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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 [...]

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), [...]

Visited Google.org and Virgance during the 1 week as well- two “technology companies” doing good. Was extremely taken by their work and their structure- they represent a departure from the usual social change models we are used to. Innovation meets social change, and they are the product.
Google.org would better be named philanthropy@google.com, and google donates [...]

Visited 826 Valencia and Upwardly Global over the break as well, two social organizations whose ideas can be transferred back to Singapore.
826 Valencia was started in 2002, and is essentially a nonprofit tuition centre cum playground, even though its stated mission is to “support students ages 6 to 18 with their writing skills, and to [...]

Visited Wokai.org and talked to its founder, Casey over Spring break to get to know about these two organizations involved in China. Wokai.org is a “Kiva clone” which specializes in China;
Wokai.org is essentially a Kiva for China, which exists due to China’s strict regulations and laws which prevent Kiva from operating. However there is one [...]

Have been on a Alternative Spring Break, visiting NGOs and social entrepreneurship startups in the bay area. Have a bit of internet now so am posting an update here.
Many of the organizations here are innovative and really awaken you to the number of causes out there one can support. Over the past few days I [...]

Just took the final of a class I really enjoyed, “The Making of the Modern World”. Even though I missed almost all the lectures (oversleeping at 9am), I really enjoyed the readings and learning about the progress of humanity from the Feudal ages to the modern world we know now.
I enjoy reading history for it [...]

Its Dead Week before Finals, and everybody here is studying. I’m (trying to) study as well, so the updates on this blog will probably be few.
Continued to assemble the UnseenPeople team this week, and now we’re 4 people after I roped in one of my friends. The name of the project will likely have to [...]

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 [...]