New year greetings
Some people think it's too "Chinese Chauvinist" to greet others " Happy Chinese New Year" because other places like Korea and Vietnam also celebrate this "Lunar New Year". Thus we should use " Happy Lunar New Year". This assertion is fundamentally wrong. The Chinese calendar is NOT a purely Lunar Calendar but an "Agricultural...
What happens to blue collar citizens when things go South
I had the unpleasant experience of telling a young man that he was royally screwed. It’s the second time in my dealings that I’ve told him that life has f** him good and hard. Goes without saying that he wasn’t happy. I did tell him that he was f**ed in our initial conversation because his employer has just gone into liquidation...
A thought on prisoners detained under the Internal Security Act
On 11 January 2023, the media reported that in October 2022, the Internal Security Department (ISD) arrested and imprisoned Mohamed Khairul Riduan bin Mohamed Sarip, a 38-year-old teacher, under the Internal Security Act (ISA). It took the Ministry of Home Affairs three months to inform Singaporeans that he had been detained. Mohamed...
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