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 [...]
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 [...]
Now that I’ve started to update this blog again, I’ve noticed visitor counts increase rapidly over the past few months. I feel a bit guilty for letting the blog die in the first few months of Stanford- but I was really busy getting used to the new life here.
On hindsight I should have documented the [...]
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 [...]
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.
