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Working part-time

Posted on 3 Mar 200819 Aug 2016   by CY

There was another article in the local newspapers several days that caught my eye. Here’s the capsule version: As foreign students face rising costs in Singapore, is part-time work an option? By Neo Chai Chin, TODAY | Posted: 27 February

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An adventure ends, another begins

Posted on 28 Jan 2006   by CY

This is my last day in Perth, and I’ll be flying back to Singapore for good in a few hours’ time. It hasn’t been a long 3 years. In fact, the time I spent in Perth seemed to whiz past

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Hey, you’re TEFed!!

Posted on 15 Apr 200425 Jun 2016   by CY

I received a particularly happy bit of news two days ago; a paper I’d co-written had been accepted for a conference that will be hosted at the National University of Singapore in June this year. Even then, although this isn’t

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The Noise of Life

Posted on 3 Mar 2004   by CY

As absurd as this may sound to other Singaporeans, one of the things I miss about home is the “noise” of life, as I like to call it. Now, just two decades ago, barely 3 million people inhabited the island

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Where Do You Want To Go Today?

Posted on 27 Mar 2003   by CY

Curtin University has a health and counseling services department situated in a nice building just opposite the library, and I was there last week to see if I should be worried about a skin problem that had been bugging me

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The Great Adventure

Posted on 24 Feb 2003   by CY

Today is the last day I’ll be spending in Singapore for a long while; as several friends and my colleagues know, I’ll be leaving for Perth tomorrow morning to do the remaining 3-4 years of my Ph.D program on campus

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