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What a load of crap. Place LKY in Batam instead of S'pore — also a fishing village but with an indigenous population that prefers napping under coconut trees to working in harbors; as opposed to a population of industrious hardworking migrants from southern China and India — you...

This is in fact the very same conclusion of the superscale-salaried PSC-scholarship-winning twa-kee admin officers in MOE and ASTAR, after many, many months of collective brainstorming. If you cut through all the flowery crap in their speeches and reports, this is what they are saying too...

Not quite. Japan is responsible for making substantial advances too. Think about cell phones: NTT started its 1G network in 1979 before the Europeans and Americans. The first genuine high speed rail was the Shinkansen and it's Shinkansen's success that prompted Europeans to follow suit. Even...

I agree. Had Lee Hsien Loong grown up in this Woodland kid's dysfunctional family, who's to say that he won't become a psychopath like this kid? On the other hand, had the Woodland kid grown up in Lee Kuan Yew's household, he'd probably be our prime minister today.

China didn't gain an additional inch of soil for North Korea while incurring 10 times the casualty rate of its opponent, I say it lost big time. And seeing how North Korea turned out to be such a big pain-in-the-ass today, China did everyone (especially North Koreans) a great disservice by...

China lost the Korean War against the US, plain and simple. China sent a total of 926,000 troops into the Korean War and lost 400,000 (KIA). US sent in a total of 480,000 troops and lost 36,516 (the US is of course much more precise in keeping track of the number of deaths). China had an...

Ironically one of her master's degree is in Communication Management: http://sg.linkedin.com/pub/sindy-wong/8/8b1/903

The most important reason is that he's not white and needs to pay a much bigger premium for his non-whiteness. Just ask Mohamed Al-Fayed.

The truth is that they have very poor tastes in cars. All they recognize are garden variety luxury brands. You can drive a Maybach but these chink bimbos would pass on you for somebody who drives a low-end bimmer or merc.

That was a British Airways promotion. Complimentary upgrade to Concorde if you buy a full-fare first class ticket. Normal price is US$10k.

At S$15,000 per round trip ticket, it'd better be.

That's more or less the idea. Read this: http://singaporemind.blogspot.com/2010/10/wealth-or-extreme-inequality.html Even ST pointed out that: "While Singapore's mean wealth of US$255,488 is extremely high, its median wealth is approximately just one-ninth of that, at US$30,092 per adult."...

The whole point is that they don't. Many S'poreans are unable to believe that there are people here in our country who are far, far wealthier than they could ever imagine. S'pore is ranked highly because of these people. They are the HNWI and UHNWI, some foreign, some local. The PAP...

Except that in this case, everybody needs a pencil (unless you're prepared to camp out at ECP for the rest of your life) but the Singapore market for pencil has nothing other than $100-pencils. Even if you sell your pencil for $100, you would need to buy another pencil at more or less the same...

Singaporeans are so innocent and naive I find them endearing. They actually believe that they are rich. The Credit Suisse report measures disposable income — your HDB flat, car, CPF, etc, don't count. If you don't believe me, just request for a copy from Credit Suisse's website. The...

Here's a piece she wrote for her school magazine in 1969. Something to remember her by: http://www.viweb.freehosting.net/vilit_vic1969-2.htm THE LOVE OF MY LIFE WONG MING YANG U6B2 Lean back, relax, watch the fluttering curtains and feel the soft caress of the midnight breeze on...

Saw the following on TR. Anybody has the lowdown on the TIBS bit? Also heard through the grapevines that all SAF No. 4 uniforms used to be contracted to a garment company that she owned — again, does anyone know more...

He has no special privileges but he has balls and he has a mind of his own. Most S'poreans obey PAP's rules unquestioningly the way primary school kids obey a teacher's instructions. If the teacher asks all students to stand in line in the hot sun and somebody steps out of line, there's always...

The latest stackable washer/dryer combinations are now all top loading: http://www.whirlpool.com/catalog/category.jsp?cat=123

Very convenient. NEA's "permissible noise limit" is set to be just above whatever noise level the trains generate. In a few years, suppose the noise level of MRT trains increases to 100 decibels (say, because the tracks have become older), you'll find that the NEA standards would be magically...