29 September 2003
Have you killed your father today?
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Regardless of the amount of siblings one has, the first and more primordial conflict within the family is always with the Father. One rebels...
26 September 2003
Minister Says Sorry But Denies Mistake
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Only in Singapore, folks! The team of experts from the World Health Organisation came to the conclusion on 24 Sept, after a week of exhausti...
21 September 2003
New School of Public Policy Announced
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On 16 September, the Prime Minister announced at the Senior Minister's 80th birthday banquet, the opening of the Lee Kuan Yew School of ...
19 September 2003
Singapore's Qin Shihuang
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Merlion turns 80; scribbers, biographers, hired pens mythologise; flags wave, hymns are sung, and there was a voice from the heavens saying,...
16 September 2003
Performance art no longer banned in Singapore
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Oh, the enlightened folks at the Censorship Review Committee decided to give everyone a break, so from next month onwards, performance art a...
12 September 2003
Siamese Twins, a retrospective
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Singapore is such a high-tech city, the only types of accidents that happen can never happen elsewhere. Such as, a researcher in a virologic...
10 September 2003
Singapore is SARS-Land once again! Such a lovely place...
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Well, it's an interesting situation we've got ourselves in. Someone was tentatively suspected of being a "probable SARS case...
03 September 2003
Emotional blackmail and other bad things nice people do to their close ones
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One of the nicer perks of getting into a relationship is the ability to emotionally blackmail your partner; the deeper the relationship, the...
27 August 2003
Flashbacks of the Potato Famine
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For those who boycott the Straits Times (and rightly so), today's headline screams out "Wage cost burden heavier than in US: Quotin...
24 August 2003
Denoument
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Today is the anniversary of Martin Luther King's historic "I have a dream" speech. 40 years ago, the good reverend spoke out a...
23 August 2003
The coming crisis of capitalism
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Sometimes I wake to the feeling that the world is going to the dogs, and I have a front seat to the ensuing spectacle. Yesterday's econo...
21 August 2003
Kill the Thirtysomethings!
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How do we evaluate the role people play in history? I present you the case study of the 30something generation of Singaporeans. Following ac...
18 August 2003
The meaning of words
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Ko.yaa.nis.qatsi (from the Hopi language), n. 1. Crazy life 2. Life in turmoil 3. Life disintegrating 4. Life out of balance 5. A state of l...
07 August 2003
Love Song for a Merlion
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I was born in kk hospital and delivered through the singapore mill the standard life cycle of a clone (the limited presidents scholars editi...
03 August 2003
United Nations to Recruit Singaporean Graduates Next Year
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Well, don't blame me for being cynical about this. The New New Colossus (poem inscribed on the Statue of Bureaucracy) Give me your tired...
24 July 2003
Colonial Postcolonial II
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I talked about colonial history and the story of the white man last week. However, it's not wise to overrate the role of White man in th...
20 July 2003
Colonial Post-colonial
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"In the beginning the White God (of course he's White! Ever seen a Arabic or Jewish looking portrait of Christ?) created White man,...
16 July 2003
On Monday, I became a wedding videographer
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Well, a friend wanted to do a hip and stylish photo shoot that involves lots of costume changes and posing at Robinson Rd, the beach, and a ...
14 July 2003
PLU meeting
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I gatecrashed a minor event last Thursday and kept it from you people =D. Those who've been reading the papers or TIME magazine would va...
09 July 2003
The Twins
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It breaks my heart to announce that the 29 year-old Iranian twins, Ladan and Laleh Bijani, have passed away in the middle of their operation...
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