Stuff Of Nightmares
It's difficult to fathom the motive behind former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's tongue lashing, but one postulate has it that both he and his punching bag, current Prime Minister Najib...
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Political Pimps
Taking politics seriouslyIt has to be rubbing salt into the wound when a brave anti-colonialist fighter is parodied as a sparring partner in a musical at Marina Bay Sands' MasterCard Theatres. We are...
View ArticleA Mother's Pain
Everybody knows Lady Macbeth will never win the Miss Congeniality award. Not after the way she prodded her husband into steely resolve to do the dastardly deed:"I would, while it was smiling in my...
View ArticleSpeech That We Hate
When Professor Gunaratna, from the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research in Singapore, asked US Under Secretary of State Richard Stengel why the US could not take a tough...
View ArticleThe Teen Brain: A Hazard or a Virtue?
Aristotle concluded more than 2,300 years ago that "the young are heated by Nature as drunken men by wine." Yet a fascinating feature in National Geographic by science writer David Dobbs shows that,...
View ArticleNothing Wrong, No Crime Committed
When former Nominated Member of Parliament (NMP) Calvin Cheng was found guilty by the Competition Commission of Singapore (CCS) for price-fixing in November 2011, he was the President of the...
View ArticleHow Much Can You Really Eat?
When the bean counters of the Norwegian company who bought over our Singapore operation came to visit, one of them told us that the salary structure at head office was pretty egalitarian. The general...
View ArticleLawyers On The Defensive
The advice given in the common proverb is: "never look a gift horse in the mouth". Simply, when given a horse, it would be bad manners to inspect the horse's mouth to see if it has bad teeth. It is...
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Food For Thought
“An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind” is a quote oft attributed to non-violence champion Mahatma Gandhi. Fred R. Shapiro, editor of the Yale Book of Quotations (YBQ), has more to...
View ArticleSafety First
It looks like it will be quite a while before we stop hearing stories about the dead guy.Former top Australian golf professional Alan Murray was talking about the time on the course when he was...
View ArticleWar Stories
Last week the fat geezer was called a "fighter". We are not told what exactly he fought for. We do know from his own writings is that he was definitely on the side of those who fought the Malayan...
View ArticleWeird To The Very End
Recently a tembusu tree was planted at Duxton Plain Park together with a time capsule intended to be unearthed 50 years later. The time capsule was filled with cards, tributes, newspapers and other...
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SCDF In The News (Again)
The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) announced that it will be conducting an emergency exercise today from 12.30pm to 3pm at the Singapore Sports Hub, including Kallang Wave Mall and Stadium MRT...
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Singapore No Longer Safe
One may fault the female A*STAR researcher for walking a dimly lit path unescorted, but nobody could imagine a child would be assaulted in front of the Family Justice Courts building. In broad...
View ArticleFrom First World To Banana Republic
His son has called for further reflection on how best to remember the late "papa and yeye", whose demise boosted champagne sales in some quarters, saying that any decision must "stand the test of...
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The Height Of Fabrication
"Town council dispute not political, says MND" is the new standard set of fabrications now foisted on us as gospel truth by the mainstream media. In like vein, a website has been shut down not because...
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A Difference Of Perspective
It was Lee Hsien Loong who asked a student at a NUS ministerial forum in 2011: "Do you believe everything you read in the Straits Times?"Not if ST is determined to sink lower than the murky depths of...
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Nathan Had A Close Shave
"And so I entered the employment of the Japanese civilian police (Keimubu), in which I stayed for the rest of the war, until the Japanese surrender," wrote S R Nathan in his book, "An Unexpected...
View ArticleShackled By The Law
Concerns about the use of shackles on juveniles in court first prompted two U.S. lawmakers, Rep. Bruce Morris of Norwalk and Rep. Toni Walker of New Haven, to introduce legislation to limit the use of...
View ArticleFlavours Of Justice In Singapore
The 49-year-old slapper who was finally charged in court after 2 whole weeks - the equivalent of light years in internet time - said he “wanted the assault to be publicised so that the world at large...
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