The world and I still miss Freddie Mercury. This post is a tribute to Queen, the greatest band on earth.
The next song is for my wife. It’s a song that still stirs something in me after all these years .
Love Of My Life (Freddie Mecury)
Love Of My Life (Brian May)
These are the days of our lives
Above video is apparently the last recorded performance of Freddie Mercury.
I Got A Woman (with Albert Lee & James Burton)
Humoresque
Vincent
Vincent (with Don McLean)
Danny Boy
Mr. Sandman
Tiger Rag
Baby’s Coming Home
Goodtime Charlie (with Earl Klugh)
I Still Can’t Say Goodbye
Tommy Emmanuel’s version here.
Georgia On My Mind
Philosophical discussion in Cambridge – Part 1
In video above, Wittgenstein lectures on the thought behind a word or a sentence like “This is a very pleasant pineapple.
Philosophical discussion in Cambridge – Part 2
In video above, a dialogue takes place between Wittgenstein, Russell and his wife (played by Tilda Swinton) about whether Wittgenstein should commit suicide because of a V-sign that has no philosophical meaning and apparently destroys Wittgenstein’s language theory.
This, for some reason reminded me of this passage from Raymond Smullyan’s Some Interesting Memories: A Paradoxical Life:
...a philosopher…went into a closet for 25 years to contemplate what life really was. After emerging, he met an old colleague in the street who asked him: “Good heavens, where have you been all these years?”“In a closet.”
“Why?”
“To find out what life really is.”
“And did you find an answer?”
“Yes.”
“What answer did you find?”
“Well, it can be best expressed by saying that life is like a bridge.”
“That’s very interesting,” replied the colleague, “but can you be a little more explicit? Can you tell me just how life is like a bridge?”
“Uh,” replied the philosopher, “maybe you are right. Maybe life is not like a bridge.”
Philosophical discussion in Cambridge – Part 3
In the video above, Wittgenstein explains his philosophical development from the ‘Tractatus’ to the ‘Philosophical Investigations’, in response to a question by J.M. Keynes, the famous british economist.
The Ph.D/MA Program in Philosophy at the City University of New York Graduate Center hosted a two day celebration of the work of Distinguished Professor Saul Kripke, entitled “Saul Kripke: Philosophy, Language and Logic”, on the occasion of his sixty fifth birthday, on January 25-26, 2006.
My favourite song and movie. It’s something about the moody yet driving guitar riffs and somewhat melancholic and laidback singing I suppose. Being part of a soundtrack from a show about a race car driver (played by Jay Chou) was also another factor. I loved the scenes of the cars racing.
Via this link from Singapore Alternatives.
Some background here and here. See also news of the Malaysian civil service pay rise here. Compare who gets the most increases in both countries. But I must say that the lowest paid Malaysian civil servants get a lot less than the lowest paid civil servants in Singapore. Then again, the cost of living in both countries are very different.
Alternative political content:
Singapore Rebel
Said Zahari’s 17 Years Trailer
Full video of Said Zahari’s 17 Years Trailer
Interview with Tan Wah Piow