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 [...]
I am halfway through the fall quarter of sophomore year, and I’ve learnt to better handle college life this year. Residential college life blurs the lines between play, study and life- and thus living a balanced life has been pretty difficult.
“Text messages save lives”- An example of how technology is a “game changer”
This year has [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Sister received her Direct Schools Admission letter from a few schools today. It basically guarantees her a place in the secondary school if she scores above a certain score (much like the UK system of university admissions). This creates a moral hazard for a 11-year old interested in (perhaps) nothing else other than kittens and [...]
Went to the Istana last night to witness the President’s Scholars ceremony. For a few fleeting moments of deja vu, I recalled that one year ago I had stood there on that stage, where the President had put a thin red folder with gold lettering in my hands. “Serve Singapore,” he had said, and then [...]
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; [...]
(This is the first in a series of backdated posts, of my backpacking trip through Europe before returning home)
A sign of defeat
Travelled from Stanford to London on the cheapest flight possible- Icelandair. Along the way I had a 10 hour layover in Iceland, and took the opportunity to explore a bit before the flight to [...]
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 [...]
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.
