Abt my brain

while playing with Brain Works test, i am thinking of my brain and how i feel to it.
as much as i can feel it.
1. sometimes i dont use language to idealize and conceptualize
2. i can still see the object in Xray film form a few minutes while closing my eyes after i have seen it.
3. sometimes i become organized or not ( it keeps changing ).
4. sometimes i have some conflict bet what i feel and what i think.
5. sometimes i have some conflict in how to gather information and how to tackle the problem.
6. it takes time to integrate the information fully.
7. it takes time to reaccess the information that i need.
8. it is easy to step into one idea and step out of it.

Back to my normal life

two weeks in myanmar, mandalay. my life would come up a energised one. i did go to hospital for three days for my never ending disorder in kidney and ureter. Body with foreign one is as hard as Life with foreign ideas ( i mean the ideas comes from other people ). i will start to strike my second part of post graduate war from this day onwards

Location based services

while watching the Batman movie, some thoughts came into me abt location services techniques. no doubt they use GPS in movie for location tracking of their targets. But we have different methods and measurements we use for localization. mesurements like Received Signal Strength, Time of Arrival, Angle of Arrival,Time difference of arrival...... methods such as broad names: radiolocation, trilateration, methods: Advanced Forward Link Trilateration(A-FLT), Timing Advance/Network Measurement Report(TA/NMR),Enhanced Observed Time Difference(E-OTD),multilateration or hyperbolic position ........ah...

thoughts from this afternoon: leading the educated

Should i write down, leading the learned or leading the educated? well that's another story. two of my colleages was telling abt their current working environment and their future prospects, finally got to debate that if money matters in everythings or not. from their sayings, i conducted some thoughts:
1. they think they should have priviledges over others cos they are highly talent.
2. they all have options not to do what manager says.
3. they feel that they have high impacts on others such as their followers and counterparts.
4. they think money does not matter if they are being praised.
5. they dont conceive of themself as followers. they conceive as if they are drivers of the organization.
6. they feel that they need some drain for their intelligent pool to flow into

the first day of my employment

doing some preparing for my assigned computer such as transering some of ebooks from my laptop, installing some of my favourite softwares as freemind, skype, visual studio for C++ and j2ee. reading some overviews over 802.16 mesh and pmp. trying out for Qualnet. things sucked when i didnt know that it was ready configured one trying to complie with VC++. how bad i was! not so sure this is where i belong to. but i still hope for that. my colleage said that i should have known my strong interest such as implementation or research and let it go that way or i will be a waste of time. ok i think implementation is more suitable for me now and then i will go for system integration. i need practical experience for my master plan.

what Bogoke said

when we plan our economy, dont let us confuse issues bringing into politics. i appreciate that economics and politics are intimatedly connected but let us keep out of politics for the moment. let us not indulge in attacks on imperialism, let us not look for excuses.

George Santayana

Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it

the real wealth of a nation

the real wealth of a nation is its people-both women and men. and the purpose of development is to create an enabling environment for people to enjoy long, healthy and creative lives

Books i need to review again

Barbarians Led by Bill Gates by Jennifer Edstrom


The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas (Vintage Spiritual Classics) (Paperback) by M.K.Gandhi


Mao Zedong: A Penguin Life (Penguin Lives Biographies) by Jonathan D. Spence


John Adams by David McCullough


Chaotic Thoughts From The Old Millennium by Sim Wong Hoo

Communication through Empathy

Are you born with empathy? Do you learn it? Where does it come from? Some people are born with it, but for most of us, it is something we must work at. It doesn't mean we are not concerned about other people, it means we really haven't thought through how to communicate that concern. the problems we are having is in getting our communications right!

I had a bad day!

listenting to " you had a bad day" by Daniel Powter. howwwwww i really had a bad day till now. to whom should i blame on. myself or my friend who made sure he could lead me out in Sentosa. he is such a guy who lied me and wasted my whole previous day and got my anticipations dowm. basically people out there regards him as a very helpful guy but he doesnt have ability to be helpful guy although he is keen on helping others........... we all friends were getting lost in Sentosa with his conducting. so bad........... anyhow i was thinking abt how i should avoid from happening like these things, taking the risks and abt differences bet emotional information and acutual facts. at least i met some of my friends from undergrad and got contacts with them. great! i realise that myanmar are being still influenced alot by relationship. now readinig news and business aricles from strait times.

my thoughts on personal framework

I am thinking of some personal framework regarding my previous knowledge and readings from “ The Army Leadership Framework”. The main characteristics of my framework is
1. Character (what u must be)
2. Competency (what u must know)
3. Habit (what u must do)
Character is personal inner strength that can be seen through ur behaviors such as ur speech, gesture and manners. Ur character should be consistent and completely different from others. Competency is such a form of knowing relevant knowledge and intelligence driven from this knowledge. Skill = knowledge + intelligence in term of interpersonal, conceptual, tactical, technical. Habits are day-to-day actions that must consist of such objectives as influencing, operating and improving.

some thoughts on integration!

while i am studying for Master, i heard a lot of integration such as factory integration, equipment integration and computer integrated manufacturing, integrated architecutres of ...................... ok if there's no integrations then what?
1. how to do information collection and management.
2. how to do real time information manipulation.
these two facts are most essense of automation islands. fully automated means real time information awareness and manipulation over them without human help.
well what abilities and preparations should we be ready?
1. proper organization.
2. proper plans and mile stone points.
3. clear visions
4. system wide implemenation knowledge
5.diverse expertise of technologies concerned with integration
6.HQ support
7.training of operators

how do Myanmar believe?

how we believe? ok as much as i know

you dont believe if i tell u.
u dont want to believe if i show u some results.
u want to believe if ur friends tell u.
u believe if ur family members tell u.

Java on chip

Thinking abt java on chip cos I enclosed abt my knowledge of it in my resume. Do I really dip into enough to describe my expertize. Well it is not so important cos it is now in Singapore (the symbol of Orchid). Well most want to use java on chip. Why?
1. oop based programming environment which provides well defined software implementation structure and programming reuse.
2. Platform independent. I think they are targeting to develop the application which is devices independent (without recompiling and doing re-verification to migrate other device platforms)
3. Pro of VM execution environment such as security checks and on the fly debugging.
4. Abstract nature of java which makes it extremely portable.

But it cant be used in every embedded system development. Why?
1. I doubt that it met with strict limitations of hard real time system.
2. Java is basically defined on 32 bit platform.
3. The size of all VM + application code + API codes + necessary library source.

nar pan san( i like that so much)

this is my next favourite

no doubt why i like this one! i just want to be like him in term of dance. i like dance. i hope to learn when i get free time. but it is my low priority one.

one of my favourites

i like that song so much

links concerned with cisco ip phones services development study

they are good links for references of cisco ip phones services
IP Telephony and Converged Networks Resources and Links

Cisco Unified CallManager Express: All Versions

Cisco CallManager Express 3.1 System Administrator Guide

Cisco Unified CallManager Express, Configuration Guides

Cisco Unified CallManager Express, Command References

Cisco Unified CallManager Express,Introduction

Voice and IP Communications

Voice, Introduction

Voice-over-IP Quick Start Guide

Zigbee and its complaint products

here the web site for Zigbee http://www.zigbee.org and
zigbee complaint product list http://www.zigbee.org/imwp/idms/popups/pop_download.asp?ContentID=7692. i will talk abt adaptive filtering methodologies and theirs applications tomorrow ok?

Character Building

do u think personal behaviour is just a biological imperative? no! it is not. it begins in our minds, get expressed in words and then get translated into action. over time, those actions become who u are and what u repeatedly do will determine the legacy u leave behind. of course the legacy u leave is the life u lead. so personal behaviour is not just abt "how to's". it is character building processes. it is personal culture formation that will lead and reflect ur next generations.

finding out for ip phone application

wooo so hot no fan and waiting for the washing machine done. need to get to part time job by 7 am tomorrow. but still struggling with ip services and simulators. i am now going through CM Sim and three books
1. developing cisco ip phones services
2. voice enabling the data network
3. practical service level management.
all from cisco press. good books but bad descrptions abt technologies. i normally like cisco books cos they dont have unneccessary heavy detail information. may be i am addicted to the brand identity too. he he.

consequences of being hack of Skype

thinking abt news of one chinese company cracked Skype and cloning one client. for our users' side, it is not taking easy alarming coming prospective threats. may be for chinese users', Skype can be shut down for good to the worst. for chinese gov and myanmar gov, it will be good news to block infomation freedom. sorry myanmar gov wont be too tough in this case cos they finally reallow gtalk then. how's 14 million users around Middle east, East and South Asia, Africa? will they move to new clients applications. Local IDD call company may think they hit jackpot and Skype will be completely swipped out by them? after all how's Ebay stock? their decisions on saving Skype will affect their stock? i dont think Skype's income wont contribute much to their stock.

Push or Pull

now Market, Inventory and others kinds of Economic ingredients are changing to paradigm of Pull. so our engineers who will serve the customers with technology need prepare for this idea shift. well how? Pull concept is giving out what customers want and not what we intend to make or what we have done. sometimes it is painful to us to change what our focus in accordance with customer's desires. i am thinking that we need buffer place where mixed Pull and Push ideas reside bet customers and our technicians.

BURMA, Insurgency and the Politics of Ethnicity

Reading that book by Martin Smith. great book for me! dangerous book for me! like they said: i am agree to the fact that this is indispensable for Myanmar's future leaders. but not like they said: i cant get the central idea of our problems. i feel so sorry for them ( our blooded brothers ). i feel lonely myself for not knowing abt them well ( i feel surely that they wont love me as a brother ).Bothers of Myanmar! i am sure and i vow that i will do for u all to compromise.

Me? Myself? My childhood?

Some asked me my childhood life! uhhhhh! Full of desperate!!!! Called me Gay! by techer Daw San San and U Balu in 8 standard Selfish! Fatherless dunce! by a friend, Phone Phyo in 5 standard, Dying Jerk! Brainless Free Thinker! Moonshine in Bamboo! by teacher Daw Li Li in 5 standard.

By myself! from childhood, i have had the capacity for hardwork. may be partly linked to my grandfather, grandmother and mother who were very driven and hardworking people. partly also because as a child i was struggling with my teachers and friends while proving them i was a trimph over their critics. the whole challenge of doing ur homework for ur exams while fighting together for our family financial crisis is an extraordinary character building process. at that time, i was still small in a literal sense. but i was not small in my vision and my impact on the environment. i was not small in my aspirations.

At my personal level, my mother remains my hero for all sorts of reasons. at the educational and professional level, i have tremendous admiration for Eistein and Feynman.

Jerk! Phyco! Dunce!

About fourteen years ago, Physics and Scientific thinking was nothing to me, it was a new thing. it became rooted in me. but at the same time, i behaved and thought differently and that leaded my friends and family members call me jerk, phyco and dunce. by the age of 17, i was having deeply feeling for being oppressed. i was not a scientist but i know how they do and think in the next world. i wish i would meet them.

now it is growing big ( my style ) . all i want now is being satisfied with my thinking over nature matters and engineering matters. it's gotten large. i can have fun with it and get benefits from it. And those friends and family members of me were dissing it ( they called revoluationary thinking or jerk thinking ), i dont know what they're going to do. they said i was just a kid who put out some causal style and all would be gone within two months. now i am able to prove that all who thought my style was a passing phase have it all wrong. now it is my turn that i need to educate them and open their eyes.

East & West

Collective and mutual responsibility------individualism
Authoritarianism, paternalism and abolutism------self-determination
Inequality and hierarchy------equality before the law
Subjects------citizens
Duties------rights

what kind of way do i choose?

The path i've now chosen is full of challenges! But it is one of the most consistent with my character and my courage as a man who does what he must -----in spite of personal consequence, in spite of obstacles, dangers and pressures-- and this is the basis of human morality. the cost of my aim is too high. But i have always paid it. one sure path that i never choose. that is the path of surrender and submission.

Shift my life?

Who shif(s) my life? u? me myself? who else? or A situation or A sentense? i dont think no one can shift me including myself. but i have been shifted. so i have been being shifted by no subjects? no ! all i have been doing are due to sound reasons. arr gee
what i am talking abt? now i know i have been shifted by idea which i believe is right! i am living with it, for it, in it. i hate those technical literate with no philosophical background.

are u making the most of yourself? it is the most difficult question to ans. most of the time, the ans is ended up with two sides. one side from being questioned and others from the other side. the former's ans is no, but the latter's one is yes. according to this rule, it can be said simple system. but it is not like that in the real society, a kind of complex system. it will have positive feedback and negative feedback bet yes or no ans and personal interest. from this rule, society interest emerge. so i want to say it is one kind of multiple factors, decentralised control emergence property. 

what is this? 

dont tell me modest

i am telling myself " bo bo, modest modest" should i be? i dont have conflict resolution strategy for that. but i am crying for i cant not be modest. i am not algorithmatic man but heuristic guy. things are burning in my brain. new things are coming born but they are not ripe yet in my mind. i dont want to design something which i cant analyse. but i am doing them in my exam. i command myself to throw all my personality into what i am doing. but why the world is always telling me modest modest. i hate that.

pls these are our responsibilities!

friends ya! we are now living in a world of extraordinary challenges. may be u might slip this fact. we are now facing them and will be likely to face till the end of our generation. friends, we are all vulnerable to these things which are evolving in complex and unpredictable ways. so what role we play in this highly interconnected environment? think urselves! take all the responsibilities that u deserve! gonna go see u all

Real Taste of Real Man

some of my friends talked abt the things what make real men. we all men have dreams to be real men: real lovers, real husbands, real fathers, real dudes, real boss, real leaders and above all real sexy. we have different approaches to different destinations. but most of the time we become stuck at the middle of the ways. why? cos we lack something which is the essense of universal truths. that is the honesty that integrates science with philosophy, psychology, and physiology together. When a man understands the point at which everything has to link together, he will feel a powerful difference in his life. When the man strives for fully integrated honesty, he gains all the characteristics that make a man a "real man".

University as a market place

University as a market place(1)

University as a market place(2)

University as a market place(3)

University as a market place(4)

University as a market place(5)

University as a market place (6)

we need it

friend, as long as u need water for ur living, i think u need that.

for my brothers and sisters

hi all, this is what i want to tell u all mostly.

how manufacturing company operates!

how will u call if a giant manufacturing company doesnt manufacture anything, doesnt do anything for services and other company does operation management for it. all manufacuring and operations are fully outsourced or partially done. above all, supply chain is also outsourced. but it still gets large share of profit. how do u feel to name that sort of company. i dont know how to name it. here people are looking up to that model. as a myanmar, i feel lu lae kyi ha ha

Saya it is me ! u always said "bobo do it urself!"

Saya i admire u

I had the best experience of my life when I had the opportunities to meet some of my role models at NTU. They are so inspirational, very friendly but so rigid with their opinions. I have got seen two greatest scientists� speech fighting among the audience for their belief. I have seen many secondary school boys and girls� question shooting skills to the American Security Specialist abt the Middle East till he was stunned. How do I owe you, Mr. and Mrs. Singaporeans? Thanks. I like what Robert B. Laughlin the Nobel Laureate from the Department of Physics at Stanford University said to me �Every challenge is an opportunity! Science is free, we have right to think free! You see these two scientists. That�s beauty of science!� Thanks Saya, you make me enlightened what is science and what is right?

Me and My Dissertation

Me and My Dissertation

me and ?

hey friend, we are good at it

Me and My Dissertation

i admired u saya

I had the best experience of my life when I had the opportunities to meet some of my role models at NTU. They are so inspirational, very friendly but so rigid with their opinions. I have got seen two greatest scientists� speech fighting among the audience for their belief. I have seen many secondary school boys and girls� question shooting skills to the American Security Specialist abt the Middle East till he was stunned. How do I owe you, Mr. and Mrs. Singaporeans? Thanks. I like what Robert B. Laughlin the Nobel Laureate from the Department of Physics at Stanford University said to me �Every challenge is an opportunity! Science is free, we have right to think free! You see these two scientists. That�s beauty of science!�
Thanks Saya, you make me enlightened what is science and what is right?

technique i ever heard, but dont know what to do with it

braingstroming that has been used in past 70 years. but i never seen the end result before. so credible for its collaborative nature. i think we can exploit from that when we are less informative for particular problem. but just a big mesh for me when i have enough information and am being in the blue mood.

i like her words "according to ur words, u r ambitious abt ur future. it is good. but, u seem a bit over-confident. that can be ur weak point. anyone who dislikes u can take advantge of that if ur luck fail. u can be the one who will get success if u overcome this point. i'd also like to suggest u that pl be diplomatic in dealing with people. i'm not saying that u r rude. overcinfident persons usually get their ways like that. 

i value her words.  

i am going on my first heavy weight struggle. it is really hard. but i am also looking forward to future contests. but i think it is more possible than i ever imagined. first i believe in me, set goals, develop plans, personalize and modify the program as my efficiency and stagmina respond, all in stick with it. i prepare myself that eveyone in my long way will not be supportive and understanding. i may encounter jealousy when i become success. i am being up front with my family and friends. but i believe that one they become to realise what i am going towards and why. they will support my goal and my motivation network will increase. i am sure i am worth it! 

i am reading Porter, Michael E., Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance. great book that i cant skip even a single page. i come to know the real essense of value chain and how it can be manupulated to get the competitive advantage. no doubt, i can be a great business man if i can exploit that book.  

i personally like the connotation that Business is only complete when the customers satisfy what u provided ( products or services ). no doubt, it is customer oriented approach but it can improve our business efficiency and quality.  

what 

so sorry for those my audience. i just come back my mother land and recover my illness. but not fully recovered still breeding! anyhow so up to my ears with study that i missed making up them. now just reading abt " Ten top colleges for entrepreneurs " may be one day i can go there to study the real essense of entrepreneurs. ha ha at the same time thinking who i am ... i seldomly learn from others cos i do normally doubt others ideas 

i cant believe this photo

i cant believe my eyes when my friend show me these photos. it is me and my friends. now we all are aways from the mother land except one. i miss u all friends. we will one day go back to ours and serve the land.

Never-ending time!

i used to think that my school days in myanmar including the university days and B.E.H.S days were just a dream of my life cos i had never inspired the raw knowledge got from them and friendship i thought that had been already broken among stds. they might have been my prejustification! i thought they were ended up without meaning.
last night, my long lost friends come to meet me here and we talked abt the our childhood days that how we inspired each others and i happen to realise how completely out of kilter i am with my former thoughts.......................
they were real. they exited......... i was there.........but undemanding-sounding ones..............sort of the free thinker with the valid point of view how useless they were and how vapid the sub.......

the word that makes my life short!

i am myanmar and inherently i got the dellima of "saying Yes". i just want to say no but "yes" always comes out of my mouth. when my friends out there ask to borrow money for lunch and if they ask me explain abt the manufacturing strategies, the internetworking and political economics, it may not be likely the problems within these contexts. but yet to the others, "yes" is the most dillema for me. according to my working nature, i need the long term plans and strategic goals for the determined future. so i always make them up, but when it comes to the day-to-days, i couldn't get the things ( priorities ) done. i know "Yes" can make my focus diffuse and only "No" can let me concentrate on my priorities. but i couldnt simply accomplish to say "No". why .......

some useful link for ur english

Reference Tools

Dictionaries & Thesauri

Cambridge Dictionaries Online - follow this link to access 5 Cambridge dictionaries
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/

Cobuild Concordance and Collocations Sampler
http://titania.cobuild.collins.co.uk/form.html

Dictionary.com
http://www.dictionary.com/

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary
http://www.m-w.com/netdict.htm

Online Computing Dictionary
http://www.instantweb.com/foldoc/index.html

Oxford English Dictionary Online
http://dictionary.oed.com/entrance.dtl

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Thesaurus
http://www.m-w.com/thesaurus.htm

Roget's Thesaurus
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/forms_unrest/ROGET.html

Thesaurus.com
http://www.thesaurus.com/


Writing & Reading


Grammar

Big Dog’s Grammar – explanatory notes with quizzes
http://aliscot.com/bigdog

ELC Study Zone - 330 Grammar topics
http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/330/grammar/
Grammar Help – rules, examples and interactive exercises on English grammar points
http://www.ruthvilmi.net/hut/help/grammar_help/

Houghton Mifflin English – sentence and sentence problems (quizzes)
http://college.hmco.com/english/elibrary/sentence.html

On-line English Grammar - explains English grammar according to parts of speech
http://www.edunet.com/english/grammar/toc.cfm

The Blue Book of Grammar & Punctuation - an online resource by Jane Straus
http://www.grammarbook.com/


WebPages on Specific Grammatical Areas

Ambiguous Reference
http://www.yale.edu/bass/wp/ref.html

Mixed Constructions
http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/quizzes/niu/niu11.htm – explanatory notes and quizzes
http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/eduweb/grammar/course/sentence/2_6e.htm guidelines to avoid
mixed constructions

Modal Auxiliary
http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/auxiliary.htm
http://webster.commnet.edu/cgi-shl/quiz.pl/modal_quiz.htm quizzes

Modifier Placement
http://ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/modifiers.htm explanatory notes with two quizzes

Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement
http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/pronouns.htm explanatory notes
http://www.parkland.cc.il.us/h/wc/proagree.html short explanatory notes

Punctuation
http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/punct/col-semi.html semi-colon and colon
http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/commas.htm rules for comma usage

Sentence Fragments, Run-on Sentences
http://ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/fragments.htm
http://www.ualr.edu/~owl/sentencesense.htm

Subject Verb Agreement
http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/quizzes/js/kf/mc-svad.html quiz
http://www.agricola.umn.edu/owc/handouts/agreement.html subject verb agreement with
mass nouns, explanatory notes with examples
http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/sv_agr.htm with PowerPoint presentation on Subject verb
agreement

Verb Tenses
http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbtenseintro.html tutorial on all verb tenses in English




Online Writing Labs

A+ Research and Writing Step by Step
http://www.ipl.org/teen/aplus/stepfirst.htm

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Initiative – helps you create an e-thesis
http://etd.vt.edu/

Plagiarism and How To Avoid It - visit this site before writing your essay/dissertation/thesis!
http://ec.hku.hk/plagiarism/

Purdue University's Online Writing Lab - contains useful resources for writers
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/

Sweetland Writing Center (The University of Michigan) – resources for graduate student writers
http://www.lsa.umich.edu/swc/grad/resources.html

Writing Centers Online - online writing labs set up by American universities
http://www.gc.maricopa.edu/faculty/dinchak/wrcenter.html


Specific Writing Skills

Paragraph Development
http://www.utoronto.ca/writing/parag.html developing coherent paragraphs
http://www.wuacc.edu/services/zzcwwctr/org-comp.wm.txt building paragraphs
http://www.wuacc.edu/services/zzcwwctr/org-cause.wm.txt development by cause and
effect
http://www.wuacc.edu/services/zzcwwctr/org-comp.wm.txt development by comparison
and contrast

The Use of Transitional Words and Phrases
http://www.iss.stthomas.edu/studyguides/wrtstr6.htm transitional words and phrases
http://ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/transitions.htm coherence: transitions between ideas
http://uwc.tamu.edu/handouts/transition.html a list of categorized transitions

Writing a Report
http://home.clara.net/teriwatson/study/report.html essential study guide--report writing
http://www.arts.nie.edu.sg/ell/student/tcs/trw1.html technical report writing for
engineering students

Writing a Summary
http://virtual.parkland.cc.il.us/studyskills/SummaryWriting/StepsinWriting.htm steps in
writing a summary
http://rwc.hunter.cuny.edu/writing/on-line/summary.html guidelines for writing a
summary
http://home1.t-online.de/home/kfmaas/summary1.html useful sentences for summaries




Reading Skills

Learning Skills Program-reading to comprehend and learn
http://www.coun.uvic.ca/program/hndouts/psq5r.html

Learning Skills Program – Concept Mapping
http://www.coun.uvic.ca/program/hndouts/map_ho.html

Learning Skills Program – How to Read University Texts or Journal Articles
http://www.coun.uvic.ca/program/hndouts/Readtxt.html

Reading toward Writing
http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/readingwriting.html


Speaking & Listening

Pronunciation

English Sounds - compare your English pronunciation to native speakers
http://www.fonetiks.org/

Sounds of English - uses diagrams and audio files to help you learn about American English
http://www.soundsofenglish.org/


Oral Presentation

Creating Online Presentations - guides you through the basic steps of creating presentations with PowerPoint 2002
http://www.microsoft.com/education/DOWNLOADS/Tutorials/online/PowerPoint2002.ppt

ITM Online Help Collection: PowerPoint 2000/01 – an excellent online tutorial prepared by the University of Wisconsin
http://www.uwec.edu/help/ppoint00.htm

Overcoming Speaking Anxiety - overcoming nervousness in presentations by L. Laskowski
http://www.ljlseminars.com/anxiety.htm

Technical Presentations – with Chemical Engineering examples
http://home.olemiss.edu/~cmprice/lectures/badpres.html

Ten Tips for Successful Public Speaking – learn how to control nervousness
http://www.toastmasters.org/tips.htm

Using Overhead Transparencies
http://www.ljlseminars.com/transp.htm

NUS Toastmasters’ Club
http://www.nustm.cjb.net

Listening Comprehension

Randall’s ESL Cyber Listening Lab - includes listening quizzes for a variety of levels
http://www.esl-lab.com/

The English Listening Lounge - American/ International English listening passages
http://www.EnglishListening.com


News

Newspapers

The Daily Telegraph - a British electronic newspaper
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/

The Guardian - another British newspaper
http://www.guardian.co.uk/

The Electric New Paper - a local newspaper
http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/

The Straits Times - the online edition of this local newspaper includes breaking news
http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/

USA Today - an American electronic newspaper
http://www.usatoday.com/

The Washington Post - another American newspaper
http://washingtonpost.com/


Video/ Audio News

BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk

CNN News
http://www.cnn.com/

MediaCorp News
http://cna.mediacorpnews.com/index_w.htm

VOA News - news in “Special English” on the Voice of America
http://www.voa.gov/stream/voa/english/spec/specengla.ram

NUSCast - live broadcast of news and NUS events. Available on the Intranet only
http://nuscast.nus.edu.sg/


Magazines

Asiaweek
http://www.pathfinder.com/asiaweek/

Reader’s Digest
http://www.readersdigest.com

Time
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/current

Miscellaneous

Language Games

CNN’s News Quiz - answer questions about daily news and compete for prize drawings!
http://cnn.com/SEARCH/quiz/

Tongue Twister Database - tongue twisters for people who want to get rid of an accent
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/8136/tonguetwisters.html


Online Chat Room/ Discussion Forum

Dave's ESL Cafe Chat Central - a chat room supported by California State University, Northridge
http://www.eslcafe.com/chat/chatpro.cgi

ESL Discussion Center - online discussion forums for English learners
http://eslcafe.com/discussion/

did we take the advantage of the principles of market in the last decade

now in the ko yan naing aye flat, while waiting for his return and defending against my stomach desmostration. well now i am just thinking that did we make profit from the traditional principle of market focuses such as market leader, operational excellence ad customer primitives. i dont think so cos in the past decade we just passed, there's paradigm shift or sudden shock have happened. we have 9/11, defense reinvestment, counter terrorist, infrastructure renewal and demographic shift such and such........ that........ i will countinue later........................