I attended a compulsory Community Service briefing yesterday, where the lady was briefing us on the compulsory 80hours of Community Service that we must do in SMU. During the briefing, she mentioned that we cannot keep time, and thus we should give our time away to help others in need.

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one of the modules that I'm taking this semester is title 'Technology and World Change'. I remember starting out rather ambivalent towards the course. After all, it was pretty much free time during lessons, with the Prof not really bothering about whether you listen or not. It was not content heavy as well, with most of the time taken up by groups ( Read more... )

PvsP took place over the weekend, and it was arguably the most memorable PvsP.

Finally we had all 7 on the field, the pioneer 7. At the place where it all started, with the people it all began with, in a competition against the future of HCult.


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damnnn, lightbulbs can transmit data! technology really changes the world

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this is what a cover should be about; capturing the essence of the song, and making it your own in a subtle way, not simply hitting the right notes.

 headed out for a slow, long, leisurely run. a run at a slow pace, something that I haven't done for a long time, a run unlike all the usual trainings, a run to clear the mind. before I know it, its 8km down ( Read more... )

Project Kouprey was about a thought.

It all began from an idea, the thought that "hey, it'll be nice to have our own OCIP..", and things rolled on from there.

Project Kouprey was about sacrifices.

All of us in the team have in one way or another made sacrifices. Some of us gave up on our precious sleeping time to rush out proposals, some of us forgo ( Read more... )

 "Like my friends at drama school, my head was full of schemes and fantasies. I have always been impressed by people who live with deliberation; but ambition, or desire in the world, makes me apprehensive. I am afraid of what I want, of where it might take me, and what it might make others think of me.

Yet, as Florence explains, how are cathedrals ( Read more... )

"while nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer, nothing is more difficult than to understand him."

- Dostoyevsky