I'm a PhD student in the Asian Languages Department of Stanford University. People who don't understand sometimes make fun of me being a 'professional student' because I seem to hop from one university to another collecting degrees. I am in fact a serious academic who is slowly but surely adding on to his list of publications. This is all very boring, I know, which is why I'm building this site. This little tinkering on the Internet soon took up more time than is good for my academic career and grew from a personal past time to an international cooperative effort that currently spans more continents and time zones than I can keep track of. So, here they are, the other editors that help bring this site to you and make it such a success (in the order their self intros reached me):
Hiya! I am currently a freshman at Pierson College, Yale University. Probable Major : Political Science and International Relations. I have a keen interest in Asian politics, especially in the area of understanding the development of democracy in Asian societies.
I am very optimistic about internet. I think it holds a lot of potential in terms of allowing people all over the world to network like never before, and also because it saves me loads of money as I don't have to make expensive IDD calls from America to my family (my sis has a NUS account).
I like the growing local music scene, and am a keen follower of the Oddfellows. And I love cycling along the East Coast on my purple Shimano bike! :-)
Hi yer'll. I am a sophomore at Oberlin College, Conservatory of Music majoring in piano performance. I first started out e-mailing friends last year and now, I can't believe that I am absolutely addicted to the Internet. :-)
I am interested in many things depending on the time of the day and my mood. On most days, you can find me in the practice rooms or in the computer rooms (yes, e-mailing to pals all over the world!!!). Favourite hobbies are sleeping and eating. Rather boring right? *yawn*
Check out the different sites at SInterCom and give us lots of feedback and encouragement, and better still join the team of virtual editors on the Infomation Superhighway.
I'm working for a multimedia company in Singapore, promoting the use of the Internet in Singapore. What else? (-8
I have a degree in business from Nanyang Technological University. I take great interest in what's happening in Singapore and the rest of the world and I feed my addiction with whatever reading I can squeeze in between bouts of intensive surfing.
I started out editing for this site because I think it is meaningful work and a much better way to spend my leisure time. Though I agree with Chong Kee, this little tinkering is turning out to be a real handful! Practically like a second job if you ask me!
What would I be doing if I'm not editing for Sintercom? Well, I would probably pursue that degree in social science I always wanted or do my masters now. I will get round to that some day. I hope.
Thanx for taking the time to read about me. I find the very possibility that the few of us working virtually across time and place attests to the wonders of the Internet.
Anyway, I sleep less now and my social life had suffered but hey, I think it is worth it. If you agree wholeheartedly or think I'm plain crazy, let me know! I and the other editors love to hear what anyone has to say about the sites.
Have fun ! ( with Sintercom and life in general)
I've been away for far too long - 1995 is my sixth year in Canada.
The only thought in my mind when the plane left Changi was to come back home at the earliest opportunity. I never did.
After graduating from The School of Business Administration at University of Western Ontario, I lingered and stayed in Toronto with Deloitte and Touche's Computer Assurances Services Group for a year. I am now business systems manager at a brokerage in Canada's beautiful city of trees and greenery (Yes! Golf Clubs galore without the hefty $100,000 transfer fees of SICC and Tanah Merah) of London, Ontario.
Why am I doing this? I always thought Chong Kee was nuts when he first proposed a forum of this sort when he was in Taiwan in 1992/93. Back then soc.culture.singapore was just formed from soc.culture.asean, and discussions were much less cluttered and easier to follow. I always thought the net would expand to proportions beyond expectations and today's s.c.s. is illustrative of the explosive growth. Chong Kee's idea of the archiving make really good sense now, and that is really why you are reading this.
I'd have to agree with Wynthia that this definitely cuts into precious sleeping time, but working with my wonderful cyber-colleagues at SInterCom have been very rewarding, to say the very least. And if you've endured to read this far, why don't you sign up and join us for a fulfilling experience?
Hi, I'm Siva (short for Sambasivam Valliappan).
I'm a S'porean currently studying in Santa Clara University, USA. I'm majoring in Computer Engineering and minoring in Mathematics. I have been hooked on the Net ever since I started surfing it to do research for a paper of mine. Thanks to the net, I've been able to keep touch with what makes me a S'porean.
I am strongly in support of global internet access. Thanks to the net, I'm still able to keep touch with all my friends in S'pore. I would rather write an email then a letter any day. Also I save a ton of money on postage charges.
In between my classes and net-surfing, I find time for activities in the IEEE at my U. I also like to jog, read, listen to Music (Bryan Adams, Sting, ...).
The things I seriously miss about home is the food (Yah, Yah, that's what everybody says, and it's true).
I can be reached at the following email addresses
svalliap@scudc.scu.edu
svalliappan@scuacc.scu.edu
Have Fun, and do support SINTERCOM.
Yo! What's happening. Call me Joe Cool. This is perhaps the coolest thing of the century. Me and you over a pair of twisted wires. I'm in the IT (Info Technology) business with the largest Reinsurance Company in the U.S. Business wheeling and dealings get me very excited. To keep up with the market, I read the Wall Street Journal (US/Asian), Forbes, Financial Times and a few other business publications (but of course, the Straits Times Weekly :). Not that I've a million $ to invest, though I do trade on the fringes; but hey, you'll never know, one these day, I might just pick one that out performs MicroSoft :). Till then, I'll put my bet on "muar" i.e. "making a living by the sweat on my brow". ceterisparibus.
A year pasted and now I had to update my intro to read as follows...
Currently in the second year of the Chemical Engineering course in NUS. Life hasn't been the same since I enter NUS and found Internet. I was totally amazed when I first encounter it.I'm the most 'chor-bo' member in the group. You'll probably know why when you find that there are no other NUS student in the team. (Hint: also starts with 'S')
While not surfing the net,sports occupy a large portion of my free time. Canoeing, rowing, cycling, running and swimming are my sports. I'm also interested in rock-climbing.
Er... what else. You know, I'm really not too good at such self intro thing. Hope you get a rough idea about me. Drop me an email (at eng40705@nus.sg) if you want!
Enjoy your visit!
I am a DPhil student reading theoretical computer science at Brasenose College, Oxford University. Although my research interests lie within the confines of logic and proof theory, I am also very interested in Asian politics and the various social and economic issues that the countries in the region face in the development of their economies. I spend my spare time either rowing or fiddling with my PC. There isn't much time to call spare anymore though, what with the amount of time I spend on the internet.
'There are no whole truths; all truths are half truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil' A. N. Whitehead (1861-1947) Philosopher.
My email address is at: wk@comlab.ox.ac.uk. Feel free to email any comments to me.
Born: 10/08/75
Schools: 1979-1980 PAP Kindergarten 1981-1991 Singapore Chinese Girls' School 1992-1993 Nationl Junior College 1994- Goldsmith's College of Fine Art.
Interests: Photography, Cooking, Drawing, Sleeping, Tennis. (Just to name a few)
Past: I was always the over-active kid, who couldn't keep her mouth shut.
Present: Living the life of a Bohemian student artist in London. Enjoying the experience. Still can't keep my mouth shut.
Future: Hopefully, whatever my parents said about Art being "Tan Bo Jiak" will be proven totally false. Will champion Art's Cause in S'pore and not keep my mouth shut.
I am a first year MPhil/PhD student in Political Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London. This is the fifth year I am in this country and it is good to see how news from home has been made more accessible and up-to-date via print and electronic media. I spent two enriching years at National Junior College before starting my "career" as a "professional student". I have done my undergraduate training at University of Reading and spent a year at the University of Kent at Canterbury. Having been at both the East and West of London, I finally made the move to the capital last year.
Spare time is spent reading classics (anything from the Age of Chilvalry appeals!) and science fiction. If not, its practising on the keyboard for playing in Church or working with teenagers. Or, spent baby-sitting, putting friends' children to bed (an hour late after their bedtime!)
Take care and God Bless!
I am currently doing BSc (Computer Sciences) in Canada and I am a "computerholic" :) My area of interest is software programming. I have been using the INet for about two years or so, but only got into WWW about half a year ago. My other interests include listening to Classicals and collecting Comics.
There's nothing interesting happening at this stage of my life except for my studies and my computer. I am hoping that I can graduate and be back home latest by 2000 :)
I am physically in Singapore - if that would help Sintercom. I am with CSA and have been with them technically since 1982. I was away on sabbitical (sp?) from 85-91 doing my MSEE and also working for MS in Redmond. Came back to Singapore and rejoined CSA in early 91.
I am now doing consultancy for CSA (internal) and just yesterday I submitted the tender papers for the 3rd Internet Access Provider license (we are teaming up with IBM).
I am married to a lovely lady Usha, who is an English and Literature teacher in Mei Chin Secondary School. We celebrated our 2nd anniversary last Saturday.
Some of my ECA include being a Executive Committee member in the Singapore Computer Society and also as a Chairman of the Special Interest Group on Internet for the SCS. I have a bunch of other things that is really all in http://www.singnet.com.sg/~harish (same as in my .sig below).
I run a UUCP site at home (FQDN temasek.net) and I guess must have been the first private UUCP site in Singapore. I provide access to newsgroups etc for the Linux Users' Group (Singapore).
Hello. That's the first word I ever remember typing on a computer - it was one of the first Radio Shack TRS-80s to get into Singapore, on display at OG at People's Park back in the late 70s. I think I was about 8 at the time. By the time I was 12, I graduated to an Apple II with 48K of RAM. Now, 8MB of RAM just isn't even enough, which should tell you how fast and how far our world's computer consumption has come in just over a decade. I guess you could say I've been living in cyperspace for a lot of my life. I got onto the local modemming scene in 1987 and finally to the Internet in 1991, and have been hanging around ever since.
Somewhere in between, I managed to get through 12 years in ACS, con my way into a law degree at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, get involved in science fiction fandom, write a whole series of short stories and get published in Singapore, spend way too much money on comic books, spend a year in NUS converting to Singapore Law, find out to my joy that the law and cyperspace are beginning to intersect and there is a role for a net.crazy lawyer (or just a plain crazy lawyer) around. But not necessarily in that order. Not bad for a 25-year-old, I think.
I've known Chong Kee ever since I asked him to chill out on the newsgroup back in 1992. :) And we only met this year, like a lot of people I've gotten to know the insides of their heads before I've seen the outside. Isn't that just the beauty of it all? We're down to essences. Being part of this, is therefore, not really strange to me. It's just a more organised version of what we were part of all those years overseas.
So now I'm back in Singapore, doing the last six months of training before I start work as a Legal Officer. I've been around on soc.culture.singapore pretty much since the beginning, when it split off from soc.culture.asean in 1992. I've seen it grow from a place of lively intellectual debate, to a forum for name-calling and swearing, and nearly all shades in-between. Cyperspace can be a liberating experience, and people are capable of abusing whatever liberties are thrust upon them, especially when they have no experience in dealing with that kind of liberty to begin with. But I'm of the crazy notion that the liberty of cyberspace, the liberty to freely exchange viewpoints and information, the liberty to find out more about each other, and the way we think, can only be a good thing in the long run.
Which probably sums up why I'm involved in this glorious chaos that is the Internet Community. I believe that people have a right to information and a right to express their own information. Allow that, and all else follows - communication, understanding, tolerance, cooperation, compromise. Problem is, there's a lot of garbage out there, and if we have the requisite knowledge, it's pretty much our responsibility to clear things up by providing the facts, pretty or not.
Okay, I'm done soap-boxing for the day. A bit more about myself - aside from being an info.junkie, I love talking about basically anything except maybe sports - and you may find I have an opinion about basically everything as well. My current favourite pasttimes are net.surfing, reading anything I can get my hands on, watching sit-coms set in New York, and trying to reform what remains of a social life. I love the Net, and plan to be around for a long, long, time.
I'm medical doctor with interest in the applications of information science and technology including telecommunications, to health care and biomedical research
I have a degree in medicine from NUS in 1985 and also did my masters in NUS in 1992. I love my work but I also like to travel and read widely and take great interest in what's happening in the world, like Wynthia.
When I started surfing the Net in Feb 1995, one of the thing that fascinates me was the personal WWW homepage of each individual Singaporean. These homepages reveal the character and characteristics of each Singaporean. I learn a lot about Singaporeans and also they also taught me a lot about the intricacies of the Net and the Web. I have a vision that every Singaporean in the near future have a personal Homepage in the Net to facilitate communications and discussions.
So this is how I started to contribute in a small way to SIintercom by generating more interest in Singaporeans' HomePages! And The standards of our Homepages have improved tremendously over just a few months!!
Richard Yuen: Hi I'm a third year undergraduate in Software Engineering at the University of Toronto. Studying in Canada, especially in Toronto has been a wonderful expereince and I'm still loving every minute of it.
How did I get involved in this project? Well I seem to enjoy what I was doing in Computer Sceince and decided to try doing something to pass my little free time that I have left on something better than sleeping. I'm currently the "what's new" guy- ie every week I send out to a bunch of subscribers telling them what's new on SInterCom.
Hobbies just one...paintball!!!. I used to do lots of hiking around Banff and Jasper National parks in Calgary but every since coming to Toronto, big city life has been much more appealing. Hopefully I'll find some free time next summer to go skydiving ;) shh!!! don't tell my mom.
Feel free to send me mail at the following address
I am a political science student trying to complete a Ph.D, while pretending to be doing research on International Oceans Policy at the Antarctic Cooperative Research Centre. I have a strong interest in South East Asia, particularly on strategic issues, and on Australian politics (which is unavoidable in my present situation). My personal ideological position is undecided, and has moved from end to end of the political spectrum depending on the year. I have an undying affection for roast lamb, roast duck, and KFC. I am a huge fan of computer games, RPGs, and Sci Fi and Fantasy, especially Star Trek.
I'm a secondary student in a local (Singapore) government school, have been on the Internet since public access was first introduced in Singapore by SingNet, before that I was just modemming around local BBSes...
There really isn't much to say about myself, but if you want to know more come visit my homepage at http://www.pobox.org.sg/~alvin or just drop me E-Mail!
I popped out of my mum's belly around 6:30pm sometime in September of 1976.. since then i've grown [in all rhe right places] but i'm very much still an immature brat.
Right now i'm in Ngee Ann Polytechnic doing my 2nd year of Computer studies course which i'm having a HUMONGOUS problem with [ i can't program for nuts!!]. You could say i'm sick of computers.. i just enjoy using them not creating programs uhhh.. except HTML i LOVE html ;-). I hope to go into audio engineering after this diploma course.. work in the entertainment line or something ;-p
My main interest lies in Music.. especially the Local Underground Music Scene. That's why i decided to start this Ezine about local music, something that is very much underated.
The minute the average Singaporean thinks local music.. he/she goes.. "Ahh.. local bands all lousy one lar.." and that is very very very WRONG! Although i wouldn't say that all local bands are great.. some of them are FANTASTIC! Humpback Oak, Padres, Concave Scream, Livonia and Stomping ground to name a few.
You probably never heard of these band coz they never get radio airplay, you hardly ever read about them in the papers.. and probably never knew they existed.
That's where Underground X'cess comes in.. we hope to promote the local underground music scene.. help it out.. by reviewing all the underground gigs and d-i-y demos which go un-noticed.. Hopefully, we can help make these bands a household name!!! Everything starts of with a dream doesn't it??
SUPPORT LOCAL MUSIC!!!
A self-confessed internet addict who is in between jobs at the moment (anybody want to hire me?). Will be hitting the books again come August <groan>. I enjoy sharing opinions with people, which is why I'm so engrossed with the Net. Never knew how I ever survived without an e-mail account and access to the IRC. Yes - you can find me there every night after ten, without fail - no I'm never going to reveal my nickname =) you will have to search me out yourself.
Just got an assignment as a relief teacher in a neighbourhood school so I suppose some of my future stuff would be about schools and the Net. I like to hunt for stories of human interest. So you lovers out there, don't be suprised if one fine day, someone come up to you and said ...
When I'm not on the Net, I'm busy catching up with my reading. My current favourite is Douglas Coupland -the author of Generation X. I'm also a fan of X-Files, Babylon-5, Seaquest, and Animaniacs. My favourite flame at the moment is Singapore's most watched network (ha!) as the programers there don't seem to like SF-buffs like myself. (Somebody please tell them we have a life too!)
Just a thought - Adrian Wong
I'm an engineer with a telecommunications consulting firm based in McLean, Virginia. However , 99% of my time is spent away from my 'home base'. My work has taken me to Korea and various parts of the United States. My current project involves assisting Sprint PCS in their wireless system design. Ever heard of GSM? Well Sprint is using a technology called 'CDMA', a 'rival' technology.
The internet has kept me up to date with news from Singapore and also to keep in touch with friends n family back home. God knows how much more of a hole I will burn in my pocket with those phone calls back home if not for the internet!
My general interests span a wide range, from alternative music to Broadway musicals, from Calvin and Hobbes to novels (Kazuo Ishiguro, Amy Tan, Alan Paton etc), from being a beach bum to rowing.
I'm working for a Professional Strategic Internet Marketing and Management Consulting Firm based at Malaysia. Every week, I have to travel back and forth from Singapore and Malaysia. My main job is actively assisting company to realize the importance of the Internet. In addition, I keep telling people about how to bring in the cash flow and also the tips of cutting down the cost for a drink...we talk figures and $$$$$ day after day.:-)
I have degree in International Marketing and Computer Science from The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, USA. (where the Forest Gump came from.:-)) In sintercom, I start my venture with Chong Kee for taking care the bestofasiapacific.com web site. From that time on, I started to jump from Singapore to Malaysia to any countries within Asia Pacific. My fingers has been travelling a lot and I have filled with all kinds of cultures and knowledge.;-) As times goes by, I start to speak Japanese, Indian etc.;-)
I become an editor for this site because I think it is fun to look at how people are bringing the best to the rest of the world. In addition, it is always a best way to spend my leisure time. Thanks to Chong Kee, we do have a clear goal about where we want to go. We are working harder and smarter to make the site better than ever.
Anything that I want to do if possible? Yes.......I hope I can pursue my graduate studies if there is any University willing to take me in...:-)
Really appreciate for taking time to read. It is really my pleasure to work and communicate with people all around the world here in Sintercom. Althought we have never met each other, but our distance is never be too far. So leave us any comments you may have. I promise I will never fight anyone back. Instead, you will receive all those warmess appreciation.:-)
Having fun and Surf safely.