Collin Ng's Blog

This morning Run350 21km race organised by NTUC Income in support of Earth Day, my first with them was meant to be a gauge prior to the Sundown 42km marathon in May this year. My running mate, Chua who registered for this event much earlier injured badly in a recent bike accident told me he will be running too. I was quite sceptical that he could even finish the 21km race as he has not been running regularly since his operation more than two months. However, in the past weeks before this event, he had started to run on own but it was a struggle to get back to near fitness, needless to say. After some persuasion, his doctor has finally given him clearance to run, rather reluctantly but on condition that he cannot push too hard and also, he has to avoid runners accidentally bump onto his right arm. A slight bump will spell trouble for him. I decided that I should pace him from start to end though at first, he insisted that I should push for my personal best time. P...

My personal take: The Malaysia election is drawing near and the opposition is now lobbying for free university education for all if they form the next government. From onset, I feel it is a very irresponsible statement in their attempt to make the masses happy. Where the current situation is concerned, perhaps we should look at what happened then and then judge it for ourselves. This article is written by Prabha Ganesan of The Malaysia Insider and I really find some sense in it. Read on. Quote By Praba Ganesan The Malaysian Insider Apr 19, 2012 APRIL 19 — When I jumped off the bus at noon to register at UKM (Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia) not many noticed the scraggly looking teenager with a mega-large bag. It was so large; it had clothes, a chess set and even a typewriter. It was the early Nineties and Kurt Cobain was alive making music. Every student had about 20 family members coming to send them off. It was that big a deal, going to a public university. There wer...

Note from me : This article is taken from the blog of Malaysia former PM, Dr Mahathir. If Malaysia is considered a small country by Dr M take, what can we call our Singapore? Tiny or red dot should describe us best, I think? This small country called Malaysia (East and West and sited in between the vast South China Sea while we can only content with our Changi beach) is fortunate or blessed should I say, to have an oil company in Petronas to bill them out each time a GLC is in trouble but in tiny Singapore, what do we have and who do we call for bailout? Yet, some of our own are complaining bitterly...too many foreigners here knowing too well some Singaporeans really choose their jobs, MRT breakdown as if our infrastructure is at the brink of destruction, SBS employing foreign drivers that are deemed to drive recklessly (only Singaporeans are considered to be one heck of a safe driver, true?), high cost of living, and more but choose to forget this tiny country has nothing to start...

Note from me: ISA, to abolish or not? This is the latest from the 4th PM of Malaysia, Dr Mahathir who posted it on his blog and one can choose to agree or disagree with him. Quote 1. Oil drives the world. Ever since the invention of the internal combustion engine, the demand for oil has been increasing by leaps and bounds. 2. Today the estimated total consumption of oil per day amounts to 70,000,000 plus barrels. Engines has been made more efficient i.e. consume less oil for a given power. But still the demand for oil continues to rise. 3. In 1973 the price of one barrel of crude oil was just 3.50 USD. The oil producing countries were being robbed. They remained poor and at the mercy of the Seven Sisters – the biggest and richest petroleum companies of the world. They dictated the price. And they paid royalty amounting to only 20% or so of the price of crude to the poor countries. 4. The producing countries would have remained poor but for the anger over the state of Israel being ...