Tropical City State

Took off from home at 6pm, expecting to get to Raffles City slightly before 7pm, leaving me enough time to clean up a little before getting to the classroom in time. Didn’t work out that way. Traffic was heavy: it was the peak period, and it’s definitely different from cycling in the weekend, when cars … Continue reading »

Saturday was to the SGX centre, Sunday was to Hotel 81 at Jalan Besar, Monday was to China Square Central. Nothing much to comment on for the first 2 days. Just that they took about an hour each. On Saturday I took the Dover- Holland Road- Orchard- River Valley next to Great World City- Chinatown- … Continue reading »

Dear Editor, I am a Singaporean and I like reading about Singapore written by good writers, travel and otherwise, because for me, it is most times very amusing. I enjoyed reading Frommer’s SEA guide, 6th edition, because I realised how restricted the country sounds. I am sure there must be truth hidden in its depths … Continue reading »

I’m learning how to read figures for “Green Dollar” these days. Since figures are objective and finance has a certain veil over it, I’m forced to think of ways to work around pockets of confidential or unknown information. As a garage journalist living without insider news, I like kidding myself into thinking that paid analysts … Continue reading »

Just last week, a breakfast was organized at the International Green Building Conference  (IGBC) to perk Chiefs of corporations and government officials up to green building. It got them to think about valuating it, or in money speak, green-valuating property, whichever way relates better to them. To be honest, for the whole span of a … Continue reading »