Walking Together, Drifting Apart
admin Thailand is often called mai pen rai (never mind) land for some pretty good reasons. You can often see people riding their motorbikes without helmets, driving when drunk, parking at…
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A Shield For The Uncaring
Much as it disgusts me, let me try to make a note of this historic moment as calmly as I can. First of all, a new scheme called CareShield Life.…
Deemed To Have Paid, Deemed To Cover
The debate on teachers’ “clean wages” and “self discipline” opened a can of worms on double standards and elite privileges. The usual indomitable Straits Times: Charging parking fees at schools…
Bigshot Photographers & Their Bullshit
Plagiarism is not new. It has existed since time immemorial (an episode of Justice Bao had one scholar stealing another scholar’s work) and in the digital age some 20 years…
Standing Together, Thinking Apart
In an interview with the Financial Times on 28 May 2018, Malaysian Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohammad said that the electoral victory of Pakatan Harapan coalition would reverberate across…
Refuse to Behave: Chua Lam in Beijing
Translated from the book What’s The Big Deal? 没什么了不起 by Singaporean author Chua Lam. Earlier, I had been on a TV programme in Beijing, but my main aim for going…
Shamefully Singaporean
May 20 2018. At a dialogue session with 110 participants held in collaboration with the Singapore Business and Professional Women’s Association, Law and Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam reiterated the…
From Madhatter to National Hero
History was made in Malaysia on wee hours of 10th May 2018. The Barisan Nasional BN, led by the United Malays National Organisation UMNO which had ruled Malaysia for over…
Borderline Personality Disorder, Personal Encounters
I was struck by a sense of deja vu after reading the book, Exposed: The Secret Life of Jodi Arias by Jane Velez Mitchell. The concluding chapter includes the opinion…
Did We Know Any Better Than The West?
When few Singaporeans were on the internet and when our newsPAPers and TV stations were our primary source of news, it was not surprising to come across ignorant Singaporeans who…