Felix Ker's blog

I happened to come by an article on The Straits Times today (27 April 2009, Monday) and I felt that I should write something too.

How much does the brand name of a school factor into youth identity? YouthInkers respond.

Let’s go.

I see myself no different from any student graduated from St. Joseph’s Instutution. Neither am I different from someone who studied at Raffles Instutution. Marsiling Secondary School, at the time I entered, was only a year old. (I’m proud to be the second batch!)

We’ll discuss the teachers first. I must agree that teachers are really important when it comes to developing a child, but again, it’s how the child process what’s taught. Anyway, I didn’t really agree that many things I was taught until now. I admit I’m slow in processing, that took me a few years. I’m glad I got it, eventually.

But I must mention that we’ve got a fantastic headmaster (aka Principal). Mrs Choy had totally no airs and was easy to get close with and to talk to. It’s sad that her career had to come to an end just when I graduated. If not, it would be awesome if she could spread the motherly love to more batches. All good things come to an end, don’t they?

I was given a chance to develop myself in the world of technology. School got me started in programming (Pascal was the in-thing, hurhur.) and that was when I found my hobby and love for technology. They developed me and sent me for competitions and through that, I learnt that I’m not the best. (Indirectly, I benefitted lots.)

Cherish the chances given to you. I was given many for my evil-doing. I’m not going to talk about them.

I’m not successful at all, now. But someday, I will make my mark.

Felix Ker (class of 2004), 20 going 21, is a first-year Business student at SIM Global Education (University of London & London School of Economics).

So, how did your school ‘brand’ you?

With all the stupid quizes around, everyone’s doing them. Really too many people doing it everyday and it floods my feeds.

Can facebook allow us to use regular expressions to block what we do not want to see?

I know my friend is a Shopaholic because… (Actually, I’m a shopaholic too!)

1. I’d be holding many bags of goods if we’re shopping together! Whenever we go shopping it’s only sweet that a guy holds the shopping bags for ladies while they do their shopping. Then they can shop happier without having to put them on the floor then choose. Hopefully they know it’s been hard on us and offer a good backrub or massage.
2. I would receive SMS messages containing “I just bought…” or “I just went shopping…”. These messages sounds familiar? Fine, I might be one of them that sent you the messages. So what if I’m a shopaholic?
3. She’ll take 30mins to choose her required item and end up taking another hour choosing something she doesn’t require from another shop. “Stop.. I think I see something I like inside this shop!” It’s never going to be that 30mins of choosing a mascara and thats it. She’s sure to be back home with something else.
4. The more she buys, the happier she is. Spending money makes some people feel good? Perhaps.

There are many more reasons why I discovered about a shopaholic! But.. if you wanna know why…

Catch Confessions of a Shopaholic on 26 March!

I guess the main reason why I don’t even step on Friendster is because this pisses me off. I find it really irritating when I have to switch to my own language everytime I visit the site (in the past), until one day I decided that I shouldn’t even bother looking at it.

I travel and stay around quite a fair bit between Singapore and Malaysia for the past few years. Recently, I was really disappointed by Singtel’s Mobile Broadband and that caused me not to be able to surf much in Singapore as I wasn’t  even able to multitask by surfing 2 websites at 1 go.  It’s that serious. Now I’ve got M1 Mobile Broadband, and it isn’t any better too. I’ll do a review about it another day — but you know it’s not going to be a good review. But seriously speaking, TMNet Streamyx performs way better than the damn Mobile Broadbands I got in terms of stability. Ok, thats not the point.

Speaking about languages, English has been my primary language since young and that makes Chinese my mother tongue. I don’t get to learn Malay (Or Bahasa) in school and thats why until today I’m no good at the language.

We’ve got facebook right now, and it’s doing way better in terms of surfing experience. Importantly, they don’t select a damn default language for me by my IP Address.

Good bye Friendster. Any other sites that make me read Malay as my default language, I’ll say good bye to you too. [Webmasters, get this into your brains please.]

I’m thinking at the point of writing this. I’m just random.

想 means to think of. This chinese word consists of a 木， 目 and 心. So to think/miss, basically you have to be in the woods (forest?), imagine and image the thing/person you’re thinking of, and to think from the bottom of your heart (since it’s at the bottom).

Check out my chinese lesson no. 1 on youtube. I’ll be making one more this weekend if I have the time.