"On the Universal Declaration:
“That vision was meant to protect liberty from degenerating into license and to repel the excesses of individualism and collectivism alike."

- World Made New

你现在可以做火星人了吗？

Little bit lost and
Little bit lonely
A little bit cold here
A little bit feared

But I, hold on
And I,
Feel strong, and I
Know that I can

Getting used to it
Lit the fuse to it
Like to know who I am

Been talking to myself forever…yeah
And how I wish I knew me better, yeah
Still sitting on the shelf but never
Never seen the sun shine brighter
And it feels like me, on a good day

I’m a little bit hemmed in
Little bit isolated
A little bit hopeful
A little calm

But I, hold on
And I,
Feel strong, and I
Know that I can

Getting used to it
Lit the fuse to it
Like to know who I am

Been talking to myself forever…yeah
And how I wish I knew me better, yeah
Still sitting on the shelf but never
Never seen the sun the shine brighter
And it feels like me, on a good day

19
July

love. love. love.

18
May

“One can only demand of the teacher that he have the intellectual integrity to see that it is one thing to state facts, to determine mathematical or logical relations or the internal structure of cultural values, while it is another thing to answer questions of the value of culture and its individual contents and the question of how one should act in the cultural community and in political associations. These are quite heterogenous problems….In the lecture room we stand opposite our audience, and it has to remain silent. I deem it irresponsible to exploit the circumstance that for the sake of their career the students have to attend a teacher’s course while there is nobody present to oppose him with criticism.”

- Weber, Science as a Vocation

03
May

the safety of our civil institutions in the midst of change

“ Do you think the fear of a change in government will work against the opposition?

Tan Jee Say: I don’t think people should be frightened, it’s a reality of the future of politics. The realities of today are too complex to be represented by a one or two party state. Coalition governments are a possibility, that’s the way the UK’s gone.

Ang Yong Guan: People need to delink the PAP from the civil service: the civil service will remain no matter which party is in power. The teachers won’t stop teaching the children, the nurses won’t stop running hospitals, the fire fighters will still fight fire.

In reality, and I’m sure Jee Say can tell you, it’s actually the perm sec who runs the ministry. So whichever government is in power, the civil service is supposed to be apolitical and make sure the country continues to run by cooperating with the government of the day.

You know MM says that Ministerial pay is the reason why the PAP has managed to field good candidates in the last few elections, but this one we’ve proven him wrong.

All these Cambridge and Oxford people who don’t need to be paid millions to contest. A few nights ago Chiam See Tong said “politics is in my blood”! Now that’s pure passion, that’s something money can’t buy.”

- http://ge2011.theonlinecitizen.com/2011/04/two-old-friends-one-new-goal/

01
May

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