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If the policies are indeed, in your words, hare-brained; I fail to comprehend why there needs to be one more person pushing them.

I have no issue with blood relations, actually. it's pretty common for members of the same family to be involved in politics; it's what you do (or not) with those relations that count. Nothing. Like I said, we're already into the second decade of the noughties.

Linguists will disagree with you that dialects sound quite similar to Mandarin, or that it is the same language! Some of us may have the advantage of making such a statement because we grew up with both, and can switch quite easily from one to another. But try putting a purely Cantonese-speaking...

Hi Ramseth, I agree that the emphasis on Mandarin was inevitable, but I wish that its implementation was not so drastic. For instance, I really don't see the need to prohibit the use of Chinese dialects - they aren't dialects in the technical sense of the word, but I'll use it for the sake of...

One question I have to ask, and I apologize in advance if it comes across as silly: does anyone think this strategy will marginalize the minority races and indeed, the English-speaking, English-educated Chinese? Or, is the so-called Chinese middle-class vote bank so large that one can afford to...

Don't like to flog a dead horse, but if this was true, I'm not sure what Glenda expects the WP CEC to do since Eric Tan left on his own accord. I hope that she can continue to keep her hurt feelings in check, if she's keen on pursuing a serious career in politics. Yes, thanks, I couldn't...

Yeah, and they did it at the Singapore Discovery Centre too, can you imagine? A site that is also the ultimate testament to the idiocy of our nation.

Re: Where but only in YoungPAP debate is the opposition script written by the propose Absolutely agree. Did these people grow up on Stupid or something? I've had the pleasure of discussing issues with these YPAP types before - their raison d'etre can be summed up as: 1. The government...

I think image and the ideals one carries both contribute to a person's credibility, and serve to reinforce each other. It also depends on the situation, of course. If there's nothing else people can rely on to make an assessment of you, your appearance will count for a lot. In the case of Kermit...

Your point about image consultants is a valid one, even if it was originally meant as a joke (was it?). I do think Tin Pei Ling looks a lot fresher, not to mention more professional, with her new haircut and jacketed outfits. Whether or not she has grown in substance is besides the point; at the...

Hear hear! Some of the arguments made in the immediate aftermath of Pritam's statement, and repeated here again, only serve to prove your point. :cool:

I am glad you singled out Yee Jenn Jong's speech because I, too, found it to be of very high quality. He is clearly focusing on his areas of expertise, like education and SMEs, and his depth of knowledge shows through. Personally, I have been very impressed with Yee leading up to the elections...

Agree with all the comments thus far about the futility of debating over analogies in parliament. Analogies are rhetorical devices, for crying out loud. There's no such thing as right or wrong analogies, only good or bad ones. If I were to say I exhibited as much grace when dancing as a...

Ellen Lee should get herself a dictionary. If the circumstances were exactly the same, it wouldn't even be called an analogy. Physician, heal thyself.

You have already demonstrated the kind of blinders that so many Singaporeans have on - GDP growth for GDP growth's sake. Why should GDP growth matter to me if I was an ah em or ah por who has to pick up paper boxes for a living? Or, less drastically, one half of a young unmarried couple who...

I was going to discuss the use of "fetch" as well, but you beat me to it. Another common mistake: "bring it there" instead of "take it there". My English teacher in primary school used to give me and my classmates grief over this one. Even when we visited her years after graduation, when she...

No difference; in fact, "revert back" is worse. Many people use revert sloppily, thinking that it connotes "getting back to you", as yellowarse pointed out. But that's not what it means at all. The definition of "revert" is to return to an original state (of being), for instance, if the...

Between "competency" and "irregardless", I'll rate the first annoying and the second, balderdash. That probably has to do with the fact that I spent some time in the US and got sloppy along the way. Case in point: it took me a while to figure why "where are you at" is problematic. :o Still, I...

Actually, my beef lies in that "competency" is a collective term, like "fish", "fruit" and "aircraft". When you say a basket of fruit, you refer to all the fruit inside the basket, including the durians, rambutans, apples, pears and whatnot. Same goes for competency - you are referring to a...

I think it's you who should read Sylvia Lim's speech more clearly. She mentioned Bhutan because Singapore was one of the co-sponsors of a resolution initiated by that country, "Happiness: towards a holistic goal to Development", at the UN General Assembly last July. Unless we feel that...