Cut Them Some Slack When They Stumble
admin I have a flight to Australia to catch soon, but this issue has kept me awake. Autistic spectrum disorder ASD affects 1 in 150 children in Singapore. You are quite…
Liang Po Po & The Future of Stereotypes
Someone who has only been following the Ah Boys to Men audition controversy lately and not watched any of Jack Neo’s decades-old TV comedies may be shocked by the following…
Training To Be Soldiers To Fight For Our Land
An ang moh couple was travelling to Singapore on their honeymoon (don’t ask me why they chose Singapore). They checked into a hotel provided by the travel agency and immediately…
Milking The Issues
So what’s new? Tension on the Korean peninsula appears to be easing and US President Donald Trump abruptly fired FBI director James Comey in a move Democrats have condemned as…
Only Pockets Of Kindness
The year was 2003 and I was carrying my first-born, barely 5 months old on the streets. We came to a traffic junction. We were standing in the sun, waiting…
Excuse Me, Are You Chinese?
Amid growing competition, and workers hungry to learn in places like Chengdu and even further away such as Russia, Singapore must not only protect its lunch but steal other people’s…
Top Heavy
It was a torrid afternoon in a village in Northern Thailand in 1994. Loud look toong music was blasting away from giant speakers across the padi field. The man who…
Swelling Population, Packed Trains & Collapsing Schools
So what’s new? Eight junior colleges (JC) are set to collapse into four in 2019. This would be the largest school merger exercise in the past decade affecting a total…
Carpets, Markets And Rackets
Recent events brought back memories of a chapter I once read (or rather heard in an audio book) from A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton Malkiel. First published…
Future Of Singapore – It’s Not Just About Money
I’m a bit surprised. While the new criteria for the elected president were hotly debated in and out of Parliament and Mr Wee Kim Wee was named as Singapore’s first…