Last week during Aviation Law class, my professor mentioned that Afghanistan was on the verge of being overrun by the Taliban. Who knew that less than a week later, just two days ago on Sunday, the Taliban have taken over Afghanistan, as thousands flee Kabul, so desperate that they even clung onto planes taking off …
Category: Current Affairs
Big Fish in a Little Pond?
So today, I saw this article on Straits Times, where a parent asked an education correspondent whether he had made the right decision sending his child, a top performer at his primary school, to a top Integrated Programme school. His child has only been there for three months and he is feeling anxious and less …
COVID-19: Asia & Western perspectives
Updates: As of today, Saturday, 28 March 2020, the USA and Italy have both surpassed China in terms of confirmed cumulative number of COVID-19 cases. Singapore has implemented a one-day home-learning day for all primary, secondary and pre-tertiary schools. My university has suspended all face to face classes above 25 people, those with fewer than …
Activism or Troublemaking
Recently, the news has been flooded with reports of the Hong Kong protests against an extradition bill which would allow fugitives in Hong Kong to be extradited to Mainland China with the approval of Hong Kong courts. I think that last clause is extremely important, because some media reports have been portraying the incident as …
NDP’13
Haha as usual, I was fascinated and enjoyed the parade segment thoroughly and totally just heck cared the post-parade performances.. Whoops 😛 LOL I just don't find those performances that interesting although I know the performers put in a lot of hard work. Sorry! Now that I understand the commands of the NDP more, I …
Protests in KL
Some updates on the news to make my blog less boring. Anyway, there have been protests in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The peaceful-rally-turned-violent-protest was named Bersih 3.0 and started on 28 April 2012. (Bersih means clean in Malay.) Apparently, the protestors are fed up with the corrupted elections in Malaysia and want a "cleaner" elections this …
Oven Thoughts 