A booming private health care sector.
(Is that supposed to be good news? It really depends on which word you focus on. If the word ‘private’ stands out, then it means that the society is affluent. If however, ‘health care’ stands out, then maybe the population is aging, or is getting less healthy.)
Anyway, the phenomena in […]
I came to the line in Robert Ferrigno’s novel The Wake Up where the character said ‘There’s no better way to ruin the walls than from within’, and I got reminded of an illustration a DJ shared over the radio some years ago.
It was about a man troubled by a mouse in his house. He […]
Some people believe they score points towards a place in heaven by doing charity.
I am more inclined to think that, for all the sin we bottle within – greed, hatredness, lust to name a few - we simply fall short of the absolute holiness that God demands. Being charitable perhaps simply means we don’t drown […]
This quote makes me think about what I shouldn’t spend too much time thinking about.
Aerodynamically the bumblebee
Shouldn’t be able to fly
But the bumblebee doesn’t know it,
So it goes on flying anyway.
- quote Mary Kay Ash
We often hinder ourselves from venturing into new territories because we think we lack the experience, skill, time, money, contact, dah […]
What do guilt, innocence and justice really mean?
The current debate in Singapore results from the reversal of an April 2007 conviction of schoolteacher William Ding for molesting his male students.
Judge of Appeal V.K. Rajah’s basis for acquitting Ding a year later in April 2008 was that the alleged victims’ accounts and evidence were inconsistent and […]
Two needy Indonesian men were convicted in Singapore last week for selling their kidneys. (*link to article below)
The sentences coincided with India’s announcement of pending amendments to her Transplantation of Human Organ Act. In future, foreign transplant patients will have to source for donors in their own country, with proof that the donor is a […]
In an initiative to contain further damage to the environment, prefectures and cities across Japan* are calling for 24-hr convenience stores to voluntarily shorten their operating hours (link to article below **).
Which is noble, except that C02 emissions by the always-open stores are but mole hills compared to the mountains that are the glitzy lightings […]
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