Hello,


Thanks for visiting my website. In this site, I attempt to describe myself: my life as an individual, my career as a researcher and my point of view - not very neutral though - as accurately as possible. For the sake of simplicity, I have made sections herein to organize the contents of this site, if you’d like to jump in.

My name is felix though I often sign-in using my sobriquet:iFlex, the anagram or Fe59, the chemico-hellenic formula of Fe-LIX.
I was born in Kerala, India and spent 25 years of my life in various parts of India before accepting a Scholarship from MEXT to do my PhD in Phycology at Kochi University, Japan. I dream of pursuing a research career upon my graduation.

My website is neither a journal nor a blog. It predates the popularity of both of those Internet phenomena. Journals are especially vile blogs where boring people talk about themselves endlessly. I don't consider who I am to be interesting in and of itself, so I don't talk about myself on my other pages that much. Even when blogs cover interesting topics, they're presented in a confusing stream of consciousness. Chronological organization is not navigable. Instead of chronological organization, which is really no organization at all, I structure each page and the website itself so that they can be efficiently browsed.

My website is also unlike Wikipedia, as I am one person and I do not have to follow their ridiculous Neutral Point Of View policy. The NPOV policy is probably the only way to get large numbers of people to work on something and end up with a vaguely coherent product, but it doesn't apply to a single person. On my website, I present my opinions freely.

In this site, I talk about myself to make my clearer to you, my happy readers, who are privileged to live in Space. Understanding my history and this site's history should provide the chronological context that I have intentionally not provided elsewhere for reasons of clarity. My website is closest in nature to a book; when reading a book, you want to read only the final draft, but when analyzing a book, you want all of the drafts. Finally, for reasons of completeness, I describe views of mine that are relevant to understanding the other things that I've written but don't necessarily belong in those other places.

And finally, thanks MG, who inspired me to redesign this website.


Cheers,
iFlex

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"Early in life, I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change."