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Jan 21 12 // Rants
WP's proposal vs CommitteeIn spite of the hostility of the People's Action Party's [PAP] backbenchers towards the Workers' Party [WP] Members of Parliament [MP], I had not really bothered with the debate on ministerial salaries and the comments made by ...
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Jan 06 12 // Rants
The hottest news in the past few days has to be the ministerial pay revision. I had personally expected a cut between 10% ~ 25% which means that the cuts proposed are above my expectations. If anyone were to ask ...
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Dec 28 11 // Rants
The Ministry of Education [MOE] has drafted a revised Sexuality Education Programme [SEP] to boost emphasis on abstinence over contraception, reported The New Paper [TNP].
Emphasizing on abstinence is placing too much faith in a person's self control, and self control ...
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Dec 17 11 // Rants
Water resources and transport have got to be two of the worst ministerial portfolios in the last few months. The former being a tough job because of the flash floods and the number of dead bodies in the Bedok Reservoir ...
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Dec 12 11 // Rants
Well, well, well. Taxi fares are "adjusted" again. Just call it what it is - a fare hike - alright?
So what if it hasn't been done for four years since 2007? I hadn't had a pay increment for almost as ...
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Dec 11 11 // Info
I won a pass to Blackberry DevCon Asia 2011 and with that, a 16GB Blackberry Playbook which Research in Motion (RIM) gives out to every attendee. I must specifically thank Ridzuan of ridz.sg whose wall post in Facebook introduced me ...
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Dec 05 11 // Rants
I haven't been blogging for almost a month. Not that there isn't anything to blog about, but rather I am keeping my comments to myself. Even though I have a really insignificant readership, I do not want to dignify certain ...
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Nov 07 11 // Rants
I first heard of the country called Libya when I was 10 years old. That was when American F-14 shot down two Libyan Su-22 over the Gulf of Sidra. The country and Colonel Gaddafi (already the leader of Libya at ...
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Nov 02 11 // Rants
The China double hit-and-run case is old news since it happened on October 13. Much have been said about the carelessness of the mother to the callousness of the 18 pedestrians and cyclists. Undoubtedly, those 18 people who did nothing ...
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Nov 01 11 // Info, Others, Photos
This is my first visit to Macau and Macau always give me the feeling of being an insignificant younger brother overshadowed by Hong Kong, not just in size (a mere 29km2 compare to over 1100km2 of Hong Kong) but also ...
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Oct 30 11 // Info, Others, Photos
This is my second visit to Hong Kong. The last time I was there was in 2008. Hong Kong, ever changing and a jumble of awe inspiring skyscrappers and hills, never ceased to fascinate me. (The peaks in Hong Kong ...
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Oct 23 11 // Others
It has perhaps been two years since I had the banner (and a link to Feisty Princess Charmaine's blog) here, and dutifully move the long banner to five of my latest posts. As I look through the archive on her ...
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Oct 16 11 // Others, Personal
This is the only indication that something was awry on a Saturday afternoon more than a month ago (see picture). I was a little puzzled why I am getting these SMS when I am not making any online purchases. After ...
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Oct 09 11 // Others
Steve Jobs passed away a few days ago at the age of 56. I abhor and am immune to idol worship so originally, I don't really care. In most cases, I ignore the comments and the outpour of grief. ...
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Oct 04 11 // Rants
A case for repealing 377A
I refer to last Tuesday's article ('Study looks at sexual behaviour of gay men').
The effort to glean information for the prevention and treatment of sexually transmitted infections is admirable. But I am not surprised that the ...
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Oct 02 11 // Rants
I knew from my colleague that a fire has broken out at Pulau Bukom at around 3:30pm on Wednesday (28-Sep-2011). He saw the news on STOMP and showed it to me. Since Bukom was just right in front of the ...
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Sep 23 11 // Rants
'Foreign workers should get training too', says MP Yeo Guat Kwang
Sep 19, 2011 (Straits Times)
Foreign workers should get skills upgrading similar to what Singaporeans go through, suggested labour MP Yeo Guat Kwang.
Noting that this would 'create a level playing field' ...
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Sep 19 11 // Rants
On online forums such as HardwareZone, some have insinuated that Ms Loh, who took over only in July, cancelled the event because she was Christian.
Yesterday, the 51-year-old CEO clarified that she is Buddhist and gave her side of the story.
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Sep 14 11 // Rants
The PA has also sent two letters to the media, stating that "it is not possible" to appoint opposition MPs as advisers, because it cannot ask opposition MPs to help the government connect better with the people, or be able ...
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Sep 11 11 // Rants
When the attacks on the World Trade Center (WTC) in New York happened, I was out having dinner with some some friends. I only realised it has happened, when another friend sent me an SMS informing me that the twin ...
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Aug 30 11 // Rants
I attended my second "Coffeeshop Talk" of the year two days before the Presidential Elections. I probably wouldn't have signed up since it was on the evening of a weekday. But when I realised that BG (NS) Tan Chuan Jin ...
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Aug 29 11 // Rants
The Presidential Election is over and Sunday is a rather disappointing day for me because Dr Tan Cheng Bock didn't win. 83.44% of 2.27 million eligible voters cast their votes and Tan Cheng Bock was beaten by a hair thin ...
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Aug 22 11 // Rants
Singapore will be voting for the next President on the Aug 27th, 2011. Unlike the previous two elections where all contenders were disqualified and the selected endorsed candidate waltzed into the Istana, this time round there are four candidates.
Four! Which ...
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Aug 12 11 // Rants
I have quite a number of friends who are foreigners, some I had known from the days I joined the workforce back in 95, and some in church since 98. A few of my friends and relatives also married foreigners ...
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Aug 06 11 // Rants
As I expected, the Public Transport Council [PTC] has rubber-stamped / approved the fare increment request again. From 8 October this year (in conjunction with the opening of the final 12 Circle Line train stations), adult commuters using the ezlink ...
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