As a result of the effort by the government and universities in encouraging youths to be entrepreneurial, a lot of the younger generations are starting to have dreams and ideas that they believe they can pursue as their future career.
While that may be a good thing on its own, the sad thing is that a lot of these people are thinking that a great idea/dream alone is sufficient to get them where they want to be. They believe that by offering stakes/partnerships to people, people would be impressed with their ideas and would be willing to work for them, for free, except for the stakes. Yes, bootstrapping is part of entrepreneurship, but this is clearly a misinterpretation on the idea of bootstrapping.
Along the route of my work as a freelance web developer, I have received several such partnership requests, offering imaginary stakes in their imaginary future companies in exchange for my service in web development. So far I haven’t accepted any.
While dreaming and being creative and innovative is good, what these people really need to learn is to have a more down-to-earth plan towards achieving their dreams. If the whole entrepreneurship is just about having a good idea and getting people to work on it for free, why is there a need for all the entrepreneurial education that the tertiary institutes in this country are giving?
Or is it due to these education that more and more of the younger generations are starting to have these dreams?
Is Windows Vista launching in Singapore next week like in the USA? But why is it so quiet? I believe I am still on Microsoft Singapore’s mailing list, but I have yet to receive anything regarding its launch party over here (not that I want to attend).
What’s Microsoft Singapore’s promotional team doing? Or is Vista’s next week launch date applies for the US only?
On a different note, I am really behind with the deadline that I imposed on myself - to get Ping.sg done before the rushing clock on Ping.sg’s homepage goes kaboom. Most of the time was spent on the look only so far - giving feedback and discussing with Veron on the new look and then porting the HTML and CSS over for Ping.sg’s engine. Now that we are both pretty happy with the look, I really gotta get back to working on the new features before the time’s up.
And I have deadlines of my other projects coming up soon too…
There has recently been a long and intense discussions going on at tomorrow.sg over the issue of religion (particularly Christianity) and over a local church’s cult-like service.
I have been an atheist for years but have never spoken much about it for I know it is pointless to discuss anything on the topic of religion when theists already have absolute opinions on their own beliefs.
Recently this issue has bothers me a little as I have noticed that instead of the diminishing influence of religion in this country as it is happening in most part of the world, more and more people, especially the youths and foreigners (esp. students), are subscribing to religions, especially and almost exclusively to Christianity. I find this phenomenon extremely disturbing. What good are the improvements of education system in the country and the facilities and infrastructures to promote a thinking society when most and increasingly more of its people are not thinking.
Blindly following some ideology that is being created centuries ago and then interpret it according to today’s situation and even claiming that it should be the ’science’ is worrying. With the rate that the religion activities are increasing in this country, I frankly am afraid to think of the future of the people in this country.
I don’t know what I am doing.
I don’t know what my objective is.
I don’t know what my hypothesis is.
I don’t know what I am supposed to achieve.
I don’t know what I am supposed to prove or disprove.
To be frank, I think I have just screwed myself by choosing a topic I do not have much basic knowledge of.
Has anyone actually failed the FYP after a whole year of effort? If not, I could be the first.
I first came to know about this game, Flash Element TD, through currytan’s blog via ping.sg. Then I realised it was on Digg. It’s quite a craze. The game has just been released a few days ago and it’s already getting almost 1 million hits a day and consuming about 30 GB of bandwidth per day (look at the stats)! Now that’s what I call SEO!
I did try it a few times a few days ago but didn’t manage to go too far.
Saw my brother online earlier this evening and told him about this game as I knew he would be interested in it as we played quite a lot of Warcraft III back then. And surprisingly, about 4 hours later, he told me he has beaten the game with no reference from elsewhere. He was just experimenting, studying and calculating the best combinations. He told me about it earlier and I decided to try it out after I was tired doing my work.
Surprise surprise, it worked so well and there was still so much excessive gold left (almost 20K)! Absolutely no cheats were used.
Since a lot of them are posting videos up on YouTube showing how they made it through the final level, I just had to post this one up as my brother’s strategy just totally pwned that game, especially the fact that his strategy lets one beat the game with so much excessive gold.
Well done, U-Fong. And I’m surprised at how fast he mastered the game.