Temasek Engineering School, Singapore


Singapore Blog Awards
28 May, 2008, 10:31 pm
Filed under: Social issues

See this button below???

YES! Singapore Blog Awards !!!

There are seven blog award categories:

Singapore Blog Awards


1. Best Youth Blog
This category is for all blogs written by bloggers aged 16 years and below.

2. Best Photo Blog
This category is for blogs with predominantly photo entries, including professional photography, candid photos and self portraits.

3. Most Insightful Blog
This category is for serious blogs with interesting and revealing insights, analytical reports, dealing with various social issues.

4. Most Entertaining Blog
This category is for light-hearted blogs with strong human interest, humour and entertainment factors.

5. Best Blog Design
This category is for blogs with strong aesthetic appeal and site architecture.

6. Best Blog Shop
This category is for blogs which deal with online commercial activities.

7. Best Individual Blog
This category is for individualistic blogs with free-wheeling content about daily lives and musings that cannot fit into any categorisation.

THERE IS MORE!!

The winners in the 7 award categories of Singapore Blog Awards will win a laptop and a trophy designed by Tan Swie Hian.

Here’s the link about the prizes: LINK

LAPTOP!!!!!!!!!!

Can you believe it!!!?????

And a trophy designed by Tan Swie Hian!!!

His works is very beautiful.
The calligraphy and paintings he did…you should have seen it!

Here’s the link about Tan Swie Hian:LINK

Think you are the inspiring, creative, funky blogger suitable for one of the category??

Register your own blog : Resgister Your Blog

OR

If you have a favourite blog, there must be something in there that entice you!

NOMINATE the blog here: NOMINATE NOW!

Any FAQ or enquires, simply visit :

to find out more or get hold of their contact email. =)

Registration/nomination of blogs close on 1 June 2008.

So what are you waiting for????

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Drawing Day 2008
10 May, 2008, 10:19 pm
Filed under: Life outside TP, Social issues
Here I am..promoting…

DRAWING DAY 2008

Drawing Day will be on June 7, 2008. , where we share our artwork with the rest of the world.

I know most of you may not have heard of it. So here’s an explanation of it adapted from the website:

One day a year, the world stops to remember that joy we had when we first picked up a pencil and created our first piece of art - that’s what Drawing Day is all about. The goal for Drawing Day is simple - to create enough drawings to make some noise worldwide for the sake of art. 2008 is the first year of this initiative. Our goal is definitely a long-shot, but we’re aiming for 1 million drawings worldwide. We have no precise measure to know if we reach this goal. If we come close we will all definitely know. Even if we reach 10% of our goal in the first year of this initiative, it will be a great achievement but we will continue aiming for the magic million.

There are many ways you can draw.
Or you can also be one of their supportors and help promote it.

Visit Drawingday.org to find out. =)

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ART or NOT?
6 May, 2008, 10:10 pm
Filed under: Social issues

LET ME ASK YOU.

Is this an ART?

And it is a DYING dog.
Not a Fake Soft toy.

ART or NOT?

No. I STRONGLY disagree.

It seems that this man, Guillermo Vargas Habacuc, is not right in the head when he thought that getting a dog from the streets (HE PAID THE LOCAL CHILDREN TO DO IT) and then displayed it at a art exibition, and starving the dog to death.

In that event, (in which the dog died) he was chosen to represent his country in the “Bienal Centroamericana Honduras 2008″. Now, tell me…WHY WAS HE CHOSEN?
To allow Guillermo Habacuc Vargas to represent Costa Rica in Bienal Centroamericana Honduras 2008 will in no way benefit Costa Rica. The committee who chosen him must be either insane, dog hater or simply has no emotion at all. Or were they bribed??

Nono. Pardon me. I have a wild imagination.

(But how can they be in the right mind to choose him?? It might be bribe then…)

NOTE: I said MIGHT. So I am just drawing my own conclusion. Feel free to add in more suggestions like they might have been striked on the head by lightning or getting blackmailed by Guillermo. You are MOST welcome.

Maybe some people may argue that it is an art. But I can debate back. Furiously.

Taking an unwilling model and against their will, it is not respecting them. It is just trying to use them for your own work.

Maybe you can say the dog couldn’t speak in our language. But in nature, will you starve yourself against your will? Will you want to be chained to the wall, and being stared at by people? Will you be able to stand it when you beg for food by was denied?

The answer is no.
One thing I might add after seeing the peition is one of them gave a brilliant suggestion.

” Why don’t we tie the artist instead?”

A VERY BRILLIANT idea.  Don’t you think?

* * *

For those who want a full story about this crazy animal abuser,
here’s the link: Full Story

For now, I would like to ask you to view and sign this peitition:

http://www.petitiononline.com/ea6gk/petition.html

Kindly and PLEASE spead this around in your own blogs or emails and stop this “art” and animal abuse.

It will be greatly appreciated. =)

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Runaway inflation in Singapore
5 May, 2008, 6:12 pm
Filed under: In Singapore..., Social issues

i don’t believe how inflation is hitting all of us.  i’m not someone who spends a lot, but i can already feel the inflation in Singapore.  it’s terrible!   Even when prices go up in the past, like cuppa coffee up by 10 cents once in a while, it’s fine.  Bus fares going up by 5-10 cents, also fine. 

But now, it’s not just a one-off increase.  Its CONTINUOUS increase in prices.  That’s why we are all feeling the pinch!

Another example, a plate of my regular wanton noodles used to be $2.  Sometime last year, they upped the price to $2.50.  I felt ok.  Afterall, they hadn’t raised prices for years.  But guess what?  Today, just a year later, they upped the price to $3.00. 

A glass of Coffee-O used to be 60cents.  Late last year, all coffee shops raised it by 10 cents to 70 cents.  The Coffee Shop owners Association justified it by saying that they had not raised prices for 7-8 years.  Ok, fair enough.

But last week, they raised it AGAIN !!  Coffee-O is now 80 cents!

What’s happening???  Price increase is understandable and fine.  But not REPEATED price increases within a short period of time !!

The Singapore goverment made a serious mistake.  They failed to foresee high inflation around the corner.  And they raised GST from 5% to 7% in July 2007.–  serious mistake.  Very grave mistake.  We will all pay for that mistake…

The Singapore government should not have raised GST when inflation is suring upwards.  It’s the wrong time.  You don’t need to be an economics professor to know that.  It’s downright shows poor foresight, poor planning.

At the very least, couldn’t the government have staggered the increase (just like they did in 2004), raising it by 1% first, and then maybe another 1% a year or 2 later?

Why 2% at one go?…

Singaporeans are all going to pay for it.  We are going to get runaway inflation in Singapore.   Just watch.  We will all going to pay for it.

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