Educational Reform Is Our Responsibility.

October 20, 2013

As Singapore implements a wide-ranging series of educational reforms, it will bode well to ask ourselves, why are we doing it? What are the outcomes that we plan to achieve for every one of our students? May I suggest that the end point of education is not to just produce students who have knowledge and […]

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Sharing My Heart With Others.

October 20, 2013

In 2003, I went through the darkest period of my life. My life almost came to a bitter end. I felt like I went through hell and came back a totally different person. During that period of time, a Mr Os Hillman flew in from the USA. He had no clue as to why he […]

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Art Of Learning.

October 19, 2013

Recently, I attended a seminar on social entrepreneurship. It’s a discipline that I believe can make our world a better home. This is another one of many seminars that I attend within the span of a year. I find attending such seminars a great way to help me learn, cultivate new skills, and improve my […]

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What It Means To Be Educated.

October 19, 2013

I read with interest the report, ‘Don’t forget social mission, PM tells unis’ (The Straits Times, 18 Oct 2013) and concur with the Prime Minister. The end point of education is not to just produce students who have knowledge and good academic results. We need to mould and shape every student to become a wise, […]

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Prime Minister’s Speech @ the National Day Rally 2013.

October 17, 2013

(These are my off-the-cuff thoughts after the rally. I like to read them again at some later date to see how my thoughts have evolved over time.) Buckminster Fuller posited what he called the Law of Precession. In essence, it is ‘the intereffect of individually operating cosmic systems upon one another. Since Universe is an […]

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Welcome Home.

October 16, 2013

On Sunday, 13 October 2013, I was on board SQ 001 and it was returning to Changi Airport, the most beautiful airport in the world. The Captain came on the air and made the usual announcement. Towards the end, he said something that put a smile on my face. “To all fellow Singaporeans and permanent […]

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Beauty And Wonders Of Life.

October 16, 2013

“Why do you wake up at 4am to track up a mountain in total darkness? Why walk up a steep slope with no image and feel of the destination and at a temperature of four degree Celsius ? “Why do it in a strange land and among strange people who speak a strange language? Why put your […]

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Road To Weath.

October 13, 2013

I was reading the report by Forbes about millionaires and multimillionaires in Singapore. It got me thinking about wealth and its impact on our lives. The root word of ‘wealth‘ originates from two archaic English words, ‘wela’ which means well-being and ‘th’ which refers to ‘condition’. Wealth in essence refers to the condition of well-being. […]

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A Lifetime Of An Embarrassment.

October 10, 2013

I read an interesting article in the October 2013 issue of the Reader’s Digest. It was written by Bruce Feiler from the New York Times. The well-written article was entitled, ‘The stories that bind us.’ What attracted me was the subtitle, ‘The strongest families are those that know – and teach the next generation – […]

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Changing Business Landscape – The Social Media Way.

October 6, 2013

In 2011, during the heat of the flood crisis in Thailand, I was away in Australia. The casualties and destructions that resulted from the tragedy moved my heart. The question that crossed my heart and mind was, How can I do my part for the victims while I was away in a distant location and […]

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