I’m not very surprised that not many people here in Singapore are very concerned about the Paris shootings. They won’t happen here. While the tragic events do not have a direct impact on Singaporeans, there are some notable observations which we ought to acknowledge. It all began on Wednesday at Charlie Hebdo, a French satirical […]
Singapore’s best known criminal lawyer Subhas Anandan has died of heart failure. You can see a host of reactions from social media. Some went totally out of point and highlighted that even a man with Subhas Anandan’s economic means could not pay for “medical miracles” to save his own life at 67, what more can […]
So what’s new? I was at Orchard Road planning to buy some new uniforms for my fast-growing my son when I had a shock on seeing the queue at Bibi and Baba. Actually, the queue was outside the shop and snaked for some 30m in the direction of the concourse of Far East Shopping Centre. […]
I admit that we have the best educational system in this part of the world (Southeast Asia). But the culture here in Singapore dictates that we can never stop improving. Yes, complacency is bad, but so is not knowing when to stop. In an attempt to outdo their predecessors, educators set more and more “challenging” […]
I admit that we have the best educational system in this part of the world (Southeast Asia). But the culture here in Singapore dictates that we can never stop improving. Yes, complacency is bad, but so is not knowing when to stop. In an attempt to outdo their predecessors, educators set more and more “challenging” […]
Post by Must Be Singapore. It may make you cringe. It may make you laugh. It made me say yao mo gao chor ah? I guess you make a stronger impression when you make people cringe. © Chan Joon Yee New Book! Making Sense of the Three Kingdomns
“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 […]
When you “come of age” and are not in the pink of health, you know that it’s time to write an autobiography – especially when you’re an eminent celebrity scientist like Stephen Hawking. In his book My Brief History, Hawking tells us about his life history (with quite a bit of intimate personal details) in […]
It sounds like “cheap” in Cantonese, but “paeng” means expensive in Thai and the title of this blog entry – “paeng ti soot nai loke” translates as Most Expensive In The World. I’ll come to that in a moment. So what’s new? Three officers who were among the first responders at the scene of the […]
The day, while riding on the MRT, my son suddenly started talking about dinosaurs. “Daddy, how did the dinosaurs become extinct 65 million years ago?” “A meteor hit the earth, clouds of dust obstructed sunlight, the earth’s temperature dropped. The dinosaurs were not able to regulate their body temperatures. Plants didn’t produce enough food to […]