2007
Its been 15 days since the end of the A Levels and I’ve been working as an intern at the Ministry of Finance. I requested the opportunity to intern with them after participating in the Budget Essay Competition 2007 earlier this year to see whether the civil service…
Preliminaries are over- it was a good taste of how the A levels are going to be, and I figure that the strategy used all along of study-one-or-two-weeks-before-the-exams isn’t going to work well here, especially for Math. 40 more days to A-Levels, it’s the last stretch and also the…
18th birthday lunch with brother and sister
Becoming 18: threshold of the real world
I turned 18 a good 8 days ago, and have done quite a bit of thinking over the past 8 days. I’ve settled down (quite significantly) to study; I have handed Refugees…
Day 27: 1,000th visitor visits this online journal!
This long weekend has a story of 2 taxi rides that taught me something about both:
1. Taxi ride from Eunos to nowhere
Ran late on Friday, and had to rush to a friend’s house for a party at 7. I flagged a cab along the road outside my house, and…
L-R: Jun Han, Debbie Stothard, Jason Roshan, me
Met up with Jason Roshan from the AIPMC (Asean Inter-Ministerial Myanmar Caucus), and Debbie Stothard (ALTSEAN) on Monday night after their conference. We presented our work on Refugees SG so far, and explored ways which the 2…
My 4 year old Adidas Techstars give way en-route to a 4th in the Triple Jump (10.93m). I eventually run a 11.83s in borrowed spikes to place 3rd in the 100m…
I’m pretty impressed with myself being able to lug myself over 100m without needing…
My viral email hunch
As it turns out, the visitors triple. However, I don’t think 1,600 visits a day will continue to be likely: I foresee a drop tomorrow, followed by further drops till the number stabilizes around 300 a day.
One of the assumptions I…
Photos taken during the visit to TJC:
TJC’s Subway store
TJC’s History room
TJC’s Cyberhub: Students can come in any time they want and use the computers
Interior of TJC’s library
3.39am, 3 hrs 45 min after first publicity email is sent out:
For some perspective, the 240 hit leap I wrote about yesterday just got dwarfed by 600 visitors coming at an unearthly hour. Not sure whether there will be more tomorrow… but according to my…
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