Tag Archives: Singaporean

Love of Math

Posted on January 28, 2011 by Manoj

This is another short series of posts on love of math — that questionable gift. Recently, I was asked to think about how to make kids love math. Here are my thoughts, as the first of three posts. This article will be published in Wilmott Magazine. Continue reading →

Posted in Columns, Quantitative Finance, The Wilmott Magazine, Topical | Tagged children, Columns, parenting, quantitative finance, Singaporean, wilmott | Leave a comment

Graceless Singaporean

Posted on July 26, 2010 by Manoj

Newspaper column in Today on 2 Aug 2008.

We Singaporeans have a problem. We are graceless, they say. So we train ourselves to say the right magic words at the right times and to smile at random intervals. We still come across as a bit graceless at times.
We have to bite the bullet and face the music; we may be a bit on the rude side — when judged by the western norms of pasticky grace popularized by the media. But we don’t do too badly when judged by our own mixed bag of Asian cultures [...] Continue reading →

Posted in Columns, corporate life, The Today Paper | Tagged Asian cultures, magic words, politeness, Singaporean | 2 Comments

The Worldly Malayalees

Posted on August 29, 2008 by Manoj

I wrote this piece on the World Malayalee Conference 2008 for a Singaporean newspaper. I was away in India during the conference (22-25 August, 2008) and did not see it in print. This post is about my home state of Kerala, its language Malayalam, and those who speak it – the Malayalees. If those words make no sense to you, you may not be interested in this post.

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