I laugh, and continue to be tickled by the comments made in the Straits Times forum. It’s a poor diet of badly-written arguments, but the entertainment and sheer lunacy you read sometimes more than makes up for the invisible sledgehammer against the side of my head. The papers today are over-brimming with letters bemoaning our [...]
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Since the post-independence days, the PAP government has led Singapore through its growing years, seeing the country not just through our industrialisation, and also our subsequent climb through the economic value chain. In the 80s and 90s, the same PAP government identified the services and tourism as a potential growth area for the economy, and [...]
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In this story from the Straits Times, Law and Home Affairs minister K Shanmugam makes the case of WP candidate Mr Chen’s citizenship narrative a “success story of PAP’s immigration policy”. From The Straits Times (29 April 2011) THE Workers’ Party’s ‘star catch’, corporate lawyer Chen Show Mao, 50, is a ‘success story’ of the [...]
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Singaporeans are kiasu, and kiasi. We’re just famous for that. Queuing up for NDP tickets 3 days before they ate given out doesn’t faze most of us, though it proved too chaotic and unfair so the organizing committee decided to use online balloting to allocate tickets a few years back. Even I’m not immune to [...]
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To be honest, I hadn’t exactly expected the Opposition to contest all the wards: traditionally, most of the parties would struggle to even field candidates within a GRC, not to mention more than one. Indeed, such a radical change in the contest strategy by the Opposition is a refreshing change. That is, if mentioning that [...]
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I’m upset at this letter in today’s forum pages: Ministry: MP Low wrong on lift upgrading I REFER to last Saturday’s letter by Member of Parliament for Hougang Low Thia Khiang, ‘No basis for MP not to announce lift upgrading’. The joint letter last Friday by the Housing and Development Board (HDB) and the People’s [...]
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Work is piling up to my nose, so I’ve decided to temporarily stop blogging until I finish my assignments. I’ve also removed the tag-board since I couldn’t get rid of spam comments as fast as the automated spam bots could dump them. You can still email me through the contact page, but I would very [...]
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I can’t really put my finger on it, but does it look like most of Singapore’s worst arguments of logic coming from ladies? Here’s another one, this time on the issue of overcrowding on the North-East line. Increase frequency of trains on North-East Line I TAKE the North-East Line, from Boon Keng Station to Dhoby [...]
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