Author: Kate
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Netrunner Never Died
Netrunner is one of the best games of all time. It has also been — at least, by official tally — “dead” for six years now. What is Netrunner anyway? Netrunner is an asymmetric card game for two players, with each playing vastly different games that somehow still mesh together beautifully. Since its inception, Netrunner…
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Grief (1)
1. The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee. I first started reading it after I’d transferred out of biology, funnily enough. It helped pass the time while I camped out with my parents or my uncle in my grandfather’s hospital room. By then, we already possessed an unwilling familiarity with the basic vocabulary of…
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Coda
2023 felt like the longest year. Or, more accurately, it felt like speedrunning through several decades in one go. Loath as I am to reference Taylor Swift, of all people, it’s a little fitting that one of the prevailing pop culture moments of the year stands on the concept of eras. Specifically, what sticks out…
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Flora Singapura: New finds in GBB
Plants have always been an important part of a good day for me. When I run into plants, that means I’m wandering around outside; and when I’m wandering around outside, that means I’m discovering bits and pieces of the world rather than getting stuck in my own head. My aunt over here loves taking walks,…
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Starting over
This is a little over a week late. In my defence, I’ve been to the mountains and then to the sea, where reliable internet connections were hard to come by. Not that I tried very hard to get this posted in time. These annual soundtrack posts have always been an excuse to ruminate a bit…
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On Stationery
If there are any enduring loves in my life, one of them would have to be stationery. It’s simple: I’ve been keeping some kind of paper journal since I was twelve, and this will probably continue until I die. There have been many gaps in those pages over the years, don’t get me wrong; but…
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