Category: People
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Vale, Lee Kuan Yew
Today we begin to bid farewell to a giant of history. Tributes will flow and flood, and many among us will think about how much of us is due to him.
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The Boy From Oz, Sung By The Singapore Boy
It’s Australia Day, and what better way to celebrate it than to help Hossan rehearse for his show – a song from which is written by our favourite Australian songwriter, Peter Allen. Hossan and I watched the original The Boy From Oz musical staged in Sydney in 1998, before it was tweaked for Broadway with Allen…
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Je Suis Singapourien
As with many others in Singapore, I wouldn’t have noticed what was lacking in the local rags’ reporting of the Charlie Hedbo massacre. Once I was alerted to it, I got really upset. You had to scroll down at least three-quarters of any of the papers’ stories before you saw any mention of the murderers’/terrorists’…
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Thank You Paul La Grua, And See You Next Time
In 2003, a strange situation arose and led to my business partner and I helping to salvage a business that cultivated a love for children that I previously never possessed. The two people I met while fixing up this business became fast friends, and they taught me the joys of teaching gymnastics to kids, and for the next…
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The CPF And How To Pronounce Roy Ngerng’s Surname
No I’m not going to teach you how to pronounce Roy’s surname. The title is just written in the style of Roy Ngerng’s attention-seeking blog post titles. Now that Roy has ‘been Davindered‘ and taken down the alleged offending blog post, applied to be an NMP, and raised questions from dozens of my friends who are…