May 2017 - You Write

Secondary School Maths - Volumes, Areas and Perimeters of Figures

May 26, 2017 FLAI40 Leave a comment

This posting is for those children still studying in secondary schools. Help them to improve their skills in Mathematics by letting them read this posting. The volume of a solid figure is the amount of space displaced by this figure. Volume is measured in cubic units. A cube, for instance, with sides of 5 centimeters (5 cm), has a volume of (Side) cubed or 5 cm 5 cm x 5 cm x 5 cm = 125 cubic cm. (125 cm3). S cubed. The volume of a cuboid with measurements of length ( L ), breadth ( B ) […]

The Garden City of Singapore

May 22, 2017 FLAI40 Leave a comment

I am impressed. I am impressed by the clean and green management of Singapore City. I saw a tree been cut down branch by branch and carefully placed on the footpaths by forklift and well supervised by several officers of the Singapore’s National Parks Board. I went forward to greet one of these officers and I found out that the Board has an elaborate program of trees and parks management that ensures the trees’ healthy and stable conditions. The tree being fell in this Bukit Batok location was starting to rot and therefore had to be cut down. Within […]

Autobarn Motors Showroom

May 19, 2017 FLAI40 Leave a comment

Singapore has the world’s largest super-luxury car “vending machine” building, so the report in the Strait Times says. This newly built building is located in Jalan Kilang, Bukit Merah. In the evenings, after dark, this building is prominently illuminated, showing 15 cars in one verticle stack and two stacks on one side by two sides in total, making a total 60 cars display of super-luxury brands like Ferraris, Lamborghinis, Bentleys and Porsches. http://www.straitstimes.com/business/singapore-vending-machine-dispenses-ferraris-lamborghinis ABM Singapore, however, is not the first car dealer to come up with the vending machine idea for the sale of used cars. In the […]

Primary School Maths - Topic # 1 Average

May 18, 2017 FLAI40 Leave a comment

This posting is meant for all primary school students. If you have children going to Primary School, please help them out by getting them to read this. Or, better still, go through this with them. IMPORTANT LESSON: To find the average, use the formula AVERAGE = Total Amount / (divided by Total No. of Items. https://youtu.be/95h7qAkz5QY Uploaded on Jun 9, 2009 Calculating an average is a simple process that involves adding numbers together and dividing by the number of items that were added together. Find out how to determine that the average of three, four and eight is five with help […]

Telok Ayer Street, Singapore

May 18, 2017 FLAI40 Leave a comment

We walked from The Arcade, Raffles Place, to Upper Cross Street, through Telok Ayer Street yesterday, at one o’clock in the afternoon. There were the usual lunchtime rush-crowds of office workers, jostling along the footpaths around food stalls. We were gently nudged to follow one crowd into a surprisingly ancient temple doorway, into a temple-turned-boutique hotel. Unknowingly, we were then inside the chambers of the Fuk Tak Chi (Fu De Ci in Mandarin, 福德祠，望海大伯公）, the oldest temple in Singapore, built in 1819 when Sir Stamford Raffles landed in the Island Republic. Thanks to the National Heritage Board, Singapore, this […]

Learning Mandarin through Pin Yin

May 5, 2017 FLAI40 Leave a comment

I learnt very simple Chinese (Mandarin Language) when I was young but it is only in the last ten years that I have mastered Mandarin in the last ten years when I have to deal with the requests of many immigrants from China, settling in Auckland. At home, I have always spoken in either Cantonese or English. Let me thus share my experience in the learning of Mandarin in five sentences. (1) Do not start learning the Mandarin Language from the Chinese characters as those characters do not give us the key to their pronunciations. The characters are simply pictures […]