April, 2014

Hidden Appetites: Cafe Sardine meets Iwashi Izakaya

Café Sardine morphs into Iwashi Izakaya in the evening, serving fine Japanese tapas sized dishes carefully prepared in view by chef Hachiro Fujise. Café Sardine’s izakaya started off as a “pop up” concept that wasn’t intended to stick around for the longterm, but its popularity however, forcefully made it into…

“Everything is Permitted”: The Relevance of Moral Philosophy in Politics

“Without god, everything is permitted” was the memorable phrase of one of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s famous fictional tortured philosophers, Ivan Karamazov. This has been discussed and debated by moral philosophers, theologians, students, and teachers rather extensively, but has not entered the realm of politics enough. In an increasingly secular society, how…

Team Building with McGill Robotics

I believe we measure our lives by the quality of our interactions with others, and in McGill Robotics, I’ve had the fortune to oversee great hallmarks of human excellence-insight, wisdom, justice, resourcefulness, courage, and originality.

Poetry: The Night Has Gone

The rusty rain falls again In the streets of 3am Could I be the only one awake? The streetlamp flickers as it does The shadows swept away like crumbs I glimpse the edge of the sun Sleep never comes In pursuit of a song That’s why dreamers never sleep, they…