Witnessing an unnatural death in the family can be a most painful experience. I don’t need too much imagination to be able to feel the shock and grief that torment the loved ones that the deceased leaves behind. But every unnatural death has a cause and the cause could have been built up over days, […]
Some of the more illustrious folks from my generation think that social media invades their privacy, so they don’t have any Facebook, Twitter or Instagram accounts. Of course, that’s just wishful thinking. There is nowhere to hide and there’s no such thing as a free lunch. Every webmail service, every application that uses cloud computing, […]
The northeast monsoon has been stirring for a while. In early December, heavy rains and floods hit a few parts of Singapore. With only a couple of pages left on the 2015 calendar, the rains seem to have left us and the afternoons are sweltering. People are just coming back from their snow-filled holidays and […]
Latest Update. Dr Chan’s dog has been found. Thanks to everyone who has shared and shown concern. Merry Christmas! RaRa is found and united with Ms Lee. He was rescued by a gentlemen Yu Jie, who approached Marcus from Causes for… Posted by Robin Chan on Tuesday, 22 December 2015 Original Post: I’ve been home from […]
So what’s new? Church founder/leader Kong Hee has been sentenced to 8 years in prison. The other church leaders were also handed varying jail terms but the only other person we’re all interested in is of course, Serina Wee, who was sentenced to 5 years. Without bias or prejudice, I think that should have happened […]
You may have already noticed that Singapore’s TV stations have stopped broadcasting local beauty pageants. And as revealed in this interview with Miss Kuek Ziyi, even the prizes have become elusive. In a few years’ time, the organisers may only need to conduct an interview before deciding who to send as a representative to the […]
You can call it envy if you like, but I don’t think much of “fashion/lifestyle bloggers”. Their phenomenal success, being able to actually make money by blogging about their expensive tastes, their lavish, extravagant lifestyles, highlights two points. 1)Singaporeans are shallow and 2)Conspicuous consumption is what drives the local economy. Last week, bloggers Jayne Tham, […]
So what’s new? The worst MRT breakdown to date occurred on 7th July 2015, bringing services on the North-South and East-West Lines to a complete halt for several hours during evening rush hour. All night, my Facebook feed was full of status updates from friends who were stuck in the quagmire. An estimated 250,000 people […]
“They should not treat elections like circuses, auctions, beauty contests or tikam-tikam,” said Mr Goh Chok Tong, Singapore’s former Prime Minister. Alamak! And I was so looking forward to watching bikini-clad candidates staggering on stage in their high heels to answer tricky questions without showing too much goosebumps. It would be even more interesting to […]
“Hakka were considered intruders who could not share in the worship of local idols. Therefore, they satisfy themselves with worshipping their ancestors within their community … they cultivate a strong in-group feeling. In preparation for a migration, each family went to its fields or burial grounds to disinter the forefathers. The bones were carefully cleaned […]