Wanted to put this off till tomorrow, but can’t sleep. So they have came back with an offer. They = IDA, the NGSV team. Not much detail for now, but basically it’s green light from IDA. Then I’ve finally cleared all bosses today, clearer blessings – although the question kept coming back: what exactly do [...]
Archive for September, 2007
Transitioning to be a Singapore Civil Servant
Tribute to Randy Pausch
If you haven’t heard of this, it’s timely you visit Randy’s homepage now to get a good idea. Here’s his last lecture video: Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams In summary, Randy is dying of pancreatic cancer. After months of treatment, the cancer returned, so it is practically death sentence. The [...]
NUS Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music Online Application
Come increase the diversity of this university’s school of music! If you can play most of your scales and and maybe play something really really fast until no one understand, you can become one of the prodigy that will be the pride of Asia, someday. When asked, just say this is a Cello. It’s easy! [...]
1822 Jackson Plan mix with Yahoo Maps
See how much landfill Singapore town by comparing it with the 1822 plan! You can adjust the opacity using the scrollbar on the top right corner. Source: Yahoo MapMixer. It’s a pretty cool app – DHTML z-layers for opacity. Let’s see what other cool mix can come out from it!
Biking Home from School
Having stayed in US for a while, I always thought that typically it’s the Eurasians that do all those “crazy” things, i.e. normal activities taken to extreme measures. One such example was biking around the world sort of stuff. I mean, just count the number of Mat Sallehs on this list of bikers on crazyguyonabike. [...]
Car Expenditure in Singapore (year 1)
Want to know how much it REALLY cost to drive in Singapore? Here’s my “report” – next time remember to help sponsor a bit, moi not very rich… Initial cost (including loan from bank) $71,300 Minus Loan $40,000 from the bank ($40,000) Installments thus far @ $593/mo $6,523 Total Petrol (1 year, including 3 trips [...]
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