EIDUS.SG

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 SG over to 3 very capable people who I hope [...]

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 the taxi driver was a 50ish [...]

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 efforts could complement each other. Roshan is from Kuala Lumpur and [...]

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 an oxygen tank or something. I wouldn’t trust my spare [...]

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 adopted was for the viral email to keep forwarding, with people [...]

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 hunch about viral emails, it should double. Will it?
The [...]

Refugees SG’s pilot project in TJC has been overwhelmingly successful, 277 page views on the first day, 167 the next, and there are already 122+ the last I checked today. That’s probably because the TJC population is just that big, and you have certain limits to how many visitors you can have.
The next steps: [...]

So far the pilot project has been rather successful- so far, Rishik, Rennald and Co. have got about 100+ petition signatures on paper in TJC alone, with many more coming online.
Refugees SG is on STOMP’s Talkback and other forums as well.
First exhibition in TJC:

Performance in front of the Refugees SG Exhibit

Rennald and Rishik presenting to [...]