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There’s a website (which promptly got locked up) in which employers can complain about their maids. Often this will include putting up their photo and employment pass information, supposed … 
Heard in my office over the past few weeks (somewhat paraphrased): When you go to India, you have to suffer with the ah-neh smell. I only want to take photos of pretty, skinny Chinese stud …
Dear ST Online, I pay good money to be able to access you online. I don’t grumble at the lack of proper links in your articles online. I don’t complain when you automatically bill me again to extend my subscription. I don’t make noise when you fail over and over again to send me whatever ...
For the best part of my working life, I’ve loved my job. I’ve enjoy being with the children, I’ve enjoyed planning lessons and carrying out and I’ve enjoyed belonging to the school and its community. But I think I’m slowly falling out of love with my job. I suppose one could call it a mid-life ...
I am always somewhat wary when people say to me: “teaching is hard isn’t it?” Obviously I am a paranoid, suspicious person because I immediately wonder if they are trying to lead me into a discussion of how, really, teaching isn’t all that bad (which unfortunately I have learnt is fairly common). But today, I ...
… when you enter a leadership course and you realize there are no Malays. … when you enter another leadership course and you realize that 60% of the people are men in a job that is predominantly women.
Why do you need to write to the ST Forum just because you are unhappy with the examination dates? And really, the passive aggressiveness is annoying. Schools are only receptive to parents& …
So there’s this incident going around the parts of the Internet atheists hang out in. Here’s a summary and here’s some responses on the issue. Anyway, I don’t want to talk about how appropriate it was for someone to criticise the arguments of someone else during a keynote speech at a conference. I’m slightly more ...
Choice quotes from my 1st (and probably last) speed dating event: “Wah, you’re a teacher so you must earn a lot of money!” “Admit it, teachers have longer holidays than anybody else!” “My hobbies include erotic dancing.” “Ladies should subscribe to Starhub because it has more female shows than Mio TV.” Upon learning I …
I don’t like this obsession with MCs in Singapore. I realise it’s just another consequence of the lack of trust combined with the fear of being taken advantage of that every Singaporean grows up with but I think that require MCs every time you take leave is stupid and doesn’t stop people from taking sick ...
Reading Yaw Shin Leong's blog post about loansharks and how they harass people who owe them money brought back memories of when my house was splashed with blue paint (and it was quite a ni …
As teachers, we are often reminded that we need to be above reproach and at all costs, avoid the appearance of impropriety. We are told that it doesn't matter how innocent we are, we cannot put ourselves in situations that may lead to others questioning our integrity. For example, we are strongly dissuaded from accepting ...
Two things happened recently that have alternately pissed me off and disappointed me. Incident 1: A wants B to participate in something. B says no, not interested. A refuses to take that as an answer, suggests to B's higher-ups that this is compulsory and that A is being uncooperative. B participates to avoid conflict. A ...
Dear ST, When writing about the loss of Aljunied to the WP, why is it necessary to imply that the voters who voted for WP are emotional, bear grudges and cannot see the big picture? See below, emphasis mine. It is around 1am and three young men are puffing away on their Viceroy Menthols. All ...
I'm glad we have more opposition MPs this time round. I was a little disappointed that we couldn't get more in but I think it's a good start. I felt a little sad for George Yeo but this is the nature of politics. Mah Bow Tan is still deluded clearly when he thanked people for ...
I was reading about the subsequent remarks, notably by Vivian Balakrishnan and George Yeo, about how they've learnt a lot over these 9 days of campaigning by listening to the people. My question is, why only now? We've been here complaining for a long time. Why does it take a possible loss of power to ...
Too much political stuff on my blog these few days. Let's have some eye-candy instead. This is why I watch Merlin (also, silly British humour amuses me + sword fights FTW) Have more Arthur Pendragon! (Thank you Yoann Bui) Have my favourite couple on the show! (Thank you made of gold) And who can forget ...
The more I read about PM Lee's apology, the angrier I get. I'm glad that he apologise and I really hope he does feel some semblance of guilt and regret over how things have turned out in Singapore. What irks me is how, for the longest time, the PAP government has been trying to pin ...
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