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Written By: Tiang Chuan on April 6, 2010 No Comment
The Conundrum of Unintended Consequences

In Singapore, we are used to the practice of adding new rules and regulations whenever we encounter problems. This would seem logical, new problems, new solutions right?

By applying new rulings, we would probably be adding complexity. The problem may be solved, but new issues can be created a well.

Written By: Tiang Chuan on August 27, 2009 No Comment

As the saying goes “Money isn’t everything, but you sure can’t do without money”. The most basic objective of investment is to generate more money. This is in turn meant to meet other objectives like retirement, children education, medical fund or some big ticket purchases which may not be possible or take too [...]

Written By: Tiang Chuan on January 22, 2009 No Comment

The first 3 weeks of of 2009 has been filled with joyous occasions. 2 friends got married and held their weddings dinners over the past weekends. 1 of them held a dinner each in Kuala Selangor and Singapore. I was privileged enough to be among the brothers to help out in all 3 [...]

Written By: Tiang Chuan on October 28, 2008 No Comment

A young man was walking along a beach at night when he saw millions of squids beaching themselves. On seeing those struggling sea creatures, he rushes forward and started to throw as many of them back into the water as he could.

A old fisherman walked by, saw what the young man [...]

Written By: Tiang Chuan on October 16, 2008 No Comment

Joe was resting in his garden one sunny day when noticed a caterpillar crawling on one of his plants. He became excited over the prospects of seeing a butterfly emerge out of a cocoon, having never seen the natural phenomenon before. He began monitoring the caterpillar whenever he is free.

Soon, the caterpilla morph [...]

Written By: Tiang Chuan on August 7, 2008 No Comment
Passing of Randy Pausch

Professor Randy Pausch, the computer scientist at Cargenic Mellon University who gave ‘The Last Lecture’ about facing terminal cancer and challengers in life, died of pancreatic cancer on July 25. He was 47. I’ve added the clip for the benefit of those who have not watched his lecture. The clip is about 1hr 16min but its worth all the [...]

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