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I wonder why no one has mentioned one of the reasons for the recent floods: Singapore is getting too built up. Landed homes are getting bigger and it's fashionable for people to tile up their gardens so they don't have to manage a green garden and sweep away brown leaves. However, when the...

Lies are sometimes told to little children to protect them from the truth or to make their lives a bit more magical. Do adult women also have to be lied to save them from themselves? I'm talking about the great mammography deception. We've been told that this test is simple, helps in the...

Nowadays it seems I can't eat at a hawker centre without being interrupted a few times by people selling packs of tissue paper. They're usually elderly or handicapped. I feel sorry for them but I can't buy from everyone. They also seem to push women harder to buy their products. It's gotten so...

Goh KS may have been stingy but at least he paid for his own drink. Some people I know boast about how much money they're making in the stock market and disappear to 'answer their mobile' when their food is delivered to the table at food centres. They return in time to consume their food and...

Yes, I'm a Singaporean. One of my friends in Malaysia was voted the top student in her school by the teachers. The Principal overrode them and gave the title to a Malay student who was awful at his studies. Such things are very common there. If Tengku Abdul Rahman hadn't thrown Singapore...

I was not born a Singaporean. I spent my early years in a neighbouring country where I was treated as a second class citizen. I remember the school principal coming to class and asking the teacher how the Bumiputera students were doing , happily ignoring the rest of us. If England is to...

According to the Bible, giving in church (like praying and fasting) must be done in private. So how would anyone know how much a certain person has put in the offering bag in the first place? This may come as a shock for some, but a Bible scholar told me that tithing (giving of 10%) was an...

T2 and T3 outdoors is fabulous. Lots of pink and orange bougainvillea blossoms spilling everywhere. Even the grass looks like a perfect green carpet. I don't know how they do it, it's like this all year through.

Before the new terminal airport opened, T3 boasted it'd the latest green thing - a wall of live plants. I couldn't wait to see it. Alas, what we've got is so pathetic, it should be called not a wall but a see-thru beaded curtain. 'Wall' suggests dense planting, impenetrability and yet all one...

Dr M is our eternal critic. Khairy doesn't want to sell us sand and someone there thinks we're always negotiating based on reciprocity. Shouldn't helpfulness be returned with kindness? Why do the Malaysians hate us so much?

I think MP Koo is trying to say that Singapore is a multi-religious society so we have to be sensitive towards one another, eg. by not imposing our beliefs on others. Just round the corner where I live, there are 2 Buddhist temples, 1 mosque and 1 church. When my Indonesian maid came to work for...

I'm a Christian and I don't see MP Koo's comments as an attack on Christians. Self-righteousness and bigotry can be found in people of every background.

Got to eat ikan bilis and kiam chye now.

I agree with Leongsam - Filipinos work harder and are more cheerful. They make serving customers seem like a pleasure. Our people are more wooden, maybe brought up to be prim and proper, which is good but lacks charm.

Talking Point was boring because the participants only gave politically correct answers to questions put to them. They wanted to smoothen over every wrinkle so the show came across as plasticky and dull as dishwater. Furious statements have been exchanged between the 2 camps and yet on TV it...

Did any of you watch Talking Point last night? It was so boring, I wonder why they ever bothered to air it. Did the programme provide any new information or insights we didn't already possess? Nope, it was a waste of our time. Why couldn't the participants say what they really thought, for...

Thank God the old guard is back and Josie and gang have been defeated. I'm amazed that a woman of Thio Su Mien's calibre could be so naive as to think that taking over Aware surreptitiously would mean the end of the old leadership and its goals. Women like Constance Singham cannot be ground...

Oooh, this is so exciting. Why doesn't channelnews asia telecast this live? Nothing interesting like this happens in Singapore. Except the general election.

One of the lessons we can learn fr the Aware uproar is that many Christians don't think for themselves. They adopt their spiritual leaders' perspectives unquestioningly and zoom off like kamikaze pilots to destroy the old Aware. We need a mental revolution in the church.

This isn't about Christians versus Buddhists. I'm a Christian and I'm totally against what the new Aware stands for - lacking respect for others, sneaking around and muscling in on others' turf. Beware the brain washers in our midst. That includes Pastor Hong. He has his church under his sway.