Spirit of Enterprise

"VOTE FOR THE ENTREPRENEURS THAT MOST INSPIRE YOU!

With the help of students from 7 local universities and schools, the Spirit of Enterprise once again unveils over 100 entrepreneurs whose stories deserve to be told.

These entrepreneurs have been nominated for the 2005 Spirit of Enterprise Awards. They have all shared their stories with our students in the form of an interview. Read their remarkable stories and VOTE for the ones you deem most inspiring.

Help us decide which 40 entrepreneurs will receive the Spirit of Enterprise in September 2005."


One of my votes went to: Chew Hon Chin of Ghost Buster

"A geomancer and fortune teller, Mr Chew Hon Chin (or Master Chew as he is respectably addressed) possesses unique skills not easily acquired. More impressively, he marries the traditional and the modern. Unlike most businessmen in traditional trades, Master Chew harness modern technology, marketing and law knowledge in conducting his business.

Please describe your business.
I started out 3 years ago, when I was told by the gods in my dreams to come out and help people. When I first started out I wasn't self confident enough, but after gaining confidence, I started this business.

What made you embark on this venture choice?
I believe I started out maybe because of heaven's will, because I was cursed. I didn't use to believe it, I was not superstitious, after that I realised something strange happening to me, subsequently I started learning this trade, after I succeeded, I was told by the gods to come out and help people."

I still have the business card of his I found in a bus.


Another vote went to: Lee Tai Cheow of Five Star Hainanese Chicken Rice & Porridge (because I like the food there)

Unfortunately those were the only 2 brands I recognised.

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Someone on Tomorrow.sg publishing "10 Worst Blowjob Mistakes" and "Racist blog on Malays":

"I think those complaining about 'sex' and racism needs to open their eyes to the world as it is now, and not dwell in a sanitized fantasyland of their own imagination.

The Gottermadureng site is just the poorly crafted ranting of a single deranged nut. You ain't see nothing yet if you want to talk about racist hate mongering. The article on blowjobs hardly qualifies as 'sex' to attract readership - any quasi literate with an internet connection should know the difference between porn and articles for adult readership.

With freedom of speech comes freedom of choice - the readers can choose what they want to read and what they do not want to read. To insist on the banning of what they do not want to read infringes on the rights of others and makes the medium more narrow and myopic.

If I wanted self-censoring sanitized stuff, there's more then enough of that in other local media. If you cannot accept that there are racists around, and that adults at this time and age can actually talk/joke about sex... my advise is – please skip this site and find or make a prim and proper, 100% politically correct and sanitized alternative."

Someone else: "As was said by someone previously, if you are not a rascist, reading this guy's blog will not make you one. If you are a rascist, no amount of Racial Harmony Day or National Day songs will de-program you. Can't we all just agree that there will be such people around? Be it here, or anywhere else?

Notice the discussions this (badly written) blog has generated. Haven't we all become more aware that such attitudes exist? Aren't we all more just a teensy beensy more conscious and mindful now whenever a rascist remark is made? Haven't we all matured in our thinking (even if it's for just a few microns)?

Now do you see the ideals of free speech and zero-censorship?

This is the internet. There will be such people sprouting their extremist views.

Accept it. Learn from it. Move on."

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This year they've unbundled Microsoft Office Professional from the NUS laptops. Damn. I could've saved at least $100-200 on the price and installed Open Office on mine, supporting Open Source software too in the process.