Category: People

  • My Friend Hossan Is A Freak

    Last night Hossan’s family came to watch the show, and I had a chance to catch up with his aunties and uncles who’ve known us since we were kids. An uncle reminded me how naughty or silly we were when we were in school, and how the silly ones – the boys who got kicked…

  • Rehearsal Start Liao! (Not NDP)

    Today’s the first day of rehearsals for the Hossan Leong Show: Flying Solo. Hilarity should ensue, given the FB exchange that’s just taken place:

  • For All Singaporean Taxi Drivers: A Special Warning

    Chris Reed, who has “25 years of senior marketing experience on both the client and agency side in the UK and now in Asia Pacific” published a badly written rant about our country’s taxi drivers and tried to disguise it as an opinion piece on the website Singapore Business Review. Everyone is entitled to an…

  • My Sec One Classmates

    From my Secondary One class (1982): I’m kinda known as a writer of nonsense, my classmate Chuan-Jin is now Senior Minister of State for National Development and Acting Manpower Minister, and one other classmate became known as VR Man. I guess you could say we took home different lessons from our teachers.

  • Help The Workers Who Help Build Our Country

    It is a tragic day today with two workers dead and several others injured in a scaffolding collapse at an MRT station construction site. It is also a time to spare a thought for the thousands of migrant workers who do these tough, low-paying and sometimes dangerous jobs building our country’s infrastructure. For as long…