Boiling Over
How does that headline grab ya? How do you expect the alternate political parties to respond to that? On "Cooling-Off" day? That's the stuff that makes your blood boil.There are some exceptions to the...
View ArticleThe Good Old Days
Low Thia Khiang's mention of old versus new PAP rekindled thoughts of nostalgia about the good old days.Drool. The Certificate of Entitlement was not invented yet.Hon Sui Sen would develop Jurong...
View ArticleForeseeing Red
"Lee's steely micromanagement of the LionCity brought out some of the worst in him."TIME (4 Feb 2013 issue) has a feature article about the latest book on Lee, "Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master's...
View ArticleSome Explanation Required
Aduentes Fortuna Juvat : “Fortune favors the brave.” The Chinese characters 到 (arrive) and 倒 (upside-down) are both pronounced "dao". During the Chinese New Year festive period, the character 福 ("fu",...
View ArticleOne Perspective On Freedom Of Information
Punggol East voters and supporters of the victorious party are not the only ones walking around with a grin on their faces.Responding to questions on the by-election outcome of Saturday January 26, Ng...
View ArticleExcuse Me, You A Singaporean?
They are mocking us. They are pissing on us without the courtesy of calling it rain. They want to make this a place where, out of the projected 6.9 million in 2030, half will be "non-resident...
View ArticleWhite Washed Paper
The Population White Paper is really one piece of shoddy work. There's no bibliography, annotations or scholarly references cited to support it's preposterous arguments or constructs. Even if the...
View ArticleShot-Gun Wedding Of The Century
Minister of National Development Khaw Boon Wan used an interesting analogy to justify the horrendous population figure of 6.9 million crammed into our tiny island. He likened it to planning a wedding...
View ArticleGenocidal Thoughts
Adolf Hitler's "final solution" (German: Die Endlösung) was not the only method of eradicating an ethnic identity. The gas chamber is not the only recourse available to efficiency experts motivated by...
View ArticleIs Singapore City Or Country?
Once again, Teo Chee Hean is caught using selective data to suggest Singapore is not such a crowded place. After attempting Hong Kong, he is using Seoul as a comparison. The lie is obvious when you...
View ArticleDynamic Population For A Sustainable Singapore
It was definitely a home run for Member of Parliament Sylvia Lim of the Workers’ Party (WP). Straight off the bat, she took the words right out of our mouths when she reminded the House, “It is not...
View ArticleKhaw Doublespeak
About a week ago on 31 Jan, Khaw "made clear" that he has de-linked the prices of new flats sold by HDB from the resale flat market. He claimed to have done this ever since he took over the housing...
View ArticleAn Upside Down World
Citing the Workers' Party (WP) role of "co-driver" of Government, Low Thia Khiang said that "It is our duty to tell the driver that he's reading the road map upside down." That brings to mind a movie...
View ArticleIt Comes Down To This
Pritam Singh and Chen were victims of "technical difficulties"It boils down to this, after incorporating Holland-Bukit Timah Member of Parliament Liang Eng Hwa's proposal to replace the word "policy"...
View ArticleFamily Secrets
This was what Inderjit Singh posted in his Facebook account:Nothing really spectacular, just an honest man speaking his honest mind. So why is he so squeamish about his critical vote on the Population...
View ArticleA Movie About Turncoats
The movie "Coriolanus" is about a banished hero of Rome who allies with the enemy to take revenge on the city which kicked him out. The funny way the actors speak makes you realise quickly it is a...
View ArticleInvestigators Should Be Investigated
The wife deserves the Valentine's Day gift more than Ng Boon Gay. After all, he was the wayward husband who fell into the clutches of the IT sales person. That the former Central Narcotics Bureau...
View ArticleSquaring Off At Hong Lim Park
"People support CPF cuts because there are no protest (sic) outside the Parliament." - Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, There was a protest on Saturday, 16th Feb 2013. While it was no Tahrir Square...
View ArticleAnother Whopping Surplus
OCBC Treasury is saying Singapore’s FY2012 budget surplus may possibly be four times higher than initial estimate, a whopping $5 billion: "Based on our estimates, the FY12 budget surplus could come in...
View ArticleHe Did Hear Us
It has to be the answer to the 6.9 million nightmare.The proposed highspeed rail-link to Kuala Lumpur, a 90 minutes ride, is touted by PM Lee as a plan to transform two cities into "one virtual urban...
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