Opinion

Opinion pieces written by yours truly. Views expressed here at not necessarily held by me still, nor necessarily well researched or evidence-based.

• Employment Observations

  This post was written on 16/06/2024 from notes that I published as a draft on the blog on 19/05/2024.

• Cycling in Melbourne

• Is Driving or PT better?

  I was wondering whether it’d be more cost effective for me to take PT or drive to uni. Here are some basic calculations on the matter.

• A Critique of BeReal

  Way back in the first year of covid, an app called ‘Bereal’ was released to the world. It would only be in the early months of 2022 where it would begin to spready virally, disrupting the mundane activities of mostly young people once a day, every day.

• Voting for the first time

  I voted for the first time today, at Box Hill Town Hall, through early voting. I had gone the night before at around 6:45pm. Upon arriving that night, I was immediately asked which suburb I lived in, then given a ‘Labor for Menzies’ and ‘Liberal for Menzies’ flyer from two lobbyers. But then I saw the queue and was like I’ll come back another day, and one of them responded yeah it’s pretty chill during day time. So I came back the next morning at exactly 8am on my way to university.

• Ode to the Toilet // The best toilets at Monash Clayton

  Ode to the Toilet
  An Anonymous Contributor

• 'Have you gotten COVID yet?'

  It’s now been more than a month since the dramatic escalation of cases of the Omicron variant after Christmas. Here are my thoughts on QR codes, the booster shot and getting Covid.

• The ABC

  I like the ABC. It’s funny that the ABC is such a prominent topic in politics, just because it’s government funded (hint that means we pay for it). Which makes it easy target for right-wingers to complain about left bias on the ABC. In parallel, the government constantly complains about it too. Or at least that’s what the media tells us.

• The Djokovic saga has been blown way out of proportion. Who is at fault?

  The Australian Open main tournament began on Monday, 10 January, 2022. Being the world no. 1, Serbian player Novak Djokovic would not have had to play in qualifiers in order to play in the main draw.