lundi, août 01, 2011 Certain events took place over this week which I had to return from China for, and one of them was to wear a Harry Potter robe and get up on stage, and take a couple of photos. Just for posterity (and since this blog definitely will receive less hits than if this were posted on fb, here are the couple of photos, since my parents were particularly excited.  me and my parents (my parents and i) i and my parents   [Wearing the Harry Potter Robe] |
mercredi, février 17, 2010 ... when you're no longer tested on equations![Physics is fun] |
mardi, décembre 04, 2007 Banda Aceh: More Developed Than It Sounds So we arrived, and the Medan domestic airport burned down the night before we arrived, which was quite exciting in theory - it was a pain to haul our luggage over to the Garuda office to find out what was happening. Strangely, the situation wasn't too bad - they seemed to have it all planned out, and nobody looked like they were fazed. The girls were joking that they were so used to calamity that it's part of life now, and they just get on with it. .jpg) Sometimes buildings are just... buildings. This part of Aceh did not get hit by the Tsunami. .jpg) The food is okay here. The good is really, really good, the bad is just crap fried in oil. .jpg) Getting lost while trying to navigate the Aceh street maze.  One of the health centres in which I am conducting research and interviews. Libellés : academic, humanitarian, school, travel [Banda Aceh: More Developed Than It Sounds] |
lundi, octobre 01, 2007 Good Riddance: A Reminder for University Ethics  I guess that sums up my postgrad experience in a nutshell. There's really not much else to say, what with the professor resigning in before the scandal could even erupt. There are some things which professors should not be allowed to do, and one of them is to unfairly exploit the power-imbalance between teacher-student to their advantage. Universities should also clearly state the OOB markers - this is not something which is an ethically ambivalent issue; it's as distinct as night and day. Although the university has no right to interfere in what occurs behind closed doors, there should be a clear articulated policy with regard to improper student-teacher relationships. It is precisely because there was no earlier sanction on this guy, did he grow bolder and bolder, even as he put on his moralist, hyper-ethical front. If there's a clear sense that instructors are taking advantage of the lack of articulated policy, shouldn't someone be looking into putting some semblance of one down on paper? Libellés : academic, school, singapore, thinking [Good Riddance: A Reminder for University Ethics] |
mercredi, août 01, 2007 Libellés : academic, humour, technology [Smart is Sexy] |
jeudi, juillet 26, 2007 A first for me... NUS ARI 2nd Singapore Graduate Forum on Southeast Asian Studies  Dr. Anthony "Tony" Reid giving the opening keynote lecture.jpg) One of the sessions I attended; this is what I did on the next day The NUS Bukit Timah Campus is a little hard to get into, but once you're inside,the quadrangle is beautiful: it's like the quadrangles in Cambridge colleges... beautiful. [A first for me... NUS ARI 2nd Singapore Graduate Forum on Southeast Asian Studies] |
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