Posts from ‘November, 2008’

Its like a deja vu when I heard news about the Mumbai attack. It was like 911 happening again, perhaps a smaller scale but over a longer time span. And like Sept 11, I heard the news while in army camp where getting updates about the world news is slow and painful.
And perhaps the Mumbai [...]

Here is a beautiful soundtrack from the movie Otoko-tachi no Yamato (The Men of Yamato).
Tsuyoshi Nagabuchi – Close Your Eyes

No matter how
I would love this country madly
If I were born again
Please call my name
Even the night we shiver with cold
and that tears are streaming
If I were born once again
I’ll never let you go
Please return to [...]

OUT PRO LOR! (Out Processed aka end of reservist training)
Its a tough ICT for me. But somehow I feel that the training isn’t as xiong as the previous ones. It feels as if I’m getting older and can’t really take such training anymore. Starting to be worried about the next ICT which is expected to [...]

Dk is still serving his term reservist in the prison barracks.  A few of us were suppose to help him guest blog while he is serving his term.  I think one of our main objective is to at least keep or improve his visitor rates.  I think we may have caused his readership to plunge.  [...]

Eeeerrr….. This is actually some old news.
I’ve joined Tech65. There was a big recruitment drive recently at Tech65. Nicole, Hisham, Ryu, Naveen and me were conned/tricked/persuaded/invited to join the Tech65 crew.
Together with Daniel, Jerrick, NTT and Farinelli, we will create noise on the weekly 65bits podcast, blog on Tech65 blog and do some other top [...]

新加坡有一群小学校长认为所有的小学老师都必须大学毕业。
有一位校长说：如果教师口齿不清、语言能力不好，学生会学不好。
这句话听起来好好笑。
我回想起以前教过我的老师，有许多口齿都不是很清、语言能力都不是很好但他们从不放弃学生。
我们可以有很多好的大学毕业的老师但不会遇到很多好老师，特别是在今天“商业化”学校的环境里。
In Singapore, there’s a bunch of primary school principals who support the notion of requiring each and every primary school teacher to have a degree.
A school head honcho was quoted saying: If the teacher’s diction and language ability are not good, the students will not learn anything from him.
WTF. What a joke.
I remembered my teachers [...]

The Ben & Jerry Chunk Fest is here!!!

Fort Canning Green
6 Dec 2008
2:00pm – 11:00pm
12 exclusive flavors from USA! WOW.
Anyone wanna go?

Played by Reuben Kee, one of the 5 Singaporean dragon-boat paddler who died last year during a boating accident in Cambodia.

It’s been a tough week. Not because the reservist was tougher than usual, but because the body is old. You really have to admit old when you return to bunk with a body ache after just 1 afternoon of outfield exercise. We used to have 3 days 2 nights outfield exercise during NS days without [...]

I was looking at the date while booking out today. 22 November seems like a familar date. Something happened on 22 November. But I couldn’t remember what.
While on my way home, I suddenly remember…. 22 November is the date that I got my driving license! It’s been 6 years already. Wow. I can still remember [...]