UPDATE ON MRT VANDAL!

Oliver Fricker is to be sentenced to 5 months jail and 3 strokes of the cane in Singapore for trespass and vandalism, as reported by AFP. He is one of 2 people to have allegedly broken into an MRT train depot in the Tanah Merah area. The other, a British national, had left the country […]

Group and Cultural Communication

Groups are a collection of individuals who interact with each other, and after time, develop shared patterns of behavior and a collective identity, as defined by Trenholm. Groups formed in many different aspects of society, as the group can have synergy, where the output of the individuals combined can have a greater effect than all […]

The “R” word

Relationships are the basis of human communication. In fact, without first starting a relationship no matter how trivial, communication is impossible. A relationship is started when two different persons or parties start exchanging data. The basis of a relationship is to satisfy one’s needs and goals, from something as simple as love, to more materialistic […]

Graffiti in Singapore

On June 5th 2010, there was a report that an MRT (Mass Rapid Transit) train was vandalized. A Singaporean train enthusiast has put up his video of the train shown below. According to reports, a 33 year-old Swiss national had allegedly broken into the MRT train depot and spray-painted 2 cabins with graffiti. As you can see, […]

The death of one of the pillars of Metal.

Ronny James Dio real name (Ronald James Padavona) passed away on 16th May 2010. He was one of the founding fathers of the popular musical genre we now call ‘metal’. Contrary with many other popular metal singers/guitarists, Dio did not die from substance abuse nor alcoholism. He succumbed to stomach cancer. Dio was small in stature, […]