- Heavy rains cause flooding in Queensland
- Unrest in numerous countries in the Middle East (Arab Spring)
- (1) Earthquake causes (2) tsunami in Japan, damaging Fukushima nuclear power plant. This led to major problems shutting the plant down and dealing with (3) radiation contamination afterwards.
- Elections in Singapore
- Osama Bin Laden is found and executed
- E. coli outbreak in Germany
- Railway station in Singapore moves, tracks open to public for a while. People take pictures of the tracks for one last time.
- Chinese Communist Party celebrates its 90th anniversary
- High-speed train derails in China
- Final space shuttle launch
- Norwegian man goes on a rampage killing people
- US credit rating downgraded
- Riots in London
- HP stops making hardware for webOS, considers stopping selling consumer products, shares drop 25%. TouchPad tablet on fire sale at USD$99.
- Steve Jobs resigns as CEO of Apple
- Presidential election in Singapore, second election this year
- Borders bookstore in the US, Australia and Singapore close down
- Yahoo and HP fire their CEOs Carol Bartz and Leo Apotheker
- Fire at Shell's oil refinery on Pulau Bukom burns for 34 hours and forces the refinery to shut down
- Night Safari in Singapore's new chief, Isabella Loh, cancels their Halloween event 2 weeks before the day, after months of work by Singapore Polytechnic students
- Steve Jobs dies
- Gaddafi, Libyan leader, is ousted and killed
- "Occupy" protests, we are the 99%
- Kouk Leong Jin, Singaporean medical student who had just been married for 2 weeks, disappears after going to Athens for a conference.
- Major floods in Bangkok
- Yue Yue, 2 year old female Chinese toddler, is knocked down and run over twice in Foshan, then ignored by 18 passers-by. Prompts reflections on morals in China.
- Turmoil in the Euro zone, Greece and Italy
- 99% protests
- Major breakdown in Singapore's MRT system, resulting in people being stuck in trains for up to 40 minutes. A train window is broken for ventilation
- Kim Jong Il dies
Personal Events
- Went to Funfields
- Used Scoopon
- Proposed - learnt to use polymer clay, went for photoshoot, went to Eureka Skydeck 88, hired a videographer, ate at Koko at Crown
- Took care of Dota, a bichon frise. Found out that bicon frises are a nice breed of dog to have.
- Went for Guide Dogs Victoria open day
- Had a garage sale
- Went on a road trip to Canberra, Sydney and Surfer's Paradise and moved back to Singapore
- Got married
- Took pre-wedding photos
- Went to Shenzhen and Hong Kong
- Started PhD
Skills Learned
- iMovie
- GarageBand
- Wedding: registration, dinner venue, photographer (pre and actual day), make up artist, invitations
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