I was gravely mistaken in my belief that the Rally would cover xenophobia specifically and the old argument that unless there is a sustained baby boom, foreigners must augment our shrinking local population. However, the main topic of the speech was instead about social cohesion, rhetoric typically left for doorstop interviews. The presumption is that [...]

What would PM Lee leverage on this year to rouse and rally fellow Singaporeans? Last year’s goodies included incentives for babies and a personal income tax rebate of 20%. It has been an economically gloomy twelve months since the last rally, which was not a live TV telecast as on that eventful night, post-Independence Singapore [...]

8:22 is the time all Singaporeans are to recite the pledge, the solemn binding spell to remind Singaporeans of their identity, common history and shared future. The pledge has been dismantled and reassembled by many others in the period up to national day today. Too often we recite it without thinking through the words, taking [...]

Wahhh now national day, I vely emo liao! Yesterday nite watch This is my Home on TV, then watch the Electrico national day music vid What Do you See, but too serious liao so then watch Mr Brown Le Kua Simi right after dat, waaah dat one kan ho cheo man! Then got the NDP [...]