experience as Art
20. Umberto Eco: Five Moral Pieces
21. Umberto Eco: Kant and the Platypus
22. Umberto Eco: Mouse or Rat? Translation as Negotiation
23. Albert Einstein: Relativity
24. Peter Erickson: The Stance of Atlas: The Examination of the Philosophy of Ayn Rand
25. Paul Feyerabend: Against Method
26. Michel Foucault: Discipline and Punish
27. Michel Foucault: The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences
28. Sigmund Freud: Civilization and Its Discontents
29. Sigmund Freud: Forgetting Things
30. Sigmund Freud: The Essentials of Psycho-analysis
31. Sigmund Freud: The Interpretation of Dreams
32. Thomas Friedman: Lexus and the Olive Tree
33. Francis Fukuyama: The Posthuman Future
34. J.K. Galbraith: The Economics of Innocent Fraud
35. Malcolm Galdwell: Blink
36. Peter Galison: Einstein's Clocks, Poincaré's Maps
37. Bernard Gert: Morality: Its Nature and Justification
38. Brian Greene: The Fabric of the Cosmos
39. Tim Harford: The Undercover Economist
40. Sam Harris: The End of Faith: Religion, Terror and the Future of Reason
41. Marc Hauser: Moral Minds
42. Stephen Hawking: A Brief History of Time
43. William Hazlitt: The Pleasure of Hating
44. Georg Hegel: The Phenomenology of Mind
45. Martin Heidegger: Being and Time
46. Andrea Hinding: Feminism: Opposing Viewpoints
47. Christopher Hitchens: The Portable Atheist
48. John Holbo: Reason and Persuasion
49. Ted Honderich (Ed.): The Oxford Companion to Philosophy
50. David Hume: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
51. David Hume: A Treatise of Human Nature
52. Derek Humphry: Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying
53. Douglas Hofstadter: Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
54. J.S. Hooper: A Quick English Reference
55. Michio Kaku: Parallel Worlds
56. Immanuel Kant: Basic Writings of Kant
57. Immanuel Kant: Critique of Pure Reason
58. Pierre Klossowski: Nietzsche and the Vicious Cycle
59. Milan Kundera: Testaments Betrayed
60. Jacques Lacan: Écrits: A Selection
61. Imre Lakatos: Proofs and Refutations
62. T.Z. Lavine: From Socrates to Sartre: The Philosophic Quest
63. Steven Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner: Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
64. Carl Jung: On the Nature of the Psyche
65. D.Q. McInerny: Being Logical
66. J.S. Mill: Basic Writings of J.S. Mill: On Liberty, the Subjection of Women, Utilitarianism
67. Michael Moore: Idiot Nation
68. Thomas Nagel: The View from Nowhere
69. Sylvia Nasar: A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash
70. Friedrich Nietzsche: Basic Writings of Nietzsche
71. Friedrich Nietzsche: Portable Nietzsche
72. Friedrich Nietzsche: The Gay Science
73. Friedrich Nietzsche: Why I Am So Wise
74. Osho: Sex Matters: From Sex to Superconsciousness
75. Osho: The Tarot of Zen: The Game of Life
76. Steven Pinker: How the Mind Works
77. Steven Pinker: The Blank Slate
78. Ayn Rand: Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Movement
79. Ayn Rand: The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution
80. Ayn Rand: The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought
81. Lisa Randall: Warped Passages
82. Martin Rees: Before the Beginning
83. Philip Rice and Patricia Waugh (Eds.): Modern Literary Theory: A Reader
84. Paul Ricoeur: The Conflict of Interpretations
85. Bertrand Russell: Why I Am Not a Christian
86. Jean-Paul Sartre: Being and Nothingness
87. Jean-Paul Sartre: Essays in Existentialism
88. Alan D. Schrift: Why Nietzsche Still?
89. Simon Singh: Fermat's Last Theorem
90. Benedict de Spinoza: Ethics
91. Norman Swartz: Beyond Experience
92. David Tabachnick and Toivo Koivukoski (Eds.): Globalisation, Technology and Philosophy
93. Nassim Nicholas Taleb: The Black Swan
94. Raymond Tallis: In Defence of Realism
95. Lynne Truss: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
96. Robert Wilks: Key Words II
97. Ludwig Wittgenstein: On Certainty
98. 100 Essays from Time

Poetry:

1. E.E. Cummings: Selected Poems
2. Emily Dickinson: Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson
3. D.H. Lawrence: The Complete Poems of D.H. Lawrence
4. Pablo Neruda: Residence on Earth
5. Rainer Maria Rilke: Ahead of All Parting: The Selected Poetry and Prose of Rainer Maria Rilke

中文书籍：

1. 阿嘉莎●克莉斯蒂：《ABC谋杀案》
2. 阿嘉莎●克莉斯蒂：《池边的幻影》
3. 阿嘉莎●克莉斯蒂：《东方快车谋杀案》
4. 阿嘉莎●克莉斯蒂：《高尔夫球场命案》
5. 阿嘉莎●克莉斯蒂：《怪钟》
6. 阿嘉莎●克莉斯蒂：《蓝色列车之谜》
7. 阿嘉莎●克莉斯蒂：《谋杀启示》
8. 阿嘉莎●克莉斯蒂：《谋杀在云端》
9. 阿嘉莎●克莉斯蒂：《三幕悲剧》
10. 阿嘉莎●克莉斯蒂：《杀人一瞬间》
11. 阿嘉莎●克莉斯蒂：《史岱尔庄谋杀案》
12. 阿嘉莎●克莉斯蒂：《十三人的晚宴》
13. 阿嘉莎●克莉斯蒂：《丝柏的哀歌》
14. 阿嘉莎●克莉斯蒂：《死无对证》
15. 阿嘉莎●克莉斯蒂：《万圣节派对》
16. 阿嘉莎●克莉斯蒂：《危机四伏》
17. 阿嘉莎●克莉斯蒂：《问大象去吧》
18. 阿嘉莎●克莉斯蒂：《五只小猪之歌》
19. 阿嘉莎●克莉斯蒂：《艳阳下的谋杀案》
20. 阿嘉莎●克莉斯蒂：《一，二，缝好鞋扣》
21. 安妮宝贝：《八月未央》
22. 安妮宝贝：《莲花》
23. 冰心：《冰心散文》
24. 蔡小白：《新世纪文学怪读本》
25. 曹雪芹：《红楼梦》
26. 陈丹燕：《鱼和它的自行车》
27. 村上春树：《边境●近境》
28. 村上春树：《挪威的森林》
29. 村上春树：《听风的歌》
30. 村上春树：《寻羊冒险记》
31. 方桂香：《幻灭的天才梦》
32. 方文山：《半岛铁盒》
33. G.卢卡奇：《小说理论》
34. 高行健：《朋友》
35. 韩寒：《三重门》
36. 洪应明：《菜根谭》
37. 胡黎：《似曾相识》
38. 黄浩威、柯思仁：《如果岛国，一个离人》
39. 霍国玲、紫军：《红楼解梦——红楼史诗》
40. 几米：《1.2.3.木头人》
41. 几米：《布瓜的世界》
42. 几米：《地下铁》
43. 几米：《黑白异境》
44. 几米：《蓝石头》
45. 几米：《履历表》
46. 几米：《你们我们他们》
47. 几米：《森林唱游》
48. 几米：《森林里的秘密》
49. 几米：《失乐园——寂寞上场了》
50. 几米：《失乐园——秘密开花了》
51. 几米：《失乐园——魔法失灵了》
52. 几米：《失乐园——奇迹迷路了》
53. 几米：《失乐园——童年下雪了》
54. 几米：《听几米唱歌》
55. 几米：《微笑的鱼》
56. 几米：《我的心中每天开出一朵花》
57. 几米：《我只能为你画一张小卡片》
58. 几米：《向左走●向右走》
59. 几米：《小蝴蝶小披风》
60. 几米：《幸运儿》
61. 几米：《遗失了一只猫》
62. 几米：《又寂寞又美好》
63. 几米：《月亮不见了》
64. 几米：《照相本子》
65. 季旭升（总策划）：《这个字你认识吗？》
66. 金庸：《雪山飞狐》
67. K.德福林：《笛卡尔，拜拜！》
68. 卡尔●洛维特：《从黑格尔到尼采》
69. 凯伦●安姆斯特朗：《神的历史》
70. 老舍：《茶馆》
71. 老舍：《老舍散文》
72. 梁文福：《其实我是在和时光恋爱》
73. 梁文福：《散文@文福》
74. 林得楠：《梦见诗》
75. 林幸谦：《历史、女性与性别政治——重读张爱玲》
76. 林语堂：《林语堂散文》
77. 刘梦溪：《红楼梦与百年中国》
78. 龙应台：《野火集》
79. 鲁迅：《鲁迅小说全编》
80. 聂鲁达：《二十首情诗与绝望的歌》
81. P.M.S.哈克：《维根斯坦》
82. 乔治●法莱蒂：《非人》
83. 沈望傅：《郭宝崑传奇的乱想》
84. 沈望傅：《来自旧千禧年的乱想》
85. 史蒂芬●霍金：《时间简史》
86. 苏珊●桑塔格：《旁观他人之痛苦》
87. 泰戈尔：《漂岛集》
88. 陶杰：《绮色风流》
89. 王安忆：《流逝》
90. 王文华：《宝贝，只剩下我和你》
91. 汪曾祺：《汪曾祺主页》
92. 维兰●傅拉瑟：《摄影的哲学思考》
93. 吴庆康：《2359@夜》
94. 吴庆康：《2359@昼》
95. 吴韦才：《吴韦才奇异幻境》
96. 席慕容：《席慕容散文》
97. 杏林子：《行到水穷处》
98. 徐志摩：《我是天空里的一片云——徐志摩诗选》
99. 徐志摩：《徐志摩散文》
100. 易中天：《品三国》
101. 郁达夫：《郁达夫主页》
102. 余华：《活着》
103. 余秋雨：《借我一生》
104. 余秋雨：《秋雨散文》
105. 张爱玲：《红楼梦魇》
106. 张爱玲：《倾城之恋》
107. 张爱玲：《同学少年都不贱》
108. 张爱玲：《张爱玲散文》
109. 张秉真、黄晋凯（主编）：《未来主义●超现实主义》
110. 张秉真、黄晋凯、杨恒达（主编）：《象征主义●意象派》
111. 张恨水：《啼笑因缘》
112.张小娴：《Channel A》
113.张小娴：《Channel A II ——蝴蝶过期居留》
114.张小娴：《Channel A III ——魔法蛋糕店》
115. 张小娴：《Channel A IV ­——我们都是丑小鸭》
116.张小娴：《不如你送我一场春雨》
117. 张小娴：《荷包里的单人床》
118.张小娴：《流波上的舞》
119.张小娴：《面包树出走了》
120. 张小娴：《情人无泪》
121.张小娴：《三个A Cup的女人》
122. 张小娴：《我微笑，是为了你微笑》
123. 张小娴：《雪地里的蜗牛奄列》
124. 张小娴：《永不永不说再见》
125. 张小娴：《在天涯寻觅你》
126. 张秀琴：《阅读大师的智慧》
127. 钟怡雯、陈大为（主编）：《天下散文选》
128. 周芬伶：《艳异：张爱玲与中国文学》
129. 左朗●德芬卡尔：《一路上有你》
130. 《流年碎影——第八届新加坡大专文学奖作品集》
131.《名人语录》
132. 《你是我唯一的玫瑰》
133. 《清华小说——也许是爱情》
134. 《阙旅——第六届新加坡大专文学奖作品集》
135. 《宋词三百首》

To my readers

I am a psychologically disturbed and mentally deranged person who unsuccessfully masquerades my vapid musings as pseudo-intellectual thoughts. Reading my entries is detrimental to your mental health, and the contents of this blog are absolutely not meant for those completely devoid of any healthy sense of humour or irony. Don't read this if you are stupid.

This blog comprises entries whose topics generally revolve around the things I give two hoots about. Sometimes I whine a bit when I feel upset or troubled too. Sometimes, in futile attempts to sound poetic, I wax lyrical over nothing of particular importance. There are lots of lies, contradictions and half-truths, so take everything with a pinch of salt. Don't pretend or assume that you know me. If you hate me or my writings, please scram, because your time will be much better spent elsewhere.

Thank you for reading.

Über mich

(Last updated on 28 October 2010.)

I am a 22-year-old philosophy major currently studying at the National University of Singapore. (Click here if you are interested in knowing the list of modules that I've taken in the past or that I'm presently taking.) If you have no idea where Singapore is, well, it is a puny cosmopolitan city-state located near the equator, and it is such a boring place that it is not even one-tenth as interesting as the nameless, mysterious island we see in Lost.

I am a staunch atheist, an incurable cynic, a romantic realist, a pragmatic idealist, a politically incorrect democratic socialist and a self-indulgent bon vivant who enjoys epicurean pleasures immensely. For a pessimist, I am actually pretty optimistic. I am completely liberal when it comes to moral and political issues. I am mentally unstable, cerebrally handicapped, physically unattractive, vertically challenged, socially inept and uncompromisingly heterosexual.

I am a member of Mensa, an international organisation for gifted individuals. However, my lacklustre academic performances do not commensurate with my incredibly high IQ.

I never hesitate to torment people I dislike with a huge and scorching dose of sarcasm, thus accumulating loads of bad karma. So do not worry about me, for I know I will receive retribution some day. While I am alive, though, remember not to get into my bad books because I always bear grudges.

If the world is a tragedy to those who feel and a comedy to those who think, then it is a tragicomedy to me. Despite my displayed misanthropic tendencies, I actually have great love for my fellow men, unbelievable as it may sound.

I almost always subordinate emotion to rationality. I don't know if this is desirable.

I have an extremely wide range of interests, from mathematics to music, from astrophysics to literature, from psychology to cognitive science; but sadly my knowledge of all fields is depressingly limited. I am a master of no trade. I aspire to master German in the hope that I can one day understand writers and luminaries like Rilke, Einstein, Marx, Nietzsche and etc. in their mother tongue. I hope to be effectively multilingual, though I know it requires diligence and innate aptitude, which I am not entirely sure if I possess.

I love to read; and I have a fairly large collection of books. If you are interested in viewing the titles I own, please click here. The list will be updated whenever there are at least 20 new additions to and/or removals from my personal library.

I also enjoy admiring everything that is beautiful, and I like to think that I have exquisite taste. My ambition in life is to be peacefully carefree, emotionally tranquil, physically fit, intellectually fulfilled and obscenely rich - and I am not ashamed of it.

As much as I wish to look like this,

I am unfortunately not physically appealing (as I have said previously), so you may want to think twice before asking for my number (but if you are ugly and stupid, then please do not bother). For my own safety (you never know what perverts are lurking out there) as well as yours (lest you die from severe shock), I will not publish a single photo of myself on this blog. If you feel a violent need to contact me and provide feedback after reading any of my entries, please send all gushing fan mail, inane hate mail and lovesick marriage proposals to miao@nus.edu.sg for my perusal and, sometimes, amusement. I may not reply.

If you wish to learn more about me (because I am so compellingly fascinating), I suggest that you read my blog from the earliest entry to the latest because it is the best way to gain an insight into me; but if you lack the patience or think that I am not exactly worth the investment of time and effort, then please just read this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this and this. And if you understand Chinese, this too.

Thank you for visiting my humble little blog; but if you hate me or my entries, please scram because your time will be better spent elsewhere.

Online haunts

Affiliations.
I was/am a patient of these mental asylums.

~ Boston University, Department of Philosophy
~ Cedar Girls' Secondary School
~ Mensa Singapore
~ Nanyang Junior College, Language Elective Programme
~ National University of Singapore, Department of Philosophy

Art and Design.
"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Design is knowing which ones to keep."

~ Apartment Therapy
~ Design*Sponge
~ Lines & Shapes
~ Little People - a tiny street art project
~ Oh Joy!

Atheism.
"The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind."

~ Atheists of Silicon Valley
~ Debunking Christianity
~ Faith Freedom International
~ Michael Shermer
~ Positive Atheism's Big List of Quotations
~ Recovering Christians
~ RichardDawkins.net
~ Sam Harris
~ The Brights' Net
~ The Skeptic's Annotated Bible
~ Why I Love Jesus

Comics.
"I'm inclined to think of comics as a kind of temporal map, a way of substituting space for time, of mapping out a temporal progression in 2-D or 3-D space."
~ A Softer World
~ Achewood
~ Basic Instructions
~ Buttercup Festival
~ Copper
~ Dilbert
~ Dinosaur Comics
~ DOGHOUSEDIARIES
~ Draw Until It's Funny
~ Indexed
~ PBF Comics
~ Piled Higher and Deeper
~ Questionable Content
~ Saturday Morning Breakfast Club
~ Urf. A Grave New World.
~ Wondermark
~ xkcd

Current Affairs and History.
"News is history shot on the wing."

~ ABC News
~ Arab News
~ Asia Times Online
~ BBC
~ ChannelNewsAsia.com
~ CNN.com International
~ Economist.com
~ Los Angeles Times
~ News on Japan
~ Newseum
~ Reason Magazine
~ Reuters.com
~ The Baseline Scenario
~ The History Channel
~ The New York Times
~ The Wall Street Journal
~ TIME
~ World History: HyperHistory
~ 新华网
~ 联合早报网

Daily Life.
"In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular."

~ a beautiful revolution
~ Guilty with an Explanation
~ heads down bottoms up
~ John and Belle Have a Blog
~ Nothing but Bonfires
~ Original and Unplugged
~ PostSecret
~ The Blog Shall Set You Free
~ We Feel Fine

Fashion.
"Fashions fade, style is eternal."

~ Authentic Designer Handbags and Bag Reviews
~ Etsy
~ Go Fug Yourself
~ LOOKBOOK.nu
~ The Bag Snob
~ The Sartorialist

Feminism.
~ Feminist Critics


Food.
"There is no love sincerer than the love of food."

~ delicious:days
~ Gourmet Magazine
~ ieatishootipost
~ La Tartine Gourmand
~ TasteSpotting

Humour.
"The love of truth lies at the root of much humour."

~ Book-A-Minute
~ Britanick Comedy - Two Guys Wasting Their Degree
~ Cartoonbank.com
~ demotivate.com
~ Dilbert Blog
~ Dooce
~ Evolved and Rat/i/onal
~ Fametracker
~ FAIL Blog
~ Failbook
~ Funny or Die
~ I Love Charts
~ Jake and Amir
~ Jokes at WorkJoke.com
~ JumboJoke
~ Letters of Note
~ Mattias Ink
~ Movie-a-Minute
~ My Dad is a Fob
~ Not Always Right - Funny and Stupid Customer Quotes
~ Null Hypothesis
~ RANT
~ So Much Pun
~ Something Awful: The Internet Makes You Stupid
~ The Best Page in the Universe
~ The Cynic's Sanctuary
~ The Darwin Awards
~ The Editing Room
~ The Onion
~ The Unnatural Enquirer: Perspiring Minds Want to Know!
~ Uncyclopedia

Inter-disciplinary.
"The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well."

~ Academic Earth
~ Arts and Letters Daily - Ideas, Criticism, Debate
~ Big Think
~ bookforum.com
~ Butterflies and Wheels
~ Crooked Timber
~ delanceyplace
~ EDGE
~ Extraordinary Claims
~ Feckblog
~ Genders OnLine Journal - Presenting innovative theories in art, literature, history, music, TV
~ Gotham Skeptic
~ Internet Sacred Text Archive
~ KurzweilAI.net
~ McCabism
~ MIT OpenCourseWare
~ Morality Quiz/Test Your Morals, Values and Ethics
~ openDemocracy
~ Philica
~ Project Syndicate
~ Prospect Magazine, Political and Cultural Essays and Arguments
~ Quiz - MSN Encarta
~ P S Y C H E
~ Rationally Speaking
~ Religion Dispatches
~ SkepticBlog
~ Slate Magazine
~ Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference and Social Science
~ StratFor
~ TED: Ideas Worth Spreading
~ The American Prospect
~ The American Scholar
~ The Skeptic's Dictionary
~ Things of Interest
~ Truth Journal
~ Tufts University Center for Cognitive Studies
~ UK Commentators
~ VideoLectures
~ Why Evolution is True
~ YouTube - Edu

Law.
"Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one."

~ Anonymous Lawyer
~ Discourse.net: On the fringes of the public sphere
~ Is That Legal?
~ JURIST - Paper Chase

Literature and Linguistics.
"Words are all I have, to take your heart away..."

~ (The Unofficial, Unauthorised) English as it is Broken column
~ A Collection of Word Oddities and Trivia
~ A Stranger at Home
~ Bartleby.com
~ Chinese Etymology
~ George Orwell Resources
~ Great Books and Classics
~ Guide to Grammar and Writing
~ How to Write Badly Well
~ ikasi z'iyet liw, aik
~ Learn Chinese Characters
~ Mentor Access Project
~ My First Dictionary
~ One Word
~ Online Etymology Dictionary
~ Pinyin.info
~ Poetry Analysis, Poems, Articles and Reviews
~ Project Gutenberg
~ ReadySteadyBook
~ The Internet Classics Archive
~ The Mobile Armchair
~ The Modern Word
~ The Paris Review
~ The Valve - A Literary Organ
~ Tim Burton's: The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy
~ typewriter blues - falling in love in hotel rooms
~ Wiktionary: The Free Dictionary
~ 方道●文山流
~ 风花雪月饮食男女
~ 履下中國心
~ 明天的明天的明天
~ 天涯在线书库

Miscellaneous.
"Life is a box of chocolates, you never know what you're going to get..."

~ 3quarksdaily
~ Deutsche Welle
~ Encyclopaedia Dramatica
~ Gall and Gumption
~ groundnotes
~ Meaning of Life Group on Vox
~ OMG Facts
~ Parlerment
~ Project Implicit
~ Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog
~ snopes.com: Urban Legends Reference Pages
~ The Legal Janitor
~ The Mobile Armchair
~ thepaperbagwriter
~ The Straight Dope
~ TheraminTrees
~ XPloreMagic
~ You Are Not So Smart
~ 不许联想
~ 柴静观察
~ 情书

Music.
"Without music, life would be a mistake."

~ betterPropaganda
~ Blalock's Indie/Rock Playlist
~ Can't Hear You Over the Sound of How Awesome I Am
~ Deezer
~ Ear Farm
~ Grooveshark
~ i guess i'm floating
~ Indie Rock Café
~ Instrument Jokes
~ Musicuo
~ Muxtape
~ Obscure Sound
~ Pitchfork
~ Said the Gramophone
~ Say Something New
~ Soul Shine Magazine: New Music Online

Non-profit.
"Keep hope alive."

~ Amazon Conservation Team
~ Autism Speaks
~ Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
~ Electronic Frontier Foundation
~ FreeRice.com
~ Google.org
~ Locks of Love
~ People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
~ pinkdot.sg
~ Voluntary Human Extinction Movement

People I Know.
"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend."

~ ...
~ ...for Sentimental Reasons
~ Balderdash
~ Blog in English, auf Deutsch
~ every beat of my heart
~ Existence is vulgar. Very vulgar.
~ glow of the candlelight
~ http://ice-peche.livejournal.com/
~ In Hibernation
~ In the Beginning was the Logos...
~ Magical Musings
~ Minutes and Popcorn
~ mon art, est enelrahs
~ Neverland
~ NIL ILLEGITIMO CARBORUNDUM
~ The Apparent
~ The hazy realms of dreams
~ The Skipwalking Blog
~ wenxin loves dry lavender
~ 服理 不服你
~ 好一首烂诗
~ 天空一片云
~ 做回单纯的自己

Philosophy.
"All are lunatics, but he who can analyse his delusions is called a philosopher."

~ Abstracta
~ AbstractAtom
~ Aesthetics On-Line
~ AJL: The Australasian Journal of Logic
~ American Philosophical Association
~ ANALYSIS Preprints list
~ Are You Living in a Computer Simulation?
~ Australasian Association of Philosophy
~ Brown Electronic Article Review Service (BEARS)
~ Cambridge Center for Behavioural Studies - Behaviour and Philosophy
~ CCT General Information
~ Contemporary Aesthetics
~ David Chalmers
~ Disputatio
~ Early Modern Texts
~ EpistemeLinks Philosophy Journals: Main Page
~ EpistemologicalResearch.html
~ Essays in Philosophy
~ Guide to Philosophy on the Internet
~ HPS: Writing Philosophy
~ HYLE - International Journal for Philosophy of Chemistry
~ It's Just a Theory
~ JCS, Journal of Consciousness Studies
~ JSTOR
~ Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog
~ Medieval Logic and Philosophy
~ metaphysical values
~ Mission: Critical
~ NJPL: Read articles
~ Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
~ Online Papers in Philosophy
~ On Truth and Reality
~ PEA Soup
~ Philosophers: Alphabetical Index
~ Philosophy, et cetera
~ Philosophers' Imprint
~ Philosophical Gourmet
~ Philosophical Warning Labels
~ philosophicallexicon.com
~ PhiloSophos: advice and resources for philosophy students
~ Philosophy at NYU - Online Papers
~ Philosophy Collection
~ Philosophy Now
~ Philosophy Papers Online
~ Philosophy Talk
~ PhilPapers: Philosophy Online
~ PhilSci Archive
~ Political Theory Daily
~ Porn for Philosophers
~ Probably Possible
~ Progressive Buddhism
~ Prosblogian
~ P S Y C H E
~ Rerum Causae
~ Research Seminar on Mind and Language: Consciousness
~ Ruptured Rhapsody
~ SORITES
~ SPT Working Papers
~ Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
~ Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology
~ The American Philosophical Association
~ The Anthropic Preprint Archive
~ The Determinism and Freedom Philosophy Website
~ The Ethical Werewolf
~ The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
~ The Kant Song
~ The Matrix
~ The Paideia Project ON-LINE: Archive Sections
~ The Philosopher's Magazine Online
~ Theory and History of Ontology
~ Thoughts, Arguments and Rants
~ Undergraduate Philosophical Writing
~ Vagueness - Bibliography

Photography.
"Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still."

~ Dave's Pics
~ Getty Images
~ Photography Tips - Lifehacker
~ Photos that Changed the World
~ What the Heck Journal

Politics.
"The ballot is stronger than the bullet."

~ American Thinker
~ Amnesty International
~ Cogitamus
~ Dispassionate Liberal
~ Foreign Policy
~ Policy Innovations
~ Race: The Power of an Illusion
~ RealClearPolitics - Opinions, News, Analysis, Videos and Polls
~ The New Republic
~ The Volokh Conspiracy
~ War or Car?
~ Wonkette: D.C. Gossip

Science, Mathematics and Technology.
"There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know."

~ Anatomy of a Black Hole
~ ALife Bibliography
~ Animal Information at Animal Corner
~ Astronomy.com
~ BBSPrints Archive
~ Bruce Charlton's Miscellany
~ Classics in the History of Psychology
~ Discover Magazine
~ Discovery Channel
~ Discovery News
~ Einstein Light
~ Environmental Performance Index
~ Face Blind!
~ HyperPSYCHOLOQUY
~ Improbable Research
~ Intuitor Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics
~ lanl.arXiv.org e-Print archive mirror
~ Lion Hunting
~ Mathematical Humour
~ Mathematical Jokes
~ Medical Hypotheses
~ Memetics papers on the web
~ Mind and Body
~ Mind Uploading Home Page
~ Mixed Signals - synesthesia online
~ National Geographic
~ Nature.com
~ NEUROETHICS
~ NeuroLogica Blog
~ Neurophilosophy
~ New Scientist
~ PhET: Free online physics, chemistry, biology, earth science and math simulations
~ Psychology Humour Page
~ ScienceBlogs
~ ScienceDirect
~ Scientific American
~ SciTech Daily Review
~ The Human Nature Review
~ The Joy of Visual Perception
~ The Singularity Institute for Artifical Intelligence
~ The Stanford Prison Experiment: A Simulation Study of the Psychology of Imprisonment
~ The T.W.I.N.K.L.E.S. Project
~ UTC Physics Humour 0

Singapore-related.
"This place is pragmatism gone mad."

~ Diary of a Singaporean Mind
~ Molitics
~ Singapore Rebel
~ Singapore Democracy
~ Singapore Dissident
~ TalkingCock
~ To Fix a Mocking Peasant
~ Yawning Bread

Sports.
"Adversity cause some men to break; others to break records."

~ Back Page Football
~ ESPN
~ Soccer Training Info
~ Zonal Marking

Travel.
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness."

~ Here is New York
~ Lonely Planet
~ ThreeThousand - subcultural guide to Melbourne

Modules that I've taken (and that I'm currently taking)

Semester 1, Academic Year 2010/2011 (in NUS):
1) GEK1505: Living with Mathematics
2) GEK2024: Political Ideologies
3) LAJ1201: Japanese 1
4) PH2213: Metaphysics
5) PH2214: Philosophical Logic

Semester 2, Academic Year 2009/2010 (in NUS):
1) CH2218: Translation and Interpretation
2) EL1101E: The Nature of Language
3) GEM2505: Taming Chaos
4) PH2222: Greek Philosophy
5) PH4201: Philosophy of Science
6) SC2214: Mass Media and Culture

Semester 1, Academic Year 2009/2010 (in BU):
1) CAS PH436: Gender, Race and Science
2) CAS PH456: Topics in Philosophy and Religion
3) CAS PH463: Philosophy of Language

Semester 2, Academic Year 2008/2009 (in NUS):
1) PH2110: Logic
2) PH2216: Environmental Philosophy
3) PH3202: Philosophy of Law
4) PH3211: Theory of Knowledge
5) PS3232: Democratic Theory

Semester 1, Academic Year 2008/2009 (in NUS):
1) GEK1510: Great Ideas in Contemporary Physics
2) PH2203: Major Moral Philosophers
3) PH2208: Applied Ethics
4) PH3212: Philosophy of Mind
5) PH3213: Knowledge, Modernity and Global Change

Semester 2, Academic Year 2007/2008 (in NUS):
1) LAG2201: German 2
2) PH2201: Major Political Philosophers
3) PH2207: Hume and Kant
4) PH3206: Recent Philosophy
5) SSA2206: Islam and the Contemporary Malay Society

Semester 1, Academic Year 2007/2008 (in NUS):
1) CH1101E: An Introduction to Chinese Studies
2) EU1101E: The Making of Contemporary Europe
3) LAG1201: German 1
4) PH1101E: Reason and Persuasion
5) SC1101E: Making Sense of Society