blog on ivy's utterances

Life is a joke, so laugh

Sat, 21 Feb 2026 02:06:57 +0800

I’ve been told some number of times that I act calmly when I face problems. I don’t, but I do make it a point to laugh at said problems as I deal with them.

‘Laughing in the face of adversity’ is a somewhat common phrase that people would probably dismiss as another platitude, along with other phrases of the same tune, but I do like it.

I’m not at all telling you to go full on happy-go-lucky, no. It’s just that…once you’ve given up on something, that’s effectively the end of the line. You’ve locked yourself out. You’ve sealed your fate by declaring to yourself, ‘There is no point, therefore I will stop.’

On sounding smart in blog posts

Wed, 10 Dec 2025 02:08:19 +0800

Somehow, my perception of blogs and blog posts has shifted to something along the lines of ‘having something smart to say that will benefit anyone’. Because of this, I’ve written many things and scrapped them by the third sentence or so.

Perhaps it’s because I’ve read too many of those SEO blog posts. It could also be that a portion of tech (and other) issues I’ve faced have been solved by reading a post on someone’s personal blog, written by someone much, much more competent than I am.

Perhaps it's less wandering than it is drifting

Tue, 02 Dec 2025 02:02:46 +0800

The wanderer’s talk with the traveller echoed in his dreams. Floating in the silent waters, their paths had crossed in that brief moment.

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It’s funny how they come and go.

In this life, nobody leaves. They just float away.

Nobody likes listening to clichés like ‘Live in the moment’ or ‘Nothing lasts forever’, but they’re true. They only stay for a little while, then they drift away…or I drift away.

Wanderer

Thu, 27 Nov 2025 03:39:08 +0800

This is yet another site on the Internet. What’s the difference?