Aug 28th, 2008
Receiving a new kidney or heart is receiving a gift of life. Those on the receiving end are generally patients who are facing a life or death situation — people who have had to endure a long long wait for an available organ for transplant into their bodies. The lucky ones at the front of [...]
We are supposed to be in jubilant mood here in Singapore today, for our triumphant Women’s Table Tennis Team is due home this afternoon with Singapore’s first Olympic silver medal since 1960. The Straits Times has several full-page advertisements welcoming home Team Singapore, particularly the women silver medalists, Wang Yuegu, Feng Tianwei and Li Jiawei.
Yet, [...]
Apr 16th, 2008
I just came back from the coffeeshop in the next block of flats. For breakfast this morning, I had bought some fried dough fritters for S$0.70 each. I had also bought a packet of fried beehoon with some longbeans and a piece of luncheon meat for S$2.10.
Not so long ago, these breakfast stuff were so [...]
Oct 25th, 2007
The dust seems to have settled on the Section 377A debate — at least, in Parliament anyway. Despite a citizens’ petition to repeal Section 377A, The Penal Code (Amendment) Bill has been passed; Section 377A stays. But, the Prime Minister has also pointed the Government’s stand on homosexuality in Singapore with the following comments:[1]
“Homosexuals work in [...]
Oct 17th, 2007
I was at the library near home yesterday, accessing the Internet on one of its multi-media workstations. It was noisy as there was chattering from three middle-aged aunties and their young children all of whom were hovering around one of the workstations.
Despite this, I managed to shut out the noise from my mind as I concentrated on reading a Website I was [...]