Going After Bullies And Forgetting The Ones Who Fight For Us
admin A couple took full advantage of an intellectually disabled Annie Ee who lived with them, taking her pay, making her work like a servant and even subjected her to physical…
Digging A Deeper Hole
Two people have dug themselves into deeper holes recently. One is Amos Yee. A bit more about his “paedophilia” video in a moment. First, let’s talk about our most talented…
Dear Amos
Dear Amos, When many folks out there were laughing at you and hoping that you get sent home after spending months in an American prison, I felt sorry for you.…
A Lifelong Gamble
In spite of its abstractness plus all that confounding poetry and philosophy attempting to praise and analyze it, we pretty much know and can agree on what love is. It’s…
Dying Before It Rains
Like many Singaporeans, I have thrifty parents. When I was young, they always reminded me to save up for a rainy day. That is of course, sound advice, but how…
Me Too, Me Too
So what’s new? Harvey Weinstein, one of Hollywood’s biggest and most influential film moguls, has been facing a very rough month facing allegations of sexual harassment and assault. Big names…
If We Only Knew, That The Joke Was On Us
There has been a lot of frustration lately. Singaporeans who care more than what will happen in the next episode of Tanglin watched helplessly as an embarrassing saga unfolded before…
Pimps, Petai & Politicians
Thailand – an exotic land of extremes and paradoxes. It is also a land with some of the most colourful personalities in the world. Dull, sterile and strait-laced Singapore simply…
Sexless, Senseless & Cashless
It’s the Straits Times again: Manpower Minister Lim Swee Say was queueing up to buy chestnuts at a roadside hawker stall in Shanghai a few years ago. When he saw…
Different Strokes, Different Folks & Special Needs
Indonesia is an archipelago stretching 5,120km from east to west. The total number of surveyed and documented islands within its domain range from 13,466 to 18,307, depending on whose data…