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Suppose I’m sitting for an exam. The question paper is in front of me, and I’m reading a long essay question. I’m uncomfortable to answer it. What do you think, if I wrote down for my answer: “What do you ...
Category: Miscellaneous
Any other thing under the sun.
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There has been nine fall from height deaths of foreign maids this year. Five were due to cleaning of exterior windows and two from hanging of laundry. It’s sad that lives are lost in such easily preventible accidents.
Now, ...
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The Worker’s Party (WP) has won Hougang, again. I think the win isn’t unexpected, despite problems showing up within the WP in the run-up to this by-election. The only question was the swing in margin, in which ...
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This by-election is for residents of Hougang to vote for their member of parliament. On the surface, it seems like it doesn’t concern anyone else in Singapore. But quite the contrary, this by-election continues to be ever ...
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Today’s Straits Times reports about LTA reviewing the penalty framework for MRT breaches. Everyone’s very mad about all the recent MRT breakdowns, particularly the two major incidents in December 2011. We’re all ...
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As much as I sympathize with football fans who were upset by SingTel’s mioTV epic failure during the epic EPL season finale, I’m glad I don’t watch football. I would otherwise have been completely infuriated and ...
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The last couple of days we’ve been entertained by the public inquiry into the spate of SMRT disruptions. We’ve just come to the juicy part where SMRT ex-CEO Saw Phaik Hwa gets grilled. Not unexpectedly, we’re ...
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You thought that would be it. An appeal for support to help him get into school. Then it got exposed by the Sunday Times article yesterday that Alvin Wang, the person seeking support for his appeal to get into NUS, actually did ...
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This morning, you might have found yourself waking up to all the buzz about helping Alvin to get into school. School, here, being the School of Computing at NUS. Oh yes, that’s where I work, hence it caught my attention, a ...
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The SMRT breakdown yesterday could have been easily averted. A power supply earth fault had brought down their communications backbone network, and that disrupted their train signally and hence te trains could not run. Now, I ...