TR EMERITUS

One of my colleagues and I like to describe ourselves as being in the “past the sell-by date,” club. For me, it’s simple. Most of my working life was freelance and I only got “properly employed” at 40 in a standard office job. Given that I switched modes “late in life,” it was clear that there was only going to... 

One of the nicest things that I’ve done was also one of the stupidest. I was a student in London and I befriended a Canadian tramp called Murphy. In a moment of kindness, I led him into my flat to take a shower in return for cleaning my bathroom. When he went to shower, it occurred to me that things could go south, so I stood... 

Mr S.W. Yoong Is Singapore a democratic and egalitarian society? The answer may be an intriguing one especially with government tongue-in-cheek. I come from a very humble beginning and could only manage to receive basic education. Tertiary education was only meant for scholarship holders and scions of affluent families. I joined...