Of TRE, back to the days of the Wayang Party Club?

A long time ago (circa 2004 - long is relative over the internet), there was an online socio-politicial site that used unorthodox means to create awareness. The site would report news that were meant to be the heartfelt sentiments of people like you and I, i.e. we the people that the other people high up in the ivory towers who will conveniently forget for 4 years until the general elections are due. The site would report accounts of hard truths that no mainstream and other socio-political sites would even attempt to report on.What OB markers?...

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Of the tactless speech by Education Minister of State Lawrence Wong

Here is another instance of how our ministers are so out of touch with the ground as they look down on us from their ivory towers.In a dialogue on further education at ITE College East, Education Minister of State Lawrence Wong said, "That's what happens when you have a sort of heedless desire to get a degree or diploma without understanding the broader issues," he noted.Obviously, Lawrence Wong does not understand that Singapore has been shaped to be a city where paper qualifications matter so much more over skills. Whenever possible, who would...

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Of Yaw Shin Leong's resignation as WP's treasurer

Yesterday, the Workers' Party announced that Yaw Shin Leong, MP for Hougang has resigned from his position as the Treasurer of the Party. This comes after Yaw was embroiled in an online scandal which suggested that Yaw, a married man, was having an affair with a member of the WP cadre, Angela Oon, who is also married.Yaw has chosen to keep slient about his alleged affair. However, this resignation speaks louder than words. Yaw and WP should step forward to explain this incident. After all, in the 2011 General Elections, the residents of Hougang...

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Of the passing of Dr Toh Chin Chai

The funeral of the late former Deputy Prime Minister Dr Toh Chin Chye was held on Tuesday at 11am at Mandai Crematorium.Of late, the internet has been a-buzzed with stories on how Dr Toh was like. This striked a chord.He retired from Parliament at the 1988 general election and spent his last years generally away from the public eye. In a rare public radio interview in 1997, Dr Toh passionately bemoaned the lack of idealism and creativity among...

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Of the real Cecilia Sue

Update: The alleged Cecilia Sue Siew Nang The mysterious woman in the corruption scandal has been unveiled! The real Cecilia Sue has been mosaiced?? According to inSing.com, this is how the lady looks like. This does fit the description of a "36-year-old, tall, slim, vivacious, and with shoulder length hair" woman. Strange how the people who leaked the photo chose to mosaic her face and not her expensive looking bag. Cecilia 1 - Tin Pei Ling...

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