Author Archives: 5tephen 4eo

Holy cow!

What if milk powder in China became laced with melamine not because some unscrupulous dairy farmers added the chemical compound to the collected milk, but because it was fed directly to the cow?

Democracy Day

It may have gone unnoticed by people, but today is Workers’ Party’s Democracy Day, in commemoration of the groundbreaking day on 31 October 1981 when Singaporeans voted in their first opposition member of parliament – the late J.B. Jeyaretnam – after 16 years. Incidentally, I was going through my collection of books and I realised… Read More »

When men lie

One day, while a woodcutter was cutting a branch of a tree above a river, his axe fell into the river. When he cried out, the Lord appeared and asked, “Why are you crying?” The woodcutter replied that his axe has fallen into water, and he needed the axe to make his living. The Lord… Read More »