Anyway, S$280 million goes into buying 550 buses according to what I have read. That’s about S$510,000 a piece, while the remainder of the money is to cover the net operating cost for the next 10 years. These buses are so expensive that it makes me think they are armored and made of t...
The video called 蝗虫天下 (Locust World) is apparently not new, since I noticed that one of the videos was posted on Youtube almost a year ago in 2011. However, it seems to have become rather popular,after some third rate academic called Kong Qingdong [孔庆东] ridiculed the rule of law in Ho...
Water resources and transport have got to be two of the worst ministerial portfolios in the last few months. The former being a tough job because of the flash floods and the number of dead bodies in the Bedok Reservoir and the latter, because of the increasing number of failures of th...
This is my first visit to Macau and Macau always give me the feeling of being an insignificant younger brother overshadowed by Hong Kong, not just in size (a mere 29km2 compare to over 1100km2 of Hong Kong) but also in terms of its economy. Incidentally, Hong Kong’s previous colonial ...
This is my second visit to Hong Kong. The last time I was there was in 2008. Hong Kong, ever changing and a jumble of awe inspiring skyscrappers and hills, never ceased to fascinate me. (The peaks in Hong Kong – including the one at Lantau island, ranged from 400 ~ 900 over meters com...
Interesting. I read that Steve Jobs refused to participate in ‘The Giving Pledge’ to give the majority of their wealth to philanthropy. He also shut down all of Apple’s corporate charity donation programs. Now consider the work of the Gates Foundation , many which will bring a change ...
I knew from my colleague that a fire has broken out at Pulau Bukom at around 3:30pm on Wednesday (28-Sep-2011). He saw the news on STOMP and showed it to me. Since Bukom was just right in front of the window, I rolled up the blind and it seems to be under control at that point of time...
I was hit by a Tin Pei Ling moment after reading this – I don’t know what to say. (I am also glad I wasn’t eating when I read this, because I would have choked.) It wasn’t because I can’t think of what to say, but because there’s a few things going through my mind then and I needed to...
It must have really disappointed a lot of “Christianophobes” that Isabelle Loh isn’t Christian and the Christian community can now breathe a sigh of relief. It certainly won’t do the community much good if another over zealous believer bring the faith into the limelight again. After t...
I have not commented on this because I was too tired working on the 7am ~ 4pm cover last week. I have to say this is utter bollocks because I am certain that even if the opposition MP wouldn’t care to explain or implement government policies, he / she would still want to connect bette...
I attended my second “Coffeeshop Talk” of the year two days before the Presidential Elections. I probably wouldn’t have signed up since it was on the evening of a weekday. But when I realised that BG (NS) Tan Chuan Jin would be the guest of honor, I decided to go to take a look. I had...
Singapore will be voting for the next President on the Aug 27th, 2011. Unlike the previous two elections where all contenders were disqualified and the selected endorsed candidate waltzed into the Istana, this time round there are four candidates. Four! Which means there’s a possibili...
I don’t mind the mainlander Chinese worker who works at the hawker centre or coffee shop to keep cost down. I can even tolerate one of them taking up a position in our universities. But I mind their utter lack of social graces – for e.g. when they shout across the train to talk to eac...
Globalisation and unfettered capitalism rapidly marginalises not only the ageing, but even the young. The entire economic climate has been made worse by ‘Quantitative Easing’ , in which the U.S. simply just print money without any backing and export its inflation to the rest of the wo...
