TR EMERITUS

I’ve been unemployed for a good portion of my working life and when I got a “corporate” job in my late thirties, everybody told me that I had to hang onto it because it was probably the only job that I would have. The reason for it was very simple, I started “working properly” in my late thirties and by the time I... 

My favourite Malaysian Datuk once said to me that, “Look at the people who are your friends. They were probably your friends 10-years ago. Look at the people who don’t like you. They probably didn’t like you 10-years ago too.” The good Datuk argued that people either liked you or didn’t and there was nothing you could... 

I’ve just read an interesting criticism of myself on TRemeritus. This was a response to my article “Don’t Forget the Hippos,” and the writer of this complaint decided that it was worth taking a shot at my analysis on global politics. After having a go at me for my article, she then made the point that Singaporean women...