
Alas, shit times tell it as it is – HDB is 99 years, you not owner hor!
I refer to Ku Swee Yong’s article “Outdated ideas on home ownership and land shortage are crippling us” (Straits Times, Aug 14). It states that “While the Government has said this is an issue it will study, as resolving it requires serious trade-offs, my concern is whether we may be tempted to kick the proverbial can...

National Day Rally’s ‘HDB’ joke?
I refer to the article “National Day Rally 2018: Every HDB flat to be upgraded twice” (Straits Times headlines, 20 Aug). It states that “Every Housing Board flat will be upgraded twice in its 99-year lifespan, as the Government extends an existing programme to cover more flats and unveils plans to roll out a new one in...

Why many PAP voters are ready to be flipped
After I wrote Akan datang here: A six-figure salary is ‘low income’ I remembered an observation that I kept forgetting to blog on. And I promptly forgot about it until yesterday after I wrote Why anti-PAP Save S’pore Fund won’t work. I keep getting the sense from talking to young S’poreans and their parents and...
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