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Welcome to the articles archives
What you
would find here are articles that I have written about various aspects of
economics or life in general. The philosophy I adopt is from Socrates,
"An unexamined life is not worth living". I welcome, in fact
urge, any comments from readers about the various articles, both good and bad.
Articles about economics
The theory of externalities applied to primary school registration in Singapore
Are Singaporeans rational in being politically ignorant?
The current subsidy scheme in NUS and its voucher alternative
Why should we care about income distribution?
The role of assumptions in economics: An
application to Christianity
The future of Singapore's economic growth
The beauty of competition. Are we cheapos? (19/01/2000)Â
JC or poly? A game theoretic
perspective
(29/02/2000)Â
Economics and Diablo2. Should we buy the original? (17/05/2000)
Articles about Singapore life
Is there a Y2K bug in Singaporeans'
perceptions of the next millennium?
(15/11/1999)
The similarities between credit card
companies and loan sharks (or Ah longs) (06/10/1999)
A further note on the application of
deductive reasoning
(30/11/1999)
THAT Fann Wong's Song (05/01/2000)
How a English Speaking Chinese, who is University educated can be a minority in Singapore
A new perspective about the bond breaking
issue (24/07/2000)
Some reflections on my first ICT
An analysis of political apathy in Singapore
using game theory
Articles about Christianity
Miscellaneous
Chinese Language and Chinese Songs (15/06/2000)
Tips on overseas survival (29/07/2000)
Movies/Book Reviews
Are Singaporeans living in a Matrix?
What The Phantom Menace has taught me about
PhD supervision
Is there racial discrimination in Singapore? A personal opinion
Review of
Lady Warriors of the Yang Family (Incomplete)
My letters to the Straits Times
Forum
About JC and poly students. The related economic article is here
About computer privacy issues. It was replied here. The related economic article is here
About the role of sex education in Singapore.
About software piracy (See the work in progress here). It was replied here. My unpublished reply is here.
About scholarship bond. (For the context, see the original
letter by Adrian, PSD's as well as EDB's replies.)
About the proposed gay forum (The related article is here)
About the portrayal of gays in HK drama
About the state of democracy in Singapore
About changing the tertiary subsidy system
in Singapore (See the
related article here)
About
Harry Porter and ACJS . See
different perspective here
and here.
About
the introduction of RU-486 and sex education. See the related NYT article here,
here
and here
About creativity and political behavior See what Marina Mahathir views here and a Taiwanese Professor's views here
About the banning of Janet Jackson's album. See the background and other letters here and here
About the NUS VC's
speech. Read about that section of his speech here,
and another very interesting letter here.
About
Unemployment Insurance in Singapore. Read a Business Times summary on
this issue here