TR EMERITUS

Myth 1: Politics has nothing to do with the man on the street like me. Clarification 1: Yes, politics do affect everyone. Politics affect political parties. Political parties affect parliamentary seats. Parliamentarians in those seats affect parliamentary debates. Parliamentary debates affect national policies, laws, acts and... 

"What she lacks in credentials, she makes up with earnestness". That's the kind of half-assed standards from the Straits Times, and this is why I am not even willing to spend 0.99cts on it. And what are these credentials that Tan Chen Chen has which the Straits Times finds so lacking, "nothing to shout about", as the Straits... 

I got to confess that I am an unsuccessful son of a very successful man. My father was at one stage, one of the top advertising film photographers in town. His success was such that it reached the stage where hiring my father was considered a higher status symbol than flying in an expatriate to do the job. I, by contrast have...