President Obama’s visit to China this week inevitably invites comparisons between the world’s two leading powers. You know what they say: Britain owned the 19th century, America owned the 20th century, and, it’s all but certain that China will own the 21st century. Maybe, but I’m not ready to cede the 21st century to China just yet.
8 things to roar about in 2010 (ST 1 Jan)
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Jan 1, 2010
8 things to roar about in 2010
By Sue-Ann Chia, Senior Political Correspondent
A ferocious animal lurks as Singapore enters a brand new year. According to the Chinese horoscope, the lunar new year beginning on Feb 14 belongs to the Metal Tiger – an animal that has little to do with scandals but a lot to do with changes. What should Singaporeans be watching for in 2010?
1 Election watch
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The Singapore Solution (National Geographic Magazine)
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The Singapore Solution
How did a sleepy little island transform into a high-tech powerhouse in one generation? It was all in the plan.
By Mark Jacobson
If you want to get a Singaporean to look up from a beloved dish of fish-head curry—or make a harried cabdriver slam on his brakes—say you are going to interview the country’s “minister mentor,” Lee Kuan Yew, and would like an opinion about what to ask him. “The MM?Wah lau! You’re going to see the MM? Real?” You might as well have told a resident of the Emerald City that you’re late for an appointment with the Wizard of Oz. After all, LKY, as he is known in acronym-mad Singapore, is more than the “father of the country.” He is its inventor, as surely as if he had scientifically formulated the place with precise portions of Plato’s Republic, Anglophile elitism, unwavering economic pragmatism, and old-fashioned strong-arm repression.
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Out of work, and loving it (ST 21 Dec)
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Dec 21, 2009
working life
Out of work, and loving it
Some laid-off Wall St workers find it liberating to get out of the rat race
JUST PART OF THE BUSINESS
‘To get laid off may just be integrated into a narrative of profit and loss that they have dealt with day in and day out on Wall Street.’
Dr Caitlin Zaloom, a professor at New York University
NEW YORK: -Twelve months without a job. Fourteen months.
Eighteen.
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From rank outsider to public guardian: Philip Jeyaretnam (ST 4 Dec)
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Dec 4, 2009
From rank outsider to public guardian
Tongues wagged when Mr Philip Jeyaretnam was sworn in as a member of the Public Service Commission. Has he been co-opted by the Government? Is it not at odds with his political pedigree as son of opposition leader J.B. Jeyaretnam?What does he think of his elder brother Kenneth, who now heads the Reform Party set up by his late father? The lawyer bares his thoughts and feelings in a 90-minute interview.
By Sue-Ann Chia, Senior Political Correspondent
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Advice From Grandma (New York Times 22 Nov)
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November 22, 2009
Op-Ed Columnist
Advice From Grandma
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When a Family Man Thinks Twice About Divorce (Smart Marriages)
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When a Family Man Thinks Twice
Joshua Coleman, Ph.D.
San Francisco Chronicle
June 18, 2000 (Father’s Day)
You get married. And at some point you don’t know if the marriage is going
to work. And since it’s your first marriage, you feel discouraged and
hopeless and start believing that your marriage looks nothing like the ones
on TV or in US magazine. And you think how nice it would be to have a
marriage like that, built on friendship, hiking, and an active sex life.
And since it’s a marriage with children, you don’t know what it feels like
to be divorced with children, and figure it might not be that bad. It’s a
tradeoff. And people say everything in life is a tradeoff, so there must be
something worthwhile about tradeoffs.
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Laughter is an Instant Vacation (Motivation Quote)
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An Excerpt from
Laughter is an Instant Vacation
Humorous Quotes on Life
1. I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say, “Because it’s such a beautiful animal.” There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.
~Ellen DeGeneres
2. Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
~Ronald Reagan
3. I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man, I keep his house.
~Zsa Zsa Gabor
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Integrating expat Indians into Singapore (ST 25 Sep)
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Integrating expat Indians into Singapore
They are articulate in English, work in professional fields, and more of them are choosing to make Singapore their home. Insight asks members of the Indian expatriate community about the issues they face where integration is concerned. What can be done to promote it, what pitfalls are there, and how important is integration to them?
By Cai Haoxiang
SINGAPORE-BORN Ms Sakina Dhilawala, 45, feels expatriate Indians and local Indians can socialise more.
The two groups, for all their common ethnicity, are as different as chalk and cheese because their histories and interests are sharply different.
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A Romance Writer Jabs at Singapore’s Patriarchs (New York Times 19 Sep)
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Catherine Lim at her home in Singapore.
By SETH MYDANS
Published: September 18, 2009
Singapore
IT is the dress, she said, that catches the eye, the long silk sheath with the slits in the sides that offers what she calls “a startling panorama of the entire landscape of the female form.”
The dress is called a cheongsam, and the woman wearing it is Catherine Lim, 67, arguably the most vivid personality in straitlaced Singapore and, when she is not writing witty romantic novels or telling ghost stories, one of the government’s most acute critics.
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Do you really know Bill Gates? The myth of Entrepreneur as Risk Taker (Tim Ferriss)
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Before I had to establish my no-blurb/no-review policy for books due to volume (picture: one day’s mail), I received an e-mail from Rick Smith, the founding CEO of the World 50, one of the most exclusive senior executive networking companies on the planet, with members and contributors like Bono, Francis Ford Coppola, and Phil Knight…
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Proud to be a Malay Singaporean (Straits Times 3 Sep)
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Proud to be a Malay Singaporean — Khartini Khalid
SEPT 3 — I am a Malay Singaporean and I am proud of it — though the label “Malay Singaporean” often seems to make little sense to people outside of South-east Asia.
In my travels to other countries and in my current place of residence in the United States, I am often quizzed as to the meaning of this label. “You mean, you are Malaysian?” I am asked. Or: “I thought Malays are Malaysians?”
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Singapore: A Model of Judgment for the United States? (Harveybusiness.org)
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Singapore: A Model of Judgment for the United States?
3:01 PM Friday August 21, 2009
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We often talk about judgment with regard to individuals, but organizations and countries can have good and bad judgment as well. I was recently in Singapore for a SAS customer event. Every time I visit, it has struck me as a country with good judgment. Singapore just celebrated its forth-fourth birthday as an independent country, and it deserves to congratulate itself (although it rarely engages in self-congratulation — another aspect of good judgment). In fact, I’d argue that in many ways Singapore is a great example for the United States. Why? Here are a few reasons:
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Why they are young and passionate (ST 15 Aug)
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PARENTAL INFLUENCE: Mr Jonathan Chen (together with his schoolmates ? clockwise from Mr Chen ? Ng Ai Ling, 24, Merlyn Tan, 19, Leong Hwee Ying, 19, Irene Hoi, 19, and Sim Kai Ting, 19) will be going to Batam to conduct free eye screenings in October. He credits his mother for his altruistic leanings. — ST PHOTO: JOYCE FANG
CONVENTIONAL wisdom has young people pretty much figured out. A YouTubing flash mob of Twittering, texting, shopaholic Facebookers; all iPod and no ideology.
And when it comes to questions of politics and social concerns? Well, call them the ‘Why me? Generation’.
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Email From A Reader Seeking Help And Online Counsellor’s Post
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Hi Dan (counsellor) and Gilbert,
As with most people, in this lifetime, I had held numerous positions…such as Admin Supervisor @ SBS
( about 13 years), Head of Admin @ the now defunct Emporium Holdings (about 3 years), Admin Exec @ a NTUC Student Learning Centre….et al.
I left due to many reasons like most people – company restructuring, company closure as in Oriental..office politics, better prospects… etc…
With a teaching cert, I even went to Jakarta to teach for one year as an expat., with lodging in a condo provided by the company.
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Main Article: 7 Industries To Consider After Retrenchment
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7 Industries To Consider After Retrenchment
Written by: Gilbert Goh
I have listed seven industries which the newly retrenched can try on to jumpstart hopefully into a new career. Some of these industries have being tested by me and others were related to me by people in transition.
Hopefully, you can find something that will interest you to try it out first before turning it wholeheartedly into a career.
1. Commission work
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