Should You Craft New Year Resolutions?
We must remember to look and strive beyond the immediate, the demands to keep our heads down in the mud. And what better way to look up into the skies than through New Year resolutions!
Category: Thinking
High Place Phenomenon: The Urge to Jump Is Not A Wish To Die
The breeze drew me to the windows, and seconds later, my mind threw me out of it. Or so I thought—I visualized the jump and subsequent plunge. My heart skipped a beat and my body recoiled immediately. Was I thinking of suicide? Not necessarily. Jennifer Hames and her colleagues (2012)...
Charles Cooley: I Am What I Think You Think I Am
“I am not what I think I am, and I am not what you think I am. I am what I think you think I am.” – Charles Cooley The eloquence of this quote struck me the moment I chanced upon it on Facebook. Quotes, by the necessity of their...
Sociology & SEO: Dissociating from Alternative Worlds
Over the past 6 or 9 months, I have vacillated over how to take SmartCasualSG forward. Some changes are visible: my domain is now self-hosted, my front-end layout has changed, and so have my pen name. Having overcome my dread of going public, I started a Facebook page—with even more...
10 Most Thoughtful But Less Popular Singapore Blogs
What would you do to find the best content that people in Singapore blog? You’d likely Google top Singapore blogs. Yet like all search engines, Google is powered by algorithms which use quantity as indicative to quality. The first result was a Top 50 list from ASEAN Up, which analyzed...
Can You Be Intelligent Without Conscious Command of Knowledge?
With education, I’m on the progressive train. By progressive, I mean that assessments should ideally be continual, rather than compressed into the be-all and end-all of the Final Exam. It is perhaps the popular stance to take, unless Tiger Mums are your thing. The delight, then, when I realized I’ll...
