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Sigh, with so much happening and so much to do here, how can I bear to leave?
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Tim Egan in writing for the BBC describes the need for the “wilderness as a yin to the urban yang”. Well what we have in Singapore is not quite the ‘wilderness’, but our natural reserves are as close as you can get. I need to get out to revitalise. Yesterday was good - little kids [...]
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I saw a number of Burmese Lascars at SBWR today. Not the Mangrove Sunbeams, which are sometimes mistaken for the lascar, but the real Burmese Lascars. I was tailing one of them, trying to get a good, clean shot. It landed near a Peaceful Dove (and an extremely tame one at that) before fluttering off [...]
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Burma is ruled by one of the most brutal military dictatorships in the world. For decades the Burmese regime has fought off pressure–imprisoning elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi and democracy activists, wiping out thousands of villages, imposing forced labour, creating refugees.
But last Tuesday Buddhist monks and nuns, revered in Burma, began marching and [...]
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I attended the Interdisciplinary Forum on Global Warming and Climate Change at the National University of Singapore (NUS) yesterday. A turn-up of about 150 people, tertiary students mostly, and a few representatives from NGOs and other research and academic institutions.
A break-down of the talks and topics covered:
‘Climate Change - Living in the Anthropocene’
Associate [...]
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Little were Xiao and I prepared for the feast of the senses when we decided to explore Little India. It was a wholly exotic experience. Little India was colourful, full of scents - of incense, spices, of the flowers jasmine, marigold, or champaka, of fresh vegetable and meat produce - and teeming with culture.
After [...]
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What are we, really? Singapore, I mean. As a society. As a country. As a supposedly first world nation. Without going into the details… I’ve had chats with friends and we’ve been talking about the laws in Singapore, human rights, women’s rights, foreign workers, the media, and the government, and such. Just today a friend [...]
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Sungei Buloh today…
Shield bugs
A vespid wasp
Spiderlings!
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We trotted about, donning the tourist look, cameras in hand, with a permanent expression of amusement of our faces… as we laughed at ‘Singapore is a Fine City’ T-shirts and browsed the stands for scenic postcards. It was my first time just walking about Chinatown, or anywhere in Singapore, for that matter, for the sole [...]
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Last Thursday, when the Straits Times published an article on how Singaporeans stick together overseas in the UK, Xiao texted me early in the morning pointing me to page 6 of the Life! section. We talked about it throughout the course of the day.
Why is it that some of us find the concept of [...]
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I don’t usually talk about these things much. Not so openly, at least. But even after having written in my private journal, I am still finding the need to express it more openly and hence this post.
I’m not sure what it is usually that lets others think I have nil experience with guys, as [...]
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It’s odd… 5.30am, and I’m still fully awake. I’m not sure if it’s those cups of Chinese tea I had, or if it was that latte in the late afternoon. In any case, it’s one of the rarer cases of “I really couldn’t sleep”. Usually plugging into my iPod helps, but not this time.
It’s [...]
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I knew that picking this book up would mark the start of a period of time in which I would be rendered incapable of accomplishing anything remotely constructive… other than reading the book… which is precisely why I only picked it up after I had (more or less) finished writing up my thesis (it’s still [...]
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Public voting for the Friends of the Earth’s green film competition is now open. Even if you’re not placing a vote for the People’s Choice award, some of the entries are quite interesting to watch.
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At first I thought I had to DHL (or FedEx, or whichever else has the cheapest, quickest service) my thesis over before the actual deadline. So I pushed myself to complete my report by Friday.
Well, last night I received an email from the department informing me that the physical copy could arrive a few [...]
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It is only recently that I have come to understand the reasons why certain things in my life have come to be so. How they can be the way they are, how they can stay that way. I am continually uprooting and planting myself in new places, new circles of friends. Hence the baggage from [...]
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No turning back on this one - am continually getting re-stuck in Singapore!
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I don’t know what to say. Not in a bad way, though.
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