Book Trail: Thinking, Fast and Slow
How I Came Across the Title The real question is, How could I not come across Thinking, Fast and Slow? The book was displayed wherever books were sold when it came out in 2011. I was always tempted to buy it due to its very intriguing title, but that year was when I...
Why Christians Should Read
This post was featured in Joseph Nally's blog last year. When you open the front cover of a book, you symbolically open a door to your mind. You are letting the author of that book to enter your being and make changes there. Reading is a form of...
The Perfect Sentence
Photo credit: Designed by Freepik Every writer, I dare say, is in search for the perfect sentence—words stringed with meaning and laced with beauty. It is a sentence that creates a certain mystical air by words both written and implied. To a reader, such...
Why I Love Being an Adventist
Three reasons why I love being an Adventist. A sense of identity, individually and communally, the Sabbath, and a sense of mission.
My Bookstore and Me
The story of my bookstore and me, once upon a summer. A reflection on buying books and its plethora of options.
Gifted Voice
In the wake of the South Carolina shooting, NPR broadcasted several short interviews with those who personally knew Rev. Clementa Pinckney. The one thing they kept on mentioning was his voice—how wonderful and impactful his voice was. Curious, I looked up a...
Why I Love Being an Engineer
An engineer’s work is often invisible, hidden in the background. But the results are indispensable in society.
I Live Now
The recent happenings and discussions surrounding race relations in America have prompted me to return to an old blog post from 3 years ago, If I Lived Then. It was penned after digesting a series of historical books, on World War II, on the British abolitionist...
OK, But Not OK. Not OK, but OK.
My reading journey through Thinking, Fast and Slow, Part 3 I care whether what I believe is true. I care whether or not my perceptions equal reality. I want the correlation between how I think things are and how things really are to be 100%. This is much like...