November 18, 2015

Leading up to October, there was a ton of hype around the popular Guild Wars 2. A massively multiplayer online roleplaying game (MMORPG), it’s a huge online game in which the player creates an avatar and is thrown into a digital realm with thousands of other players with the task of levelling up, completing quests, […]

As I traipse through the 24-hour grocer on a late-night hunger-fuelled purchase-capade, I jaunt past the refrigeration cabinets stocked with cured meats. Then I double back. Sandwiched between Vienna sausage and Italian ham is a package of tiny Vienna sausages shaped like octopus, complete with edible smiley faces. Despite their innocent grins compelling me to […]

What is time, anyway? I want to pinpoint this question down very narrowly because time seems to be this illusion that never stays on track. When I need time, I don’t have it; when I don’t need time, time seems to stand still. Always. I know this sounds very metaphysical. I only ask because there […]

“Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves,” wrote Rainer Maria Rilke, the German poet best known for his inspiring letters and mystical visions of the transformative power of art. If there were ever an advocate for why literature matters, surely Rilke was one. Born in Prague in […]