A few days ago, I had a brief encounter with a bunch of foreign workers. They were simply ecstatic after collecting their free masks. I found one of them approachable and asked him why he was behaving as if he had won the lottery. He told me that he and his friends would like to […]

Tomorrow is Cooling Off day. I’ll take this opportunity to say a few words before that. Just hours before Cooling Off Day, Mr Chan Chun Sing made the news with a leaked audio recording again. I wonder who sabotaged him this time. To some, it’s a shocking revelation. To me, it’s neither shocking nor revealing […]

Below is Chandramohan’s open letter to PM Lee posted on Facebook. Dear Prime Minister Mr Lee Hsien Loong, The objective of this article is to highlight the incompetency in handling the COVID-19 by your team of leaders. The word, “leaders” in this article is referring to your consultants, parliament members, ministers and yourself involved in […]

Where there is seawater, you’ll find Chinese people. Where you find Chinese people, you will find Hakka people. To date, Hakka people have called back from nearly 80 different countries and regions. They now form an impressive network. The migratory history of the Hakka people is a story of their struggle for survival, their cultivation […]

Almost everyone I knew watched the debate between the main political parties last night on 1 July 2020 even though only very few would watch parliamentary debates regularly. As the spirited and highly articulate Jamus Lim stole the show with his now famous concluding statements, there was an awkward moment when Vivian Balakrishnan avoided the […]

Let’s analyse the good professor’s views. Before I disappoint anyone, I need to point out that I’m more or less in agreement with his prediction. It’s not that I don’t support the opposition, but there are harsh facts about the electorate that must be faced. Prof Singh pointed out that it is difficult to disentangle […]

It’s confirmed. We’re going to have a Covid-19 GE2020 on 10 July 2020. No surprises there. For months even before CB, the incumbent had been extolling the benefits of holding the elections earlier rather than later. There is no escape. Things are only going to get worse going forward. You’d want to be “in position” […]

Some women won’t let you know that they are pissed off until you see a knife or flying saucer coming at you. When great men say things that appear not to make sense, we who are lesser beings have to first assume that there is some hidden meaning or even profound wisdom lurking behind the […]

The forced disappearance of the five shareholders from Mighty Current Publishing and Causeway Bay Books formed a complete picture in December 2015 when Lee Po, its owner, was seen boarding a van at his Mighty Current publishing office in Chai Wan at around 6pm. He was then taken across the border without any official record […]

I’ve just finished reading the book The Last Girl by Nadia Murad. It’s an autobiographical book by a young lady who had gone through more than what most people had in several lifetimes. After witnessing a massacre of her people, she was molested, raped, sold into sex slavery. This is the story of how she […]