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Requestioning
It was really scary especially when I requestioned myself why I am taking Public Policy. It appears to me that I would like to do computer programming and how I wish that lecturers at LKYSPP are as cool as those at Columbia Uni, Stanford or Harvard Uni.
The nail that sticks out always gets hit by a hammer.
A Mexican saying.
Now, I've found an exact translation of a Khmer saying "ក្តិច ត្រួយ" or "nip something in the bud"
"School has a plan to kill us"
Or our happiness.
Yet, this quote rings in my ears. :)
It was funny a friend of mine (from Pakistan) put it that way. But, yes, it was a challenging September when most of us had to submit more than 5,000 words. We're doing only 4 courses within the first semester: (1) Economics Foundation, (2) Policy Process and Institutions (3) Policy Challenges (4) one elective course which is in my case "Media, Public Policy, Public Opinion." The 2016 Master's class started in early August, and while I'm writing this post, my classmates (about 80 of us) will see new professors (yes there are about two professors for every subject) from tomorrow onwards.
We'll be provided a clicker each tomorrow. What does it do? I guess, it'll help us answer before others :P, and your answer will be counted as a point/score during the course. Oh My Lord. How am I going to survive this major heart attack during the sessions?
Actually, I've enjoyed most of the classes, but what interests me the most is (1) using media as an agenda setting to frame or prime messages and create public opinion (2) understanding the policy challenges in countries like Myanmar or the countries from the third wave of democratization (3) how the world words from the lens of an economist. :)
This graph, in no way, represents the perception or idea of my previous or future employers or the current school I am attending. As a matter of fact, it is one of my most favourite graphs about capitalism.
The free man will ask neither what his country can do for him nor what he can do for his country. He will ask rather "What can I and my compatriots do through government" to help us discharge our individual responsibilities, to achieve our several goals and purposes, and above all, to protect our freedom? And he will accompany this question with another: How can we keep the government we create from becoming a Frankenstein that will destroy the very freedom we establish it to protect? Freedom is a rare and delicate plant. Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power. Government is necessary to preserve our freedom, it is an instrument through which we can exercise our freedom; yet by concentrating power in political hands, it is also a threat to freedom. Even though the men who wield this power initially be of-good will and even though they be not corrupted by the power they exercise, the power will both attract and form men of a different stamp.
Milton Friedman
All along, I had thought that the quote by JF Kennedy (below) was noble and cool, but well, actually now I've found something more precious and much better by Milton Friedman.
Old quote:
"Ask not what your country can do for you, but rather ask what you can do for your country."
JF Kennedy (some media report alleged that either he stole the sentence from the speech of a previous US president or from an old headmaster.
Pragmatism might be considered as cunningness, but as long as you have a MORAL goal to achieve, it's all that matters.
From the conversation with Dean of LKYSPP, Kishore Mahbubani.
Hmm, the end justifies the means.
Here is Singapore’s 007, the Dean of Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. He talked about three important values of Singapore’s Leadership: Meritocracy, Pragmatism, and Honesty (MPH).
When I posted this on Facebook, this only drew nostalgia from Cambodians. Why? Back in the 1970s, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew made a visit to Cambodia and met with young King Norodom Sihanouk. Mr. Lee was very impressed and looked up to Cambodia's development, beauty and modernity. Legend has it that he said to the King that he would make Singapore prosper like that.
Bouts of bad luck happened to Cambodia which only saw destruction after their eventual meet-up. A former peal of Asia, Cambodia now looks up to Singapore's development, modernity, and prosperity.
Ayam Penyet. The first meal I had when I first got to Singapore. Oh good old Singapore. Not my first time to arrive in this little state, though.
I really love hawker centres or food courts in Singapore. That makes me think I will be able to survive here for two years doing my master's degree in Public Policy. Oh yeah!
By the way, this is Adam's Food Court, and it was visited by the King of Brunei once. I wasn't told when that happened.