Because they serve the nation.
Because we are a pragmatic and meritocratic society.
Because we don’t really want to think for ourselves.
Because we empower them to make the hard decisions for us.
Because we believe that the Old Guard avoided corruption through passion alone.
Because Finland, Iceland, New Zealand and Denmark’s leaders are paid less.
Because $1.2 million per annum [...]
… even though I can’t be there.
Yup, I have a bad cold and sore throat. So, I’m home. (Already worked through half a box of tissues since waking up.)
So, this is my attempt at being there without being physically present. At the end of the day, that’s what Nexus 2007 is supposed to be about [...]
I usually don’t follow TV series, especially those ‘reality’ shows.
The last one was House M.D. (AXN, where is Season Three??) That was the first TV show that I followed faithfully in a long while. I ended up buying Season One, which I missed because I started watching it in its second season.
Now Heroes has me [...]
In today’s TODAY, NMP Siew Kum Hong writes about the tunnel I love to hate.
The space the tunnel freed up should be used as a park. SMU will probably beg to differ, but I feel we are sorely lacking in open green spaces in the city. As it is, the open space above Orchard and [...]
Recently, my family computer got infected by the Btcar.com hijacker. When I clicked on search results in Yahoo, it redirected me to btcar.com, instead of the to website I want.
After some searching, I found BleepingComputer.com, a computer forum which deals with helping the average computer user with their computer security problems.
First, I followed the steps [...]