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From the Fringe
I've had more thoughts on the anti-white paper protest since the weekend, I'll need to write it down into a slightly longer piece. But here's what I posted on Facebook that got passed around a fair bit. Point is, Singapore is at an interesting stage in our politics and civil society and it's going to take a while to…
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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 possible. There was a gap of a…
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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… Hungary. I know, I'm still…
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#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…
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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…
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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 for the day, and…
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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…
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I Hate Cabbage Soup
White cabbage is death. If there is a Creator, it is one of his less glorious moments. The only thing worse than white cabbage is white cabbage soup. I am a soup maniac, but white cabbage soup I do not touch with a ten foot pole. I cannot even sit at the same table when it is being drunk. The sight and smell of it…
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#iamsingaporean
Singapore Skyline I am a Singaporean who lives in a series of hash tags. They are: #iamchinese my race, my ethnicity, a language I speak, "mother tongue" classes I struggled with and the colour of my skin #iamasian a vague identity I hold; ‘one of them' in the tribes of Northeast India and I am ‘one of us'…
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My City
My city is often made out to be a boring business city, sterile and lifeless. Not entirely. No amount of protestation at how we’re really unique, though, is effective in driving home the truth about (some parts of) my city — how there are bits you can really love, if you look hard enough. My city, tonight, started off…
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Release
Where I dig into my archives and repost stuff I like. This one's from 2005. like the foreign worker who, having spent six days of every week, fifty one weeks of every year, building for a country that is not his, listening to languages that are not his, but whose greatest pleasure comes from talking every Sunday in his…
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