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When I hear PAP ministers talk about how hard it was for them to bounce back after an electoral defeat, I think of all the hundreds of opposition candidates who keep coming back after every defeat, even though they knew defeat was a certainty. So really, come on. Don't make like it was an out-of-body experience, one which was... 

But first, a beef I have against the Lord of the Rings films is that Peter Jackson left out a very interesting episode almost at the end of the real LOTR. In the last film, after the defeat of the Dark Lord, the Hobbits returned an unchanged shire. In the real LOTR, they returned to a shire where Saruman had taken control of... 

There was a massive outcry over PM Lee's National Day Rally on his 'advice' on how to adjust to the rising cost of living. The best weapon against rising cost of living is to increase our salaries. However, despite of PAP's boast about higher GDP growth, the salaries of Singaporeans has hardly catch up with the inflationary...