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#077: Social Enterpreneurship Experience

November 23rd, 2009 Comments Off on #077: Social Enterpreneurship Experience

or, “How to be capitalist without being a twit” Currently listening to: “Pangea” – Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin Both Rabi and Erica have written splendid entries replete with pictures about their experiences at the conference held by Enterprize Canada, so I shall make this concise. Suffice to say, it was quite brilliant. My […]

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#075: Philip Zimbardo at UBC!

November 22nd, 2009 3 Comments

Currently listening to: “Somebody to Love” – GLEE Cast After a few weeks of intense geeking-out, finally, finally!, the Zimbardo lecture! Entitled “A Journey from Evil to Heroism”, it started off with a brief run-down about his Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE) and its relevant societal implications. Following the grim discussion of systemic evil, he took […]

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#074: RIP, brolly.

November 20th, 2009 4 Comments

Currently listening to: “Alejandro” – Lady GaGa Brolly, you had been the best of companions. And now you rest in the garbage can in the Gage lobby, alongside your fallen compatriots, a mere shadow of your glorious polkadotted past. Just like your predecessors, you served well in times of desperate need (not forgetting times of […]

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#069: Of precocious children and one-liners

October 24th, 2009 2 Comments

Currently listening to: “Fashionable People” – Joel Plaskett Emergency I do hate to use the excuse of life and work distracting me from updating on a semi-regular basis; alas, I must throw that out here. Amidst the steady loop of midterms (take one) and term papers and midterms (take two) and commitments to various extracurriculars, […]

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#068: Laundry Day

September 26th, 2009 Comments Off on #068: Laundry Day

Currently listening to: “My Freeze Ray” – Dr. Horrible’s Sing-a-long Blog Ah, the lavender scent of freshly hand-laundered garments, flapping and drying in the sun. (Alternatively, the scent of disdain as I refuse to pay $5 for a laundry card. )

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