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Eat good, dress better, think weirdest. Better to be roughly excellent than perfectly mediocre. Aesthetic Identity. DMs Open
Joined January 2020
🧵Thread of Threads. I post about aesthetics, food history and trivia, and other random things that cross my mind. Also lots of photos of my cooking, and sometimes my outfits.
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A girl I briefly dated who was really into Michelin starred chefs told me once that without exception all her chef exes would subsist almost completely on junk food and instant noodles. I think about that a lot.
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@MyOwnVolition Mid food tastes worse than junk food and none of them have the time to cook up a fancy meal for themselves outside of work.
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Top university admissions counsellor in Singapore (best track record of getting top achievers into Ivies) once said that to get into an Ivy you have to present yourself as the most fascinating zoo animal the admissions officer has seen to get in. I think about that a lot.
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The fuck does it mean if an ex texts you asking to be blocked so she can use the chat as a place for 'notes and to-dos'.
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So I just bought a kettlebell and this seems like as good a way as any to get a routine started. 1 like = 5 kettlebell swings with a 20kg kettlebell. I trust all of you to make me suffer as much as possible.
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Ok let's see how much my followers want me to suffer. Posting this as I go to bed, but shall do 5 pull-ups tomorrow for every like that this gets. (I hope I don't regret this).
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Man also finds the most promising nubile young boys every year and invites them to a retreat with him on a beach resort during admissions time. Cost of doing business 🙃🙃🙃.
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You know how people have a wistful nostalgia for a time they never experienced? Like how people seem to obsess over America's jazz age with ridiculous speakeasy bars? I think there's no example that's cuter and more charming than Japan's "Ivy-League Style"
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Being yourself is often misunderstood as appealing to some abstract, !non existent, notion of yourself. It’s really just not lying to yourself about what you want. Which might be harder than inventing an entire identity.
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After eating at 53 different 3 Michelin-Starred restaurants, I've finally eaten at the last restaurant on my bucket list. There is no longer any restaurant that I have a burning desire to visit at least once in my life. Odd feeling. Time to close this chapter?.
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Wow cardio fucking sucks why does anyone ever enjoy doing this.
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This is me after about 3 years of ~8-10 hours a week of practice. I also scored in the bottom 1% of the population for gross motor coordination. The army didn’t allow me to hold a gun or grenade for safety reasons!
You can become middling at something with an hour of practice a week. You can become good at something with an hour of practice per day. Both of these options leave you 6+ hours left over, every day.
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Alright to celebrate 500 followers I'm going to do a pre-@threadapalooza thread. 100 tweets on the best meals I've had around the world. Pictures not all my own because I sometimes forget to take photos. Not really in order, I tweet as the places come to mind.
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suddenly remember the time I went to a 3-michelin star restaurant in Tokyo and for the main course they served me a lamb chop. I was provided a tea spoon and chopsticks.
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@sympatheticopp So there’s this funny story about sg in the 80s where the Govt was paying non degree holders to sterilise themselves and paying graduate mothers when they gave birth….
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Starting to think that Singapore's widespread acceptance of underpaid migrant workers, conscription, and scholarship bonds are all somehow linked together.
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I heard you wanted fat marbled with beef? 60-day dry aged olive wagyu. The cow is raised on a diet of toasted olive peels which is a by-product of making olive oil. Will be searing with olive oil later and then using the drippings to cook fried rice.
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I wish there were a PUA course out there that isn't cringey and/or slimey. Not for me personally, but I think the world would be a better place if people got better at being playful with the opposite sex in a non creepy way.
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@MaryJackalope Consultants are not in the business of insight provision, they are in the business of responsibility offshoring.
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Wow writing to your past self is such a cathartic form of introspection. I can't believe I never tried it before.
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A heuristic I've found pretty useful for decision making is asking myself if there I'll regret giving up the opportunity if it doesn't turn up again for 10 years. Seems to get rid of most fomo if you're honest with yourself.
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Wait how the fuck does Marina Bay Sands consume 0.35% of Singapore's electricity.
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The best food is that which is perfectly grilled over an open fire, which is the complete anti-thesis of temperature control. Don't obsess over the wrong things 😬.
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Interesting how earning money feels so different depending on how you earned it. Drawing a salary feels less satisfying than earning from your own products, and making money off crypto just makes you feel like a degenerate gambler.
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Haven't done this before so let's give it a try. 1 like = 1 thing you can do as a dude to look better.
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Am I the only one that the reasoning behind "You should work extremely hard at a thankless and non-engaging job because it's a l e a r n i n g e x p e r i e n c e" is kinda sus.
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Can someone explain how I was probably born with like bottom 10% executive function but somehow ended up becoming top 1% in getting shit done and planning for things.
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honestly amazes me how the left are so fucking eager to lynch their own ingroup. like why would anyone join an ingroup that's more likely to turn on you than the outgroup?.
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Aesthetic Identity: An Ongoing Thread. I think that everyone fundamentally has an aesthetic identity in each of our five senses. Each facet of this aesthetic identity is either strongly or weakly manifested, but exists in some shape or form. 1/.
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How common is it for boys to have sleepovers with other boys when they're teens.
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Two years later…
man at the rate i'm going i would have made 1000 cups of flat whites and i still wouldn't have figured out how to draw latte art.
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Unsure why exactly it bothers me so much that it's considered my responsibility to give my mum 20-25% of my salary every month. Not really the sum, but there's something about the idea of it that rubs me strangely.
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Salmon as a Sushi, a One-man Norwegian Psyop. What if I told you that Salmon Sushi was not Japanese? That even the *idea* of Salmon Sushi didn't exist until 30 years ago. That we now have Salmon Sushi because of this one man. Bjorn Erik Olsen.
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Guy was flexing during dinner about how he used to be in Mensa and also how his stock pick went from $7k to $13k in a month and I had to start scrolling twitter so that I wouldn't say anything snarky.
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I think men genuinely underestimate how much certain scents can act as aphrodisiacs for girls. A bit of a sus dark art tho tbh.
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There are two girls in my dance school that actively avoid dancing with me during practice and express obvious displeasure when paired up with me during class. It shouldn't bother me. But it kinda does mostly because I see them more than once a week. Ugh.
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Doing a write-up to convince people to join the organisation while I'm simultaneously looking for exit opportunities is a real mindfuck moment.
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the problem with non-attachment is that you end up getting almost everything you want/need but you end up baffled how you got there in the first place and so is everyone else around you.
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I regret to inform that after having tried this for a 20 minute session that it is absurdly effective.
okay so I just cured a year of chronic neck & chest tension with a few hours of meditation-induced shaking and intuitive myofascial release?!?. Your cells know what to do when you *deeply* allow them.
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Being conventionally attractive actually sucks. It's a God-given depreciating asset, and if you think that you're successful because of pretty privilege, you'll always have the insecurity of not knowing when your success will be taken from you.
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Had a really fucking weird experience napping this afternoon. Would periodically wake up briefly and fall back asleep to the same dream. Characters in the dream would keep trying to convince me that they were real life and what I was waking up to was a dream.
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Bypassed the lockdown restrictions by booking a suite at the St Regis. Bonus: An excellent view of the sunset + I get to eat Peking Duck, Sushi, and Tahu Telor all in a single meal. Happy birthday to me 🙃🙃
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It's a goddamn shame that 99% of instructors/teachers don't have a grasp of the meta-skill of how to learn.
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I've always hated when people use vanilla to describe something plain or ordinary. It's not only one of the most delightful flavours in the world but it's also really rare and expensive?! It's like $500/kg at the *source*.
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Keep your "options open," whether if it comes to people or jobs or anything else is pretty foolish if you don't realise there's a cost to it.
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An economics degree literally has negative value today. You need to unlearn your entire higher education to even begin to grasp how our world functions now.
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Mm yes sunflower butter, or as the poors like to call it, margarine.
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For the past year I've only been getting my news from Twitter and never actually following mainstream media. It's absolutely fantastic. Signal:noise ratio way way up and I find out about the important stuff way earlier than everyone else.
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Took some moda to crank out work and instead I'm here. Trading $DOGE on leverage. GODDAMMIT.
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The past week gives me so much 4chan lulz energy from the late-2000s and I'm really really here for it. The Internet feels ALIVE again.
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*slaps rooftop infinity pool* This bad boy can fit 17500 AMERICAN HOMES WORTH OF ELECTRICITY CONSUMPTION IN IT
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@pauriahcarey I was bored so. Roughly 50 billion of tax collected each year, of which half is GST/Income. 30k per prisoner per year. You'd have to be paying 200k in tax across income and gst for it to be $6.
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@visakanv Chris Rock took it like a champ: +.Will Smith got brownie points from his wife: +.Oscar gets viewership: +.Twitter gets new reaction meme: +. Looks like a win for everyone here guys.
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grit and hardwork? no man, i just told the universe what i wanted and fucked around doing things and shit just happened.
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After taking @m_ashcroft AT course I just see people with collapsed awareness EVERYWHERE. Help.
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Has anyone ever conceptualised cooking as an RPG skill tree? Surely someone must have.
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Girls have the potential to achieve a level of unbridled horniness which far outstrips what dudes are capable of and I am sometimes envious of that.
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Update: we went on a date and she didn't steal my kidneys.
Lmao I matched with a girl that I hooked up with half a decade ago and she doesn't seem to remember at all. Even after we agreed on drinks next week. Is this bait.
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I think people frame goals wrongly. Hitting a goal is not for you to achieve meaning, it's for you to reassess whether you want to keep doing that activity or drop it for something else.
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It is fairly trivial to bruteforce your way into the top 5-10% of a field in a short period. To push into true mastery (say top 0.1%) takes proper blood, sweat, and tears. But the average person thinks the gulf between them and top 5% is much larger than between 5% and 0.1%.
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Everytime a friend complains to me about how the guys they sleep with are terrible in bed the first thing that pops to mind is @visakanv saying "Have sex 100 times" 💀💀.
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Pandemics is never about the disease in question, it's all about the second and third order effects that result. Medical system, supply chains etc.
THE MORTALITY RATE IS NOT THE PROBLEM.(for now; thread). The number of deaths is a function of: the virus, demographics, number contacts with infected and medical attention. The last two are subject to multiplicative dynamics. 1/N.
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I really hate this latest slew of Netflix "documentaries" and I can't place my finger on why. Is it because it pretends to think deeply about a situation when all it does is rile emotions with formulaic cinematography and soundtracks?.
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Suspect it has something to do with the weird intersection between with the expression of love through money, expression of love through obligation, and not having chosen consciously to enter that contract.
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Increasingly convinced that the best way to celebrate an occasion is to cook a nice meal for the person you're celebrating with.
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So many people in Singapore that teach kids actively dislike kids and that. Makes me kinda sad 😢.
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Wow the quarantine hotel just straight up gave up today and gave everyone a bag of chocolates instead of breakfast.
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Finding this corner of Twitter and settling into it remains one of the best things I've done in 2020. Love all you amazing people 😘😘😘.
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Why people would confess to being boring in a dating app completely eludes me. Isn't that the biggest self-own?.
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Been following an account that grew from nothing to 50k followers in a matter of months. I think @visakanv was right regarding the dangers of growing too much too fast. Can see the cracks in the psyche and the fraying emotions getting more evident by the day.
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When I was 18, one of the things on my contrived 30 before 30 bucket list was to "Eat at a 3 Michelin-Star restaurant". I'm a year and a half short of that and I don't think 18 year old me would have dreamed I would have trekked around the world to eat at 50x that number.
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One interesting side effect of using a memory palace to memorise Chinese characters: I suddenly got significantly better at visualising and remembering driving/walking routes without relying on my phone.
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My good friend's husband is such an amazing conversationalist. I always forget until I meet them again and I aspire to have his level of power and energy when I'm 40.
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no idea what an "executive function" is but i will not be attending.
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Alright guys pack it up China has won the RTW Menswear race (this was 30USD on Taobao/Aliexpress, 100% Linen)
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Uh ya so this turned out to be truer much faster than I expected it to be.
grit and hardwork? no man, i just told the universe what i wanted and fucked around doing things and shit just happened.
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Instant noodles but make it e x t r a f a n c y
Might shave some truffles on instant noodles later just because I can.
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Addressing the lack of fit pics on Twitter with my own. Missed wearing turtlenecks.
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I just had a sudden realisation that "heaty" and "cooling" food in traditional Chinese medicine might simply just map to glycemic load in Western nutrition. Will need to do a bit of digging when I have time for this.
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I think an aesthetic identity should be cultivated, but not manicured. Having a coherent aesthetic identity helps to ground you, but having an aesthetic identity that is modeled after what you want to be rather than who you are will lead to dissonance. 6/.
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Huh I forgot how fun it is to flirt with someone that's sharp enough to spar with you. Also, turns out I'm not that rusty after all.
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Blowout lockdown birthday meal at home 🥳🥳🥳. 120 dry-aged T-Bone.Truffled Pommes Anna cooked in duck fat and butter, served with Bordelaise sauce.Butter confit endives with truffle puree, served with a veal and port reduction
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My posture both in day to day life and while dancing has improved tremendously ever since I started applying Alexander Technique practices. I also now have much less opportunity to get a random dopamine rush whenever I crack my neck and back.
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I really respect the aesthetic that Hisato Hamada of Wagyumafia fame has crafted for himself. He's managed to make himself synonymous with an entire genre of Japanese food in about 3 years, which is no mean feat.
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@visakanv getting angry gives u a sense of agency when contextually it feels like u have none. It is a stage of grief. People angry at the world are grappling with the loss of how they perceive the world should be.
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Every 3 years my brain latches on to a new hobby which it decides to be unreasonably obsessive about. 2008-2011: Rhythm Games.2011-2014: Cocktail Making.2014-2017: Food, whisky, coffee.2017-2020: Wine, cooking. Turns out I've pivoted to West Coast Swing in 2021. Excited!.
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You see, back in the 1960s, students were expected to wear only their boring old school uniforms and anything that dared to incorporate more style was seen as offensively rebellious.
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Just got served pufferfish liver. Would be rude not to eat it right? If I stop posting you know what happened.
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