A description of Harvard University by Chris Langan (from Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers) that pretty much sums up the situation at SPH and the rest of the government machinery in Singapore: “The people running it are not necessarily searching for truth and knowledge. They want to be big shots, and when you accept a paycheck from… Read More »
Counterintuitive, isn’t it? But that’s exactly what Hans Brinker Budget Hotel in Amsterdam has done. The Dutch hotel, which proclaims itself as the worst in the world, is celebrating its awfulness by bringing out a related book. Check out this video eco-tour for evidence of the hotel’s credentials (or lack of). With a slogan that… Read More »
It’s amazing how people will bend over backwards to kiss Oprah Winfrey’s behind and hang on her every word. Love for Oprah smacks of deification, except in this case, her worshippers got duped (again) along with their idol when Herman Rosenblat, author of Angel at the Fence: The True Story of a Love that Survived,… Read More »
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 »
百姓供养我锦衣玉食。我君临万民，就当尽心竭力，为百姓办事。你食君之禄，当忠君之事。我食民之禄，就当忠民之事。康熙，鹿鼎记，第五十回 反观新加坡的执政官员，本末颠倒，终日养尊处优，却压抑舆论，视群众如粪土，焉有造福人民之心？ Technorati Tags: 康熙 鹿鼎记 食民之禄 新加坡 本末颠倒
The 90-page radio speech by John Galt from Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged” [1957] compressed into 964 words: For twelve years you’ve been asking “Who is John Galt?” This is John Galt speaking. I’m the man who’s taken away your victims and thus destroyed your world. You’ve heard it said that this is an age of… Read More »