Michael Jackson was not revered in City Harvest Church

City Harvest Church (CHC), who believes in engaging culture to bring Christ to the world, did not pray for Michael Jackson (MJ) – the king of pop – on its’ first english service on Saturday, 27 June, 3.30 – 5.30pm. The deputy senior pastor – Tan Ye Peng -  joked about Obama and advised the [...]

If you have it, flaunt it: why more women are dressing sexier than ever

As the saying goes, women are obsessed with beauty as men are with money and power. At a glance, it seems like the two gender are attracted to different things, but a closer look will reveals that women are trying to charm men with her beauty while men are trying to win women through his [...]

Singapore Population’s Dilemma: A Game Theoretic view

MM Lee reflected on Singapore population challenge, which is how to coax Singaporeans to have more kids, during NUSS dialogue 20 March 2009.  I would like to offer a possible explanation, based on Game Theory, to Singapore population’s dilemma. Please refer to below diagram:
The numbers indicate the descending order of desirability (1 is most desirable).
I [...]

The Curious Stress of NTU residents

I graduated from NTU with masters degree last year. When I was at NTU, I did not feel the pressure cooker environment highlighted in the media due to recent stabbing incident by an Indonesian-chinese student (David Hartanto Widjaja). However, when I looked back in the past two years, there are some shocking incidents:

NTU don found [...]

Winning this world

I watched a mandarin TV series that depict the founding of Ming dynasty. The founding emperor, Zhu Yuanzhang, was someone who knows how to employ people according to their natural talents. It seems that this ability makes people feel appreciated and could attracts people to your side.
From this TV series, I also noticed that winning [...]

My post-holiday blues and how I bust them

I had a great holiday in Indonesia from 25 Dec 08 to 04 Jan 09. It has been almost 7 years since my last visit to Jakarta, Indonesia. I was hugely impressed by the progressed that the country has made for the past few years. Jakarta now boasts newly built modern super size malls, such [...]

Harddisk crash and the stupid mistake that I did to retrieve it

My Harddisk crashed about a couple days ago. Windows XP SP3 indicated a serious of error messages like disc error, delayed write failed, unmountable boot volume. I furiously googled for an answer, but no avail. Since this is not the first incident, I can’t say I’m surprised. I can sleep well, knowing that I have [...]

Christmas Gifts for My Family

I’m so delighted!, I have finally managed to buy branded goods for my family. I’m beginning to reap all the hard work that I have done for the past 5 years. There was a time when I was so broke that ate instant noodle for dinner.
Oh, how time has passed. I’m now holding a senior [...]

Dark Knight and White Knight

Here is news from Reuters.com, the new Batman movie, “The Dark Knight,” raked in $66.4 million in its opening day to set the single-day box office record, according to its distributor Warner Bros. That’s a testimony to how good the latest batman movie is. While many people applaud the performance of [...]

Girls – Thou Shall Obey (Without Thinking)

Based on over 20 years of personal observation, women are compelled to obey by Power / Authority. If you have worked long enough, I’m sure that you had encountered a female colleague who was following the procedures word by word regardless of situation. I’m not saying this is wrong, but I’m a true believer in “desperate situation [...]