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Went to the National University of Singapore (NUS) today to visit my friend from China. He is an NUS student and had been on exchange in Stanford last year, and I thought I’d use the opportunity to get to know my local university as well.
I admit visiting NUS was like being a resident tourist, a [...]

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 [...]

My time here has exposed me to so many different fields of knowledge that I am increasingly confused about what I want to major in. On one hand I like economics a lot, on the other hand engineering attracts me because it gives me skills to create things. Anthropology and Sociology fascinate me, while creative [...]

http://theonlinecitizen.com/2008/08/danger-in-our-education-system
I truly enjoy the writings of theonlinecitizen, more so given that I know some of the writers in real life.
More things which caught my eye:
Scholarships Issue:
http://www.straitstimes.com/ST%2BForum/Story/STIStory_270233.html
http://www.todayonline.com/articles/272718.asp
(from reading the TODAY article, I have just discovered that I do not live in “public” housing. I live in a HUDC flat, which is semi-public…???)
Table Tennis Issue:
http://theonlinecitizen.com/2008/08/ms-lee-bee-wah-a-new-broom-sweeps-indiscriminately
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The past few weeks have passed in a flurry, in a rather hectic 3 week mix of Police attachment, scholarship ceremonies and media interviews.
Police attachment was an eye opener, although it came at a rather bad time. It was a really good way to be exposed to the force (though a rather sanitised version of [...]

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 would be something I would like to [...]

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 [...]

Abu Dhabi, 2007

“Think about it: How many places in the world can you say, ‘I’m going to establish an airline,’ and boom, two years later you have 21 planes and 37 destinations? How many places in the world can you say, ‘I need 15,000 hotel rooms,’ and boom, you [...]