Archive for the ‘Society’ Category
Thursday, April 17th, 2008
Somehow, I believe we have this problem too. High pay, low working hours etc. Resonates very well with what I sense around me.mollymeek: Send this to the ST Forum 5: S'poreans Complacent and Greedy Singaporeans are becoming more and more complacent. They think that the government will take care ...
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Sunday, January 20th, 2008
Singapore's Mathematics textbook is recognized by this American lady. It's ironic how people all around the world go into endless cycles into believing that our education system is flawed. Mass education is not perfect, and never meant to be.
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Monday, December 17th, 2007
Promoting Small Businesses
- To be a free agent nation . 80% of the people works as a contractor, temporary job, or micro-businesses (with 3-4 people). The goal is to make every industries either a blend of oligopoly and monopolistic competition. In essence, there's a long ...
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Saturday, December 8th, 2007
Median monthly starting pay for cleaners and labourers has in fact fallen by nearly one-third, from $860 to $600, between 1996 and last year. To save money, he has stopped eating out for all his meals. Dinner is a simple meal of bread and Milo. To ...
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
Many of us inspired by Robert Kiyosaki's concept of financial freedom, works hard to build up our passive income. The goal is for our future expenses to be met by the build-up of passive income. A few ways to build passive income includes financial investments, real estate investments, starting ...
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Wednesday, November 21st, 2007
Little Speck raised inflation concerns on household necessities, housing, hospital, medical care, education and electricity. While this is indeed a serious problem, I find that the problems are not limited to just our nation, and it's not fair for the government to take the brunt of the ...
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Monday, November 19th, 2007
Lawrence Lessig never fails to impress me. The content and style of this presentation is just amazing. Creativity should not be constrained by incumbent legislature, but encouraged to be expressed in different forms that makes meaning to different groups of users. Anyone can flag user-generated content and have the content ...
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Thursday, October 18th, 2007
I chanced upon the blog of NTUC Income's retired chief executive when his article was featured on tomorrow.sg on how one can claim their insurance after a traffic accident. I was browsing the rest of his entries when I found that he's a proponent of improving existing public transport systems.
As ...
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