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The Autumn Wind
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Tigris River and me, we both don't like a certain ex-common friend but we can't seem to find the perfect partner for our dreams. We both want to form the community for Aspies in Singapore. We tried different models, but I hung in the towel first. After all, AC is so much more effective than any...
I see that Aspies' employability are often not related to their interests. Indeed, some interests could even prevent many Aspies, without skills to support their interests, to not be employable.
Eric Chen, a famous Aspie who has 'out' his autism, as I recall offhand, once said that Aspies are...
My Singaporean friend, Tiger, said that he doesn't like Singapore expanding the university places to 40% of Singapore's cohort. He wishes my country cap University places because University is over-valued, and does not prepare graduates with a job in the relevant area.
I agree with him...
We had lunch in a restaurant in Singapore, located in a social club.
Dad and Mom are members of the social club. To generate more revenue, the club decreed that every 3 months, members have to pay US$100 in membership, including a minimum spending levy of US$70 in the Club. My parents, being...
The people with lower functioning autism (LFA) literally 'rot to death' from what I understand, as I have a neighbor with LFA.
It's not that we people high functioning autism (HFA) aren't disabled enough, we ARE disabled, we NEED services, we need societal support all around, from a broad...
Dad told me, Taiwanese go to Australia to do dirty jobs for higher wages.
I just look at my Dad and wonder why he grumbles about missed opportunities here, when it is clear that he doesn't like the lifestyle in Singapore, but he can't find a suitable alternative for his big talk of 'inclusive...
Lets me take a look on this FTs issues using my own opinion. There is no other way for Singapore to be Economically competitive without additional manpower. Since our birth rate has hit all new lows, it only made sense to recruit more FTs to fill the gaps. Citizen were fuming as the number of...
You may wonder, why do I bother to set up an interest group for AC users interested in Southern American culture. Well, I think Southern America is much more positive as a culture than Singapore, for a Singaporean like me.
It is because while I do not deny I am a Singaporean, I am, first and...
I posed this question, Should Singapore consider a 12/13-year compulsory education, where every Singaporean pays no fees for ITE, Polytechnics and JCs?
The Singapore education system is divided into primary schools, secondary schools (middle schools), junior colleges (preparatory high...
Humanity should save turtles for a better world for all of us, living in this world.
Aren't those turtles too cute to not to save them from extinction, either through our ignorance continuing our actions that hurt these turtles (like the use of plastic bags without re-using), or by our...
In the past, before 2002, as Prof. Tyler Cowen wrote in his book ?Discover Your Inner Economist?, he mentioned that the United Nations diplomats enjoyed legal immunity for any parking tickets they incur when they are on their missions to the United States. Canadian, Irish, Dutch, British m...
Loudly proclaiming to my High School when given the thought that the Founding Father of Singapore will die someday, I simply shouted, 'Freedom!' Well, my autism condition gets exposed afterwards, and I was not allowed to sit for Project Work, hmm, I mean, some examinable subject with assigned...
A stressful, competitive education system is not the ends to the means. it's just the means to the ends, when streaming is supposed to prepare Singapore to an industrialized, compartmentalized society where social control AND social mobility is supposed to be done, in the context of rapidly...
Building a broad-based society for the good of autistic people is never easy, especially for a never-ending issue like autism. Especially so in Singapore, where much more can be done for the good of all Aspie and Autie individuals.
As the most effective governments in the world work for the...
The Internet broke down last week. Thereafter, I decided to read over 15 books on economics and society. After reading them, I just realized I hadn't achieved comparative advantage in what I am doing. I have to quit all the groups I dislike. Unlike the very supportive and open-minded AC, where...
Over the course of history, people have used fancy ideologies and control the masses and gain power - and they prosecute them afterwards.
It can be seen in past history, especially with regards to countries who chose Communism and its classless society, but failed. The elites still...
I am getting an accounting degree, I foresee myself to work as an accountant, and I may be forced to do a full-time job in that area, but I really dislike it. Others see me as a success. I call it a failure, because look, I got to confess, being an unemployed bus fan collecting bus information...
I always have a powerful vision guiding me that whatever I do should lead me to a sense of completion, in whatever things I do. I value completion because my purpose is to empower the society as a whole. The society should give hope to all, through continuous tangible and measurable progress. I...
The Member of Parliament (working in a similar function to a Representative and/or a Senator in the United States) representing my electoral district, termed a constituency in my home country, is simply useless. He has a negative track record of working for the good of the disadvantaged...
The President of the ADHD society in Singapore, SPARK, organized a talk last Saturday. It was about Understanding the Student with ADHD.
There was a lively discussion on medicating, and managing the behavior, of the child with ADHD. As a member said, there could be a chaotic discourse on the...