Posted on April 30, 2008 by sun bear
During my Junior College days, my class teacher prohibited my class from having boy-girl relationships (BGR). She wants us to focus on learning and scoring As.
But times have changed! The Singapore government are actually trying to gets its citizen “to mate and multiply” by introducing a Class to Polytechnic Students – “Love Relations for LIfe: [...]
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Posted on April 25, 2008 by sun bear
A female audience member ran on stage last night and threw a green pie at New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, who had just begun a lecture on environmentalism in Salomon 101…
Thomas Friedman wrote “The World is Flat“, one my favourite non-fiction books. This book does offer an interesting perspective to what [...]
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Posted on April 22, 2008 by sun bear
Peter Pan! One of my childhood heroes! HITS Theatre presents an awesome outdoor play at the Miller Theatre for free! Below, you can see lots of people settling down onto the slope, opening their picnic mats. Overall, a great experience, especially for an engineer to keep in contact with his “artistic” side.
Below is the view of [...]
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Posted on April 22, 2008 by sun bear
USA is a relatively golf-friendly country – it provides an environment that is favourable for golfing for ALL people: regardless of level of income.
So, this game has captured my interest, and I have been spending a fair bit of time trying out this new game. Below is a video of me in action! =) Try [...]
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Posted on April 14, 2008 by sun bear
A picture of Changi Airport Terminal 3 from the SkyTrain. Behind the tower, on the left, is the new T3 terminal which was officially opened on the 9 January 2008. On the right is Crowne Plaza, still under construction, designed by WOHA. This is my first time at T3!
Very spacious Check-In hall eh? I guess [...]
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Posted on April 13, 2008 by sun bear
Posted on April 9, 2008 by sun bear
The Robots are taking away your jobs! Yes, this is happening in a restaurant in Germany. Watch this.
I seriously wonder how cost effective this can be. There is another way to cut cost by eliminating waiters/waitresses. I have experienced this in a restaurant in Houston, Texas. This restaurant uses a pager [...]
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Posted on April 6, 2008 by sun bear
“Sufiah Yusof, a child protigy-turned-prostitute, entered Oxford University at age 13, led a trouble life that she blamed on physical and emotional abuse by her parents.”
Education, being a process of learning which is intended to bring wisdom through learning with fun and joy, often end up creating fear & anxiety amongst young minds - of failing to meet expectations in examinations. [...]
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Posted on April 6, 2008 by sun bear
Something that I read from Thomas Friedman’s The World Is Flat that really struck me:
“Middle Class is a State of Mind, not a state of income.”
“Middle Class is another way of describing people who believe that they have a pathway out of poverty or lower-income status toward a higher standard of living and a better [...]
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