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Some People Just Can't Handle The Truth
Pseudologia fantastica or compulsive lying was first described in the medical literature in 1891 by Anton Delbrueck. Offenders may be aware they are lying, or may actually believe they are telling the...
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Fare Hike Confirmed
At first glance, it would appear that Christmas is early this year. The Fare Review Mechanism Committee (FRMC) seems to have come up with sweeteners to soothe the pains of the commuters, punching the...
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Buggered
When he was just a minister of state, Lee Hsien Loong boasted to journalists covering his Europe tour he could tame the internet. A foreign reporter tried to educate him, and was dismissed haughtily:...
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Define Hacking
The Singapore Police Force (SPF)'s explanation maintains that a photo is circulating online, showing that the SPF website has been "hacked". The photoshopped image apparently is deemed offensive, and...
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More On Affordability
It boils down to this: will you buy a used car from this guy? Transport Minister Lui Tuck Yew pledged before the House that the discounts given will more than offset any fare increase in the next fare...
View ArticleThe Final Say
If there is ever any doubt that rule by law, instead of law, prevails on this little red dot, Attorney-General (AG) Steven Chong made it all abundantly clear when he addressed over 100 criminal lawyers...
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Leave Politics Out of It
Senior Minister of State for Law and Education Indranee Rajah said that two opposition parties -- the National Solidarity Party (NSP) and the Workers' Party (WP) -- have presented the (hijab) issue as...
View ArticleIntrusion Is The Word
First it was "routine maintenance", then "compromise", and now the latest turn of phrase is "intrusion". Love, it would appear, means never having to say "hack". The adulation that sycophants have for...
View ArticleLooking Out For Themselves
Politicians should stop using food analogies to explain policy making. There was the mee-siam-mai-hum debacle, and there was the $10 chye tow kway gaffe. Even Lee Kuan Yew tripped over the extra egg...
View ArticleNew Laws Cometh
Mr Ravi has filed an application to argue that Singapore citizens are protected by the constitution to have access to counsel within 48 hours of their arrest at the latest. You may disagree with Deputy...
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Top Scorers
The big news of the day is that, for the first time in three decades, Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE) result slips to be released this coming Friday will no longer indicate the highest and...
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A Real Hack
Personal data of some 4,000 individuals who participated in Singapore Art Museum (SAM) events were heisted from their outsourced website and posted on a New Zealand based storage website on November 5....
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Celebrate First, Worry Later
Which came first, the bonus issue for civil servants or the latest forecast for GDP growth? Hint: the GDP figures are generated by civil servants. Something else to ponder. These guys are overheads,...
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Not A Good Omen
The quip is definitely more surreal than the mee-siam-mai-hum gaffe. While lecturing citizens about what not to say online, Lee Hsien Loong had to finish off with: "My recent post about a barn owl...
View ArticleA Famous Experiment
The remarkable case of a Lieutenant Colonel in the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) being sentenced to 5 months’ jail for having commercial sex with an under aged online hooker is not about the $500 he...
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Spot The Bully
The word is used so loosely one wonders who is the hurting party, and who is being hurt. A Swedish graduate student named Dan Olweus had just finished his PhD in psychology 1969 when he decided to...
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The Supreme Sacrifice
The copywriter obviously went overboard with the last line. There must be many others who regretted moving to, or staying on, this little red dot.On Sep 11, 95-year-old Mdm Loke (陆带好) ended it all by...
View ArticleGetting Creative With Words
Gerald De Cruz was a real firebrand communist, and he blamed his allegiance to the comrades as the "solution to all the psychological problems arising from my rebellion against my father." He did not...
View ArticleIs Cyber City Burning?
It was definitely open season for online citizens last week. Anyone with an opinion stood the risk of being targeted and taken down. For the hunters, it was like a field day for mosquitoes at a nudist...
View ArticleEnd Of The Dream
Three months ago, a colleague had to downgrade from his pride-of-joy condominium possession to a humbler HDB abode. After a life time of work, he was back where most Singaporeans started off with, a...
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