A tribute to India

If you had asked me, before the trip, what came to my mind when I think of the word “India”, the answers you’d get would likely include: HOT, curry and LOTS of people. Ask me now and I would tell you instead that I think of the cold, masala and lots of love from the few people we did come into contact with during the trip my sister, her boyfriend and I went on during the December vacation.

Adventures in Southeast Asia

Natalie Sutton is a junior Business Administration major from Chapel Hill, NC. She received the Phillips Ambassadors scholarship to study abroad through the National University of Singapore – Kenan-Flagler Business School exchange program. This is a piece on her adventures in Southeast Asia while on Fall Exchange.

LKY: through the eyes of an Outsider

Jonathan Brice is a junior in Economics and Political Science at the University of North Carolina on exchange at the National University of Singapore. Recently, he had the opportunity to attend The Kent Ridge Ministerial Forum and witness Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew engage the students in a lively discussion through a series of question. He shares with us his thoughts.

Current election dates a deterrent to youth participation

Dr James Gomez pointed out in a public forum entitled:”Youth in Politics: Southeast Asia and Singapore” a trend that alleges a huge degree of political apathy amongst our youths.

Advocating investment in preventive medicine

In many healthcare establishments, little attention is paid to an area of medicine – preventive medicine. What exactly is preventive medicine? The wikipedia page states that preventive medicine refers to measures to prevent diseases, rather than curing them, and this would include public health methods.

Elucidating the mind of a voter

One of the most intriguing questions, and I suspect that would be of interest to the political parties out there is what exactly goes through the mind of a voter when he is at the polling station filling in his voting slip.

Subcontractors in SAF

When I was doing my National Service, I was told that certain vocations would be made obsolete and that they would be given to certain sub-contractors. Most of such operations are logistics-based, and they would be handled by civilian contractors. True enough, when I went back to my reservist training and caught up with my unit’s developments, I didn’t find it surprising that some of the vocations existed no more.

Lessons we can learn from Malcolm Gladwell’s “How David beats Goliath”

There are many life lessons that we can draw from Malcolm Gladwell’s essay “How David beats Goliath” published under the Annals of Innovation section at The New Yorker. Malcolm gave relevant examples of how underdogs triumphed over their adversaries when the odds were stacked over them.

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