Lee Kuan Yew: Measure of the manA STORY MADE THE ROUNDS in Singapore a few years back that went like this: Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew returned from a private visit to India with a small bolt of silk of extraordinary design. He consulted his tailor immediately, who assured him there was just enough fabric… Read More »
Is this Paris?[… ahem, ahem]Yes, I think it is Paris.[… ahem, ahem]But I’m not sure…[… ahem, ahem]Yes, it must be Paris. In case you’re wondering what the hell is going on, this isn’t a write-up on some stupid game show for people with irrepressible throat itch. Rather, it’s a little reflection of my trip to… Read More »
The majority of us always believe (or are led to believe) that the only four-letter profanities start with either an “F” or “S” (and maybe even a “C”). We don’t think it’s a good idea to print these swear words right here. Suffice to say that the first rhymes with “phuque”, while the second involves… Read More »
You may have noticed that the three favourite media spins in the Straits Times recently are the wonderful capabilities of the Singapore Armed Forces, the hitherto undiscovered softer side of Lee Hsien Loong, and the many benefits for having babies – though not necessarily in that order. Judging from the number of pages devoted to… Read More »
Barely a month has gone by and we’re beginning to hear bold predictions befitting of the start of a new year. Ranking high up there is probably Bill Gates’ utterance at the recent World Economic Forum that spam will vanish in two years.The Microsoft chairman said his company was working on three different methods to… Read More »
“Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability of the gentleman of leisure.”– The Theory of the Leisure Class Thorstein Bunde Veblen (1857 – 1929) was an unorthodox American economist of Norwegian ancestry. He is considered the founder of the “institutional school of economics”, a group of economists who believed that traditional economic… Read More »