The Singapore Army Reality TV show

Ministry of Defend had came out with an awesome idea to showcase our National Service endeavour by putting up a series of reality TV on youtube. Weekly they will have an update of episode which would last for the whole length of (Basic Militry Training) BMT training.Which probably 8 weeks if my memory hasn't fail me. Target audiences are for pre-enlistee, parents and girlfriends of the men who will be going to protect our precious land.

Survival series: NS Singapore; 18 episode,90 days and ZERO survival

I believe it will turn out to be a total crap. So much profanity and inhumanity will censored through the film production to protray our NS "professional" image. They will audit those most garang, gungho and English native speaker for the production. How about the hokkien peng and the cao geng kia? Would they be featured in the making? Propaganda cannot get any better than this. Hope they can prove me wrong, so here is a little preview and the links to the show.

Every Singaporean Son

Every Singaporean Son (Episode 1: My Buddy)

Every Singaporean Son (Episode 2: Where I Stand)

WISP reflection paper

WISP reflection paper

Attending WISP was very beneficial for me in term of acquiring a better understanding of current world issue. International conflict may not affect our life directly, however through understanding how conflict arise, problem led and solution provided helps us learnt to handle our interpersonal relationship better. Keeping up with current affairs also promptly prepare us for conversional starter during social gatherings.

Dialogue in the Dark
I am very fortune to be able to attend Dialogue in the Dark even before it was opened to the public. That would be the most significant classes that I had attended for WISP. The experience to put myself in the shoe of the blind had allowed me to search my soul and learnt to open my heart and place my trust on others. All along I had the mentality of “I am the master of my life” or even "I am my own destiny”, however after the trip, it made me realize that how fortune of me to be so complete and to the extent that I took small little things around me for granted. I discriminated and stereotyped people by race or ethnicity, looked down on people and reluctant to trust others for I always felt superior before others. It never comes to me that I might lose them one day. For if that day were to come, I would had regretted not treating people with equal respect as they would probably treats me differently. If anything, I had to change my own attitude if I would want others to treat me better.

Learning point 1
Assignment 2 requires my group to look into Bosnian war. The imaginary 2060 Singapore incident typically slap me in my face. It was so real and possible. I just realize that all along I have been fortune to lives in Singapore. They had been doing a good job to maintain good relationship with our neighbors and at the same time keeping up with the world. We are proudly placing top in world standing but still we had our limitation. Water shortage will always be our weakest link and one day we overcome this were we be a truly free nation. This made me realized that my nation is vulnerable and reliance to other country and hence we had to be humble and treat other people with respect.

Learning point 2
Through parts I collected in the lecture, I learnt that media can fault report incident. Reading news was all good but we had to be constructive and analytical at the same time. Strong nation like United State had the ability to cover up stories. Fabricated plane crash and inside job of terrorist were all possible and I had learnt to keep my opinion open.

Learning point 3
During the discrimination article, where I wrote on Women right of Taliban Women and had an insight to unorthodox Muslim. They tweaked Muslim law and abuse women because of their gender discrimination. I am sympathetic to their condition at Pakistan and this is no way to treat a women or any human so to speak. I discovered that some minority had been using religion influence to control people. It is a powerful tool and it cans seriously detriment a nation very quickly. I also start to question the creditability of religion. Since then I starts to view things in a more rational perspective rather than emotion point of view.

To improve myself as a better nation citizen, I should learn to appreciate water in Singapore. What is more important to conserve our nation limited resources. From the 2060 incident, I came to realize that 2011 first contract will be terminated soon. Alternative methods are implemented and other technologies were in the process of developing. Take desalination for example, we had abundant supply of seawater since we are an island but the energy require to generate the plant is not economical. I foresee that Singapore had to part more of its fund out to either desalinate seawater or acquire water reliance on Indonesia.

I really enjoyed WISP module. To better improvement for future students, I thought the out of class to Dialogue in the Dark had been very beneficial and thought more of this out of classroom lecture should be encouraged.

p/s: (I thought it might be useful for some people)

Setting Exchange ActiveSync on your Iphone

How do I set up Exchange ActiveSync on an Apple iPhone?

Basically, Microsoft Exchange is for croprate email used in your company or email used in your school.

1. 
   If this is the first e-mail account on your iPhone, tap Mail. Otherwise, tap Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Add Account.
   Tap Microsoft Exchange.
   Tap in the E-mail box and enter your full e-mail address (for example, tony@contoso.com).
   
2. Tap in the Username box and enter your full e-mail address again.
   Tap in the Password box and enter your password.
   Optionally, tap in the Description box and enter a short description for the account.
   
3. Tap Next on the upper right corner of the screen.
   Tap in the Server box and enter m.outlook.com. If you are running software version 3.0, see below for instructions on how to find your server name.
   Tap Next. (I used differently on my Iphone 3gs)
   
4. Choose the type of information you want to synchronize. By default, Mail, Calendar, and Contacts are all turned on. To turn off synchronization for a type of information, tap and slide the switch to OFF.
   
5. Tap Save.
   If you're prompted to create a new passcode, tap Continue and enter a numeric passcode. You'll need to enter the passcode twice.
   
   What else do I need to know?

• If you are prompted to create a passcode and don't create one, you won't be able to send and receive e-mail.
  
• The Apple iPhone running software version 3.0 requires you to use an alternate server name. To find that server name, sign in to your account at the following address: https://pod51000.outlook.com/owa/. After you sign in successfully, the address you entered will resolve to an address that contains the server name you need to use. For example, if the address resolves to https://pod51005.outlook.com/owa, enter pod51005.outlook.com for your server name.

Try it!! and tell me if it works with Ngee Ann school mail.

Cheapest Japanese Sushi in Singapore

Where can you find cheapest Japanese food, Sushi in Singapore?





Wakau, we found a place to eat super cheap sushi de lah. Located at bukit timah plaze basement 1. Inside cold storage which is beside the KFC.

Pre-packed sushi, freshness guaranteed. The price is more or less those you found anywhere, roughly $7 for 10 pieces, but the catch is to buy them near closing.

30% OFF after 8pm
50% OFF after 9.10pm

There are couple of seats available and they also offers wide range of variety. Sashimi and rows etc. Recommended damage for bloating full meal after 8pm. $12/person nett.





Today jam for 1 hr at JI custom.

My life has more or less settled. I had decided moving into a new chapter, career building. And yes, I would be giving up my academic study. Is it a smart move? Only time can tell.

First of all, I had to clear my 2 years bond with Sembcorp, looking it in this way. I can enter the field, trial run it and then decide if engineering is the kind of job I want. I might go for MBA instead. 2 years to gain relevant experience without fearing for retrenchment, climbing the corporate ladder and I see myself being an offical Engineer by the end of these 2 years.

Oh, by the way, my designation is Assistant Engineer (E3) which is 2 stop lower than fresh under grade, who joining straight as Engineer (E5). I believe with my potential, by the time people takes 3 years to get a degree, I might had hopped pass E5.

More into my job. I had been posted to Project Development (Engineering) department. Which I handle more or less with client for project tendering, costing and budgeting. Not a very technical field but more of a people management sides. If there were modules in Poly that helps me, it will be Project Management and Quantity Survey. I am still trying to acclimatize myself into office job.

It already 3rd week and I still do not have any specific job to work with. Althought current we had 2 major projects on hand; boiler and desalination, but till now, I had not done anything constructive. I hope to contribuate and felt important in the company, and everybody were asking me to be patience.

Errr, lastly Iphone 4 sucks.... Apple sucks...... Steve J sucks sucks sucks.

-- Post From My iPhone