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In the span of three-and-a-half years, I saw my career skyrocketing from just an analytics lead focused on integrating maps and technology to a director at an urban regeneration organisation. This rapid speed growth came from my innate desire to use my knowledge and expertise towards creating more resilient and liveable cities. However, behind the […]
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I am a wastewater engineer. As a city develops, its wastewater also increases. As such, wastewater management is directly connected to the sustainable development of a city. Hence, my work is closely associated with environmental sustainability. Setting Life’s Objectives I began practising Nichiren Buddhism since young along with my mother. I grew up under the
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When I first entered university, a classmate invited me to an SGM meeting. The members’ high spirits and vitality at that first Soka Family Day meeting inspired me, and I was eager to attend more such activities. I felt a lot of warmth when I went to Terengganu alone from Kuala Lumpur to pursue tertiary
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Our family’s practice of Nichiren Buddhism began with my wife, Kee Hong. She was introduced to the practice while pregnant with our daughter. One day, she invited a friend and her husband to a discussion meeting and asked me along. It was there that I, too, began this Buddhist practice and deepened my understanding of
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Life is like a play where I am the protagonist. I write and perform the script of my own life. During my childhood days, my family faced major financial difficulties. This resulted in my family moving house seven times. I was nine when our finances finally hit rock bottom, and that was when my mother
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I am currently the head of a branch of a centre for children with special education needs since April 2019. Other than teaching students, we have to guide their parents. I am also responsible for administrative work at the branch. Nichiren Daishonin teaches: “Regard your service to your lord as the practice of the Lotus
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My English teaching career spans more than 20 years to date, including my initial years lecturing in local and private universities, to conducting corporate training and operating my own language learning centre presently. I first read about President Ikeda’s thoughts on humanistic education during my undergraduate years. This particular sentence impressed and made me ponder
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I have been teaching mathematics in national schools for 25 years. I am now a vice-principal in an all-girls’ school. In this unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic and the MCO that followed, I was initially at a loss. How do I contact my students? How do I conduct classes? Students would not be able to return to
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I have 32 years of teaching experience and am currently teaching in a national secondary school. When the Movement Control Order (MCO) began, my school suggested that teachers find their own methods to continue teaching. Being a responsible teacher, I want to ensure my students continued to learn. I had learnt how to use Zoom
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“Money IS happiness!” This was Eric Lee’s life philosophy since he was a child. Born into a poor family, Eric began earning his own keep at the age of 11. He ran a sugarcane juice stall in his hometown Ipoh to earn pocket money. Despite developing good habits of saving money, he often had to
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