Sylvia Chan, NOC? Chen Lei? Who cares? Wag the dog can be applied in so many ways. Recently, Chinese pianist Li Yundi got into trouble with the authorities for procuring the services of a prostitute. Laws are often not applied consistently in China. Some monsters can practically go scot-free in spite of their heinous crimes. […]
Lousy schools. First, let me backtrack a little. 14 September 2021. During a marathon debate on two motions on jobs and livelihoods in the House, Manpower Minister Tan See Leng and Mr Leong had several exchanges after Dr Tan had delivered his speech. At one point, after Mr Leong had spoken, a voice could be […]
Huaiwei’s Celebrity Criminal – ans she’s not even as pretty as Serina Wee Meng, the daughter of Huawei’s founder, was arrested in Canada in December 2018. The US had sought to extradite her on bank and wire fraud charges, claiming that she misled a financial institution to violate American sanctions on Iran. Following Meng’s arrest, […]
The great game plan to have Covid-19 become endemic (living with the virus) essentially means that the pandemic is not expected to end with the virus disappearing but with it continuing to circulate, always affecting a small portion of the population while the rest gain immunity either through vaccination or recovery from infection. One example […]
These are crazy times. As Piers Morgan put it, the world has gone nuts. The woke movement which first started out supporting marginalised groups has now morphed into belligerent mobs that would unleash the power of “cancellation” on anyone who disagreed with them. Body neutrality or positivity groups have accused their members of betrayal when […]
Shocking pictures and footage of Afghans clinging desperately to planes taking off from Kabul airport have been flooding the internet these couple of days. Why? Because Kabul has fallen to the Taliban, the president of Afghanistan has fled, explaining that he did so to “avoid bloodshed” and armed and Turbaned men have occupied the presidential […]
Like many people, I was disappointed that Joseph Schooling didn’t even have a chance at a medal at the Tokyo Olympics. The former Singapore Olympic gold medalist finished last in his heat at the Tokyo Aquatic Centre, clocking a time of 53.12s. This placed him 44th overall out of 55. Only the top 16 finishers […]
I have not made much updates to this blog over the last few weeks. Here are two of my video updates on YouTube. The first one deals with our KTV cluster and how we raided the spas but forgot the bars. The second video deals with toxic nationalism. Many leaders, democratically elected or otherwise, rely […]
Rooting out racism from the roots Almost immediately after our badge-demanding former naval officer became famous overnight, a polytechnic lecturer stole the limelight by chastising a mixed-race couple. Then, there is this gong lady who struck her gong (bought from Taobao?) loudly and repeatedly when her Indian neighbour was sounding his prayer bell. Both lecturer […]
Sinovac is the proudest and loudest coronavirus vaccine plaguing Singapore now. A Chinese netizen working in Singapore (@xiaoqige567 on TikTok) has audaciously mocked what he believed to be our self-sabotaging foreign policy and rejection of China’s vaccine diplomacy. I shall do an intellectual dissection of his video which unfortunately comes with very poorly translated English […]