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Bro, I live in Singapore. I need to eat too. I'm using myself as an example - I'm sure lots of bros out here think similarly to me when it comes to food. We're all food vendor patrons. Food vendors got to compete for our business too. Er... really ah? Hmmm, so what about the children? I...

Interestingly, you might just have indeed hit the nail on the head. It might be a photoshop after all. I tried googling "Chee Soon Juan loudhailer", "Did Chee Soon Juan use a loudhailer", etc. and the only hits were some people claiming the ST did some editing to juxtapose Chee with a...

I find it a refreshing sign of the times that social workers rather than lawyers gain mileage among the electorate. Maybe it shows a shift in what people envision for Singapore, more loudly than the staged National Conversation reveals. Re: people saying SDP lost because of the gay agenda -...

Yes, and we have election results to show it. SDP has never polled well compared to WP or even SPP, in spite of good policy ideas. Dr Chee was already full of ideas, even back in the old days (I still have a copy of Dare to Change from 1994, from when I was still in high school, if anyone wants...

I’m just an ordinary teacher actually. I don’t have insights due to my civil service stint, other than about the ground realities of education in schools, and also meeting a lot of citizens in the form of students and parents. Just wanted to make this disclaimer of having any special...

Hi metalmickey Re: Europe vs the US – well, yes Europe is in worse straits now. They have a few problems that the US don’t have. 1. The euro – where the US can print US Dollars, the individual European states cannot. They cannot devalue their currency to pay off debts, or to make their...

I think we get this only if we have a very loose idea of meritocracy. The definition of "merit" is tremendously crucial to what we mean by meritocracy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meritocracy#Definitions http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/meritocracy You can see the broad usage of...

@SG Parent You can argue that what matters in education is “the amount of work marked” rather than “the kind of people children grow up to be”, or “the usefulness of children to society in future”. By all means – you’re entitled to your opinion. But it’s just yours. I think lots of...

They're not ignorant lah. I'm sure they've been talking about it over the years. Most recent saga is after GE2011 - people ask why PA Advisor must be the losing PAP candidate - and PA published one cock reply in S*** Times (31 August 2011) -...

I more or less concur. Cheers :-) (Except I would say - it is only sometimes, only attested in Cold War era East Asia, that dictatorships are good for bootstrapping societies from 3rd to 1st world. Because of the overwhelming number of dictatorships that didn't manage that. Makes you think...

Oh yes, I would agree with you on this. What I meant was - America today is not a good example of strong democratic processes and institutions. So don't point out America's problems and say "There! Democracy brings you problems! Look at the US!". Ditto for other nominal/flawed democracies...

This makes a lot of sense. I only rehashed old topics because I thought I hadn't been clear enough previously so I provided more details, and fresh examples. Maybe I did so for the bystanders? Not too sure - it's a quite off-the-cuff response. Anyway I guess the horse is now well and truly...

This is why I advocate just stymieing and thwarting the PAP even if the opposition is an unknown quantity. We might have to break some eggs doing so (some say George Yeo is such a metaphorical egg), probably we will in 2016, because you can't make an omelette without breaking some eggs. If...

Good information, thanks Scroobal. I knew about the historical PA but the updates of their work since 1993 is very interesting. (I venture that the historical PA also received support because life was improving rapidly back then - the PAP undeniably improved the lot of Singaporeans in the past -...

Hi metalmickey I'm back from the weekend finally (yeah very long - I have a "poor work ethic" according to some people - I like to think I have a "good life ethic" though). Well, back to the discussion: 1. Democracy vs alternatives - dictatorships in Asia have succeeded in kickstarting...

That really depends on what you define as your "product". (Which I think in the real world is different for each individual - some people consume food just for nutrition, some as lifestyle, some as indicators of social status i.e. conspicuous consumption.) Given that for some - advertising IS...

I'm gonna interrupt you guys with a comment - let's not be so antagonistic lah. I think we all make mistakes when we type faster than we think - and that's gonna happen on internet forums. We're not publishing academic peer-reviewed journal articles here, yeah? I'm trying to keep an open mind...

Hi metalmickey thanks for responding fast (it does take time away from other stuff - affects me too - I appreciate it.) Re: gov't spending - well, I think most reasonable people agree that utmost left or right is not feasible. So most people are debating what is a good mix. That still leaves...

Corporations have different goals than societies. There is a danger in corporatising too much - having been in the civil service myself - I think the corporatist influence on the civil service has not been all good. Especially the obsession with KPIs and measurable targets in hard-to-measure...

I don't think the oppo parties are being secretive - I think those who don't reveal plans - don't have a clearly articulated plan! (And it's better to not say you have a plan, than to reveal a bad plan people will criticise.) I don't think oppo parties should look for sympathetic civil...