Work hard, but don’t neglect your family. Boost the economy, but don’t forget that your own people always come first, Dr Amy Khor. What a thing to say! Yao mo gao chor ah? © Chan Joon Yee New Book! Making Sense of the Three Kingdomns
Going by today’s standards, the exhibits at Haw Par Villa (Tiger Balm Gardens) must be terribly tacky, but this is one place that every child who grew up in Singapore during the 1970s must have visited. I think my parents brought me there thrice and my uncle brought me there once. We even had a […]
“There are indeed many lessons we can learn when we travel to poorer countries. To feel grateful for what we have in Singapore is usually the one that most superficial individuals will learn. There is a deeper lesson; in fact a noble truth. There is joy and beauty in even the poorest and most war-torn […]
This is a beautiful, thought-provoking movie set in the harsh and remote alpine desert of Ladakh, India. Young Tibetan Buddhist monk Tashi (Shawn Ku) did the impossible. He meditated in isolation for three years. With his body in deep sleep, his nails had grown several inches, his hair was flowing everywhere. His barely alive body […]
The UN’s economic sanctions against Myanmar have only recently been lifted and the former pariah state is finally opening up its economy. Nissan and Suzuki want to manufacture cars, Ford has opened a dealership, Coca-Cola already has a local bottling plant and Singapore lost all the head start it had during its “constructive engagement” with […]
At a Tae Kwon Do grading exercise at Braddell Heights CC. I heard people calling him Bruce Lee. I’m not sure if his kick is as good as Bruce Lee, but he sure looked like he was ready to kick some ang moh’s ass, or for that matter, anybody who pisses him off. Then, I […]