Saturday, July 30, 2011

Fiction Writing Lesson #4 : Characters

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At this point of our classes, we will spend more time writing and discussing the merits of our works so there is less theory to share moving...
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Saturday, July 23, 2011

Fiction writing lesson #3 : Plot, Reversals, Recognition and Beats

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Yesterday we got into a detailed discussion on how to construct a plot. Stories can be plot-driven or character driven. A plot-driven stor...
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Saturday, July 16, 2011

Fiction Writing Lesson #2 : Show, don't tell.

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Show, don't Tell is one of those basic fiction writing concepts which have been something I've been trying to wrap my head around f...
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Saturday, July 09, 2011

Fiction Writing Lesson #1 : Joys of discomfort.

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Yesterday marks my first fiction writing lesson under Felix Cheong, who conducts a brilliant course on fiction writing with NUS extension. W...
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Saturday, July 02, 2011

10,000 hours of deliberate practice : Maybe its time to realize my Fiction Writing ambitions.

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The Golden Point awards submission closed on Thursday this week, and I have, a month earlier, submitted an entry for the English short story...
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Friday, June 17, 2011

Why shouldn't Singaporean women be materialistic ?

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The following article has created a minor storm on my Facebook, I thought I should comment on it. Singaporean Girls are materialistic So...
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Thursday, June 16, 2011

Field testing my retirement and the World's Cheapest Guides.

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Maybe I should explain just what the heck I'm trying to do. About 3 weeks ago, I left my job with a secure offer from another company. B...
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Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Launch : World's Cheapest Guides on Financial Independence and Life Philosophy.

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2011 has been roller-coaster ride. a) My family downgraded to a 5-room HDB. It was not as tough as I thought. b) I became a new dad to my...
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Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Some quick figures for 2010.

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Quick quiet update in case some of you guys subscribe to my blogs. Ok, this year is not as good as last year in terms of yields largely be...
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Sunday, October 10, 2010

Presentation at Bar Camp 6 - Quarter Life crisis

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Bar Camp 6 was a blast. I made a presentation entitled "The Quarter Life Crisis". Too bad my laptop which runs Ubuntu would not ...
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Saturday, September 25, 2010

What's marriage really competing with ?

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When the government said that they want to have a sustained campaign to promote marriage to younger folks, a lot of folks took the opportuni...
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Saturday, September 04, 2010

How to study engineering ?

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A number of readers may be engineers who want to get into investing so do comment on this article whether you agree or disagree with it. A...
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Sunday, August 22, 2010

Advertisement to get singles to settle down and start families.

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Today is a double-shot weekend. Here's my idea on a different way of positioning family life which the Government might consider. The ...
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Fairness is what we strive for. But equality may turn out to be a really bad idea.

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Well I think the GE fever will be upon us very soon. I just want to spend a short amount of time to talk about two concepts which tend to co...
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Monday, August 16, 2010

Article on my iPad and homemade stylus.

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I took a recipe from the web and made an Ipad stylus that also works on my android phone. http://polymathprogrammer.com/2010/08/16/homemad...
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Tuesday, August 10, 2010

National Day Rant : No one is out to ruin your Singaporean Dream, lah !

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I don't really feel like blogging these days. But occasionally some things occur in the blogosphere and I suddenly find that I can't...
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Sunday, August 01, 2010

ipad is overrated?

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Well I just got my iPad and am writing my blog using the device. While the device scores on ease of use and user friendliness, I am personal...
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Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Liberal Arts #2 : What can we learn from the Mohists ?

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I've not been updating this blog lately. My focus is now in Android programming and coming up with a program to make my D&D games sm...
Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Fruits from the Liberal Arts #1 - Alexis De Tocqueville on Singapore ?

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Here's a short snippet on how my journey towards equipping myself with some skills of a Liberal Arts are bearing some fruits. Alexis D...
Sunday, May 23, 2010

My views on how Singapore can adopt the Liberal Arts.

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My journeys in wealth creation has stretched most of the technical disciplines. In Singapore, that's what most of us are built to do. Wo...