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AIESEC in NUS has been alive since 36 years? What!?You know, some faculty members dropped by GV and they said they remember AIESEC from when they were students at NUS - and these faculty members were quite advanced.Okay coming back to AGM (Annual General Meeting) - what was it about?In a nutshell, it is a formal event (everyone wears coats and ties!) where the successes of …
News News News!Nabeel Khalid | Year 2 NUS | Year 2 AIESEC | NUS Branding & Communications CoordinatorAs dead as this blog may be, a lot goes on in @ in NUS. For instance, we already have all our EB elects and LCP elect. Presenting the @ in NUS Executive Board for 2008-09:LCP: Chang Siew YikLC VP Finance: Adrian Ong Lian KiatLC VP In-coming Exchange: Vasudha RamLC …
National University of Singapore (NUS) never appeared in the 2004 Times Higher Education Supplement (THES) World University Rankings. When it showed up at rank #22 in the 2005 Rankings, NUSians celebrated their success. In 2006 it was even better - NUS jumped to spot #19. Everyone probably thought at the time that whatever NUS administration, faculty and students were doing, …
The area where I go for my internship is International Business Park. It's a calmer place compared to my experience of working at Raffles Place, but there aren't many interns here. Sadly, that means having lunch by myself, or in the company of Gold 90.5 FM.On my first day of work, the Managing Director for the Singapore office of my company joined me for lunch. I guess I …
Woh Ishq Jo Hum Se by Farida Khanum Download now or listen on posterous Woh Ishq Jo Hum Se.mp3 (4516 KB) Woh ishq jo hum se rooth gaya, ab ous ka …
CANADA: The Canadian privacy group, The Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPC), has filed a complaint against Facebook, citing 22 separate breaches of privacy law in the country.There are about 7 million users on Facebook (out of a total of 17.5 million Canadians on the Internet) and Clinic Director Phillipa Lawson feels that ...
After repeated requests from hundreds and thousands and millions and billions of people who have a lot of friends, Facebook has allowed users to add more than 5,000 friends.This news comes in after they announced they are working to simplify the profile page - dividing it into several pages. They said this would allow them ...
Since most of the student body in PGPR is done with exams, you can see the life in PGP phasing out. Even life on campus seems to be coming to a halt. Lesser and lesser people are now seen at the various study rooms all around campus.For someone who finished their exams on the 5th ...
The Student Financial Aid Unit (SFAU) at the National University of Singapore (NUS) yesterday released the financial aid application results for the next academic year, 2008-2009. The deadline for application was April 14 and SFAU announced the results after taking six weeks to evaluate the ‘need’ of the applicants. The financial aid website makes this ...
Nabeel Khalid | Year 2 NUS | Year 2 AIESEC | NUS Branding & Communications CoordinatorI thought I'd make just a quick update... Yesterday we held a welcome dinner (thanks to Cathy for organizing it) for the new trainees that had arrived - one through an NUS and the other through an NTU account. A bunch of us were there to finally meet up with Anna and Aiina (I don't think …
47% of Indian population reportedly fights the battle with gluttony while the state holds talks with Pakistan foreign ministry officials.According to a study conducted by the World Trade Organization (WTO), 27% of India’s workforce suffers from hypertension, 10.1% suffer from diabetes and 47% are overweight. The study said that this was particularly evident in …
Chang Siew Yik | Year 2 NUS | Year 2 AIESEC | NUS Vice President of People DevelopmentHey AIESEC!!How have your involvement in AIESEC so far?How have your past 6 months of AIESEC Experience been?Are you ready to go on to the next stage?Are you willing to take up the challenge?Are you looking up for further opportunities?NUS EB 0809 applications are now open !!For further …
Nabeel Khalid | Year 2 NUS | Year 2 AIESEC | NUS Branding & Communications CoordinatorGV (Global Village) was a first-of-its-kind event for AIESEC Singapore and let me explain why before you say anything. I mean sure, we always have a GV at every AIESEC conference and it is always more spectacular than before. But AIESEC conferences are attended by AIESECers only, and …
With a title like that, you would probably expect some advice on how to make money from your blogs. Sorry to disappoint you if that was your expectation when you clicked in.What I mean by selling blogs is selling the idea of blogging to someone who doesn't blog - something I have done a lot in the past months (well, ever since I started to blog myself). Naturally, some of …
The cyclone in Burma Myanmar is being seen by the locals as a God-willed retaliation against their totalitarian, lazy leaders. The government, they said, was more concerned with their constitutional referendum until it really hit them - literally and more adversely in their southern parts. Now the government has received its punishment and must work ...
When I realized I could finish a 25g pack of Drum tobacco in just three days, I thought I deserved the title of "SuperSmoker". But it seems that title is being used for something else - so …
Nabeel is running through tissue paper rolls and cussing at the NUS CCA points' system. 12:03pm Nabeel is running through tissue paper rolls. 7:27amMarch 10 Nabeel 's greatest dream is to see ZERO UNREAD emails in his inbox... 8:41amMarch 9 Nabeel is pulling his hair out!!!! *&%^$%@! 7:11pmMarch 6 Nabeel is sick and tired of being sick and tired. 7:35pmMarch 1 Nabeel …
Jobless as I am, I am making a list of various words I can think of that have the 'sh' sound. There are at least 11 different ways different alphabets make the 'sh' sound. Check them out:'C' - social/Associate (soshul/assoshiate)'Ch' - chalet (shallay)'Psh' - pshaw (shaw)'S' - surely/sure (shorely/shore)'Sch' - schist (shist)'Sc' - conscience (conshunss)'Sh' - shabby …
Sitting at the central courtyard at Raffles Place, I enjoyed my 15-minute smoke-break.I had rolled two cigarettes while I was in my office on the phone with my clients so that I could save time spent on rolling during my break. Efficient time management, yeah?Smoking is an interesting activity that can teach you loads about multi-tasking. You can do so many things while …
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