This time of the year is for the 360th birthday of a cool scientist, Edmond Halley (8.11.1656, London-14.2.1727, London). I am always wondering why Robert Hooke is called the British Da Vinci by the media, whereas no such mentionings for Halley. He was also definitely…
Striving for a Singaporean identity in the global musical world: Where are we now? What are the efforts that Singaporean musicians and artitsts have made to integrate local and western cutures? How successful are we so far? What are the major challenges? I will explore these questions here. …
Thanks to the trend of globalization and the current issues on immigration, refugees, etc, I realize that the world is much larger than I thought it was. The phrase “around the globe” doesn’t just mean “US, Europe, China, Russia …” any more, but also many, many…