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Dewdrop Notes 露语

social commentaries on Singapore and more by Singaporean writer Chan Joon Yee

Dewdrop Notes 露语

social commentaries on Singapore and more by Singaporean writer Chan Joon Yee

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  • About The Author
    • Better a Whore Than a Concubine
    • Curiosity & Passion
    • Like a Dewdrop
    • My Greatest Influencer
    • Worlds Apart
  • Managing Facebook Woke
    • Business Is Always Personal and Political in China.
    • Chinese Patriots
    • Drugs and the PLA
    • Empire & Knowledge
    • Exiled Chinese Author 马健
    • Forensic Pathology
    • Four Legs Good , Two Legs Better
    • Hamas
    • Men Are Neanderthals
    • No Peace Without War?
    • Not Enforcing Laws Because it Would be Inconvenient
    • Nuclear Holocaust Averted by Soviet Soldier
    • Russia + China = Trouble
    • Russia’s Claim On Ukraine
    • Shame On The Woke
    • Start-ups Then and Now
    • State Sponsored Fake News
    • Terrorism Rebranded As Humanitarian
    • The First Heavenly King – 洪秀全
    • The Value of the Useless
    • They Call It “Western Media”
    • Ukraine Fights Back
    • Western and Independent Media
    • Who Represents The Real China?
    • Why Singapore will never have a Richard Branson
    • Winter is Coming by Gary Kasparov
    • You Won’t Know When You’ll End Up on the other side
    • 一千个失败的理由
    • 何谓正能量?
    • 张冠李戴
  • About Dewdrops
  • Book Reviews
    • A Tale of Two Cities – Singapore & JB
    • Asian Ghost Stories and more
    • Journey In Blue
    • Mahadeva, Pioneer Of Journalism In Early Singapore
    • Neither Civil Nor Servant – the Philip Yeo Story
    • Reluctant Editor
    • Saint Jack by Paul Theroux
    • Singapore’s Study Mama
    • The Immolation by Goh Poh Seng
    • The Quah Kim Song Story
  • Chan Joon Yee The Adventurer
  • Singapore’s Ultimate Rebel, Chua Lam 蔡澜
    • A Colourful Life Is A Life Well Lived
    • Chua Lam Love & Sex
    • Chua Lam On Banishing Stress
    • Chua Lam Q&A
    • Chua Lam, Twilight Years
    • Chua Lam’s Biography In Motion
    • Chua Lam’s China Q&A
    • Chua Lam’s Philosophy
    • I Decide To Live Interestingly by Chua Lam 我决定活得有趣
    • Love & Marriage
    • My Inspiration
    • Chua Lam Looking Back
    • Chua Lam On Puer Tea
    • Being Alive And Having Lived
    • Chua Lam’s Views On Morality
    • Farewell To Chuan Lam’s Brother 蔡萱
  • Uniquely Singapore?
    • What Being Kiasu Really Means?
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Foolish Followers Of Instagram Cheats

admin July 15, 2018 No Comments

And the influential brands just love them. On second thought, that should not be too surprising since it’s far easier to get fools than thinkers to buy your things. Just…

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Walking Together, Drifting Apart

admin July 14, 2018 No Comments

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

admin July 11, 2018 No Comments

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.…

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Deemed To Have Paid, Deemed To Cover

admin June 30, 2018 No Comments

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…

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Bigshot Photographers & Their Bullshit

admin June 23, 2018 No Comments

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…

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Standing Together, Thinking Apart

admin June 3, 2018 No Comments

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…

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Refuse to Behave: Chua Lam in Beijing

admin May 27, 2018 No Comments

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…

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Shamefully Singaporean

admin May 24, 2018 No Comments

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…

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From Madhatter to National Hero

admin May 11, 2018 No Comments

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…

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Borderline Personality Disorder, Personal Encounters

admin May 6, 2018 No Comments

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…

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