4 days ago ... I rode in a cab yesterday to a meeting, and the driver was apologetic the moment I got on. He didn't know where my destination was, and asked ...
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On a work trip to Shanghai last Friday, I sat in my cab and marvelled at the gleaming towers, giant billboards and the frenetic pace of the people in the business districts of the giant city. Then my cab driver asked me something which I assumed to be permission for him ...
Read this first , then come back to this post. Yes, you can die from dengue. But mostly, people don’t exhibit serious symptoms, and are often not ill enough to be hospitalized. It’s been the same with this outbreak, and I’ve found that as a result, people are being a bit blase ab...
Street photography: Uncle scrolling through his photos of women on public transport Say you were on the train and some moron started taking pictures of you with his camera/phone. He might be a STOMP content producer so you check yourself to see what it is about you that migh...
The Labour Movement should not let Lim Swee Say it himself. Not since the 1990s, when Goh Chok Tong spouted all manner of football analogies, has anyone generated so much interest over his own slogans and turns of phrases. It’s been three and a half years since the NTUC ’s S...
To every son and daughter’s mother, a happy Mother’s Day. You’ve made your children what they are, whether or not you’ve intended to. To Naomi — on behalf of Kai and myself, thank you for being everything he needs. To Naomi’s Mom, thank you for being family. And I remember my mothe...
I remember the story my father told me about the time he was a clerk in a bus company in Singapore. It was some time in the 1950s, and some of us will recall that these were troubled times . I didn’t get much detail from the many times my father told and retold the story with muc...
When news broke of the SMRT bus drivers’ strike last year , the first thought that came to mind was, “Oh no, when are they going to be arrested”? Even before the MOM made a statement about the strike (which traditional media called “bus drivers did not turn up for work”) being il...
Constant traffic jams on single-laned roads plied by mercenary cabbies whose reflex upon seeing us with kids in tow was to charge a prix fixe R50 ,000 (about $6) made for unpleasant afternoons. But watching the three children in our entourage charge at waves on Seminyak’s gr...
