April 23, 2014
What's in Dr Vivian Balakrishnan's gadget boxes
By day, he has to deal with the haze, floods and other acts of God, but by night, Environment and Water Resources Minister Vivian Balakrishnan is a self-confessed techie who fixes his own gadgets.
As a boy, he began by hacking computer games.
“As far as games were concerned, I wasn’t very good at them,” he said with a laugh.
“I learnt to program in order to hack the games,” said Dr Balakrishnan, 53.