One item on the bucket list ticked–hearing Road of Resistance live. And I was in its infamous Wall of Death to boot and had lived to tell the tale. Despite how innocuous this band looks, Babymetal play some of the absolute heaviest, brutalest metal ever concocted by any mortal. The breakdown in Iine! has got …
Author Archives: Khai Yin
Mechanicks at the Universitie
By the late Alastair Howatson. Shipped from a used bookstore in England, now in our family library for posterity.
Suyash
On my deathbed, I’d regret letting true friendships to atrophy over time. I’d only known Suyash for one year (he came to Oxford from Bucknell as a visiting student), but we were close as any brothers you ever knew.
VIII
One day I shall scull the choppy waters of Cherwell again. One day.
History
I’m now a proud custodian of these three important records of Mansfield College history–Mansfield College, Its Origin and Opening by Robert William Dale et al. (1889), The Life of Andrew Martin Fairbairn by William Boothby Selbie (1914) and Mansfield College, Oxford: Its Origin, History and Significance by Dr Elaine Kaye (1996). There’s something reassuringly immutable …
22 Years
The Prophet
God speaks to humanity through selected people; some call them prophets. He endows prophets with the capacity to decipher the knowledge that he wants to channel to. To pursue the truth is thus the purest and the noblest of the man’s undertaking, the servitude to the purpose of the divine. For you, a prophet, are the …
Mayday 1997
Last week I had happened to watch Shadowlands–the story of C.S. Lewis and his wife Joy Gresham with the backdrop of Oxford in the 1940’s. The movie was released in 1993, and so it predated my arrival at Oxford by merely six years. The views were, of course, strikingly familiar to that of memory. Lewis was …
Life in Oxford Circa 1997
Found a newspaper cutting that I had saved since 1997: It was an article written by Tan Soo Chuen which I had republished here on my blog. Here’s another picture, taken after a friendly footie match with Cambridge University’s Malaysia & Singapore Society: And yes, that’s Khairy Jamaluddin in the middle of the picture in …
Wisdom of Adrian Lester
Adrian Lester, inside the March 21st issue of Saga Magazine: I had to match what I thought I would be at that age with what I actually am. Then I had to work out what I could possibly achieve in the future and let go of a few things. What profession you’re in – you …