Abbas Sherif from Henan Academy of Sciences will give a talk in XMUM about black hole horizons next Monday

Selfie - Very 2010s. Very John Cho and Karen Gillan

Foundation season 3 is probably the best so far. Makes me want to reread the books again... Strangely my least favourite part of the show is the Mycogen stuff, even though Prelude to Foundation was my fav Asimov novel because of the adventures in Trantor

"This tech isn't going away!" "This is inevitable!" "Adapt or get left in the dust!" are all things we're being told by the same people who were telling us you're going to need a blockchain dingus to unlock your front door two years ago.

the ultimate extrovert - when you don't have plans for the weekend ppl assume you're dead

Is Starfield any good, or should I just replay Mass Effect again

Paper written with 3 talented undergrad students. Just been accepted in cqg. We studied the Melvin spacetime with positive cosmological constant. Will put this up in arxiv soon iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

I love Coffee Talk!

enjoyed Weapons a lot. I'm not well versed in spooky movies, but I loved this way more than last year's Longlegs. Especially for its mystery and payoff

The best fictional spy is not James Bond or Ethan Hunt or Ilsa Faust or Jason Bourne. It's Catherine Standish she's probably my favourite character in the show (Just finished Season 2)

Quite enjoying Slow Horses (halfway thru Season 2 now). Many characters are abrasive assholes but unlike the other asshole-y show Dept Q, it doesn't assume we will side with them just because they're the "heroes" - the Slow Horses are just assholes

The Taco Bell in Nilai has closed down - being replaced by Coffee Bean...

Teaching Relativity again next semester. Now there's a chance to polish and revamp some parts of my lecture notes.

Stir fried noodles for dinner. And catching up on Foundation Season 3

From what I observe, nobody uses facebook as a "social" platform anymore. People just logging in to watch algo-driven short videos or content-creation posts. Hardly any friends/relatives ever post or share anything. It's tiktok for people who don't use tiktok

While I didn't love Fantastic 4, I did like the cosmic horror story concept. And it's giving me an itch to replay Mass Effect

Children of Morta has an interesting story, and very beautiful art. It's just... roguelikes are not my thing... :(

Lecture notes for Calculus II. I have finished teaching for this semester, and very tired... drive.google.com/file/d/1Zf84...

Today in Maths Methods: We already finished the syllabus material. So with the remaining time we had a (very informal) introduction to differential geometry

Mad props to @danfloydplus.bsky.social for this incredible video where he edited Zelda sounds onto Elden Ring gameplay, and everything matches so perfectly! I can't fathom how much work this takes (speaking as a person who computes components of Riemann tensors for a living) youtu.be/AmYSqAqRsEE?...

i have just discovered the art of @bilquis.bsky.social holy shit.

Watching Old Guard 2. Henry Golding plays a character named "Tuah" and wields a keris. Our bro is repping Malaysia. (It wasn't clear whether he's playing the actual Hang Tuah or not.) Also Veronica Ngo is in this and she's always great

Thinking about the Cave of Hands, some of the art dating back to 7,300BC, where 25% of the hand prints are thought to be that of children. Imagining those people gently holding their child up to the cave walls, and using their tiny little hands as a stencil. Art = love = the human soul

I'm still pissed that I managed to get unspoiled right up the moment I'm sat at the cinema, and the movie is about to start. The cinema staff spoiled it by explaining the plot to customers sitting across from me (apparently they bought wrong tickets and deciding whether to watch this)

"indian mom cheek pinch" heck yeah that's Mira Nair the award-winning director of movies like Namesake (2006); adaptation of (also award winning) Jhumpa Lahiri's book starring Kal Pen and Irfan Khan

turns out, stir-frying salmon with noodles is pretty good

realized it's been 1 year since we published this. Just regular work in the scheme of things, but my proudest work because: I ventured in a completely new field (algebraic geometry+QM+experiments) and we physically measured something in the complex plane

Same energy

been editing and adding to my Calculus 2 notes. I'll put it online in about a month, when I finished the semester and have ran through all the material with the class

Field trip to Malaysian Institute of Microelectronic Systems (MIMOS)

Everybody in the world, including every government, knows there were no weapons on this boat, just food for starving people in Gaza. Everybody saw with their own eyes what just happened. Now the world's governments will either act or don't act...and the people will either rise up or they won't

Red Dead Redemption 2 is on sale.... argh should I get it

someone asked me if I follow football, and that there's a match today. I'm like, "em.... I watch Ted Lasso(?)" Go Richmond

Finished season 2. That last batch of 3 episodes was amazing

Catching up with Andor season 2. Really not liking the direction they're going with Bix so far....

tbh this latest Mission Impossible is a good place to end it. The submarine sequence is great, but everything else starts feeling repetitive

those who like the car stunts in the Mad Max movies are gonna love the Lost Bullet trilogy in netflix. Heck, even Mad Max doesn't have a sequence where a tow truck fights a helicopter

Eye of the Beholder by Laura J. Snyder. About scientist Antoni van Leeuwenhoek and artist Johannes Vermeer, Dutch contemporaries in the 1600s. Talks about how we *see* the world through art, science, etc. In this case through the microscope and camera obscura

we are all sinners

Exterritorial is an interesting high-concept thriller. About a woman whose son goes missing inside an American consulate. I visited a US embassy myself and the security is so tight, officials are so strict you feel unwelcome and off-kilter, it's a brilliant setting

CEOs, leadership positions, mbas, etc, are all vibes based jobs where the value thats needed is the ability to sound confident and bullshit your way through anything. once you see this, you can't unsee it. the world is run by these motherfuckers. trump, elon, they're bred in this sewage.

neglected guinea pig + scary cat #boblena #thunderbolts

Holy shit Thunderbolts is actually good and it's not just because I'm happy to see Hannah John-Kamen back in action again. Actually had good fight scenes and some real emotional gut punches. Even teared up a bit

some ppl, especially office types, love to do this kind of stuff for every email: Me: Hey bro YK here, quick question, [question] Reply (cc to TONS OF PPL, esp their head): Dear Professor Doctor Lim, Thank you for your email. Good morning. The reply to the question is -

I'm supposed to host an African colleague for a visit/talk soon. I have no idea how I would explain why, all the way in Malaysia, there's a Klan rally in the next town over www.malaymail.com/news/malaysi...

New martial arts film by Lexi Alexander? heck yeah!

"i asked chatgpt and..." you need liar clippy to tell you what to think? pathetic. grow up

A wordle-esque puzzle but each letter completes a physics equation. 🧪 ⚛️ thypher.com/play/

Before this, most of my research has been about solving Einstein's equation and studying spacetime exterior to black holes, mostly ignoring the subtleties a black hole's event horizon. Now I'm rectifying and reading up (Killing) horizons, trapped surfaces, etc. Turns out they can take these shapes