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Gilbert Koh's Miscellaneous Poetry Updates 1 Aug 2013 | 07:25 am
Just for my own records. Because I do forget where, when or how my poems pop up. Little Things: A Poetry Anthology Ethos Books is coming up with a new anthology of Singapore/international poems that...
MRT Breakdowns and a Quick Thought on National Productivity 13 Feb 2013 | 02:40 pm
I was more than an hour late for work today, because the MRT train broke down. I boarded the train at Bishan, it was supposed to take me to Raffles Place, but instead it stopped at Toa Payoh and an an...
Shocking Statistics About the Poor in Singapore 6 Feb 2013 | 12:54 pm
Holy cow. Singapore is doing much worse than I thought. An excerpt from the TODAY newspaper: Acting Minister for Social and Family Development Chan Chun Sing gave figures to show that incomes at the ...
Gilbert Koh - Poems Here And There 21 Dec 2012 | 01:48 pm
Didn't write much at all in 2012. But the world around me recycled some of my old poems and they got a new breath of life. Recording my poetic momentos for 2012 here: PROJECT LAVA This month, I was ...
The National Cost of Growing Old .... Is Perhaps Not That Large 30 Oct 2012 | 01:05 pm
An article from Today: Greying population could 'cost Govt S$13b more by 2025' by Teo Xuanwei SINGAPORE - By 2025, public services for what will be a greyer Singapore could cost the Government S$79...
A Singaporean in Shanghai 15 Sep 2012 | 11:48 am
I once read an HR article about the way men and women go about looking for a job. On average, a man will apply for the job, if he feels that he can meet at least 30% of the job specifications. In cont...
Homosexuality & Nature - A Tale of Two Rabbits 6 Sep 2012 | 12:36 pm
My daughter had long wanted to have a pet. Cat, dog, hamster, whatever - she wasn't fussy, as long as she had a pet. Back in March, during the school holidays, I finally relented. We went to several p...
Monsters and Dementia 11 Jul 2012 | 04:32 pm
Oh my poor, neglected blog. I had nearly forgotten that you exist. Anyway, a quick one for this virtual scrapbook. The National Arts Council contacted me some time back ago and asked if I would write...
Two Duds on a Friday Morning 15 Apr 2012 | 12:42 pm
Where was I, at that time? Up on a hilly park called Nam-San, somewhere in Seoul. My Korean colleagues had assured me that this was the peak of cherry blossom seasons, and that here at Nam-San, I sho...
Show and Tell in Korea 10 Apr 2012 | 06:13 pm
Flying off to Seoul tomorrow, on a working trip. Hopefully, it is cherry blossom season. It's also the time for North Korea's rocket testing - sigh, occupational hazard. Keeping my fingers crossed. I...
