The Square Root of Three

And alas, the Taiwan trip has come to an end. It has been an interesting trip in many senses of the word. But one of the most memorable things was ironically watching Harold and Kumar escape from Guantanamo Bay 1.5 times. With it, the beautiful poem:

The Square Root of Three

I’m sure that I will always be
A lonely number like root three

The three is all that’s good and right,
Why must my three keep out of sight
Beneath the vicious square root sign,
I wish instead I were a nine

For nine could thwart this evil trick,
with just some quick arithmetic

I know I’ll never see the sun, as 1.7321
Such is my reality, a sad irrationality

When hark! What is this I see,
Another square root of a three

As quietly co-waltzing by,
Together now we multiply
To form a number we prefer,
Rejoicing as an integer

We break free from our mortal bonds
With the wave of magic wands

Our square root signs become unglued
Your love for me has been renewed
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Lovely.

End of May

So with the completion of my 2nd Sundown Marathon, and a long-overdue meet-up with my closest friends from secondary school, we've come to the end of May. June will be over in quite a jiffy with my 2-week trip to Taiwan.

It's ironic, how I'd always think or tell myself I'll never want to go through the pains of running another marathon at the end of the last one, yet I will not hesitate in signing up for the upcoming one. Pain builds character I guess. Hopefully. (: So Standard Chartered, here I come. Makes me wonder whether I'll ever do an ultramarathon one day. I'm really inspired by those who did, really admirable and respectable.

And it is the 3rd consecutive year I'll not be watching Roland Garros finals. But there's less to look forward to this year, with Federer defeated in the quarters, ending his streak of 23 grand slam semi-finals. And he even faces the propsect of losing his no. 1 ranking. It's disappointing, even for fans like me. But as they say, all things must come to an end at some point, and you'd have to marvel at the consistency at which he's been playing at over his career. At the end of the day, I think it's all about going through the whole process and finishing well, in everything one does, and in life. I pray I will.