The Helical Path ( of Long-term Memorisation )

I think the main benefit of secondary school in a rote-oriented system was that I came to understand that I had a high degree of control over my memory over the minutes-to-weeks scale. I could basically stuff anything in and retain it ... this I consider to be short-term skilling, and one can forget a lot of this after the weeks pass - there's plenty of documentation on that.

However, I don't feel that I have a great degree of control over how to use only a short amount of time, to cement knowledge from this shorter term into my longer term memory ( years to decades ). I don't know if it's a matter of indiscipline ... as perhaps my current practice of simply swapping between subjects in a helical fashion over the months and years, is doing precisely what I should be doing.

I just don't know.

Timing of Mass Ingestion

 "Don't chase a bloaty supper, with a bloaty breakfast."

... I think I've been doing that wrong.

Proper and Improper Objectification

 The problem with sexual objectification is not about objectification - it's categorically-selective objectification which is the problem. 

I'm in full support of holistic, diversified, multi-pronged objectification ... and I don't think that's much of an issue.

Condo fees in Malaysia

As of 2023.

Ohoho, I just figured this out by working on the local government entity.

Stratified properties are governed under Act 757. The local government entity with the duty to maintain, and the right to collect taxes "maintenance account charges" has a lifecycle of :

developer ->

joint management board (jmb) before 25% of owners claim strata titles -> 

management corporation (mCorp) after 25% of owners claim their strata titles. 

Often the actual operations are outsourced to property managers governed under Act 242. There is a woeful lack of education among laypeople about how this works resulting in the following, common, false beliefs :

- the jmb\mcorp is the residents association (it is not)

- the jmb\mcorp has responsibilities beyond maintenance and bylaw legislation (not even security, community development, or information security)

- the jmb \mcorp is a property manager (different unlinked acts of law)

- the property manager is responsible for the jmb\mcorp's duties under 757 (nope)

The worse thing about 757 is, it creates the jmb/mCorp which is governed by a sort of parliamentary protocol, whereas the officials "committee members" equivalent to the board of the jmb/mCorp typically have zero awarenesses of the very existence or protocols of 757 when they are elected to office by their peers

Anyway, about fees. It comes to ( maintenance account charges of about MYR 0.20 to MYR 0.70 ) plus (10% sinking fund account charges) per month per square foot of each parcel. This is collected by the developer/jmb/mCorp depending on lifecycle stage.

Parcel tax (state land office) and assessment tax (city council) are separately collected, and are tinier fees in comparison. Typically paid every 6 months to the respective authority.

Aggressive Simplication

The more I talk to ordinary people, the more I'm convinced of the pattern that a lot of niggling sentimental conversation is just loud pitching, which can be simply ignored. If you give two people a glass of water, one of them's going to complain about the absence of a napkin, or that the other person was less thirsty but got the same amount of water, etc. So, I think, with ordinary social conversations ... it's good to just offer the conversant a turn of phrase, along the lines of "your interpretation is noted", and simply move along.

When subject to duress, aggressive simplification is the housekeeping heuristic, for a reset to health and safety.

So I made it my LinkedIn handle (LinkedIn lets you have multiple aliases - I'll just try this one out for a bit).