Movie marathon: post-mortem
Happy to say that I survived the marathon! Although I did not win any prizes at the end of the contest, it was quite enjoyable and challenging. 🙂 Slightly to my...
Category: Off Beaten Track
Movie marathon
Was informed yesterday that I won a company lucky draw (actually you needed to answer some questions to be qualified for the draw) to attend a movie marathon th...
Collective mind
Was in the middle of a searching online when I stumbled on to Wikipedia, a free online encyclopedia. The significance and the magnitude of this project can only...
Small world
Was reminded once again today how small this world of ours is becoming, day by day. A colleague of mine who is currently in Athens watching the actions in the O...
Common knowledge
Yesterday on the way home, as the bus wound its way through the wooded parts on the perimeter of the NUS campus, it suddenly occurred to me that we are now into...
Irony
Heard a statement on the local TV regarding Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) recently. The basic gist was that it is because of the practice of TCM that the C...
Missing links, part II
As a postscript to previous thoughts on <a href="”>missing links, if a pattern cannot be detected for more than one generation, many alternativ...
Function God()
This entry was started on 23 August 2003, after the bombing of UN headquarters in Baghdad, but I just never got around to finishing it, until now. The UN headqu...
Budget-thinking
Been reading the Rich Dad, Poor Dad series as mentioned earlier. In one of the books, the author advocated that money is just a concept. In order to acquire wea...
Trend vs discontinuities
Hindsight is a wonderful thing. As they say, it is always a 20-20 vision. With hindsight, we can always make the correct decisions, spot the life-changing techn...