Tag: Singapore
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Don’t Eat Cheese And Don’t Drive
That’s the message I got out of the response to the EIU’s ranking of Singapore as the most expensive city in the world for expats. I’m a local, and so I shouldn’t be eating cheese (we’re mostly lactose intolerant anyway), watching movies from Gold Class cinema seats, buying Cat A theatre tickets, taking a taxi,…
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Are We Outsourcing Our Social Responsibility?
A couple of weeks back I was invited to speak on a panel discussing a Clean & Green Singapore. I said agreed because I had always wanted to meet Sivasothi, one of Singapore’s leading environmentalists. We’ve known of each other since the term “blog” was invented, but for reasons uninvestigated, we had never actually met.…
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The Future Looks Straight And Narrow
Good job on tweaking Medisave/Medishield; PSLE; Changi Airport. But we cannot keep treating GLBT, singles, unwed and divorced parents as second class citizens. Being GLBT single, unwed or divorced does not diminish their potential to fulfil their so-called roles in society. But pegging housing affordability to officially heterosexually married status states the opposite. Just as…
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#$*%&! Who Say We Not Happy?
A fortnight ago, mrbrown and myself visited Tekka Market. It is a happy place though you’d normally think otherwise. It’s hot, noisy, smelly and gets really crowded at peak shopping hours. So what makes people at Tekka happy? Is it because that venerable wet market has resisted the tide of change and retained its Hokkien…
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How I Majulah Singapura
My reflections on this year’s National Day, first published on YouSayISayWhoConfirm.SG as a joint post with mrbrown’s National Day Song. I used to think that I was Singaporean because of the way I spoke and how I could code-switch from standard English to Singlish even within a sentence. I used to think it was because…