President S R Nathan before he became President

[Lin Ping]

Hi, do we also need to look at aspects of President Nathan's life
before he became President? How much of the presentation should this
part take up?

The websites I listed on 23rd September have a fair mix of both
including his personal life but I think we need to work out how much
should be on his personal life, how much should be on his career and
what is the split between his life before he became President and
after he became President.

Thanks

Regards
Lin Ping

[jiafu shi]

Dear Lin ping

Sorry for the late replying, I have asked Prof.Kan regarding the presentation content for president Nathan, and he answered as below for your reference:

1. 10 - 15 minutes presentation

2. Try to find something that you cannot find from general website (like. wiki, government web, etc.)

3. The info about president can be in the form of picture, video from internet

4. The info should be interesting, fun and relevant to president, like his hobbies, personal activities, and so forth.

Thanks

Regards

Jeff Shi

2010/10/9 Lin Ping <mrle...@gmail.com>

[aileen]

As I understand, maybe we should find info interesting, fun and
relevant to president Nathan, but as an ordinary person, rather than a
president.

[#LEE LIN PING#]

Hi folks,

thanks. I'll dig around and see what I can find.

regards
Lin Ping

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[Jorge Montero]

Some controversy due to his relationship with Strait Times and SID. We could portrayed this just to show that w reseached well with neutrality.

http://presspedia.journalism.sg/doku.php?id=cases:1982

Transparency and authoritarian rule in Southeast Asia: Singapore and Malaysia    By Garry Rodan

http://books.google.com.sg/books?id=CazH0J5X0JYC&pg=PA21&lpg=PA21&dq=isd+sr+nathan&source=bl&ots=IDFipiL3lu&sig=VyPrJSRr8lKKO57KnLEQcJ-VO9Q&hl=en&ei=95S0TIHyEs2PcaT3oecI&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CDwQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=isd%20sr%20nathan&f=false

 On his early life:
 http://www.piolife.com/sr_nathan.htm
-this is from a speech he gave
AT KEIO UNIVERSITY, TOKYO, JAPAN ON 12 MAY 2009, 4.20 PM

I am reminded of my own life, where one challenge led to another until I assumed the Presidency of my country.  I had left school before the Second World War without completing my schooling.  The War years gave me a new lease of life.  I acquired some proficiency in the Japanese language and was always encouraged by those I came into contact with.  They frequently reminded me that I had a “good head”.  This was what encouraged me after the War to continue studying, juggling my time between work and study.   That was how I was led into entering the university at the age of 28. 

     Thereafter, as had been said in my citation - I moved from one position after another, but always learning on the job - often facing challenging responsibilities and accomplishing them even without much guidance from the top.

     I want to share with you the essence of what I have learned from my life experience: it matters not much where one starts from, the modesty of one’s beginnings is little constraint; what matters more is how steep the learning curve, and how well and deeply one learns from the raw material of one’s life experience. It is not the content of the experience per se, but what learning one extracts from it that makes the crucial difference.

2010/10/12 #LEE LIN PING# <LEEL...@e.ntu.edu.sg>

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Jorge Montero