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Hougang 12 May 2012 | 07:26 pm
After the writ of by-election for Hougang was issued on Wednesday, I called the Elections Department to clarify certain details about form submission. The Department official answered my call, half in...
Those Aljunied Voters! 15 May 2011 | 08:48 pm
It’s been a week since Returning Officer Yam Ah Mee (YAM) announced that Workers’ Party had outpolled the PAP in Aljunied GRC. When YAM made that announcement in the wee hours of Sunday May 8, I inst...
Leaving Temasek Polytechnic 14 May 2011 | 10:08 pm
I have resigned from Temasek Polytechnic. The text of the media release is here. Media Release RESIGNATION FROM TEMASEK POLYTECHNIC This is to confirm that I have, on 13 May 2011, tendered my resig...
Thoughts on the eve of Nomination Day 26 Apr 2011 | 11:30 pm
It is hard to describe the feeling when one works towards a day for years, and finally is standing at the banks of the Rubicon. Our people have been tireless, rooted in a sense that our efforts will ...
Microcosm 12 Dec 2010 | 03:39 am
As someone who follows a bit of local soccer, the Suzuki Cup elimination could have been a bit more dignified. Vietnam has 80+ million people, so they will definitely progress further. But what about ...
Live Our Dreams. Fly Our Flag. 3 Aug 2010 | 01:41 am
Funny how slogans can mean different things to different people. In a couple of days, the annual National Day Parade, the product of zillions of man-hours and resources, will culminate at the Padang....
what really matters? 30 Jun 2010 | 03:02 am
I just spent 2 weeks in Belgium and France this month on a European Union Study Tour, looking at EU institutions in Brussels and Strasbourg, and meeting with Members of the European Parliament and off...
Smelling the flowers! 31 May 2010 | 12:11 am
At the end of the last post, I was on the verge of watching `Ip Man 2’. I have to say that, contrary to the opinion of my students, it was a great disappointment compared to `Ip Man’! Action buffs mig...
“OK lah - they may be smarter than us, but we are not idiots”. 30 Apr 2010 | 04:35 pm
Someone today summed up to me this week’s Parliamentary debates as such! Those who followed the debates will know that landmark changes to our political and electoral processes have been passed by Pa...
Fragility and Plasticity 1 Apr 2010 | 01:43 am
I turned 45 three days ago, and have accepted the fact that reading glasses are now a p art of daily life. I was in denial for a few years, until a few months ago when some tourists on Orchard Road as...
