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No frills housing? Don’t have upgrading lor.
The recent discussions in Parliament had two pretty interesting topics that I’ve been wanting to write about, but I’ve not gotten down to doing so because of the whole JCS debate. The first one is the...
View ArticleThe meaning of death
I’m supposed to be working hard on my Masters thesis, but for the past week, I’ve been spending some time pondering the meaning of death because my wife’s co-supervisor at MIT, Professor David Schauer,...
View ArticleFrom iron fist to velvet gloves to boxing gloves
Ever since changes to Singapore’s political system was announced a few months back, I’ve been thinking about why the Lee Hsien Loong government has decided to do all these when it is obvious there’s...
View ArticleTolerance versus understanding
This year’s National Day Rally speech is interesting because of the amount of time devoted to the topic of racial and religious pluralism in Singapore. There is no doubt that many people are still...
View ArticleOur One-Party Democracy
The title of this entry was copied word for word from the headline of Thomas Friedman’s op-ed column on the New York Times a few days back, and the reason for borrowing his headline word for word is...
View ArticleHDB flats and the illusion of wealth
The escalating prices of HDB flats is in the spotlight once again with MM Lee’s remarks about HDB flats increasing in price since independence, and that the upward climb will continue into the future....
View ArticleThe thin line between education and propaganda
Reading what Law Minister K Shanmugam is proposing for our education system, the alarm bells went off in my head. He’s proposing to educate Singapore students about politics, and while he has added a...
View ArticleWhy Singaporeans need to generate more babies
The most common reasons cited by Singaporeans for not wanting to have more children are that they are too busy with building a career and that it is expensive to raise kids in Singapore. It is clear...
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Tackling the Malay-Muslim underclass issue
The moment I thought about writing on the topic of the Malay-Muslim underclass issue after reading this article by Zul Othman in TODAYonline, I knew that I’m going to have to walk the tightrope really...
View ArticleChickening your way out of bilingualism
It’s been a while since I’ve blogged, and it’s not because that I’ve been served with a gag order or something; it’s simply just that I’ve been busy doing loads of other things. I should be writing a...
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