Archive for February 2008
Quote of the day
Posted by: gimster on: February 28, 2008
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
- Arthur C. Clarke, British science fiction writer, inventor and futurist
For more quotes from Arther C. Clarke, go to this page on BrainyQuote.com
Facts from the UN’s HDR 2007/2008
Posted by: gimster on: February 25, 2008
The following are ‘Global Political, Economic, and Social Facts’ extracted from the UN’s Human Development Report 2007/2008 by the Infoplease website.
In the last two decades, political and civil rights have improved substantially throughout the [...]
Migrant Labour
Posted by: gimster on: February 24, 2008
Attended a public lecture on Migrant Labour that was part of the ‘NUS Southeast Asia Week & CSR Awareness Speaker Series’ last Friday (22 February). Got handouts from two societies that work with migrant workers in Singapore, so I’m sharing here the links to their websites:
Humanitarian Organisation for Migrant Economics (H.O.M.E.)
Transient Workers Count Too (TWC2)
HBO: Thin
Posted by: gimster on: February 15, 2008
Read the New York Time review for this documentary here
Book-buying spree tonight
Posted by: gimster on: February 11, 2008
Bought 5 books from Borders tonight, 3 of which are more immediately relevant to GP:
How to Write Essays: A step-by-step guide for all levels, with sample essays
by Don Shiach;
How to Write Better Essays
by Bryan Greetham; and
How to write Essays & Assignments
by Kathleen McMillan and Jonathan Weyers
English varieties and accents
Posted by: gimster on: February 11, 2008
A friend shared this YouTube clip:
- Something more concise for evaluation in the application question
- Purposeful reading for GP (updated)
- Evaluation
- Students of GP
- Application Question Resources
- 'The world is one big GP essay'
- 'Is an ageing population necessarily a bad thing?'
- Everyone's a critic...
- The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
- The hedonic treadmill
- Elim: wld like to join
- vijaykumar: DO LET ME HAVE MAXIMUM ESSAYS @COMPREHENSION PASSAGES.WOULD LIKE TO GIVE SOME HINTS ON ESSAY WRITING @COMPREHENSION PASSAGES. DR VRAMCHURN
- vijaykumar: would like to have as much heilp as possible from contributors to publish a gp txt bearing in mind the new syllabus.contact me on vijay@yahoo.com any
Global Voices Onlines >> Breaking News
- Cuba: Details of the Sánchez detention emerge
- Yoaní Sanchez & other Cuban bloggers detained, beaten
- Russia: Major Search Engine Closes Its Blog Rating
- Jamaica: Cat Among Pigeons
- Guyana: Outrage at Police Torture Allegations
- Bangladesh: Chinese Pressure Censors Tibet Exhibition In Dhaka
- Leptospirosis outbreak in the Philippines
- Egypt: Two Trains, a Buffalo, and a Minister
- Honduras: The Beginning of the End of the Crisis?
- Tunisia elections: Fairness and Impartiality !!?
