sit down and shut up!

My initial opinion about the recent events was that in other parts of the world, people are avoiding crowded places to reduce the spread of the H1N1 flu [cannot use the term 'swine flu' because its not found in pigs. Using the term 'swine flu' will affect the entire pig industry.], while in our lovely island of Singapore, we are squeezing ourselves as much as possible into a tiny room fighting over the running of some organisation.

Then again, after following the entire incident closely today, I have decided that it was not a childish act after all; we have shown everyone that we are neither oppressed nor politically apathetic people. We don't keep quiet when something goes wrong; we do fight back when we need to.

Hurray!

The power of new media was also felt today. Traditional media like television news channels and photographers were not allowed into the meeting today, but those outside were kept updated by Twitter feeds from those inside. The foreigners unaware [pun unintended] of what was happening were wondering why the topic was, all of a sudden, more popular than the flu pandemic and the Wolverine movie.

02 x Hurray!

As for myself, all I want to say is, one, Singapore is a secular society, two, homosexuality is a personal choice, and three, one cannot turn into a homosexual or a lesbian simply by attending sexuality programmes.

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I recently finished this book about mathematics: Letters to a young mathematician by Ian Stewart. Its a general book that talks about mathematics, not one that teaches. The book itself isn't that bad, but occasionally I find the English a little too complicated for me to understand; other times the book, especially in the early chapters, was pointing out rather obvious facts. Like why and how we should study maths. Hmm.

In an attempt to reach a wide audience some chapters were irrelevant to me. Like how as a graduate student one should not get too close to his advisor, or how one should teach Maths as a PhD lecturer in a university. =S

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So many people are going overseas. What a great difference.