School killed Confidence and Creativity ? by Mathia Lee

Loved this article so much by Mathia Lee that I have to reproduce it for all to see. Because it is an issue that really touches my heart. The education system in Singapore, where we groom our future citizens (& PRs, & foreign scholarship holders who study for free) is seriously wrong. I swear I [...]

My future is so bright.

At least when he gets a job, there is a minimum wage law to protect him.
In Singapore, part-time work salary has stagnated at $6 an hour for the last 10-15 years? I don’t even want to talk about MacDonalds. Exploitation of workers. But hey, as our MM says, if we are not competitive, our wifes [...]

Character Assasination! Target 1: TKL

In my previous post, I was blogging about how some people from you-know-where will start doing character assasination. Today in the Straits Times, it happened.
Mr Chua Sheng Yang has decided to give the 1st target Tan Kin Lian a shot below the belt.
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Is Mr Tan organising the rallies at Speakers’ Corner for purely altruistic reasons, [...]

Insulting my intelligence

Waking up early in the morning to have my intelligence insulted. PM Lee this time talks about why Singapore cannot have a 2 party system like in America. Read the article here in TODAY. The mud-slinging has started, maybe elections might be round the corner, especially since the elections department is starting to work .
In [...]

Change

Obama did it. He is now President of the United States. Obama promises change.
Anwar is trying to do it in Malaysia, he wants to bring a change of government.
Here in the little red dot of Singapore, there may be a sniff of change too. Tan Kin Lian and Goh Meng Seng (where’s the rest of [...]

Bus and Train fares up on Oct 1

The Public Transport Council has said yes to giving SMRT and SBS to raising fares from Oct 1. More details here.
The main issue I have here is that while the 2 companies always talk about the need to increase fares to cope with rising operational costs and fuel prices, they are recording RECORD PROFITS almost [...]

Are you free this Saturday?

If so, please visit Hong Lim park, the Speakers Corner  at 5 p.m where TOC (The Online Citizen) is going to discuss issues about public transport. More details on their site. They even declared it a public transport week on the website where they will talk about several issues on public transport such as fare [...]