Category: Living
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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…
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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.…
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What I Got For PSLE
The grading system was different then, but I remember it like it was yesterday. Primary Six, like it is now, was the most stressful time of my primary school years – for my parents. I was in a SAP primary school, mainly because my parents thought it’d give me a grounding in my adopted mother…
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S.U.R.E. Or Not?
Last Thursday was S.U.R.E. Day, an event held at the NLB to highlight a campaign for information literacy. The key speaker, Dr Carl Schoonover (author of ‘Portraits of the Mind’), gave an enlightening talk about neuroscience, perception and evaluation. There was also sambal fishball, mee goreng, curry puffs catered. What mrbrown and myself were quite…
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Purple Light
I do not remember rape being part of the song called Purple Light. (I never even knew the song was called Purple Light – it was always “My rifle, my buddy and me”). Several of my peers think the words in question were added in the last 10 years or so. Shame on the commanders…