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It apparently boils down to one person's tweet. And it took on a life of its own. Simply amazing. As for whether it's true or not, I would have thought as SBF regulars, you guys should know the meaning, "It ain't over till the fat lady sings."

Well, to be frank, I would not trust either of them to be able to identify with the lower rungs of society. Even if they have studied overseas, I doubt they have significant exposure to various philosophies (be it western liberal values or eastern philosophies like Buddhism, etc) which expound...

My home is not flying the flag, largely because ours is rather worn and faded and rather amusingly we were told by a concerned grassroots member we should stop flying it. My dad, being a former grassroots member himself, did attempt to get a replacement and was told to fork out a fee to get...

Somewhat offtopic, I can understand why people think the portfolios that Kee Chiu were given were masak masak but that has largely to do with our mindset that the arts, culture, social security, etc are of secondary importance. But I would like to point out that the recurrent effect of having...

I have actually experienced worst bedside manner from MOs while I was serving my NS. And during that time I was mostly PES E and PES C9 due to real kidney ailment. Even my chief clerk (a kindly Chinese auntie) told the boys under her (all medically unfit personnel) not to bother the medical...

I am speechless. All I can say is look at the hand you use to point to others - when one finger is pointing away from you, there are four others pointing back at you.

The Old Man was and will always be dreaming. Look at Mubarak - tossed to the wolves by his own supporters when it became apparent that he and his sons was a liability. There will always be the chance that the army would just turn around and shoot him and declare themselves heroes to the revolution.

At the end of the day, the problem is of differing expectations. Students like Reuben go into these events expecting a frank dialogue, the organisers just want the glory, and the establishment peeps like TCH think it is just another wayang. Personally, I do not see how a good moderator would...

This scenario might hold for majority but is actually very far from reality. I forsee a situation where they will begin to form their own political blocs to fight for their own rights.

If the chap has been compromised by the usual actors, I can only say they must have lost their marbles and whoever did this should be summoned and get whacked on the head repeatedly. If he did this on his own free will, I am speechless - does he not see how the PAP is the one responsible for...

So in their old age they will have nothing to look forward to. Congratulations, TCJ. You have now joined Tharman in the PAP School of Awkward Statistics.

As someone already mentioned, it's not really money, since in Singapore, most of the sorely pressed middle class is still relatively okay. It is largely about stress. Or what our personal expectations and societal expectations levy on us. If people do not see any future for themselves, do you...

I don't think anyone hates him. Its more like pity and wondering what might have been if he had been able to rein in his more destructive personality traits and instincts. As any modern leadership consultants would tell you, is that you need to have a modicum of self awareness and beware the...

Of course the poor aren't abandoned. That would be truly stupid. Revolutions are not started by the very destitute. They just want to have their bread. They are usually started by the people who are sufficiently prosperous yet who feel that their views are not represented. In the local...

No one can deny the fact that in modern capitalist society, wealth purchases power and power give access to wealth. As I said before, if you start drawing the links between the powerful and wealthy in Singapore to see how they are related or how they are socially connected, you will never stop.

Being relatively well schooled, someone from a middle class background and who has just crossed the 30 year old threshold, I actually see alot of couples getting married. But few are having kids largely due to lifestyle issues. They do worry about the conditions their kids have to grow up in...

It might be schadenfreude but it is comforting to know that our ministers are mortals - albeit highly paid ones. As Einstein once said, insanity is repeating the same things and expecting different results.

As far as I know, our local poodles in SPF are overwhelmed by the various changes in the flesh trade - there is a reason why Singapore made it into the list of human trafficking hubs as collated by the US State Department a few years back and I was fairly amused when the .gov.sg had to come out...

To be frank, every economics degree wielding graduate who is still using that knowledge in his day job will realize that the main part of our economic problem is land valuation - or to put it bluntly, how SLA goes about doing its business. It is well known how SLA does its land valuation with a...

Ironically, as it turns out the upgrade mantra has rather limited utility. The government already acknowledge this when they were assessing the effectiveness of WDA and workfare a few years ago. There are plenty of low wage workers paid a good sum of money to acquire new skills but in the end...