It's been a while
I haven't written in this blog for quite a while now; not much has changed, career-wise, although I just came back to work after a month-long recovery from an ACL reconstruction. My project is starting to run into problems of every imaginable kind: I won't specify more as I'm bound by a confidentiality agreement from work.
Outside of work, I have been actively involved in ECO Singapore, a youth group focusing on environmental issues. Just last night I sent off an email on behalf of the marketing department to the producing company of An Inconvenient Truth, asking if we may use their movie for our "Engage!" Roadshow.
The roadshow is quite a major undertaking; we'll be showcasing two shows this year for a start, but we're quite ambitious. We want to have at least 10% of all participating members-of-the-public to pledge to reduce their power consumption, amongst other green-inducing acts. The main focus of the roadshow isn't just to educate, inform, and bore the audience, but to provoke them, and then to make it easy to take action RIGHT THERE.
Kudos to Wilson Ang for the concept and the principle.
So far there are only three people on this committee: Zheying (a nice NUS final-year student), Wilson Ang (President of ECO), and myself, but we're looking to get more people on board. I basically summarized all the proposals for the different modules of the roadshow, and edited the entire proposal to make it presentable to a corporate audience. We have gotten a number of corporate sponsors on board, and it looks to be very likely to succeed. That would really make my year!
Besides ECO, I'm also contemplating taking up an M.Sc. in Mathematics (with a specialization in Mathematical Finance) from NUS on a part-time basis. I don't know why everyone is discouraging me, except my parents; a friend even told me "you don't have an aptitude for mathematics". Actually, I would argue that I don't have a demonstrated aptitude in mathematics, largely because of a lack of formal training (in high math) and a lack of focus (distracted as I was by other mundane things, like finishing up my chemical physics degree, for example...). Given time, and focusing only on math, I'm pretty certain I can end up as skilled in math as any other person.
Outside of work, I have been actively involved in ECO Singapore, a youth group focusing on environmental issues. Just last night I sent off an email on behalf of the marketing department to the producing company of An Inconvenient Truth, asking if we may use their movie for our "Engage!" Roadshow.
The roadshow is quite a major undertaking; we'll be showcasing two shows this year for a start, but we're quite ambitious. We want to have at least 10% of all participating members-of-the-public to pledge to reduce their power consumption, amongst other green-inducing acts. The main focus of the roadshow isn't just to educate, inform, and bore the audience, but to provoke them, and then to make it easy to take action RIGHT THERE.
Kudos to Wilson Ang for the concept and the principle.
So far there are only three people on this committee: Zheying (a nice NUS final-year student), Wilson Ang (President of ECO), and myself, but we're looking to get more people on board. I basically summarized all the proposals for the different modules of the roadshow, and edited the entire proposal to make it presentable to a corporate audience. We have gotten a number of corporate sponsors on board, and it looks to be very likely to succeed. That would really make my year!
Besides ECO, I'm also contemplating taking up an M.Sc. in Mathematics (with a specialization in Mathematical Finance) from NUS on a part-time basis. I don't know why everyone is discouraging me, except my parents; a friend even told me "you don't have an aptitude for mathematics". Actually, I would argue that I don't have a demonstrated aptitude in mathematics, largely because of a lack of formal training (in high math) and a lack of focus (distracted as I was by other mundane things, like finishing up my chemical physics degree, for example...). Given time, and focusing only on math, I'm pretty certain I can end up as skilled in math as any other person.
Labels: eco singapore, mathematics, work
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