Choirs & Choruses
One of the interesting bits about Ling and me is that we were both choir conductors.:) Even though I applied to join choirs during during week 0 of my first year studies in NTU 17 years ago, I had no
Tag: NTU
Hong Kong Squatters II
Continued from my previous post! The NTU hostels themselves in the early 90s varied in age and quality. There were seven hostels, the newest one (VII) built like a swanky hotel resort. The hostel I spent my first two years
Hong Kong Squatters I
One of the big differences between NUS and NTU lies in that the main campus of NUS is in a semi-central location of Singapore. NTU, on the other hand, is located on the western end of the island. To get
The World at Sydney
Since I was writing recollections of my extra-curricular activities the week before last, here’s another entry on debating at NTU. The Australasians tournament in Melbourne ’95 was an eye-opener, and from that point till 2000 I got involved training polytechnic,
Long hair
While digging through my 11+ year old CDROMs looking for old debating pictures, I ran into other pictures that were taken during my student days. Here’s one from 1994. This isn’t too visible from the picture, but I kept my
"Mr. Speaker sir…"
I wrote this entry several weeks ago to post up when I’m too busy to write current entries. So here it goes.:) A student blogger on the other blog I write for was noting how quickly time has passed in
What I really wanted to be
Truth to tell, I didn’t always want to be a teacher. Heck, growing up with a family where nearly every person on my maternal side was a language teacher, I wanted to be anything but a teacher. Why I eventually
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