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“Sexual-Profiling” And Why We Must Stop Making Assumptions Based On Appearances
The act of “sexual profiling” has become so ingrained in our culture that I think, in many ways, we’re entirely blind to it. We take snippets of people’s behavior or appearance, compile them into our...
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GRC system forced onto Singaporeans, serves only PAP instead of citizens
I refer to Yahoo article “Political analysts caution against reverting to all-SMC system”. (link) The majority of some 4000 Yahoo! Singapore readers have confirmed their preference for our GRC system...
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Time to Take Back HDB in 2016
Ever since my Confessions went viral, HDB rebutted me on HDB Speaks. Their main contention is that I am angry and with an axe to grind and has breached confidentiality clauses. To be objective, there...
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A very high tech, inventive, low population country
No, not us. We are none of these, though we got many of the u/m conveniences, sort of.Estonia (population 1.3m) is a world leader in technology. Estonian geeks developed the code behind Skype, Hotmail...
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Leave the rich people in Singapore alone
There’s been a lot of talk about the rich poor gap recently.. and as mentioned in my earlier article “Poor People”, much of the unhappiness experienced by the rest of us is derived by comparing...
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THE PAP’s GRC SYSTEM : WILL IT BACKFIRE?
----------------------------------------------------1. PAP’s excuse for the need of a GRC system-----------------------------------------------------Singapore’s system of Group Representation...
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OSC survey result raises questions over S377A
The Our Singapore Conversation (OSC) survey findings showed that 53 per cent of respondents are neutral or accept gay lifestyles, while 47 per cent reject gay lifestyles. (“Liberal attitudes on gay...
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Singapore’s Economic and Immigration Policies are Insane
On Friday the Financial Times carried an excellent article by the eminent and long-standing economic commentator, Samuel Brittan [FT link here]. I remember as a student at Cambridge, always looking...
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When is Pleasing God an Addiction?
I refer to Christians in Singapore Support City Harvest. One of my former boss, AC, is a devout Christian.She would like to wear crucifixes around her neck, display Holy Bible on her workplace shelf...
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PAP: Half-heartedly cleaning up the mess they started?
Whose fault is it?One of the socio-political issues which irk me the most is the fact that the HDB (resale) prices has almost doubled over the past 6 years. Let’s recall that the simple reason behind...
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No Simple Solution In Sight
According to Occam's razor (also written as Ockham's razor from William of Ockham, and in Latin lex parsimoniae), the simplest explanation is usually the correct one. The principle of parsimony states...
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Has 'global city' vision reached its end date?
Donald Low For The Straits Times 28 Aug 13;The Prime Minister's National Day Rally address on Aug 18 and Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam's speech at the Academy of Medicine last week point...
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US tourists in Singapore: An impressive but self-loathing metropolis
<above pic: A newly wed couple from the US shares their experiences after going holidaying in Singapore>Upon first arriving in Singapore, both of us were immediately impressed and relieved to be...
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Rockson Love Serina Swee!!!
CHEEBYE!!!!! You got see the Shitty Harvest Church case or not? Their pastor Gong Hee is so rich and can use church money to make his horseface wife, Some Ho, into sexy pop star in America! I didn't...
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The CORE of our problems in a NUTSHELL
The CORE of our problems in a NUTSHELL.Who will come to untie this Gordian knot?Letter to Kishore Mahbubani from Derek John Potter, a 64 year old English-born permanent resident living in Singapore...
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Why Does HDB Need to Spend Our Money to Market and Showcase Bidadari Estate?
I refer to "New Alkaff lake for Bidadari estate"Apparently, HDB launched the new Bidadari estate with a big bang and currently held a 2 weeks exhibition at HDB Hub Atrium, with mock-up models, nice...
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Discrimination by majority rule
We are still hearing a lot of angry discriminatory remarks being hurled every where about how the majority ill treated the minorities. I must say that there are policies that are discriminatory in...
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After the Bubble comes the Bust, but we can still survive
I bought a 4 room HDB Flat in the late 80s. By early 1990, I paid fully the flat with my CPF savings. Then in late 90 there was a great big bubble in property prices fuelled mainly by the influx of...
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Singapore Needs Immigrants, Says Jim Rogers
Legendary American investor Jim Rogers moved to Singapore in 2007. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)For many years, Singapore’s ruling People Action’s Party (PAP) has advocated a liberal immigration policy to...
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Types of FTs- Who do we Want or Need and who should we Kick?
There is a perpetual buzz about FTs in Singapore, and this is super understandable given that they compose of 40% of all people living in Singapore. This is a complex issue. I am going to try to...
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