The amount of FACEPALM is too damn high (no, really)
My original next post was going to be the third installment of my hospital stay, but then Han Hui Hui (who I will refer to as HHH) and Roy Ngerng had to go march themselves and shout slogans right into...
View ArticleWhy I think Sex Blogger Alvin Tan did the right thing in leaving Malaysia
Hello again everyone. I want to respond to many people on social media who have been asking for Alvin Tan to "do the right thing" and return to Malaysia to face the music. Personally, I don't agree...
View ArticleMr Brown: On the #ReturnMyCPF Protesters disrupting the YMCA event
I am going to come right out and say this. If my daughter, Faith, who has autism, or any of my kids, had been on stage performing that day at the YMCA event, and Roy Ngerng, Han Hui Hui and gang came...
View ArticleWithout solid facts, I find it hard to believe that anyone would heckle...
From ‘Ugly scenes break out at Hong Lim Park’, 28 Sept 2014, article in TodayUgly scenes broke out at Hong Lim Park yesterday (Sept 27), where protestors allegedly heckled participants of a YMCA...
View ArticleYahoo! Commentary: Various accounts of CPF protest ‘heckling’ tell a...
Shah Salimat is the editor-in-chief of Singapore entertainment, lifestyle and issues website Popspoken. He tweets at @firdianshah1.Just recently, I found a Web article about an artist whose "invisible...
View ArticlePAP-approved blogger Mr Brown is an opportunist trying to gain more fame from...
I refer to the article reposted on TRS, "Mr Brown: On the #ReturnMyCPF Protesters disrupting the YMCA event"Mr Brown, the way you wrote this article just purely shows that you are one sided man. Were u...
View ArticleHong Kong is protesting against what we have in the form of the NMP Scheme
You wouldn’t want something that Hong Kong is protesting against in your Parliament, would you? I wouldn’t, Not in My Parliament (NMP).What the people of Hong Kong are demonstrating against, is what we...
View ArticleOffice of Public Guardian applies to suspend both Yang Yin and niece’s powers...
The Office of the Public Guardian (OPG) has applied to the courts to suspend the powers of both PRC Cheat Yang Yin and the neice, Mdm HEdy Mok,’s powers over MDm Chung’s assets.Previously, Mdm Chung...
View ArticleThe Limits of Ideology: Lessons from Singapore
Next year will see the 50th anniversary of the creating of Singapore, widely hailed as one of the most successful of the Asian tigers. In that short space of time, the tiny nation state has grown into...
View ArticleHong Lim Park conflict: Our Very Own Zapruder Clip
November 22 is just round the corner, boon time for "Who Killed JKF" fans to rehash conspiracy theories. Vincent Bugliosi's 1,632 page "Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F...
View ArticleTampines MP Baey Yam Keng to act in new comedy play about social media
Member of Parliament for Tampines, Baey Yam Keng, is going to be acting in a new theatre production by The ETCeteras titled “Like Me. I Like.”The play, which is a light-hearted comedy is going to be...
View ArticleLTA’s new Causeway tolls make no sense
When a Singapore registered vehicle leaves the country it reduces congestion on Singapore roads which is what our transport policy makers wish to see.Hence I do not see LTA’s logic of tripling the exit...
View ArticleThai man gets death penalty for train rape, murder
A former railway worker in Thailand was sentenced to death today (Sept 30) for raping a 13-year-old girl on an overnight train, then killing her and throwing her body out the window, an attack that...
View ArticleWhen MDA bans a film, they take away a filmmaker's income, what can we do to...
I've been thinking about Tan Pin Pin's 'To Singapore With Love' (have yet to watch it) and how we can collectively respond to instances of censorship. The first line is of course to mobilise support...
View ArticleIskandar investors screwed again: by PRCs this time
Bad news travels in pairs.Last week, Reuters reportedAmid growing anxiety over a glut of high-rise residences in Malaysia’s Iskandar, a mega waterfront township project there appears to have hit a...
View ArticleThe Hong Lim Affair – More than Uniquely Singapore
Let me put a positive spin to this sordid affair and turn it into a splendid affair. Too many negative views had been expressed in the media and it is timely that we look at in from a different angle....
View ArticleEvents at Hong Lim Park, can you smell politics?
Singapore will be fifty next year. If Singapore were a human, fifty is considered old (especially in Singapore). It could be the end of a person’s economic life (fired). And if it is the end of his...
View ArticleWhy more Singaporeans have lost our respect for Lee Kuan Yew
Lee Kuan Yew is hailed as a great leader of Singapore and credited with the miraculous transformation of Singapore into a developed country. But this is only according the propaganda on mainstream...
View ArticleDeath Penalty for Drug Trafficking: A matter of both principles and facts
During the High-Level Side Event at the 69th Session of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly on Moving Away from the Death Penalty: National Leadership on 25 September 2014, UN officials called on...
View ArticleThe "peaceful" protests in Hong Kong also have an ugly side
Dear TRS,I am a Singaporean born in Hong Kong and so I have many family members still living there.I've seen the posts you posted on your page regarding the Hong Kong riot issue. I followed up the...
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