"George Yeo, and Singapore, suffers for the hubris of a political party that has somehow failed to realize that all this politics was never necessary. They had the chance to rise above and be better people, to fight a fair fight free of personal attacks, pork barrel politics or gerrymandering. But when history presented them with that opportunity, ( Read more... )

 jiamin's blog post brings up one interesting point..

between the person who doesn't do layout, but regularly trains on his/her own to improve, and the person who puts his/her body on the line every match but doesn't train on his/her own...

who wants it more?

perhaps its a bit over-hyped too, just like elections :)

 
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 A man, likely in his late twenties, boarded the bus. He was dressed nicely, and nicely styled hair that obviously took some effort. Standing leisurely on the bus, the driver suddenly braked, causing an old man beside him to bump into him. The old man eventually regained his balance, and got off the bus. Wearing a slight look of embarrassment on ( Read more... )

1. 5 new officers!
2. the kids are improving
3. NLB just agreed to donate 200 books! awesome!

Most people would think it ridiculous to walk into an airport with a wad of cash, hand it over to the ticket agent and say, “Send me someplace.” Goals are simply chosen destinations that we’ve decided are worth the trip. Without them, somebody else may be deciding on the itinerary for us.

"Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them." 

ordinary people doing extraordinary things.

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incredible, and oddly inspiring to me. damn, if he can make a toaster from scratch, what's there that can't be done?

 http://chrisguillebeau.com/3x5/the-bravest-thing/

take a look.

whats the bravest thing you've done?