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Re-posting from Huffington Post:  Get Off The Computer And Complete This Italian Teacher’s Summer Assignment. You Won’t Regret It. As spring draws to an end and summer rolls around (along with summer breaks for those lucky and young enough to still be in school), why not try out some or even all of these assignments Cesare Catà of Don Bosco High School in Fermo set for his students this summer? Sometimes, in the morning, go take a walk along the seashore completely alone : look at the way sunlight is reflected on the water and think about the things you love the most in your life; be happy. Try to use some of the new words we learned together this year : the more things you manage to say, the more things you’ll manage to think; and the more things you think, the freer you’ll be. Read as much as you possibly can. But not because you have to. Read because summers inspire adventures and dreams, and when you read you’ll feel like swallows in flight. Read because it’s the best fo...

Synopsis: Singapore got sexy and the country’s best-selling author got jealous. After five years chasing echidnas and platypuses in Australia, Neil Humphreys returns to Singapore to see if the rumours are true about the island’s newfound sexiness. This is the first time I read a book written by Neil Humphreys but I had enjoyed his witty, and often tongue-in-cheek, weekly commentaries in Today. Thus when I chanced upon his book in the library, I hesitated no further in checking it out. Written in his trademark style which many in Singapore had come to love this "ang-moh" for, Neil covers the new aspects of Singapore which did not exist when he left this island for the bigger pastures of Australia. I had to stop myself from laughing out loud on a crowded morning MRT commute on his experience at Chek Jawa, and seething at the social inequality of the Singapore Freeport. Neil managed to cover more of new Singapore in a single book than I did in 30 years in Singapore. High...