Excuse Me, Which Escalator Are You On?
admin As someone who doesn’t read newsPAPers, I’m often slow to react to what’s new, trendy and stupid, but thanks to all the sharing from my Facebook friends, some of the…
Roti Prata Or Cognitive Dissonance
20 December 1954. Chicago, USA. A group of devotees gathered at the home of their prophet, Dorothy Martin. They sang fervently and they waited for the arrival of aliens in…
Squeezing While Sitting On Abundance
With elitism and inequality being hot topics these days, Trade and Industry Minister Chan Chun Sing cautioned that a distinction must be made between “elites who give back to society”…
Olive Or Pear
At the Institute of Policy Studies (IPS)’s 30th anniversary conference, Diversities: New and Old, Ambassador-at-large Prof Tommy Koh challenged the government’s idea that it has made strides in lifting the…
What’s The Hurry, Singapore?
A concerned mother (whose identity I won’t reveal as I don’t have her permission to quote this) wrote: 12-year-olds must sit for the PSLE which determines the track they are…
Parallel Universe
Retired author Ni Kuang was born in communist China, raised as a Shanghainese, recruited into the police force where his endless questioning of draconian, unreasonable procedures got him into trouble,…
Different Abilities Different Dreams
Inequality is not something to be taken lightly. The following video shows a rather uncomfortable conversation going on between a diverse group of teenagers whose educational paths, streams or programmes…
It’s Almost Paradise Here
So what’s new? The creator of popular travel video series Nas Daily, Mr Nuseir Yassin, has hit back at those who have decried his video series on Singapore, one of…
When Will It Be Fashionable For Our Ministers To Do The Same?
Just when we thought that no one can beat the absurd postulation that our elderly collect cardboard boxes to exercise (they can go to the gym for $1.50 now), Mr…
Why Not Practise What You Preach?
Some 30 years ago, when my relatives from China visited us, they were glued to our TV sets. They loved our Chinese drama serials. They remarked that there was nothing…