Sybreon Ones Nought

Third Vote

Shawn Tan — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:33:03 +0000

I had just read this piece by RPK on local government elections. I have to say that I am in disagreement with him on several matters. I have some really strong views on this matter and I have mentioned it many times on this and the older blog. Finally, Pakatan Rakyat could not delay any longer.

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Ironman 2 Trailer

Shawn Tan — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:18:38 +0000

I like but damn, they replaced the black dude!

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Gramedia Bookstores

Shawn Tan — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 06:53:33 +0000

I recently stumbled upon a new book-store near my place. It is called Gramedia Bookstores and they are already in my good books. I can rarely find my regular authors in our normal book-stores such as MPH, Times and Popular. Typically, I would have to get my fix of books from Kino and there is

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Legion of Extraordinary Dancers

Shawn Tan — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:22:39 +0000

Mesmerising – “Human beings with super-human strength and abilities” – indeed.

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New Blog

Shawn Tan — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:45:11 +0000

Just so you know, I decided to divorce my technology posts from this blog and move them onto another blog. I will keep this blog to personal postings on whatever random stuff amuses me from time to time. You may still find some technology posts on this blog from time to time but they will

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Cost Cutting

Shawn Tan — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:55:25 +0000

I have just recently been informed that as part of the cost-cutting efforts at work, I will no longer be entitled to business cards. !!! Well, it is not that I have a great need for business cards. However, I do sometimes wonder how the management goes about selecting things to cut. A set of business cards

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LEGO Robots

Shawn Tan — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:41:34 +0000

As the letter says, I have been recently appointed as a judge for our local LEGO robot competition league! It is something like the Integrated Design Project that we had at Cambridge, where students worked together to build a robot to accomplish a certain task within a certain time frame. However, these are students between

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Lack of Expertise

Shawn Tan — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:19:56 +0000

I have recently come across a couple of situations where people have expressed their frustrations at the lack of expertise and skilled workers in Malaysia. I have some thoughts about this issue and I would like to put them down here. Mismatch of Skills In one case, I visited a semiconductor foundry (those places that manufacture the

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Strange Friends

Shawn Tan — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:40:15 +0000

I had dinner with a bunch of Cambridge friends this evening – three of whom were economists and one a biologist. This is the second time that we were meeting up in a week. Some time during dinner, a thought occurred to me – I am mixing with an odd bunch. Odd because I don’t

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Political Numbness

Shawn Tan — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 01:57:41 +0000

You know what, I did not realise that anything untoward was happening within our opposition coalition. In fact, even after everyone started making a big fuss about MPs quitting and aligning themselves with the ruling coalition, I still did not feel like anything special was happening. Then it dawned on me – I have become

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