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A Lucky start to an Auspicious New Year 2008-02-11 10:48:25 Day 3 of Chinese New YearWent to pray at 托塔院 (tuo ta yuan), a temple situated at Geylang. While waiting for my turn to pray to 太岁爷 for blessings, some droplets of red ink sprinkled upon me. 2 drops, each landed on my elbow, with an additional drop on my offerings. Apparently the priest, while stoking the brush in my direction, caused it to happen. The strange thing is no one got it, and when it was my turn to go to the front to listen to the chanting, no red ink either. Could this be good luck (Red = luck)? The fortune cookie that I ate at the temple revealed a message predicting good fortune in investing in blue-chip stocks this year. Cool!My Family later went to Loyang Tua Bek Gong Temple where upon entering, the staff handed to us free copies of newspapers, featuring but of
Chinese New Year Eve 2008 2008-02-06 11:43:19 Heralding towards a new year on the lunar calendar...Early morning climbed out of bed and instantly felt the atmosphere refreshing. After reading some course materials, I left for school. The usual crowds and buzz were not in NUS today. Had a very easy time (as well as good spot) to park the vehicle.A lecture must be worth attending to warrant my travelling from the East to the West on a Chinese
New Year's Eve. And indeed it is. Prof Hussin Mutalib never failed to entertain the students with his 1)unique poshy accent; 2)self-glorifying professions; 3)lame rhetorics. For someone who had taught the subject for more than 2 decades, he must have some substance. Singapore politics, while it already is intriguing, has become even more exciting and interesting.I was glad to receive an invitation Read more:Chinese New Year
The Wan Soon Lee Business 2008-02-05 09:16:13 Having read a couple of books on the Singapore politics, it excited me when I knew that my Uncle was once with the Workers' Party. I admire the spirit of WP ex-Secretary General Joshua Benjamin Jeyaratnam, with his immense belief that nothing can quash the "indomitable spirit".JBJ: "I have taken the view always, that nothing outside the person can destroy the person. That no force outside can destroy a person. That the human spirit is indomitable."My Uncle had been to most of his political rallies and had also helped out in the Anson by-election which saw JBJ into Parliament. My Uncle had also spoken to JBJ in person. Wow, how cool! One of the significant moments in Singapore politics. It must have been great memory.It was also my first time today that I set foot in my 4th Uncle's industri Read more:Business
Smart Investment Talk by Money Problems Solved (MoneyPS.com) 2008-01-08 13:06:12 Attended a networking event held at the Regent Hotel.The Advertisement:*Find out how You can earn 3% interest on Your finances every month!* Learn the best-kept secrets on Futures, Indices and Options Trading!*Find out how you can Generate a FOUR FIGURE passive income within 2-3months, with just $40 !"Money
Problems Solved is a group of individuals like you and I, founded in Singapore in September 2007 upon a book of the same title that was written in 1992. MoneyPS members are interested in finance, property, and investments at the personal level, the family level, and also, the business level. Members are able to network and cross-sell their products and services through our meetings and soon, worldwide,through our upcoming web portal. Purchasers of the MoneyPS book automatically become m Read more:Smart
One generation plants the trees, in their shade another generation rests 2008-01-08 12:38:46 On the way to the ward, I saw an interesting quote. Apparently there were 2 people who planted some bamboo at the old Toa Payoh hospital. These bamboo trees were then transplanted into the Changi General Hospital and a quote was put up.It read, " We should each plant a tree in our lifetime even if we may not have a chance to sit under it. One generation plants the trees, in their shade another generation rests. 前人栽树, 后人乘凉".It was not difficult to locate the bed in the ward. Grandma's moaning attracted our attention. In most of the beds, the aged patients were accompanied by maids. Ours too. It must be tough to for these underpaid maids to stay by the patients round the clock to attend to them, especially so for my maid, Wati. She had been with Grandma for 2 years. Ironical
Official Opening of Megacash Corp Pte Ltd 2007-12-10 10:05:34 My Brother and I went with my Father who was invited to the official opening of Megacash Corp Pte Ltd
, a pawnshop, situated at Bedok Reservoir Rd.Pawnshops are getting better designs.Had an opportunity to venture into the shop to check it out. Didn't stay long though since most of the invited were in the trade and my Brother and I seemed out of place. Read more:Official
A Patient's Review on Pan Island Dental Surgery 2007-11-30 22:45:44 Pan Island
Dental Surgery
Tel: +65 6445 3852Blk 632, Bedok Reservoir Road,#01-804, Singapore 470632Entering the clinic, one would be greeted friendly by the clinic attendant. I was there for teeth cleaning. The Dental Surgeon is Dr. Chan Chan Seng B.D.S. (Singapore), a graduate from National University of Singapore. His wife and daughter helped out at his clinic.After a short waiting time, I met with Dr. Chan. He did some fact finding and began his work. The process was comfortable, unlike previous occasions when I visited the National Dental Centre and school dental centres. Dr. Chan is experienced in that he pinpointed the problem very quickly and very precisely.Overall, I would rate my experience with Pan Island Dental Surgery as Excellent. 5 Star, despite the fact that it is a neighbour
15 : The Movie by Royston Tan 2007-11-24 00:05:01 Banned in Singapore. Check out 881 Director Royston Tan's movie, 15.PS: Censored scenes and expletives. Viewers Caution.
Police woke Man sleeping on the road 2007-11-23 10:45:28 I was studying for my Economics Examination on the next day when my brother came back and told me there was someone sleeping on the road leading to the carpark.We went down and true enough, he was topless, lying on top of the drain cover with his mobile phone on the steps next to him. After kicking him for some time, he didn't respond. For some time I thought he might be dead. He showed some of signs of life when I saw him breathe.To avoid problematic scenarios, I called the police from Bedok North NPC to send someone down to clear this human blockade.The police was efficient, coming at about ten minutes after the call was made. They had some hard time waking up the man though.My brother quipped that it should be quite cooling to ly on top of the drain cover with the breeze coming from bel Read more:Police
My 21st Birthday 2007-11-13 00:17:17 Lately I found out that one of my junior shared the same birthday as me. On November 10, the Today Newspaper was first distributed. The Escape Theme Park started operation in the month of November. From 8-10 November, Jia Yee, Mei Yi, Yilin celebrated their birthdays.6 November, after a "strenuous IPPT", I met Yiwei, Hwee Peng and Wee Keat at a Japanese restaurant in Suntec City. After a sumptuous dinner, they surprised me with a Milo-Horlick icecream cake which was delicious. Received a book titled "You and Your Money" from the couple as a present. A perfect gift.9 November, after the Thank-you dinner by Mr. Lakshmanan BBM and Mr. Lin Tze Kin PBM at Eunos C.C., I drove off to meet some friends at Cineleisure. After getting a bit lost, I finally got to Cineleisure after 1 hour of driving. Read more:Birthday
Maintaining good health for Elderlies 2007-10-28 13:46:39 Currently working on a new website: .For any of you who have Seniors or elderlies at home, do check out the one-stop info site to understand how you can ensure that they stay health and age gracefully. Read more:Maintaining
Aljunied GRC Citizenship Ceremony @ Kovan - Paya Lebar CC 2007-10-20 10:29:42 Aljunied GRC Citizenship Ceremony
19 October 20076.30pmNew Citizens from Aljunied GRC received their certificates of citizenship from the hands of MP Mdm Cynthia Phua and recited the pledge. There was a total of 150 of them, from more than 10 different countries.A short video introducing the history of Singapore's independence was shown to the crowd.
CEO Unplugged Seminar 2007-10-18 09:41:09 CEO Unplugged Seminar
Hon Sui Sen Auditorium, National University of Singapore6.30pm - 8pm18 October 2007The guests invited this year are Mr Ivan Lee (CEO of Thai Express, Onyx Concept Restaurant, Pin Le, Xin Wang Hong Kong Cafe, New York New York) and Mr Adam Khoo (Executive Chairman, Adam Khoo Learning Technologies Group).Adam Khoo graduated from Business Faculty, NUS while Ivan Lee graduated with a double Major in Philosophy and Economics at Faculty of Arts and Social Science, NUS.Sharing some key points that they mentioned:Adam KhooDare to dream and find out how to get thereFor goal setting, focus not on the amount of money you wish to have, but on creating value in doing what you love to doNo idea is original. Everything is just an add-on to something elseKnowing how to sell oneself is
Hari Raya Celebrations at Mayor's Residence 2007-10-14 08:23:06 Eunos Grassroots leaders are invited for a lunch treat at Northeast CDC Mayor
Zainul Abidin Rasheed's residence.Buses fetched us from Eunos Community Club to Mayor's house.After wishing each other Selamat Hari Raya
, we feasted on a range of cuisine including Turkish cuisine, North Indian cuisine and South Indian cuisine.Minister for Environment and Water Resources, Dr. Yaacob Ibrahim, was also spotted among the crowd... Read more:Celebrations
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Angel and Mortal Encounter 2007-10-05 11:36:42 Today is a great day.After SSA2214 lecture, I bumped onto my Angel! Well, it was her who saw me first though. We played the Angel-and-Mortal game when we were in TJC. It had since been 4 years since my last encounter with her.We went for a drink at the Arts Canteen. Seems like there is a lot to catch up...The Angel-and-Mortal Game:One group of angels would write letters to their mortals, so only the angels would know the the identity of the mortals. Read more:Encounter
Good Samaritan returned my lost laptop 2007-09-24 12:25:08 24 September 2007It was a close shave. Nearly lost my laptop that contained priceless information.After a long discussion with the Political Science group, the weariness had already got into me. Misplaced my laptop and cashcard while photocopying some materials.At Jurong East, I saw many banks across the street from the interchange but when I went over there, I could not locate UOB. I thought all the big banks were there, and how could UOB not be there? Even Maybank is there. Sighz.I succinctly saw some red lines and a blue background over at IMM. Walked over to find out that it was just a carpark label. As I was moving to my bus berth, the bus left. After 30 minutes, the next bus came.Arrived at Bedok Central to deposit some cash. Left my laptop above the machine accidentally, and went ov
Aljunied GRC Post National Day Rally Dialogue 2007 2007-09-24 12:05:53 23 September 2007Grassroots leaders from Aljunied GRC gathered at Eunos CC Auditorium to attend the Post National
Day Rally
Dialogue.The panel included Mrs Lim Hwee Hua (Minister of State, Ministry of Finance & Ministry of Transport), Mayor Zainul Abidin Rasheed (Senior Minister of State, Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Mayor, North East District), Mr Yeo Guat Kwang, Mdm Cynthia Phua and a representative from Ministry of Manpower.The dialogue session focused on the CPF issue. I see it in a positive view in the changes that the government is implemented. This makes the CPF better able to sustain.I got to understand the CPF scheme a little bit better after this dialogue. Think it's time I should also start planning to prevent it from becoming "Cannot Provide Forever".
Kent Ridge Ministerial Forum 2007 2007-09-24 11:56:14 21 September 2007Attended the annual Kent Ridge Ministerial Forum
2007 organised by NUS Students' Political Association. The Guest-of-Honour is PM Lee Hsien Loong. He was accompanied by his wife, Mdm Ho Ching.The event was held at Heng Mui Keng Auditorium, opposite the APEC office.PM Lee addressed the audience on "Singapore and Beyond". He discussed about Singapore's relationship with our neighbours as well as the identity of the Singapore nation and the obstacles that laid ahead. Speaking to a young crowd, he did not talk about the touchy CPF issue which would otherwise bore the students.During the Q&A sesson, it seemed that some people had asked questions that were related to their tutorials. However, most questions were generally meaningful.I recall one question asking if Singapore
The Flattening World 2008-03-18 13:37:10 There is really no link between the title and what I'm going to be writing today. Got really inspired by Thomas L. Friedman's The World
Is Flat. And I think Windows Live Mail is a must-have for all bloggers! So many events occurred in the past month. Not too long after visiting the Parliament House for the Budget Debate, the escape of the Mas Selamat bin Kastari began to hit the headlines for days. Conspiracy theorists added some humour to the matter with the various viewpoints such as 1) He's dead, search is a cover-up; 2) mobilise the police since they have been too complacent; 3) he's being tracked via an irremovable device so that he can lead the security forces to his den. I'd been to the Internal Security Department Exhibition Gallery. Not only now did I realise that I was then
Youth OUT! Preparation 2008-03-21 14:12:00 19 March 2008Received the SMS from Jialing stating that the Vice Principal of Damai Secondary School would be free to meet up. So at half past noon, I arrived at my alma mater.Walking through the canteen, memories poured through the brain. At 1.05pm, the NT classes ended and there came Jialing and Rahayu. Together we went to see the VP, Mr Leow, who seems to be in his late thirties and exudes a friendly personality. He got us to sit inside the Principal's office and listened to the details of our event.After that, we had lunch at the school canteen. The chicken rice stall is the only stall that hadn't changed its owner and food. After 2 servings of lunch, we began to paste posters around the school. The 2 girls were tasked to also promote the event during morning assembly the next day.It w
Skilful Parking 2008-03-23 15:39:31 With the car tyre just inches away from the wall, it just makes one ponder how the driver is going to come out later on... Read more:Parking
Eunos Town Day 2008-03-23 15:33:01 After spending the entire Saturday preparing for Youth OUT!, I was back at Grassroots work at the Eunos Town Day event on Sunday morning. Held at the Old Temporary Market, the event was organised by Eunos Zone '1' RC. My Zone was designated to man the "Children Fishing" station, so there I was facilitating and managing the children at the tank, timing them and at times scooping some fishes for those disappointed children who didn't manage to get any. The queue of children never ceased to end throughout the event. Children fishing is a very attractive game and proud to say, it was introduced by my Zone into Eunos when we hosted the Eunos Precinct Day. Initially I started off adhering very strictly to the rules and regulations of the games. Later learn
Youth OUT! 2008-03-31 12:41:35 For weeks, the organising team at Eunos YEC had been working on the Youth OUT! project. For nights, we went round the precinct to publicise the event to youth and selling tickets. This is my first time organising an event at the Grassroots level. The main difference between a school event and a Grassroots event is that in schools, the teacher is the guiding force and often gets many things done for the students; whereas for grassroots events, volunteers head the projects and we have to be responsible for our own dealings. For my organising committee, I had Ming Choo, Jialing and Abdillah. Ming Choo proved to be of tremendous help. She created all the publicity materials from scratch -- designing logos to printing the banners and posters. She was also a good time checker,
Toastmasters International District 80 Area L1 International Speech and Table Topics Contest 2008-04-18 00:37:28 12 April 2008 (Saturday)2pmKg Chai Chee Community CentreAfter joining Kg Chai Chee CC Toastmasters Club for 2 months, this event was the first Toastmasters contest that I attended, and participated as a contestant. The event was graced by the CCC Chairman of Kg Chai Chee CC.I realised that I was the youngest contestant and the youngest person in the whole hall. The contestants balloted for their order of appearance and took a seat as the event commenced.I was the first speaker for the English Speech
category. My turn to speak was immediately after the refreshments, so I refrained from taking any food during the short break while taking deep breaths and wiping off my sweaty palms. I received my greatest encouragement from my Mother who came to support me, as well as a good-luck SMS from Ba Read more:International
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fLAWS within 2008-04-24 09:50:13 The purpose of legislation is to primarily fix the flaws within
society by bringing in justice. Laws are meant to be fair and equal, at least that's the view that the elites want everyone to believe in. However, there are plenty of flaws within the LAW which most people would tend to agree.Firstly, Laws favour those who know Law. Everyday, the poorly educated gets punished for not knowing Law. At the same time, those who are educated in the subject walks off getting richer with every mistakes that their opponents offend.Secondly, Laws favour those who are rich. It doesn't matter much if one does not know about Law that much. He would have just missed opportunities to extract compensations on certain occasions. With an adviser or a legal consultant, he could at the very least prevent too mu
What I did on Shutdown Singapore 2008 2008-05-04 00:33:24 May 3 was marked the day of ShutdownSingapore
2008.Description from FaceBook:"Shutdown Day is a Global Internet Experiment whose purpose is to get people to think about how their lives have changed with the increasing use of the home computer, and whether or not any good things are being lost because of this. The idea of Shutdown Day project is simple - just shutdown your computer for one whole day of the year and involve yourself in some other activities: outdoors, nature, sports, fun stuff with friends and family - whatever, just to remind yourself that there still exists a world outside your monitor screen. "Had a late start in Shutting down the computer since I was using the computer past midnight the day before. After waking up in the morning, I went to prepare for my examinations w
Stop Dating Violence 2008-05-06 12:50:00 6 May 2008Went to comb the NUS library for some good reads after examination today when I found this interesting booth display at the entrance.Entitled "Stop DatingViolence
", the booth highlighted several indicators of an abusive relationship including "being insulted or called names", "hit, grabbed, pushed, slapped, kicked, punched or burnt", etc. It also described what is a healthy relationship and how one can protect oneself from violence.I find the message that the booth sought to convey as rather fresh, apparently deviating from the usual emphasis on promoting awareness of family violence. Now the focus is on BGRs.The Caption "Love Shouldn't Hurt" sums it all up.For more information on Dating Violence (as well as take a quiz to find out whether you are a victim of Dating Violence), p
No More Singing 2008-05-08 16:51:20 8 May 2008 marks the end of my Examinations as a freshie in the National University of Singapore.Today I realised that sometimes singing could really be an irritant. Even though music soothes the ears and calms the soul (except the hard rock music), singing it out is another issue altogether. As such I pledged not to sing anymore.After the paper today, had Chicken Rice dinner with Bao Hui. She was busy for the night with her project discussions though.Also went to Bugis Top One for my last singing session. It is really a good singing venue, not only in the economical sense, but also there is proper hygiene. For instance, all microphones are covered with fresh covers and the rooms don't reek of cigarette "aroma". Bugis Top One is situated directly opposite Bugis Junction, just beside Tan Qu Read more:Singing
Project YEAH 2008 Media Launch 2008-05-11 12:11:19 10 May 2008Started the day off by attending the Media Launch
of Project
Youth Entrepreneur @ Aljunied and Hougang (YEAH). Held at Bishan Junction 8 open gallery at the 3rd floor, there were exhibits from various institutions including Singapore Polytechnic, Nanyang Polytechnic, Temasek Polytechnic, Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Innova Junior College, Anderson Junior College, Victoria Junior College, etc. Singer and entrepreneur Genie's music school had a booth too.Among the exhibits, what caught my attention was the booth by Innova JC. The students were selling custom-made pin badges. According to the teacher, the school had patent over the gadget which was used to make the badges. With one simple touch on the lever, the badge is done. I bought two badges, one of which I penned a quote and gave it
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