Category: Laws of our land

  • The Progressive Wage Model Looks Horrible On Paper (Literally)

    I am extremely impressed at NTUC Secretary-General’s aversion to Powerpoint. I would have switched off at probably the second slide or so if he had used it. Instead (you can see an example of his freehand presentation in this video at 0:53s) there was a refreshingly engaging encounter as Mr Lim Swee Say spent over…

  • Welcome To Ridiculously Singapore

    I propose they quickly put this in our immigration arrival cards for visitors to Singapore: Welcome to Singapore As you may know, our judiciary this week denied a Constitutional challenge to one of our very old and established pieces of an old and established piece of legislation. We wish to inform all visitors that there…

  • Not quite right

    You arrest and charge someone who vandalizes the road and traffic button thingies but it’s “still unclear” whether you’ll charge the man who very clearly SHOVED SOMEONE OUT OF A BUS! SRSLY, HOME TEAM?

  • Regarding race, language and religion

    I was so angry a couple of nights ago when I saw a tweet that read, “on the bus home filled with pinoys, argh!” So I asked what it was about pinoys that offended the twit(terer) and he said “they are loud and rude”. At no point did he even consider the fact that what…

  • Yes, some of our CPF money goes into Temasek & GIC

    Just not in the form it used to be, so not counted as CPF money. This and other interesting facts about our CPF money over at YouSayISayWhoConfirm.SG