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Haven't posted for some time now, so here goes. The lack of analysis here is, indeed, telling (as is the general lack of ability to construct simple sentences in English). Do you even know how shadow ministers work?

Inderjit Singh sounds like he has a pike up his ass. I'll never become an MP, but that's no way to speak to your constituent. Defensiveness aside, he almost seemed rude to me. Also, as some other posters have mentioned, Seng Han Thong is a good one to talk about speaking poor English. Pui!

Re: Boys Will Be Boys I will reply to this, hate mail notwithstanding. At the risk of sounding like some AWARE femi-Nazi, I am coming out to say that I did not or do not approve of the way criticisms were leveled at Tin Pei Ling. The way netizens dug out pictures of her posing with that...

Not sure about the rest of you, but I find New Nation incredibly painful to read because of characters like Belmont Lay and his ilk. They employ crude sarcasm with no wit and no soul - the entire project is a sad excuse for bitchiness in the name of intellectualism. An epic phail, IMHO.

As a not-so-good multilinguist, I have to agree with your statement. Don't want to get started again on my pet peeve that is language education, but suffice to say that the standard of Chinese in Singapore is beyond atrocious, as is the standard of English in Singapore - BOTH spoken AND written...

Re: One Bloody Happy Family Photo As a coffeeshop Ah Pek pretending to be a Gen Y-er, I ONE HUNDRED PERCENT agree. The si gin nah* who said all those things about ah peks and ah ems - show your elders some respek, K? :D Jokes aside, I completely agree with the last paragraph. People may...

Certainly, I don't want or need a referendum over every new ERP gantry the government intends to build. I was taking a dig at the point one of our friends here was making, which can be summed up most aptly in Singlish as "can vote means got democracy". That's nonsense, to be sure - but...

This recalls to mind the "Smile Singapore" campaign launched in the late nineties (1997/8?). So many reasons in the world to get people to smile, including the fact that it a) makes you happier, b) relaxes your face muscles, and c) looks better than scowling anyway. But no, the focus of the...

From the quality of the writing, speaking and thinking skills of many local undergraduates/graduates I have come across, I can't help but agree.

Apologies, but could you enlighten me? How does compulsory education contradict private school education - which appears to be what you are saying? As far as I am aware, compulsory education only mandates that a child must receive X years of education; it doesn't say that those years of...

Not here long enough to recall. BUT in light of the not-so-recent spate of corpses discovered in reservoirs all around the island (and God only knows if there will be more to come), I wonder if the theme for next year's NDP could be: "The Singapore Story: From Third-World Fishing Village to...

As a fairly avid reader of Shakespeare, I shudder at the thought of Chee playing Hamlet. :D Must be a uniquely Singaporean phenomenon whereby the tyranny of the majority is upheld by a bunch of people that was never even consulted to begin with. ;)

Dude, no offense meant, but with this kinda thinking, it's no wonder the ruling party can justify the continued existence of the Gee Ah-ruh See. And it's 避嫌 lah. :D

I'm not in the position to want or to suggest anything. I'm just here to discuss whether the strategy will work or how it can potentially backfire - as the thread was meant to be for. Personally, I agree with Fook Seng that even the Chinese-educated have gone on to pick up English over the...

Mate, you and I can argue till the cows come home that the Tang dynasty has nothing to do with the PRC of today. What does anyone existing from 618 to 907 AD have to do with anyone living today, in any case? The only problem is: these things don't exist in isolation. Like I said in an...

I am not a dumb peasant trying to find any reason to vote for the PAP. I am trying to query if minority races will feel marginalized by the reference to Tang Dynasty history. Why's the Tang Dynasty speech potentially alienating and what's it got to do with PRC immigrants, you ask? Because -...

Hi Psy83, What was published on Yahoo FTP that got so many negative comments by the minority communities? Chen's allusion to the Tang Dynasty during his Mandarin parliamentary speech? If so, I can understand the sentiment. The problem, I think, is that the culture card was played at a...

That's another misconception. Mandarin did not provide a standardized written character. The Chinese writing system was adopted eons before Mandarin became the standardized national language. Even in ancient times, when folks sat for their imperial examinations, they were writing in...

That is the insidiousness of the GRC system. It entrenches the policy of deliberately keeping "races" separate, and the assumption that you have to be of a certain "race" to help speak up for "your people". I'm not even about to go into a treatise about the definition of "race" which has no...

Bravo! I couldn't have put it better myself! It's not just about Opposition MPs in parliament; it's the entire "destructive arbitrarism" that has percolated the mindset of many Singaporeans. I do hate it when questioning certain policies, and whoever I'm speaking to retorts, "So, what would...