Singapore's Lost Son:
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2012
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| Item Description: | This is the true story of a boy with a simple dream?to become a man. But he fell and became a dropout of school, friends, life, himself. But with the helping hand of a teacher, he turned his life around, found friends and love, and fulfilled his dream. This is the story of how that boy went from dropout to millionaire Princeton PhD. Expelled from four junior colleges (he was labelled?subnormal? and not academically inclined), Kaiwen Leong sat for the A level examinations as a private candidate while experimenting with Internet websites to try his hand at entrepreneurship. He studied hard and Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Author's note; Foreword; Introduction; I Lost in singapore; 1. Ways that don't work will never work; 2. In the beginning; 3. My fall from boy to man; 4. On the tip of a ship in a sea of tears; 5. There's no smoke without fire; 6. A helping hand: how a teacher helped me stand again; 7. Further away from home but closer to my dream; II Found in boston; 8. Kai-Kai, Calvin Leong, Singaporean; 9. The moon, or its reflection?; 10. Words do wonders; 11. Mastering a foreign language on a budget; 12. You never know what you can do until you try 13. Slow and steady wins the race14. Extreme starvation; 15. Broken hearts can still love; 16. 100 scholarships, 99 rejections, 1 success; 17. Friendship: no man is an island; 18. There may be no tomorrow; 19. Secrets of a master; 20. A lion in sheep's clothing; 21. Redemption through a mother's tears; 22. No pockets for pocket change; 23. Going to the ground to invest; III Taking the lead in princeton; 24. Princeton: in the nation's service and in the service of all nations; 25. Passing it forward: saving a life; 26. To follow or not to follow? 27. A leader among misleaders: leading the misled28. Guiding the future of Singapore; IV Reborn in singapore; 29. The long road home; 30. The value of nothing; 31. Home at last: a lost son's return; Epilogue; Acknowledgements; About the author |
| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (210 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9789814408882 9814408883 |
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