Wonderful Weather Today

What a beautiful Sunday today! Look at how cool the temperature is. We took a walk at the PCN after dinner. We walked the Botanic Gardens at noon. Very pleasant.

Memories of 70s Oasis

I remember our family outing to the Oasis as a primary school kid. It was the first time my brother and I had a tall sundae treat. Never seen so much ice cream for one person in our lives then. Pity neither of us could finish it because we were so cold and shivering so much we had to go outside to warm up!

IPPT is not your problem

I didn't know the passing rate for the old IPPT could be so low.

If you owe the bank 10 million dollars it is your problem. When you owe them a billion bucks, it becomes their problem. No wonder IPPT performance stops being the individual soldier responsibility.

I should have known as individual physical proficiency has also become a problem for the Israeli Defense Force too. If this is an issue with them, what about us?

LKY's Sitoca Workstation

Interesting that LKY also used Sitoca. We use them at home too. Trusty and cost effective. They last forever.

Such arrogance Bilahari Kausikan

This is from Monday's papers and looked like I only read in in the early hours of Tuesday. It is now Wednesday.

Bilahari Kausikan is a very smart fellow but humility is not one of his virtues. He could be so much more useful and effective if he was more understanding and empathetic.

From the first red box.

I agree with Kausikan that this journalist was wanting. What was SPH doing? To cut them some slack perhaps they sent a rookie or worse a stand in who wasn't familiar with this area. I try too hard. Such ignorance from journalists is inexcusable.

On the other hand I felt his attitude toward the PhD student was wrong. Look, he got there by being in the good books of his professors, never mind that this is Singapore. If there is someone to blame it is the university and government who had allowed a political science department to be filled with foreign academics. Meanwhile our own political scientist like Chan Heng Chee was drafted to fight for our interests in the trenches.

The smart guy has made the fundamental attribution error from over simplification and extrapolation. Even my kids know better than this PhD candidate and the main reason is their family environment. Many readers of this blog are also much better informed and thoughtful. I just hope the political office holders are humbler and shrewder.

Kausikan has such a big and fragile ego. His self esteem is all drawn from foreign policy otherwise there is no need to be so unkind. We are all different. If people are ignorant, kindly educate them. There is no need to get hot under the collar. They didn't choose to be uninformed.

Sabah Quake: Remembering the Children Lost

I wrote in an earlier post, "So I must stop here because where can you find the words to continue?"

Earlier this evening I found the PM shared from the words of Rober Binyon. Yes, these are the words I was looking for and this is the place to remember them and their families for now and a long long time. 

I can easily imagine all the kids their families, friends and teachers must have been to this spot at the East Coast Park. They must have watched the sun coming up and going down many times. Most likely their parents took them here when they were quite young as we had our children. 

US Soft Power: China please learn

This isn't the first time the US has stood with us through our trying moments. The last time they lowered their flag to half-staff when LKY passed away.

My point? China ought to observe and learn. You want to earn respect and perhaps love to be a world power? The Americans for all their short comings have shown the way.