Article: Why Social Networking is Broken And How You Can Fix It
by Anjney Midha: On the warm Sunday evening of October 25th, 2009, a homesick and inspired adolescent in Singapore posted a 52 line poem on his Facebook profile, tagging several friends before downing a tall mug of hot chocolate and hitting the bed. The following morning, he opened his inbox to find a slurry of...
Article: And Singapore’s Government Also Kicks Our Government’s Ass At…Elections?
Examining Singapore’s recently concluded General Elections, we take a look at how the People’s Action Party has crafted an ingenious system that keeps them more firmly in power than Barisan Nasional back home…without stooping to rampant corruption. Both the BN and PAP governments employ gerrymandering to stack the deck against their opponents. This is pretty...
Poem: Those old folks’ tales
By Cheryl Ting: Oh knowledge and degrees, can you fill my soul and turn my dreams into reality? Pa and Ma, and old folks’ tales, tell about studying and high-flying. But is it really true, that only studies can bring the best out of you? Without degrees, Florence Nightingale and Mother Teresa, changed...
EDITOR’S NOTE: JULY 2011
Dear Readers, I hope you have noticed the two new icons on our right-hand panel – the Facebook and Twitter icons. Please follow us if you haven’t already done so! I can only assume that the bulk of you, at this point, are or will be enjoying a good break – be it Summer or Winter holidays....
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