Have begun reading my Google Reader in earnest nowadays- I subscribe to feeds mainly in 6 areas. News (General), News (Singapore), Technology, Social Entrepreneurship, Economics, and “Random Cool Stuff”. I’ll post up all my feeds someday.
Meanwhile have been quite saddened to hear the unfolding of events at Ren Ci Hospital, and AWARE. Formerly two very [...]
Just met up with Casey and a little “focus group” of students from China (and one Chinese American) to brainstorm ideas for Wokai. We brainstormed a few ideas for marketing/fund raising- from allowing people to donate from their mobile phones, to gift certificates and how that would change things. After the meeting I’m more optimistic [...]
Life has settled to a monotonous cycle of classes, with work on Locra sprinkled all over the place. The 4 classes I am taking are heavy on work; though interesting they take up quite a bit of time.
Work on Locra is slow but steady. We have been pitching it to various NGOs an so far [...]
Setting up a google apps site for Locra.in now- and regretting that I didn’t just pay an extra $3 to have Google settle all the domain stuff for me. For a semi-techie, having to figure out CNAME records and MX servers costs me more than $3 in headaches.
However Google Apps is interesting in that it [...]
Spring quarter has arrived, and it’s amazing. The sun is out and everybody is so much more cheerful; the weather is roughly comparable to sunny Singapore minus the humidity. I’d still trade humidity and the need to bathe everyday for year-round sun.
I’m taking 4 classes this quarter: a history class (Making of the Modern World), [...]
I am Daniel Isaiah Ong, an undergrad at Stanford studying Engineering and Political Science. I also work at locra.org.
I write mostly about social entrepreneurship, technology, design, and Singapore, the land where I come from.
