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halfway through & this section is so weirdly graphic that i had to put it down bcos i WLD have thrown up on the mrt help

godfather gave this to me - starting off listening to it n mb will become a highly effective person 😔😁

can't decide if i have more or less clarity on all these "post"s
truly the more u know the more u don't know

"And then she said the words that every single man yearns to hear: "Hello, have you found Jesus?""

really really wish i cld see these plays irl they're SO GOOD and im only reading them sjdodosk
also wo(men) testing my hokkien i rlly buay sai

just finished "normal" and it's brilliant. it wrestles with so many different ideas and themes, even while remaining mincingly accurate in its portrayal of the miniature of interactions. somewhat surreal reading smth that feels so similar to my own life experience (the singaporean education system) yet so far away - another reminder of the different singapores that exist, divided even before we reach 12.

back here because figuring out How Memoirs Are Constructed - dk if anyone actually reads goodreads updates but if anyone has good memoir reccs pls lmk!

if there is political will... indeed

"For the world of policy makers, this perspective suggests that a clear focus on wellbeing of poor offers the possibility of transforming millions of lives much more profoundly than we could by finding the recipe to increase growth from 2 percent to 2.3 percent in the rich countries."

not @ how there's a measurement for "stuff we don't know" (total factor productivity)

notes/questions for myself: is happiness a good thing to measure - especially considering how the "value" one derives from something can be changed according to shifting beliefs etc (utility is quite a nebulous idea ngl)? and why is everyone so obsessed with economic growth (is it an unmitigated good)?

kinda a fever dream at this point - it already felt a bit like i was in a bemused state in some kind of strange fervour while parsing through this but now it's really like my temperature's hitting 40 degrees

back after 1 month (or maybe 2 or 3 idk anymore) let's go