An ang moh couple was travelling to Singapore on their honeymoon (don’t ask me why they chose Singapore). They checked into a hotel provided by the travel agency and immediately complained to their guide. “We…
So what’s new? Tension on the Korean peninsula appears to be easing and US President Donald Trump abruptly fired FBI director James Comey in a move Democrats have condemned as politically motivated. Meanwhile, there has…
The year was 2003 and I was carrying my first-born, barely 5 months old on the streets. We came to a traffic junction. We were standing in the sun, waiting for the green man. A…
Amid growing competition, and workers hungry to learn in places like Chengdu and even further away such as Russia, Singapore must not only protect its lunch but steal other people’s lunches, Prime Minister Lee Hsien…
It was a torrid afternoon in a village in Northern Thailand in 1994. Loud look toong music was blasting away from giant speakers across the padi field. The man who rented the speakers was busy…
So what’s new? Eight junior colleges (JC) are set to collapse into four in 2019. This would be the largest school merger exercise in the past decade affecting a total of 28 schools, the Education…
Recent events brought back memories of a chapter I once read (or rather heard in an audio book) from A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton Malkiel. First published in 1973, Random Walk has…
I’m a bit surprised. While the new criteria for the elected president were hotly debated in and out of Parliament and Mr Wee Kim Wee was named as Singapore’s first elected president instead of Mr…
So what’s new? There’s another first for Singapore. Foul-mouthed, arrogant, annoying but incredibly articulate teen rebel Amos Yee has been granted political asylum in the US! As expected, this ground-shaking piece of news (also a…
It’s not even a month after reports on Joshua Robinson’s apparent slap on the wrist for “sexual assault” had Singaporeans up in arms. Now, we’ve got another case of a seemingly inadequate punishment for a…
