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Read quite an interesting idea on Ideascale in a Techcrunch article, and how the U.S. government is using it to power 23 sites to crowdsource ideas. It allows citizens to contribute ideas and vote on them, allowing the best ideas to “bubble” to the top. It follows a trend which has long been used by [...]

The project summary in Elance
I just outsourced my first job via Elance- basically to find somebody to splice and code the Locra site from a basic Photoshop file to CSS-compliant webpages. As a team of mostly busy undergraduates, working on Locra means a trade off with either academics, activities, or sleep- and it unsurprisingly things [...]

Had the opportunity just before I left to get in touch with Les, the creator of redsports.sg. Redsports is a sports news and opinion site that focuses on the Singapore sports scene- from school sports at the different levels, to the national team. You can read more at this page, in which Les describes their [...]

Was talking to a good friend of mine who had recently returned to Stanford from a 1 year hiatus. One year ago, he had taken a leave of absence to travel and work in another part of the world, getting the opportunity to see life from the villages to the urban city. This time, when [...]

Read David Allen’s getting things done (GTD) over the holidays, and it’s basically a productivity system that helps you get your head clear. It does seem too much of a overkill for a college student (it’s mainly geared for business executives) but it does work, and pretty well.
I’ve started to adopt it and it is [...]

Visited WiserEarth’s Sausalito office with Keshav today, to pitch Locra to them and see how we could use WiserEarth’s current resources. If you haven’t heard of WiserEarth, they seek to connect every and anyone who is part of the movement towards sustainability and making the world a better place. In short, somewhat like a social [...]

Stumbled upon Give.sg today, and got really excited. Founded by a group of NUS students and based in a NUS Business incubator, their work “supports charity and fundraising efforts across Singapore”. My guess is that it is a Kiva approach to charity in Singapore, where charities put up requests for donations online, and Give.sg provides [...]

Attended a talk about “Global Edupreneurs” by the Harriet Business Group today, fully expecting to hear about ideas about education- and instead found myself being sold a ~$4,999 training to become a salesperson to push the company’s education products to “foreign students”. I got to see the private sector and the government from different perspective [...]

Cambridge is as different from Stanford (or the US system of education) as I can possibly imagine. Where Stanford allocates rooms based on a lottery system, Cambridge’s policy of pricing rooms differently results in the well off people living in nicer rooms. Where Stanford programs always ended off with the reminder that anybody could “approach [...]

Source: The Independent, UK
I lived for a few days in Cambridge University, visiting many of the Singaporeans there. One of the world’s oldest universities, its halls were once graced by greats such as Newton, Marlowe and so many other legends. It is a charming town full of tradition with little shophouses and narrow, winding streets; [...]