Month: August 2013

  • It Is Our Anniversary Today

    We sneak peeks at little thrills, we weather some rough patches, but mostly, we ride the mundane. We are in such a groove. I am the luckiest man to have married a beautiful person who is responsible for all of my happiness and success. I love you Naomi.

  • The Future Looks Straight And Narrow

    Good job on tweaking Medisave/Medishield; PSLE; Changi Airport. But we cannot keep treating GLBT, singles, unwed and divorced parents as second class citizens. Being GLBT single, unwed or divorced does not diminish their potential to fulfil their so-called roles in society. But pegging housing affordability to officially heterosexually married status states the opposite. Just as…

  • A Word On The My First Skool Incident

    I’m always struck by how much we delegate our personal lives to other people. The other day coming home on the Bintan Resorts Ferry, a family sat in the rows ahead of us. There were the parents, the two children and two foreign domestic workers. The younger of the two children was probably under two…

  • A Week With The Big-Assed Sharan

    I had a really good time with Volkswagen’s largest MPV, the 2-litre-engined Sharan. Being a station wagon owner myself, I am partial to large movers of people and sporting equipment. My first car was called a “sports car” by my friends because of the large number of sporting equipment stashed in the rear – not…

  • StarHub Loves Every Football Loving Bro (And Chick)

    I have often been frowned on by people when I refer to the sport as “soccer”. I never knew how much people here love football. And with these lovers of football, I have something special to share. But first, let me tell you why Americans and Australians sometimes call it soccer. When the game as…