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Just happened to discover through Rezwan that Dr. Mahathir has launched his own blog. A remarkable coincidence, for reasons I can’t explain here. But it has to do with him and my work today. I am, after all, a man of coincidences, like Paul Auster’s protagonists.
Anyways, I then suddenly realized from the date that exactly six years ago from today I entered the blogosphere. Let’s just say that both me and my blog have come a long way since then! And I can bet, most of you folks probably didn’t even know what a weblog was, back then. Err, that makes me feel old, so I’ll stop.
So, y’all know how Facebook has this new feature in your homepage called “People You May Know”? (basically just a strategy for FB’s hegemonic empire to further encroach upon our lives). Well, occasionally it does show people I know, though most of them are ones I don’t know well enough to be FB-friends with. So today it showed this one person whose last name happens to be the same as that of a very famous artist, who I happen to be a fan of. It’s not a rare last name, but just out of curiosity I clicked to open up the profile, where I noticed that this person’s high school is in the same city that the artist lives in (a city that is also very much at the heart of said artist’s work). So as an expert researcher, the next thing I did was to quickly open up the wikipedia entry for the artist, and voila! Artist has a child of the same first-name as this person on Facebook! Small world, eh?
