The Straits Times is the largest English daily newspaper in Singapore and has been in circulation for over 150 years. It was not without anticipation that I visited the offices last night (LL had to turn down dinner with us because she had a “story” to work on - we decided to visit her […]
Tonight, I passed a traditional Chinese opera troupe performing at Hong Lim Complex at Chinatown. There were no more than ten elderly persons in the audience and I stood to look for a while and I felt a little sorry for the actors performing to an absent crowd.
It struck me that this was a […]
It’s barely into my second week of my S2 course, and I’m beginning to observe a social phenomenon that I have not seen in many years. This is how a group of men, who through the process of working together under extreme duress, form a close knit bond with each other. It has […]
East Coast park stretches over 20km along the south eastern coast of Singapore - it is one of the largest and most popular parks in the island. This strip of park was built on reclaimed land which also carries a highway to the airport.
The park has been a part of my life for decades […]
Blogging may be the latest trend to sweep the Internet in the past year. Even Google, the admired technology leader, has bought Blogger.com. Bloggers allow personal publishing direct to the Internet on a massive scale.
In recent months, several developments have clouded the issue about blogging and its consequences. In October, Delta fired […]
Google is currently one of the technology leaders in the Internet space. It’s lead in search engine technology is being extended to adjacent fields. One of the headline grabbing news to come out of Google in 2004 was that it would offer 1GB of email - this was larger than any of the […]
I started my five-week stint in the Army on Thursday as part of my annual training programme. It’s never been something I’ve looked forward to, but instead, it has become tolerable as the years passed. This time, it’ll be much longer than any previous stints - it is a 40 day course for […]
Chinese history has always been uncharted territory for me. I learned about the Civil War, the Kuomintang, all through oblique references from books that covered other, larger events that concerned Western authors.
Yet, it is a persistent question - how did this country of emerge from a myopic Communist rule into two decades of […]