No Simple Solution In Sight
According to Occam's razor (also written as Ockham's razor from William of Ockham, and in Latin lex parsimoniae), the simplest explanation is usually the correct one. The principle of parsimony states...
View ArticleCall A Spade A Spade
Billed as a cabinet reshuffle, it was in actuality a promotion exercise. Speaking to the media in Xinjiang, China, where he is on an official visit cum holiday, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said that...
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Brompton Case Closed
Something to smile aboutIt was blatantly obvious that assistant director of the National Parks Board (NParks) Bernard Lim had colluded with his pal BikeHop director Lawrence Lim in the acquisition of...
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The Price Of Fame
This month, the Marina Bay area is being locked down again for the F-1 night race so that another $150 million can be splurged to make the Singapore skyline "more well known". Quite arguably, the city...
View ArticleThe End of The COV Is In Sight
For house hunters, it was sweet music to the ears: "Sell at all cost." Aunt Jen had to downgrade from her private property to a resale flat to finance her son's overseas education. Same week she was...
View ArticleThe New Normal About Skin
"But if you say I am a stupid fool who doesn't know what I'm talking about, and the Government comprises ministers who don't know what they're talking about and you criticise every policy of the...
View ArticleThe Great Divide
The tv talk show had posed the question - Citizen-PR gap: Have we widened it too much? When the talking heads were done, 67.8% said no, 32.2 % said yes. In the light of latest developments, one could...
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The Frost Interview
Sir David Frost with "Tricky Dicky"Early this week, Sir David Frost, 74, the journalist and broadcaster whose lengthy career stretched from cutting-edge 60s satire to heavyweight interviews and...
View ArticleCurse of the Certificate of Entitlement
Is that it? Motorists island wide were anticipating earth shaking measures to address the soaring cost of that  accursed piece of paper called the Certificate of Entitlement (COE). Obviously running...
View ArticleNo Cigar
Ng just lost to Thomas Bach of Germany.Ng Ser Miang's qualifications for the bid of International Olympics Committee (IOC) President - reputedly most powerful man in sports - were listed as President...
View ArticleRemembering 9/11
Each time the tale is retold, astonished friends had to ask, "And you still sat there while he had a shaving razor in his hand?"Twelve years ago, my friendly neighborhood Muslim barber was still...
View ArticleThe Rich Get Richer
The report by Wealth-X and UBS said that 50 Ultra-High Net Worth (UHNW) people in Singapore made it to the ranks of the super rich after property prices kept rising, rising, and rising last year. The...
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The Rashomon Effect
Akira Kurosawa's movie version of Rashomon is a 1950 Japanese period drama well known for a plot device which involves various characters providing alternative accounts of the same incident. The...
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Batman Will Be So Envious
What the Singapore Police Force (SPF) wants, it is sure to get, and damn be the budget - that's the impression we are sensing here. We are not talking about Herman Miller chairs or Brompton Bikes, this...
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Magnamity To Forgive
Omigosh! Did Tommy Koh really say that? Elsewhere in the mainstream media, every one is singing the old man's praises on cue, including one guy who claims the clean toilets at Changi Airport are...
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Trusting Our Basic Instincts
The fact that a lot of ink - ink, not blood - has been spilt by commentaries over a polytechnic lecturer's query about nurses banned from wearingtudungs is solid proof that religious tolerance is alive...
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Loyalty In Uniform
It's the rite of passage for every Singaporean male to spend a couple of years in Temasek green. The experience which is supposed to separate the men from the boys, the committed citizens from the...
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Mad About Tuition
Senior Minister of State for Education Indranee Rajah failed to understand what is happening on the ground when she said private tuition is not necessary in Singapore's education system. She was...
View ArticleGoing Before The Camera
In the movie version of the "Frost-Nixon Interview", there is a line that goes: "The first and greatest sin or deception of television is that it simplifies, it diminishes, great complex ideas,...
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Secretive Communications
The Singapore Police Force (SPF) is busy refuting allegations in a British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) World Service Radio interview concerning Singapore's (lack of) commitment to fighting...
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