She’s almost gone.The lady who announces which station you are approaching.Her voice is commanding yet soft.Never intrusive.Informing passengers when they should prepare to alight.Warning them not to get caught in the gap between train and platform.SMRT, in all their wisdom, have decided to update the announcements.In her place, a younger voice.One that has strange …

Ok, I know everyone is more up to date with their Prison Break/Toilet Break witticisms regarding one Mas Selamat Kastari. I have been quietly observing what’s gone on and reading what’s been written the past week. So far, it has been one cock-up after another.Unlike some articles in the Straits Times and letters from the ...

Dominic, four years ago today you became my Godson. Most people remember their birthdays, but few recall the day they were baptised.* For cradle Catholics, the excuse is that we were baptised when we were infants. But you have no excuse not to know the date, because I remember. I admit, I only remember because ...

I attended the Reform Party’s rally at Clementi Stadium for West Coast GRC earlier. It had not dawned on me that this was the party’s first ever election rally. The party was founded in 2008, after the last General Election in 2006. I’ll just give some brief personal impressions. I’m assuming the mainstream and social ...