Blogger Error

I've recently read on so many friend's blogs that they are experiencing problems with Blogger. Most people have problems cause posting new entries cause the page is not loading properly (no Add Image button, etc).

I had the same problem as well and here's the solution. Copy the error and google it. Chances are, someone else is having the same problem as you. I got told the same thing by a friend. So I googled the error and got my solution. I forgot the exact solution already but it involves changing some system settings. Do that and the problem will be gone forever. Hope this helps you peeps who are experiencing the same problem!

On another note, school has started already and I got a 3-day week this semester! Can't believe I'm already year 3. Only 1 and 1/2 years left of school before I gotta go out and actually start working. Mixed feelings here cause school's always better than working but working brings in the dough.

Also, it is time for me to step down from my current position as president of DE Club. I hope more people will step up and run for the mc. It's a good experience and will teach you a lot both about yourself and the people around you.

Well, that's all for now I guess. Will blog again soon!

Boring Singaporeans

Back to my rants and flames again.

I read the Sunday Times article "Burger joint grilled over ad" by Cheryl Tan (Lifestyle section, page 2) with disgust. Not because I thought the advertisement was vomit-inducing but because I find Singaporeans in general are so uptight that it makes me wana puke.

I personally found the advertisement slogan "It'll blow your mind away" (and coupled with the fact that the burger was called the Super Seven Incher) hilarious. I was laughing out loud when I first saw the ad. I thought it was a refreshing change from the usual boring ads and kinda witty cause it made you think to get the joke.

But, of course, Singaporean have to go and complain that the advertisement is "vulgar". Oh like come on! How boring and close-minded can you guys get? Honestly, some of the people in this country are so uninteresting, I can fall asleep talking to them. Singaporeans have absolutely no sense of humour.

When I was in Australia, the university had advertisements for a discount card with the slogan "Your friend with benefits" and it featured a hunky guy or a very pretty girl on the advert. If that advertisement was put up in Singapore, I think the public would go up in arms against the university.

Like I said, it's so hard to find somebody with an open mind and interesting to talk to here in Singapore. Just when a company comes up with an interesting and funny advertisement, you guys gotta go and shoot it down. Shame in you conservative freaks. It's because of people like you that this country is so damn boring.

JTC

I just finished with my internship at JTC Corporation!

Wow, can't believe 9 weeks flew by just like that. I had two supervisors during my time there - Annie and Yan Fen. I was lucky because my supervisors were really caring and treated me well when I was there. I know of some interns whose supervisors don't care about them at all.

And I also met some fabulous people there. Ramon, Ben, Eng Hwa, Cynthia, Annabelle, Ryan, and many others. All of them made my short stay at JTC really enjoyable. I'm gonna miss them all so much.

The best part is, so many of them graduated from SDE Real Estate! And they are all around my age. Annie is just 2 years older and Yan Fen is 1 year older than me and both of them graduated from SDE. Kinda makes me wonder why am I still in school. I should be out there working by now! I keep asking them about SDE and they kept asking me how was the lecturers, etc. It was very interesting to hear all the stories from my seniors.

And of course, how can I not mention the other interns there with me! Ivorie, Angeline, Jessie, Amenda, Brandon and Yu Rong! Man, you guys made my stay there so very very very interesting with all your jokes and outing. I'm gonna miss our hour-long breakfasts haha.. It's been a blast guys! See you in school!

Atrocious..

Check out this article that appeared in straitstimes.com.

President of the Singapore Newspaper Distributors Association says that working from 4.30am to 6.30am is beneficial to people with nine-to-five jobs. Are you kidding me?? So working 13 hour jobs are considered beneficial these days?

That's not all. MP Seng Han Thong can add that "if both husband and wife work, they can earn $1,000". So what the government is backing this rubbish now? And they want both husband and wife to get into the action? What about the kids at home? Lao Lee going to come to my house and take care of them ah?

Let me post a question to these ****heads - What the hell happened to work-life balance?

It seems the Singapore government thinks it is okay to slave its people. Milk the citizens like a cow, suck them dry. Raise the CPF payout age, makes us work 13 (why not just make it 20) hour days. By the time we get our CPF money, we might as well bury ourselves and let the government collect the damned estate fee. Use our CPF money for your "investments" and then raise your own fat pay.

Here's a tip. Why don't the Singapore government stop wasting our money on useless "investments" (which always seem to lose us money) and start paying elderly people instead. We're about the only country in the world which employs our grandparents to work as cleaners at foodcourts! It's a damn shame to see this happening and, worst still, the government freakin' encouraging this sh!t.

Again, think about work-life balance, for goodness' sake.

Open Letter to Temasek Holdings

Dear Temasek Holdings,

WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING!?!?!?

Sincerely,
Eugene

Exams are OVER!!

Wow it's been more than a month since I last updated my blog. In fact I haven't even been checking back here. Apologies all round.

Anyways yes it is the end of my exams already! My exams ended on Tuesday afternoon and, as customary, most of us were at Zouk for Mambo night on Wednesday. We were missing a couple of peeps (read: Caderam) who were still stuck at home because of exams. Don't worry there will always be a next time ya!

I'll be starting internship at JTC on Monday. Can't believe I'll be working for the government. But, ah well, I'm sure it will be a good experience. Was told I'll be posted to the strategic planning department for commercial and industrial developments. Not very sure what my exact job scope is but I guess I'll be finding out on Monday.

Also, here is a little plug for an evangelistic carnival which my mum wanted me to post.

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Singapore Youth For Christ (SYFC) is holding an evangelistic Carnival PLAYMAX next month from June 12-13 (Friday and Saturday). Their target is to have 10,000 youths come to this Carnival where the Gospel will be shared through various activities.

Here is some key information on this Carnival: -

PLAYMAX

12-13 June 2009
Venue: St. Andrew’s Cathedral

They need 2,000 volunteers, young and old, to serve in the various areas in this two-day Carnival.

One area that we are helping to pass the word around is Registration.

About 50 people are needed to help with Registration for the following time-slots: -

(1) Friday morning
(2) Friday afternoon
(3) Saturday morning
(4) Saturday afternoon

The timing for the above time-slots are - morning: 8.30am to 12.30pm and afternoon: 12.30pm to 4.30pm.

You can serve in one or all of the above time-slots.

There will be a briefing/dry run for all volunteers on 16 May from 9am to 12pm at St. Andrew’s Cathedral.

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Also, I've been really addicted to Perfect World International lately! It's an MMORPG and it's (you guessed it, i'm a cheap arse) F2P! You can check out the game here. Perfect World is probably one of the best F2P MMO's you can find out there. It started out as a P2P but then converted to F2P so you know the graphics and details are top-notch. If you're interested in joining, let me refer you please! I'll get a free mount! Haha okay I know I'm starting to sound like a kid here so I'll stop =)

Well till next time then!

Building Castles In The Air

I recently read a quote by Henry David Thoreau which was quite interesting. It goes something like "If you build castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."

People have always been saying "don't build castles in the air" or the equivalent "stop daydreaming". But not much people have actually told anyone to work on those dreams. Which makes me wonder why. Aren't dreams the precursors of reality? We would not have airplanes today if the Wright brothers did not dream of flying. We would not be travelling in space today if someone did not dream of walking among the stars.

Difference was that these people dared to work on those dreams. They dared to lay the foundations to their castles in the sky. No doubt, many people would have scorned and scoffed at these individuals but they did not let that stop them

I personally have built that castle in the air. I have spent many years building it. This quote by Henry David Thoreau has given me the inspiration and courage to lay the foundations under that dream. I hope that it would do the same for you

On another note, something more finance-based, is another quote: "Obvious prospects for physical growth in a business do not translate into obvious profits for investors." Eg, Airline industry expanded rapidly in the 1970's but this did not translate to additional profits. This is just something I wanted to put down here to remind myself

PS. Referencing the two quotes, you should be able to find out which book I am currently reading. =)

Heading Up?

So the stock market has been generally going up for the last few days, in Singapore at least.

The STI just went up the 1,500 mark again. Seems like it won't stay below 1,500 for long. In particular, I was watching CapitaLand's stock last week. It went from $1.79 last week to close at $2.13 just today. Let's just say if anyone had bought 1000 lots at $1.79 and sold them all today, they would have made $340,000 in less than 7 days.

According to its CEO, Citigroup has been turning in a profit for the first two months of 2009. This news sent Citi's stock soaring last week.

Are we seeing the end of the crisis? I really wouldn't know but I highly doubt so. I believe we need to wait for the first quarter 2009 reports to come in before making any guesses. Jobless rates are still very high all over the world and Australia seems like it is just headed for a recession.

Ah well, we will have to wait and see. Anyways, I've been super busy with projects this past few weeks. Got a deadline this Friday, then two the following Monday and another one 3 days after that. Not forgetting the lecturers are not easing on the quiz. Really.. Drowning in the workload.

Interview has been postponed to next Tuesday because the interviewer got tied up with something else. Also applied for REIP today. Have to secure an internship this holiday so really keeping my fingers crossed. Otherwise I will probably look for some part-time jobs and go for summer school overseas. Either Canada or Germany. Still, internships come first.

Wish me luck! =)

Living in Scottsdale, Arizona

The following is a sponsored post.

Ever wondered what it would be like living in Scottsdale, Arizona? Granted, that city is not really a well-known city in this region of the world but it is something of an upscale tourist and shopping destination.

Having a population of about 240,000, I’m thinking the city should be pretty small and have a tight community where everyone knows everyone. Singapore has a population of about 4.8 million so we can pretty much throw the everyone-knows-everyone hope out the window.

The weather in Arizona is about 27 degree Celsius, which is roughly about the same as Singapore during the night. It is usually around 32 degree Celsius in Singapore during the day so the weather would be pretty enjoyable. Click here to find out more about Scottsdale.

A lot of people have the impression that the Scottsdale Arizona weather is pretty dry and warm but I reckon 27 degrees is pretty fine. Good enough for a lovely afternoon stroll in the park without getting all sweaty because of the humidity. Good enough for a picnic lunch without having to worry about any mosquitoes.

Well, given the current economic situation, property prices might be cheap in the States now. No better time to start looking for places I guess. =)

Walk Down Memory Lane

Watching so much of Gossip Girl lately reminded me of all the past tv series I used to watch growing up. I don't mean GG is like all of them. It kind of struck me that I have watched so many American dramas and sitcoms.

So I thought it would be fun to do a post featuring all the opening sequences of the American dramas and sitcoms I watched growing up. It was a real blast watching them all over again on YouTube. Not in any order of preference ya. Let's walk down memory lane!

Starting with the most recent one that inspired this post. Gossip Girl. Not much of an opening here though. It is really short.. Like 12 secs..


Up next, we have got Felicity. I watched this drama back when I was in sec sch. The show was so good in the first season. Then it started falling apart in season 2 and got worst in season 3. Still, it brings back so much memories and I still feel for the characters..


Third on the list is Party of Five. This show is pretty old. Think I watched it back in primary sch or something. I got to know about Neve Campbell and Jennifer Love Hewitt from this show.


That 70's Show! I watched this sitcom pretty recently. I know it was screened a long time ago. I downloaded and watched this about 3 years back or so.


Next, the inspiration for lawyers.. Ally McBeal! This show screened on Channel 5 in my sec sch days. I remember a teacher talking about it in class and nobody knew what the show was. I watched it but dared not speak up cause I was like the only one!


Of course, we simply cannot miss our the greatest sitcom of the 90's, and possibly of all time.. F.R.I.E.N.D.S!!! This show practically saw me grow up. I was watching it all the way from primary school, through sec sch and to poly. It influenced the way I talked, the way I thought, the way I lived my life. Greatest show EVER!


Of course there are others as well but I'm a little lazy to find them. Couldn't find the openings for Off Centre, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Heroes otherwise I will put it up as also. I didn't include all the cartoons of course. Power Rangers, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Captain Planet, Extreme Ghost Busters, etc..

Oh ya one more thing. Watch the Top 10 Chick Flick Cliches promo available on the He's Just Not That Into You website. It's freakin hilarious!

Well, that's all folks! Hope you enjoyed this little trip back in time as much as I did! =)

Some Things Do Change

There was a rare protest in Singapore this afternoon.

I just read the news online on MSN and was pleasantly surprised. The protesters were smart enough to organise a 4-man march, knowing that the police could (and probably would) arrest them if they marched in groups of 5 or more. It is a very small-scale protest and march which would be considered laughable by most international standards but I must applaud Mr. V. Thamizhmaraiyan's courage for leading the march. You have done something that most Singaporeans are too afraid to do. They were protesting against the war in Sri Lanka and marched from Little India to the British High Commission to appeal for British intervention in the war.

I really do hope to see more peaceful protests in the future. It not only shows that Singaporeans are global citizens, it also shows that we have our opinions and are not afraid to voice them.

I also read Newsweek's May 2008 article "The Rise of the Rest" by Fareed Zakaria. You can check out the article here. Prof Harold Tan mentioned something about it when I was speaking to him this afternoon and, in light of recent events, it seem like a pretty good analysis of the world. It is really interesting to hear reports of how the rest of the world is catching up with the US and the fact that we are living in a post-American world. I wrote a blog entry about this 3 years ago. You can read it here. It is not that the US have been doing things wrong, it's just that the rest of the world have been doing things right. The focus is not about just the US anymore, it's about a global perspective and context.

I remember a couple of weeks ago when Obama took over the US presidency. My uncle was commenting that he couldn't believe how Americans could vote for someone so inexperienced and young to lead them. He did not think that Obama was capable enough to lead the US (and the world, for that matter) out of the current financial crisis. At that point in time, I did not understand where he was coming from. Like most people, I was fasinated with Obama's popularity and charisma. But now I see what he meant. First, the market tanked on the day Obama took over, which showed that businessmen did not have confidence in him. Then, Obama angered China the first few days he was in office. Next, he placed a cap on Wall Street's executive's salaries, which pissed some executives off. And just today, he admitted that he screwed up over some tax issues and caused two of his nominees to withdraw their nominations. Not only that, he had to debate about whether to include a "Buy American" provision in the the stimulus package bill. I mean, is that even a cause for debate in today's globalised economy?? Imagine the repercussions if that went through, thank God he backed off it.

All these have lead me to think that my uncle could have been right in his pre-judgement of Obama. I still hope that Obama would be able to lead the US on the right path to recovery. However, he would really need to buck up and stop making these mistakes. The world's economies are in a dire situation right now and it seems the worse is yet to come.

I am waiting to see how this pans out.

xoxo

Happy Lunar New Year!!

The year of the Ox is here. Wonder what this year holds for us. The year of the Rat was fun. Well maybe not for the finance sector but let's not go there.

Anyways I spent the new year the usual way. Dinner, movie with cousins, visiting, the works. The cousins went ktv this year, which was a first. I have never really went ktv with family before. It was fun, to say the least.

I'm recently addicted to Gossip Girl. I blame Kelly for getting me hooked. The show's great though. I can see starlets rising to the A-list. Blake Lively is very easy on the eyes. So easy, in fact, that my eyes are having difficulties looking at anything else.

Oh yeah, I recently found a song that I have been searching for years. King of Wishful Thinking by Go West. Never expected the song to be by them and definitely didn't expect the song to be from the Pretty Woman OST. You can listen to the song here. And, yes, it is another retro-like song but it is great trust me. It's on repeat on my songlist now.

That's it for this post I guess. I know it's a little rushed but I'm rushing... to catch some eye shut. Till next time then.

hairspray

I'm having a hair problem right now.

Those who know me know that I've been keeping my hair long over the past few months (despite strong protests from many people). Right now, I'm at a crossroads. The style I was actually trying to emulate was Taylor Hanson's hair.

Granted, I ain't as good looking as he is but I've always found his long hair very nice, especially the whole image from the This Time Around album era (great album by the way).

But seeing as I don't have a personal hair stylist walking around with me, it seems pretty hard to keep my hair as curvy and voluminous as it needs to look good. Not to mention keeping it in place everytime the wind blows.

The last thing I want to do is to have the 1960's Beetles hairstyle that so many young boys are sporting these days. That is soooo passe.. Like 40 years ago.

So, I'm going to the hairdresser to see what I can do with my hair tmr. I've been toying with the idea of perming the hair but the Google search results for "men's perm hair" ain't encouraging.

Alternatively, I can always opt for the usual standard short hair, which is pretty boring since I've had it for like 5 years. Mark McGrath is the standard to aim for with short hair.

Again, the whole image with the goatee and everything counts as well I guess.

What to do.. What to do.. I'll just see how tmr la.

naked run!

Just saw an article on MSN news that I had to blog about!

Students from the University of the Philippines recently organised a naked run! Haha.. Apparently their naked run has some political messages - they are protesting against extending President Arroyo's term in office.

Since I saw the naked mile run on American Pie, I have always wanted to organise one in NUS. Somehow or another, I think NUS would not be pleased about the publicity it will receive. Anyhow, I think the students themselves are too conservative to want to participate. Living in Singapore is wayyyyy boring........ Imagine holding a naked run and protesting against government policies. Now that would be sending a message.

The University of the Philippines holds their naked run annually(!!!). Can you believe it's an annual thing?!?! When will this happen to NUS!?!? I might go join them one of these years lol

master of puppets!

Been a break week for me. Finally had the time to lock myself at home and just do my own stuff. I managed to land my hands on two games recently thanks to Zijian. They are both updated versions of my all-time fav classics! Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Sid Meier's Colonization!

I first played Colonization way back in 1994 when my Godpa got me the game from the States. I think not much people in Singapore play this game. The common one people play is the more popular Civilization (yes, they are different games). Unlike Civilization, Colonization takes place from the year 1492, when Christopher Columbus discovered the New World (modern day North and South America) and sparked off the Age of Discovery, to the American War of Independence. You're basically in charge of the expedition and the aim is the win the war. But somehow or another, I always skew towards accumulating wealth instead. The updated version uses the Civ4 game engine which is freakin slow on my lappy because of the graphics. Nevertheless, it is GREAT to be playing the game again after such a long time!

For RTK, the last one I played was RTK4: Wall of Fire, the Sega Saturn version. The one I'm playing now is RTK11. 7 versions difference, around 10 years apart and thousands of changes to adapt to. It took me more than 72 hours of clocked gaming time to complete a single scenario at beginner level. I'm imagining how long it will take me to complete the advanced level. RTK is based on the classic Chinese novel. It is through this game that I started to read more on Chinese history. Previously, I read a lot on American history because of playing Colonization. I think I should visit the important sites of the Three Kingdoms at least once in my life. Places to visit: Cheng Du (capital of Shu), the Stone Sentinel Maze near Baidicheng (created by Zhuge Liang around 200+AD but rumour has it that the maze still trapped the soldiers of Kuomintang when they were fleeing the People's Liberation Army in 1949), the site of the Battle of Chi Bi, and many more but I need to do research on before coming up with the itinery.

Hm.. I don't know why but I've always been more interested in playing empire building games. I'm not so much the CS or Dota playing type. Heck, I've played C&C, WarCraft and StarCraft but nothing, and I mean nothing, comes close to the enjoyment of RTK or Colonization (or even Civilization for that matter). Even business simulation games like Capitalism are more interesting to me.

Ah well, time to get out of my hermit life again soon. Lots of friends to catch up with over the holidays. Not to mention I got the Union Trip coming up in Jan. We'll be visiting 4 cities in Australia (Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra and Brisbane) from 2 Jan to 11 Jan.

But first, it's that time of the year again. Yup! Christmas and New Year is here (again.. and so fast too). Happy holidays everyone!

10% Storewide Sale!

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Although the 10% is not applicable to items listed on the Year End Sale, anything and everything else that is available on the Duchess and Coach websites are entitled to the 10% off so what are you waiting for?!?

The sale in on from now till 11 Dec 2359 hrs so hurry and place your order NOW!

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Exams are OVER!!!!

EXAMS ARE FINALLY OVER!!!!

Another semester down. Hopefully the results will be good but I'm hoping against hope because my last paper was damn chui. Super hard la the QM paper. I thought we had to do financial investment calculations. Kept checking the cover to see whether I was sitting for the right paper. But anyways it's over so there ain't nothing I can do and I ain't gonna keep thinking about it.

Was a really crazy week for me last week. Moving house, 3 exam papers and BOD results all in 5 days! It was really weird on Wednesday because I left Normanton for the exams but went back to Bukit Panjang after. Kinda disoriented. Somemore did some unpacking inbetween papers. Couldn't really concentrate on the exams proper.

Results for the BOD case is out. Was wondering why did they choose to release the results during the exams and set the deadline for the appeal also during the exams. Tactic by the school to discourage appeals? Hmm... Moreover, I really wonder just how considerate can these people get. I mean, they are the university admin staff. Can they possibly not know that this is our exam period. Releasing the results during the exams and distracting us like this. Trying to force us to retain one semester so they can earn more school fees? Hmm...

Anyway I gotta run. Exams are over but the new house is still in a mess. Going to buy some curtains now and continue unpacking the house later.

Finanical Crisis..

It looks like the financial crisis has finally overflowed into the economy. Althought there was wide spread talk of the crisis, it was contained to mostly financial firms for the past few months. Right now, in what is a sure sign of the spillover, the "Big Three" carmakers in the US are appealing for government bailout.

It seems this financial crisis is going to overshadow the Asian economic crisis in 1998. And it's exactly 10 years on. Talk about financial cycles. Job cuts have been creeping into the news lately too. DBS have started slashing 900 jobs, Citigroup is cutting a near-record 50,000 jobs worldwide. It is predicted that this will get worse going into 2009. I'm still a student but I can feel the fear in the air. This crisis is bringing back memories of 1998. Things were really bad then and I can't imagine it is going to be worse next year.

Already, the STI has free-falled to 1,665 points, that's more than half it's value slashed from early last year. I remember reading in the papers then that analysts were saying it would breach the 4,000 mark by this year. In just one year, things have changed so drastically.

But admist all the gloom and doom, there is always good news. Especially for the uninvested. Now is a good time to start picking up stocks. Of course, do the due calculations first and pick up the discounts. There is always some people who would say that the stocks will continue to fall. But if you are already buying at a (huge) discount, what's there to fuss about? The stock market is awash with prizes now. Certainly wished I had the capital to pick some up. Well, anybody out there wants to invest in my mutual fund?

Meetings!

Here's my list of meetings and project submission for the past one week:

Sat 8/11
- NUSSU Council Meeting @ BTC

Mon 10/11
- Meeting with SDE Dean and Heads of Department
- Meeting with faculty admin and year reps
- NUSSU Council meeting with NUS President and senior admin

Wed 12/11
- Prof Com project submission

Thur 13/11
- Board of Undergraduate Studies meeting

Fri 14/11
- RE Econs project submission
- QM project submission

There you have it! 5 meetings and 3 project submission in one week and my exams is starting just.. next week!! Can't believe I went through this week already. There was actually another meeting on Thurs with President Nathan but he went down with flu so his visit to SDE has been re-scheduled. Lucky, cause it would have clashed with the Board of Undergraduate Studies meeting.

What's with so many meetings you say? Well lots of issues are discussed during the meetings regarding the direction of the Union and the University or the students and the faculty, depending really on which level the meetings are at. Most of the NUSSU meetings are at university level where we will discuss changes, policies and direction for the entire NUS student body while most of the faculty meetings affect only students and happenings within SDE.

It's been a real eye-opener for me thus far. Being a student leader has given me so much more perspective on student activities. But it has also taken up much of my personal time. I need to start concentrating on studying and mugging for the exams right now.

Can you believe they wanted to schedule a meeting on the day just before my second paper?!? Like smack in the middle of the exams!? Luckily I managed to push that meeting back to a day after my last paper. Otherwise I would be so distracted. Not to menton I'm moving house mid-way during the exams.....

Well now that there's no more meetings and the projects are all done... TIME TO MUG MUG MUG!!!

YES to Singapore Textbooks!

Seems like I'm reverting back to a words-only blog. Too lazy to save and upload pictures these days cause it's just too damned time consuming.

I was reading my textbooks yesterday and I realised that almost every single textbook we use in NUS are textbooks written by American authors. It's pretty frustrating cause all their examples, writing style and train of thought are American. Like why do I care about the demographics of Ohio or Minneapolis?!? True they are only trying to illustrate examples but I'm pretty sure I would be able to understand better if it was in the Singapore context.

Perhaps this is one way in which America is spreading their culture. Students learn so much about America during their studies that America becomes like a 'promised land' and we take this mentality out into society.

I say Singaporean should study textbooks that are written by Singaporean professors, with a Singaporean style and in a Singaporean context!! I've have enough of trying to understand what it's like in America, having to put all the examples in the context of American society. Do American students have to do that? No, they don't have a clue about what's happening with the rest of the world!

Say YES to Singaporean textbooks!!!!!