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I'm passionate about

Ideas+Dream+Share+Grow

I am passionate about human creativity, ideas, invention, building innovative cultures, and helping people build and grow their ideas into reality. Also, dinosaurs.

An idea worth spreading

"The universe is made of stories, not of atoms."
~ poet Muriel Rukeyser.

"Explore your mind, discover yourself, then give the best that is in you to your age and to your world. There are heroic possibilities waiting to be discovered in every person."
~ author Wilfred Peterson.

"An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea."
- Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta, founder of Buddhism, c500 B.C.

"It's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities,
that yields us the results that make our heart sing"
- Steve Jobs 1957-2011

"To attain knowledge, add things every day.
To attain wisdom, subtract things every day."
- Lao Tze, philosopher, born 604 BC

"When you are busy judging someone,
you have no time to love them."
~ Mother Teresa

Talk to me about

"Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it" - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Bringing people together to build new endeavors.

People don't know that I'm good at

Cooking global cuisine from paella to penang laksa.
Giving art tours as a volunteer docent
Adventuring: Coast-to-coast Australia and America. Circumnavigated the world over 6 months on backpack

My TED Story

I've been a fan of TED and a member of the TED.com community since its earliest days.

Do read the story and journey of TEDxSingapore at the TEDx Blog:
http://tedx.posterous.com/tag/tedxsingapore

Comments

• TEDCred score: +10601.10 TEDCred reflects your contribution to the TED community.

• +2

  A comment on Talk: Larry Smith: Why you will fail to have a great career

  Mar 12 2012: "I must not fear.
  Fear is the mind-killer.
  Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
  I will face my fear.
  I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
  And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
  Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
  Only I will remain."
  
  - The Bene Gesserit Littainy against Fear, DUNE by Frank Herbert

• A comment on Conversation: Practical application - how to design a carpark to make it easier for customers to find their vehicles

  Feb 9 2012: Some carparks I've come across use icons of animals, colours and numbers as mnemonics.
  
  I also came across car parks that installed stack of little location paper cards which you could pick up and put into your wallet (tho needs constant refilling and not very enviromental either).
  
  Some smartphone apps with GPS can easily be used to record the locations, though may not work so well in multi-storey car parks.
  
  With the proliferation of mobile phones with cameras these days, how about just having friendly reminders and signage suggesting that drivers to take photos of the location of their cars as a reminder for themselves?
  
  Hope these ideas and approaches help.

• A reply on Conversation: For 2012, what is ONE Idea Worth Sharing with everyone in world?

  Jan 2 2012: @Betse ...and/or, who's drinking from it?
  
  an interesting perspective shift indeed
• +3

  A comment on Conversation: For 2012, what is ONE Idea Worth Sharing with everyone in world?

  Jan 1 2012: .
  
  "To attain knowledge, add things every day.
  To attain wisdom, subtract things every day."
  
  -- Lao Tze, philosopher, born 604 BC
• +1

  A comment on Talk: Richard Seymour: How beauty feels

  Oct 13 2011: our day goes from daylight into darkness of the night ... slowly
  
  our darkness goes from dark to morning light ...slowly.
  
  the natural world has programmed our nature...

• A comment on Conversation: What are the defining qualities of today's youth?

  Oct 11 2011: Possibilities, potential yet imagined from their unprecedented ability to connect and empower with each other.
  
  I am reminded of quotes from Dune: "The sleeper has awakened." "We shall change the face of Arrakis. Listen!."
• +2

  A comment on Conversation: Who is your Everyday Hero?

  Oct 10 2011: "YOU ARE MY HERO BECAUSE...."
  
  Would you go up to your everyday hero and tell them that you consider them your hero, and share why?
  
  If you like, come back and do share with us what happened after...
  
  (Even if the person is yourself, you can tell it aloud to yourself in front of the mirror)
• +5

  A comment on Conversation: If you could teach the world 1 valuable thing you learned, what would it be and why?

  Aug 29 2011: "When you are busy judging someone,
  you have no time to love them."
  ~ Mother Teresa.

• A comment on Conversation: Please share: What TED Talk has brought tears to your eyes?

  Aug 18 2011: "Ueli Gegenschatz soars in a wingsuit"
  
  A human being with so much pure joy, wonderment and soaring spirit of adventure.
  
  He spoke about his forthcoming flights speaking about the danger, and he died while attempting it. A unique person who pushes the boundaries and moves the human race forward.
  
  http://www.ted.com/talks/ueli_gegenschatz_extreme_wingsuit_jumping.html

• A reply on Conversation: Have you traveled to or lived in the Antarctica? or know someone who has? Please share your experience

  Jul 14 2011: Greetings Nicolas, Thank you for sharing -- Like to ask specifically, what was different about it compared to other new places, and could you share more about what you mean when you say it changed you deeply?