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  • [FILM] The Man from U.N.C.L.E. + A little of Fantastic Four

    [FILM] The Man from U.N.C.L.E. + A little of Fantastic Four

    This film review and critique is the first by Leland Chow which is reposted here. Leland is a junior reading Finance, minor in communication & economics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Since this is technically my first review, I would like to explain some of the features I would use in my blog. The title,…

  • Graduands must respect and appreciate university graduation ceremonies

    Graduands must respect and appreciate university graduation ceremonies

    This piece was inspired when I read about some graduating students at local universities pulling “selfie” stunt on stage during their respective graduation ceremonies. This article was first published in Han Chiang News on June 02, 2015. *************************************************************** I read with much anguish and amusement recently about graduands of local public universities doing some antics…

  • Beware of pitfalls and surprises when hunting for an apartment in Penang

    Beware of pitfalls and surprises when hunting for an apartment in Penang

    This is the unedited edition of my article first published in Han Chiang News yesterday (May 20, 2015). After “migrating” back from Singapore in the late 1990s, my family and I have been living in the Klang Valley. In early January 2015, I came to Penang with my wife to hunt for a suitable accommodation…

  • Will Corinthian Colleges’s kind of education meltdown happen in Malaysia?

    Will Corinthian Colleges’s kind of education meltdown happen in Malaysia?

    The final nails are being hammered into the coffin of Corinthian Colleges, once one of the largest for-profit education groups in the USA. The impact of this private higher education meltdown is far and wide. Many of its remaining 16,000 students are left out in the cold, most are shouldering huge personal / education debts…

  • Learning and commenting about Duke-Kunshan University

    Learning and commenting about Duke-Kunshan University

    I have been a loyal student of Harvard University’s highly successful massive open online course (MOOC) on the history of China, ChinaX for the last 14 months. I have successfully completed 9 out of the 10 mini-courses and am now more than half way through the last mini-course. In week 46 of ChinaX, we were…