A poem — I used to play multiple sports Ones that feel like carrying a cross The more you play, the harder you fall They bring out unwilling athletes among peers Feeding dust to opponents that exist only in dreams For a Sisyphean match of momentary illusions of esteem They lure young girls…

A review on George Orwell’s Animal Farm — George Orwell’s Animal Farm is a cautionary allegory on the uses and abuses of power. It illustrates a seemingly utopian revolutionary movement, which later reveals itself as a mere facade to a familiar deceptive face. Orwell introduces political concepts in the book through his short tale based on the Russian…

A piece about the seismic waves of life and how to paddle through them — The many outdoor games we played as kids prove that we never really cared about losing or failing until life taught us to. We go back and forth in tripping and dusting off. Trying again was a mere response to not getting the results we initially wanted. As we get…

A review on Lisa Brennan-Jobs’ devastatingly beautiful Small Fry — Small Fry by Lisa Brennan-Jobs is an enthralling and discomfiting coming-of-age memoir set in an extraordinarily bifurcated world of Steve Jobs’ daughter that was once a myth to many. The book paints an intimate portrait of Brennan-Jobs’ empowering tale of overcoming a tumultuous upbringing in a dysfunctional family structure. …

A comprehensive review on Robin Sharma’s The 5 AM Club: Own Your Morning, Elevate Your Life — The 5 AM Club: Own Your Morning, Elevate Your Life by Robin Sharma is an imaginative allegory that exhibits the often-forgotten truth about personal optimization and how it marries hard work and success to each other. It follows the journey of two lost souls into a productive, prodigious, and influential…

A review on Stephen Hawking’s instructive and hopeful Brief Answers to the Big Questions — Brief Answers to the Big Questions by Stephen Hawking is a compilation of humanity’s greatest curiosities delineated in a comprehensive and scientifically rooted manner. …

A book review on the compassion and courageousness of Jonathan Safran Foer’s Eating Animals — Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer is a thought-provoking narrative on the great suffering behind factory farming and the ethics of meat consumption. The book explores the topic of omnivory across various perspectives that represent dominant institutional responses to our present system of animal agriculture.

A book review on the vastness and tininess of Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time — A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking is everything I wish I learned in high school. I know that an element’s atomic number defined its properties and that energy equals time multiplied by the speed of light squared. …

And why it remains a popular sport — Boxing is one of the few sports with the primary goal of causing harm on opponents by literally knocking them down — blood and bruises. Mainstream media commonly defines boxing as a sport of skill, strength, and cunning. …