Category Archives: Long-winded Opinion

Letter to Straits Times Forum sent on April 25th, 2008. Probably not going to be published. I read Ms Jane Ng’s report and analysis on Project Work with great interest. Much has been said about doing more to ensure consistency in its grading across different schools, and I agree with that. The Ministry needs to [...]

There is said to be three circumstances under which meat may be eaten by a Buddhist without sharing in the fault of the killer, provided one: has not seen, has not heard, and has no suspicion the animal in question has been killed for the purpose of one’s consumption.1 According to Shabkar,2 In addition to [...]

SAF would do well to protect whistle-blowers Straits Times, July 17, 2007 Sir/Mdm, In the report, ‘PM Lee’s son in NS reprimanded by SAF’ (ST, July 13), Mindef spokesman Colonel Benedict Lim was quoted as saying that ‘all SAF servicemen with complaints or grievances should take them up through proper channels for redress’. The SAF [...]

I have an obsession with solitude. At times, I am reminded and reinforced of this obsession, albeit I have largely been unaware of how, why and when such “socially-unacceptable” mindset crept into my soul. I am unsure if being a middle-child or having a room to my own for the most part of my life [...]

This post started out as a comment to Yiren’s entry on ‘Vulgarities’ but quickly snowballed into a mini-commentary instead.Hokkien expletives are generally not my cup of tea because they’re largely genitalia-related, but I’m absolutely fine with the word ‘fuck’. Sometimes it’s not the word per se that is vulgar but the way that the ‘expletive’ [...]

Today saw me having my first ever tuition stint; incidentally and ironically, it was also the last, for this student at least. Oh in case you’re wondering, I was sacked right after the tuition through the person who referred me. I always think of myself as a perfectionist when it comes to teaching. I spend [...]

Dear Sir/Mdm, I am in opinion that the remarks on the NKF issue made by the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) in their newsletter are uncalled for. However, I could not help but wonder if the decision taken by the Prime Minister and Minister Mentor to litigate against the company that printed the newsletter would deter [...]

It is heartening to know that most people treat animal abuse with contempt, as evident from the plethora letters written in to the Straits Times Forum. If you have been like my friend, who is oblivious to anything beyond the scope of his medical text, a man was recently convicted of toturing a six-week-old kitten [...]

Singaporean educators sure have a tough job. I mean, they’ve got to conduct spot checks on handphones and endure through gruesome sex flicks of their students (she made it to Wikipedia?!), scruntinize their students’ blogs to see if they’re being flamed online (and send them for public flogging after that), conjure impromptu and bombastic tirades [...]