We celebrated my mum’s birthday on Saturday with a sumptuous feast at Victoria’s Peak @ Orchard Central. I had been interested in checking out the place for a long time, and my mum’s birthday gave us the perfect reason to try it out! I have this fascinated with restaurants that are high up and Victoria’s [...]
Archive for August, 2011
Happy Birthday Mum! @ Victoria’s Peak (Orchard Central)
Posted in Family on August 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Insightful Articles on National Day Rally 2011
Posted in Uncategorized on August 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
1. Cherian George – “PM’s National Day Rally Calls for more rational online spaces” “PM Lee’s wish for open, balanced and reasonable online spaces requires a cultural change on the part of the establishment as well. The government will need to find within itself the capacity to respect the role of independent websites as convenors [...]
People Power and The Presidential Elections
Posted in Personal, Singapore on August 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This is indeed shaping up to be one of the most memorable years of politics for Singapore. The most fascinating part for me is not the candidates, but actually observing and understanding how Singapore has evolved as an electorate. Two interesting reads for today: 1. Challenging the OB markers for an Elected President by Catherine [...]
Thoughts on the National Day Rally and the Singapore Memory Project
Posted in Personal, Singapore on August 14, 2011 | 1 Comment »
[This isn’t a critical analysis of the rally, but a personal response to it – so if you’re looking for a point by point detailed analysis and evaluation, you won’t find it here.] The Rally is always a time of good news and for the first time, I actually felt that there was a piece [...]
Unique Snack!
Posted in Uncategorized on August 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
My relative came back from Thailand and bought a rather unique snack – dried durian pieces! I’ve eaten the much thinner version of durian chips, which are pretty much like your tapioca or potato chips in terms of texture and shape just with a different flavour. However, this is the first time I’ve tried a [...]
More on Understanding the UK Riots
Posted in Personal on August 13, 2011 | 2 Comments »
I’ve been reading up a bit more on the UK riots just to understand what’s happening. I read UK Riots Fuelled by Moral Collapse [Steve Blizard’s blog] first this morning and was particular interested in the article’s claim that the lack of committed fathers and the endorsement of single parent families led to the riots. [...]
Are Feelings Important?
Posted in Personal, Teaching on August 13, 2011 | 2 Comments »
It is often said that we need to be reminded more often than taught. We had an in-house training session yesterday on Developing Social Emotional Competences and a lot of what was mentioned was truly a needful reminder to me to focus on what’s most important and not just what’s important. The trainer printed many [...]
Visions of the Future
Posted in Personal, Teaching, Technology on August 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I always find it rather fun and fascinating to watch videos that try to predict how the world will be like in the future. The video ‘Future of Singapore in 2015’ was the first one I watched when I was in NIE. Watching this video really made me feel excited and of course, situating [...]
NDP Steamboat Feast with my Family!
Posted in Family, Personal, Singapore on August 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Photo courtesy of my uncle My family loves to celebrate special days with steamboat dinners. There’s always so much joy throwing all the various ingredients into the hotpot, watching them cook and feasting on them after and savouring the soup stock which gets more and more tasty as the night goes on. For our steamboat [...]
Understanding the London riots
Posted in Uncategorized on August 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
My ex-tutor recommended on Twitter this blog entry (Panic on the Streets of London) by Penny Red (award winning journalist-blogger) on the London riots. Definitely worth reading – very informative, insightful yet personal and melancholic. It piqued my curiosity to understand what exactly could have caused such a widespread wave of violence in the course [...]
