Month: December 2013

  • Just Like My Dad Did

    I’ve been packing to move office for a fortnight now, and it’d have been faster if it wasn’t for my office being a treasure trove of museum grade paraphernalia. Today alone I found my Dad’s old passports spanning three decades. My parents had their offices in and around Raffles Place and Tanjong Pagar from 1966,…

  • Crazy Ting Tong Belles Christmas

    It is an honour being part of an event that’s become a Christmas tradition. I remember the first shows I was asked to write for at Dream Academy. One of the then producers tried to calm my nerves by telling me, “You think being asked to write a song in two days is a big…

  • Countering The Crap About #LittleIndiaRiot

    To counter the shameful crap that has populated the #LittleIndiaRiot hashtag, here are a couple of things worth reading: “When I made the Sexy Island documentary, one episode was on foreigners. I played an impromptu game of cricket with some Indians on a patch of grass in the shadow of the SportsHub that they were…

  • Home Team Restraint

    Like a few others, I’m really impressed that the Singapore Police Force, under quite a bit of danger, what with an estimated 400 people involved, several cars flipped over and burned, did not fire a single shot (of either lethal rounds (metal jackets) or non-lethal rounds (rubber bullets) or teargas) in anger or in defence.…