Just an ordinary person who loves to think and put thoughts into written words. Liberal, creative and pragmatism is my creed.

I believe we ought to let the dead to bury the dead and not rule over the living.

Legacy like artifacts are only good for the museum as display pieces and not for daily living use.

We ought to thank (or curse, if you like) our ancestors for the inheritance but never to feel we owe them anything to perpetuate "traditions", a complete anti-thesis or even an anathema to the very ethos of the culture I am enveloped in.

There is a Malay saying that goes like this, "Biar mati anak, jangan mati adat" which translated loosely: "Better a dead child than a dead tradition be".

My reason to holding a reverse conviction: Simple: who shall inherit your traditions if all your children are exterminated?

Isn't it still true today, that, "A living dog is better than a dead lion"?

Children are our inheritance, but just as the future belongs to them, it is entirely up to their sovereign stewardship when their time come.

Dead men shall not rule over the living.

For us in the baton passing transition period, let us make sure we leave behind a better world than we first found it, if we can't, at least, first do no harm.

My passion is ...

life and also matters beyond this life

I know too much about ...

oppression

My parents always told me ...

I have itchy fingers, always curious and tinkering with things

My childhood ambition ...

make Earth a foretaste of Heaven

My favorite memory ...

the witness of the birth of my first born

Why I write ...

because I love to

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

anything and almost everything, even silence and emptiness

My first job ...

to be myself

My best moment ...

is right now

My inspiration ...

to make somebody happy or at least less unhappy

Food & Drink > Coffee Does filtered water improve the taste of coffee and tea?

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No, because water is just the universal solvent to extract the essence of the flavors from ground coffee beans and tea leaves or dust.

The solvent therefore ought not improve or spoil the original taste of the coffee and tea it sought to extract, but act only as the carrier.

In other words, water, filtered or otherwise ought not improve or worsen the taste of coffee and tea, it ought to be neutral to do its intended work as a solvent.

However, having said that, whilst filtered water will not improve the taste of fine coffee and tea, bad tasting water will definitely destroy the ta...

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