Clayton J.C Tan | July 13, 2010
The Star carried the news “Talent Corp to woo back 70,000 Malaysians” emphasizing that this is one of the key focus of the 10th Malaysian Plan. While I see this as a very positive move by the government. I would also like to raise my concerns and hope that the government will execute this with [...]
Share on FacebookClayton J.C Tan | July 6, 2010
Malaysia has long been known to have among the most tuition centers (I guess in the world) and tuition has been a lucrative business (although teachers don’t seem to be a very respected profession here). These tuition center prospers for the fact that there are at least 3 key examinations that every student in Malaysia [...]
Share on FacebookClayton J.C Tan | June 9, 2010
Very often, when we’re too focused on “winning the battle” we lose sight of our original mission and end in mind. I’ve been reading articles after articles and reports after reports about the Gaza-Bound Aid Ship, and one thing has been troubling me - Has the “activist” lost sight of the original goal?
First Mavi Marmara was [...]
Clayton J.C Tan | May 3, 2010
I read with disbelief the reports and suggestions in TheStar recently especially an article today titled “Student laud the move to make teenagers get home at prescribed hour“. While I agree that it is generally unhealthy to be staying out late nights regularly, it’s hard to believe anyone would suggest a nationwide curfew.
First of all, [...]
Clayton J.C Tan | March 1, 2010
Last Saturday was the much awaited Musical Charity Concert organized jointly by 13 Leo Clubs in Selangor. It was a very good musical show (should I call it romance or comedy?) put together by collective effort of schools, colleges and university students. While amateur in acting and stage performance, the show was indeed entertaining and [...]
Share on FacebookClayton J.C Tan | February 4, 2010
There was an interesting article in Economist recently titled “Fighting Corruption in India: A zero contribution“. I found the article very interesting, especially the unique way that’s used to fight corruption. However, I’m seriously skeptical about the possibility of it working accross different cultures, especially here in Malaysia (It does keeps me wondering though whether [...]
Share on FacebookClayton J.C Tan | January 27, 2009
An article in The Star entitled “Ties with China enter new level” on the 23rd of January seems to have brought quite some hope for Malaysia’s economy considering the strong ties with China. However, a portion of the article got most of my attention:
Ong also hopes to create another unprecedented move – to get a [...]
Clayton J.C Tan | January 11, 2009
While reading the articles in New Straits Times on 9th January 2009, I felt that something must have changed in terms of our government’s standpoint of students’ involvement in demonstrations. Either they have finally agree with allowing students to hold demo or there’s an apparent double standard.
In the past, there are often reports about university [...]
Clayton J.C Tan | January 4, 2009
Having been involved in quite some transformation work, I realize that the strong resistance to change at times come from the exact same person who is championing change. Also, it is very often the people in power that resist change (this is especially true when it’s about changing to cut red tapes, changing to make [...]
Share on FacebookClayton J.C Tan | December 28, 2008
Saw an article in TheStar this morning and thought it would be a good topic for me to start blogging on.
The title reads “State PKR’s Stand on Hudud Issue, Samy tells Anwar”. This came after Gerakan and MCA has both challenged DAP to state their stand on the same issue too. And for those of [...]
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