The Justice Of The Future
The 71-year-old who caused S$100 worth of damage - incurred to clean up graffiti ("We support CPF blogger" and "Return our CPF money") scrawled on bus stands - was sent to jail for 4 weeks. Even if he...
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Permanent Head Damage
Contrary to popular understanding, PhD is the abbreviation for Doctor of Philosophy, a postgraduate academic degree awarded by universities, not Permanent Head Damage. The academic level known as a...
View ArticleNo Go For Go Ahead
Love means never having to say sorry is a cliche from an old movie. The affection is lost on a guy who promised not to introduce a means test during campaigning, and quietly reversed it after the...
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Life And Death Links
The chart shows that Life Corporation Ltd's (LCL) original business line of cord blood storage wasn't doing too well. Lots more can be gleaned from its 2014 Annual Report filed with the Australian...
View ArticleThe Curse Of CEP
The template presentation of Shell's employee evaluation system defines Current Estimated Potential (CEP) as: "The current realistic estimate of the highest job that an individual will be able to...
View ArticleSelective Memory
Second Home Affairs Minister S Iswaran was there at the 2am press conference with Deputy Prime Minister and Home Affairs Minister Teo Chee Hean when latter said the Little India flare-up was the first...
View ArticleStrong Leadership Needed
In the 2002 wuxia film directed by Zhang Yimou, Jet Li is the nameless protagonist "Hero" who aborted the assassination attempt on the King of Qin in 227 BC because of two words, "天下". Tiānxià (天下)...
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CPF Scheme Still Stinks
What's in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet. That's the line from Romeo and Juliet. On the other hand, a stinker will still smell all the way to heaven, and...
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Such Irreverence!
Be prepared this year for all manner of veneration of the founding father, mostly in new books, on top of the movie in the making. Two publications are obviously are not of the same genre.The author of...
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When Push Comes To Shove
A cursory glance gives one the impression that it was just another scene from the Great Singapore Sale."Gimme that! I saw it first!""No way, sister, we saw it first!"When push comes to shove...Oopsy...
View ArticleLapses In Governance
It's a sad day when the Auditor-General’s Office (AGO) is roped into the shenanigans of the political foray. The bureaucrats should remember that they are civil servants first and foremost, and they...
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Going Bonkers
You have to be nuts to take him onIf there are questions about mental health and fitness to practise, they should be directed at the Law Society (LS) and its members. In 2012, one Wong Siew Hong,...
View ArticleThe Noise About Noise Makers
Only a few days ago, we saw how Minister for Law K Shanmugam drew the line in the sand by reminding Hindus that religious foot processions have been banned since 1964, with exemptions only for three...
View ArticleThe Fury Unleashed
Maybe it was just his bad hair day, if you think he has any at all on his shiny pate. Shanmugam raved and ranted like he lost his favourite dog, raining all sorts of scurrilous accusations, short of...
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The Sham Going On In Parliament
When you bring a knife to a fight, you have to make sure it is sharp. When you bring a gun, make sure there's a round in the chamber. And if you pass a chart around for ammunition - this has to be most...
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No Rest For The Wicked
Not one for the squeamishOnly a guy with balls of steel will dare say he will be back to work after a radical prostatectomy. Then again, some people's workload is different from what the rest of us...
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Picture Says It All
Photos released from North Korea are often examined by Western media with the closest of scrutiny. The Washington Post's Max Fisher commented on why ST circulated a 12 December story originating from...
View ArticleGetting His Goat
The excuse given by the Law Society of Singapore (LawSoc) for removing lawyer M Ravi as a speaker at a conference scheduled for Feb 27 is pathetic at best:“Given the proximity of the conference,...
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Reel Life Drama
Eddie Redmayne is a hot Oscars 2015 favorite for his role as Stephen Hawking in "The Theory of Everything". In one crucial scene, a doctor asks his onscreen wife Jane (Felicity Jones) for permission to...
View ArticleHow They Move Up And Do Well
When Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Tharman gave his Budget 2015 speech yesterday, he boasted, “Everyone has moved up, including poorer Singaporeans.” The Oscars have been handed out, but...
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