Opinion

Singapore has an international reputation for being an exceedingly rich country. With movies like "Crazy Rich Asians" and gleaming skyscrapers, this wealthy city-state persona is cemented. Indeed, it has been reported that while the number of very rich people...

The blatantly “engineered” appointment in 2017 of the current President has most likely nullified whatever the People’s Action Party was trying to engineer in introducing the Elected Presidency into the political system. In the process, not a small number...

One of the traits that I notice about “working professionals,” or the people who dwell in cubicles, is that they have a curious pride in being under stress. Talk to any cubicle dweller for long enough. You will inevitably hear...

The Leader of the Opposition, Mr Pritam Singh, said last week that we needed more members of parliament (MP) from the Workers' Party (WP). He does have a point. At the end of the day, all new policies are...

I had a strange experience recently. We were sent to clear out a vet clinic after my employer was appointed receiver of the company of which the clinic was a part. By some fluke, we managed to find a...

Are some people being unfair to Law and Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam and Foreign Affairs Minister Vivian Balakrishnan? Yes and no. Opposition politician Kenneth Jeyaretnam has been asking how the two ministers could afford, on their pay, to rent...

I decided to do something which I haven’t done for a long time and ended up going out late last night. Went to chill out at a bar and didn’t finish until one in the morning. The bar was fun and...

Call it a freaky coincidence if you like, but I happened to run into one of Mr Calvin Cheng’s sayings around the time of the anniversary of Exercise Swift Lion, which took the life of a dear friend and one...

Singaporeans sometimes can be too literal, interpreting things inflexibly, and being unable to think outside the box. A friend in human resources recounted an incident that exemplified the "computer says no" mentality sometimes found in Singapore. A person resigned from...

Around three years back, I took a weekend job as a supermarket promoter. The job was very simple. All I had to do was to get people to buy a certain number of  items and they would get a freezer bag in...