So Candice Wan won the Angus Ross prize for best performance in Literature by a non-UK candidate and she is a SAINT. I didn't know about it until I saw the news on mb (again) and was link to another saint blog who wonders what Miss K thinks of all this. I was just reading it and when I reach the last part I almost burst out in laughter. (Ex-saints should read it).
This article prompt me to revisit the saints homepage to rediscover sajc and I can't help but feel old because...
1.) I don't recognise most of the faces in the staff photo.
2.) The maths tutor who just came to teach us 8 years ago is now the HOD of maths department. And she was pregnant (think should have given birth by now, anyone can update me on the child's name and sex etc?)
3.) The disciplinary master, Mr Marimuthu, the guy with hairy ears who rides a scooter to world trade centre (now harbour front) to catch students siaming chapel hour, is no longer in SAJC.
4.) The CCA teacher, whom we passionately named Xu Lao Lao is now in the disciplinary committee.
5.) The "never was there by chance" principal B.C. is now tau-kay of St Andrew's Village, the combined campus of the SA group of schools.
Think SAJC going to erect a statue or plaque in honour of this achievement. Coming up, a photo of Miss Teo playing mahjong (when she was young).
sajc
What is all the fuss about life science? Isn't science of life biology? Then why are there thousands of students in NUS taking up life science courses and why life science in Poly became so hot? Merely a few years back there isn't a life science department in NUS. Why? Is it because someone managed to map the DNA? Or is it because there is a huge market in gene therapy and growing of spare human parts?
The storyline is becoming all too familiar. In the 90s we had IT and computers. Anyone in this line were making money so everybody took courses in computers and/or IT hoping for a high paying IT job in the future. In fact when I graduated from JC, I received a brochure that says IT graduates command the highest starting pay compared to other fields. Then the bubble burst and the influx of cheaper alternative left many people stranded. What about the engineers before them? Now the first choice career in Singapore is Life Science, how many years will the bubble survive? When the life science bubble burst in the future, I guess we will be hearing the news about Singaporeans need to upgrade you skills, that you shouldn't be choosy about your jobs yada yada stuff again when the unemployment rate hits high.
All these years I have seen how the government puts money into life science from promoting it in schools to building biopolis for it. A few years back I volunteered for a science program to assist secondary school students in performing research projects. All the schools wanted were chemistry and biology undergraduates as they are focusing on life science projects. So after traveling from one end of the country to another end enthusiastically to attend the briefing we end up with no assignments on hand for physics undergraduate. In fact, some of the research centers for the students only cater for life science research only.
It is a mistake to put all the eggs in a basket. Those gahmen must straighten their thinking and put some of the funds and effort to support other researches too. Research techniques used in chemistry and physics proved to be useful for medical or life science research. After all, there are only so many things that you can see from an optical microscope or X-ray machine. Research to understand the behavior of micro objects and fluid could result in a portable micro lab device that could test for diseases from a single drop of blood. Sadly the progress is slow due to the lack of funds and researchers in this area.
Breakthrough in research for one field can be beneficial for other fields in science and technology. So if your child has interest in science, make sure he/she gets exposure to the different fields in science rather than one single area. Who knows he/she may revolutionize nanotechnology or design the new generation of quantum computers, possibly the next “in” thing.
Forgot to mention that localbrand is offering 20% discount when you show your tongue for all their shirts. Sale ends 31/3/05. Oh, their products can be found @ Far East, Heeren and Holland V.. just check out their website.
Just came back from duty and saw this funny project going on. It's the "I'm too sexy for my blog" movement! Featured above is the pic of xiaxue, whom I think is in NUS, that was found by some blogger that was read by some blogger and so on so forth.. and I finally read it at mb. The story goes like this, Xiaxue, quite a well known blogger had this pose and when miyagi and mb read it, they decided to do a spoof of this photo titled as above. Ever since, the blogger community started a frenzy with this "too sexy" thing. Here's some of the essence...
mb does a xiaxue
Mr Miyagi had KFC for dinner
Ohh.. side note, while browsing some of the spoofs, I saw a photo from adri of popagandhi and she's from SAJC... amazing. You can see more of the sexy bloggers doing the spoof here.. it's so funny
our little super woman
my niece's first birthday party
that's her cutting her cake
Awww... isn't she cute? hee... and you know what, It her Actual Birthday Today!!!! yap yap... 21st March hee...
Happy Birthday Sweetie! Stay cute cute forever yah... hee...
It's time to upgrade my programming/coding skills after I spend a freaking afternoon trying to figure out how the code to this b****y template works. Finally manage to personalize this page a bit from what you see here. That's the problem when your programming skills came from the last decade, I wasn't geek enough now to do it quick. No prize for guessing what are the things I tweaked.
Anyway, there is a ring of celebrity bloggers in Singapore that has grace the net over years and I had been following one of them (mrbrown) before the word 'blog' was coined (I guess). Yes, I was hooked to browntown after reading his Singapore National Education over email. If ya know what I mean. Well, it seems that celebrity bloggers share some common trait - they are geeks.
Not that they spot geeky glasses with schoolboy hairstyle, is that they are proficient in computers and spend much time online. In fact there are handsome blokes and pretty gals in this ring of celebrity bloggers who also meet up in real life at times and some was even featured in TV. Didn't know about them? How could you!
Here's the dino blocks... you can separate them into head, tail and feet and then recombine them...hee...
This is the farm block...
presents for xiao bu dian !!! hee... nice nice? hee... It's call mega block~~~ hee... something like lego but much bigger pieces....
Also heard from the radio that about 90% of NUS graduates found a full-time or part-time job within 3 months after graduation while NTU did so in 5 months. Makes us wonder how many of the 90% only found part-time jobs...
I have been following the exchanges on MrBrown about Singapore undergraduates being discriminated and on AcidFlask about Singapore postgraduates being discriminated by the the education policies. In response, I just have to say this: Those students have no idea what they are going to face when they start trying to make a living in Singapore.
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I was chatting with a friendly recruitment agent ("headhunter") last Friday. What I heard ran a chill down my spine. According to the nice lady who runs the IT desk at the recruiter, there were quite a few positions open for skilled entry-level paying around S$2500 a month, and a couple positions open at the mid-levels. What was upsetting to me personally was that her clients are specifically rejecting Singaporeans for those positions.
Read all of it here
Got this picture from one of my friends sometime ago... Think it sort of reminds me of something that has been going through my mind today...
Is there such thing as "friends forever"?
When we are together in the same school or class or sharing our life with each other... it's always easy for us to say that let us be friends forever... but.. is there really such things?
When each of us have our own working life... our own family... and being busy usy busy alll year round... is there still time for your friends? Yes... once in a while... but is it sufficient to keep that friendship?
Some may say that friends are always there for you when you're in need but when you need their help and look for them after not being in contact for sometime... will your friend still be willing to help you or will she/ he thinks that you're only looking for her/him when you needed help?
In other word, will you be those kinda of people who wu shi bu deng san bao dian?
I don't know ...
Some may think that because I may not be there to chat with them every so often... it implies that I no longer care...but I do care...
It's just that when you have mighty lots of things to think about and to do each day that you start to drift aaprt from your friends... hm...maybe that's why people are keeping bloggies nowadays...to simply update their friends on their thoughts and that has been going on with their life... in short... to keep their friendship secure...
Whatever it may be... I hope to keep my friends with me for the rest of my life... for friends are hard to come by especially when you enter into working life. Sometimes when you faces setbacks in life... it's your friends whom to turn to for comfort...
To those who might have the idea that I've neglected them...all I can say is you're always on my mind.. I may not get to talk to you all the time nor get to meet up with you for every gathering.. but you're always on my mind... I'll be there for you when you need a shoulder yo cry on...
Take care my friends....
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