SingaporeSurf : Life in the city

Monday, August 2, 2004

Ramblings

Introduction
by Heng-Cheong Leong

Hi, and welcome to the new and improved SingaporeSurf. Well, maybe only on the "new" part, but not really on the "improved" part. Especially if you have no desire whatsoever to read all my rambligns.

Hi, and I am Heng-Cheong. I've been publishing SingaporeSurf for quite a while already, but today is the first day I am switching from more of a "link-to-headlines" mode to "blog-plus-some-links" mode here. I hope you can forward me any of your suggestions or comments on what you see here.

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ATM Machines, PIN Numbers, And Hwa Chong Institution
by Heng-Cheong Leong

The latest news on the local education scene is the merger of Chinese High and Hwa Chong Junior College to form Hwa Chong Institution.

I am not from either of the schools, so I don't really have any emotion or feelings attached, and I don't really care one way or the other.

But the choice of the new English name, Hwa Chong Institution, I feel, is really quite stupid. Hwa Chong, after all, is the phonenic translation from Chinese, which means Overseas Chinese High School. So the English name actually means "Overseas Chinese High School Institution."

To put it another way, it's just like calling Yangtze Jiang River, which will get scolding from my secondary school geography teacher. (For those who don't understand Chinese, the Jiang in Yangtze Jiang already means river.)

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Let The Blame Game Begin
by Heng-Cheong Leong

The inquiry into the collapse of Nicoll Highway has started, and LTA wasted no time in assigning blame.

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