More Wordless Wednesday This is a beautiful piece of music by Ryuichi Sakamoto taken from his Trio World Tour in 1996. The first time I heard this piece of instrumental…
Self Respect and Civic-Consciousness
Do Singaporeans really have no sense of self-respect as was criticised by Jackie Chan, in a recent speech he made during the Boao Forum for Asia?
Dealing with Procrastination
Procrastination is probably one of the longest words in my dictionary. I used to have problem spelling it; I used to spell it as ‘Procastination’ without the ‘r.’ Not to worry, I am not going to talk about spelling today. I am going to talk about dealing with procrastination.
When I am Old
A tribute to all mothers and fathers in the world. The write up, ‘When I am Old,” below was translated by me directly from a Chinese poster I saw, pinned up, on one of the doors at my sister’s house. A gentle reminder that we were once ‘old’ when we were young. Does this make sense to you?
Dealing with Adversity
“Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.” — James Buckham I was reading Beyond Basketball: Coach K’s Keywords…
Is Swine Flu ‘The Big One’ and Prevention
A prominent expert on global flu outbreaks, with the University of Minnesota, Michael Osterholm said, “What makes this so difficult is we may be somewhere between an important but yet still uneventful public health occurrence here — with something that could literally die out over the next couple of weeks and never show up again — or this could be the opening act of a full-fledged influenza pandemic.”
Wordless Wednesday: Earth Day 2009
Image by benipop More Wordless Wednesday Today is Earth Day 2009. I will not bore you with more information about the Earth Day as I believe you can find them…