Category: News & Letters

There’s been no shortage of hot debates on issues at The Straits Times discussion forum. There was the en-bloc debate I blogged about recently, and there’s another current one on an age-old debate: abortion in Singapore. Yep, it’s a tough

One of the comic books I read as a child and I still do occasionally is Conan the Barbarian, a fantasy character created by Robert E. Howard in the 1930s. This character has appeared in a lot of mediums outside

The two of us usually get back home at about 6:30 pm every evening. If either one of us is cooking, dinner will typically be at around 7:15 pm and we’ll usually dine with a couple of Seinfeld or Everybody

I follow The Straits Times forum and discussion threads quite a bit, though I almost always operate in lurk rather than participant mode. The posts run the spectrum of quality; some witty, some informative, some pointless, some just plain rude.

I was talking to Matt yesterday and somewhere along our on/off conversation the topic got into the state of toilets in Singapore. He said Singapore rocks, and I said Singapore is probably the only country in the world that regularly

Here’s another letter that was written to the forum page at The Straits Times just a couple days ago. Sections of the letter are below (edited to save space, but full letter in the link). May 14, 2008 Insert graciousness

Here’s an excerpt from a letter that showed up on the 2nd April’s edition of Today Online. Quite an issue that strikes a chord in many Singaporeans: Where’s the space? Don’t convert motorists; solve train crush first (picture here from

Here’s an interesting article that was circulated on Clubsnap. It concerns the attempts by a photographer to claim damages against a company who lifted and used his works, then attempt to hide that fact. His web page here contains the