A Public Service

Recently, a friend from Bangalore messaged me on Facebook and asked me for some help. Her family friend, who was not very educated, had paid a lot of money to an agent in Bangalore to get work in Singapore. He had his work permit issued, and was told to leave for Singapore as soon as [...]

Boomerang

National Day came and went. I haven’t written any of those essays I promised to. Sheepish. I will write them, I just need a little bit more time. I did, however, contribute a piece to the Straits Times after PM Lee’s National Day Rally speech, which I streamed from a house by the lake in… [...]

The Nation Essays

This entry is part 1 of 1 in the series Nation Essays

Announcing the start of the Nation Essays series.

#downtownlinetragedy Donation Drive to Close Tonight

The donation drive for last week’s #downtownlinetragedy victims will close tonight, Fri­day, 27 July, at 2359hrs. If dona­tions marked “Bugis MRT acci­dent” arrive by cheque after the dead­line and includes contact information, TWC2 will email the donor to ask whether he/she would like a refund or if the donation should be put towards the organization’s [...]

This Morning’s Downtown Line Tragedy

Closure of donation drive: TWC2 will stop collecting donations for the victims of the #downtownlinetragedy tonight (Friday 27 July 2012, 2359hrs). For more information please read this link Edit: The Paypal link we previously posted isn’t working. To donate via Paypal, please to go the donate page on TWC’s website, and click the Paypal icon [...]

Past Forward: A Heritage Blogging and Social Media Workshop

My friend Yu-Mei is putting together a blogging and social media workshop as part of HeritageFest, a NHB event. I’ll be speaking with Rosenah Omar at 3pm, on a panel moderated by Notabilia, although I do wish I could split myself and attend the panel on 1960s music at the same time! Here’s the schedule [...]

Five Questions on the MOE’s revised SEd programme

Singapore’s Ministry of Education recently revealed its new sexuality education programme, now called SEd. (Read more about it on: Today Online, MOE’s press release, MOE’s SEd minisite) The abstinence-first message was not surprising. The continued insistence on couching the abstinence-first message in majority/minority, mainstream/fringe terms was, especially after 15 000 people showed up in Hong [...]