Singapore celebrated her 57th National Day on 9th August 2022. It’s a day for all Singaporeans regardless of race, language, religion or political party. 3 During the NDP celebrations, WO Jeffrey Heng, one of the members of the Red Lions parachute team, suffered a rough landing during the parade itself. He was the last of […]
They are the most talked about couple in Singapore now and they are not even celebrities. After failing to deliver luxury goods worth $32M, their customers had made police reports. 11 July 2022 As you can see, their names were not mentioned and their faces were blocked out. The police didn’t want us to know […]
Chicken expensive eat fish; cannot find chicken eat eggs. That’s where our reputation as a nanny state lies. Our political leaders and their stooges in the civil service and academia think we’re kindergarten graduates. © Chan Joon Yee New Book! Making Sense of the Three Kingdomns
I never liked this character. I knew the day would come and it has. Comedian Nigel Ng, aka Uncle Roger, thinks Singapore food is a ‘less good’ version of Malaysian fare. He has no doubts that Malaysia has better food than Singapore. He goes on to describe our bak kut teh with the most unflattering […]
So what’s new? The June holidays are here and the airport is crowded again. Families are travelling but the long wait for passport renewals seems to show no signs of abating. Meanwhile, some families I know have returned home only to find themselves down with Covid. Do take precautions to prevent getting infected when you […]
So what’s new? Below is Singapore’s medal haul at the 31 SEA Games held at Hanoi, Vietnam. Team Singapore has a total haul of 47 gold, 44 silver, 70 bronze medals. A total of 61 out of the 161 medals were clinched by SEA Games debutants. Our athletics team did exceptionally well with one gold, three silver and […]
Shanghai authorities announced a city-wide lockdown split in two stages for mass testing on 27 March 2022, after the city reached its highest recorded daily new cases due to the Omicron variant. Starting on 28 March, residents living east of the Huangpu River would go into lockdown for four days, and the other half for the remaining four. […]
So what’s new? Bertha Henson calls him a “dark horse” but current Finance Minister Mr Lawrence Wong is quite likely to be our next PM. Oh, let me get the terms right. Mr Lawrence Wong’s colleagues have chosen him to be the leader of the 4G team. That merely puts him one step closer to […]
We are more than a month into the war between Russia and Ukraine. It’s not a pretty scene when Russian forces start shelling and shooting indiscriminately in an attempt to break the stalemate. Millions have lost their homes and fled the country. Refugees keep pouring into neighbouring countries. An untold number of Russians and Ukrainians […]
Let me get one thing straight. I’m not a big fan of Uncle Sam and I think George Bush deserved that shoe in his face. The second Gulf War was totally unnecessary. Having said that, I’m extremely grateful for the elimination of Osama bin Laden. As globocop, America got a lot of things very wrong, […]