​AUDREY CHIN 

It’s a good question. A friend sent around this thinking point as a response to the population white paper released today. It’s the title...

There have been a slew of comments on why the Punggol by-elections turned out the way they did. I’m not going to add anything to the...

Banana at close quarters Apparently not, according to Mrs. L. Not even after an 8D7N All Taiwan All Mandarin immersion into Chinese...

6 MEN ON A BUS DID IT. WITH WHAT THEY HAD BETWEEN THEIR LEGS. WITH AN IRON BAR THAT DESTROYED HER INSIDES. She was a 23 year old Indian...

Photo Credit: http://www.marcpotts.blogspot.com I’ve been accused of being Pollyanna! All because I said yesterday that Singaporeans...

THE GALLUP POLLS – SHOULD WE IN SINGAPORE CARE? Photo Credit: http://www.stanford.edu According to Gallup Singapore ranks as the least...

Some say this with disdain. But what’s not to love about buses and train systems that more or less work, even if they’re  stuffed to the...

It’s a boat person’s festival that’s why… When we lived in the US, it was a public holiday, an opportunity for far flung too busy friends...

It’s been almost a month since I last posted.  I’ve no excuses. I just collapsed under all the multi-tasking I’ve been trying to do. It...

I’ve been thrilled to pieces by Minister of State Lawrence Wong’s comment at the country’s first National Kindness Conference, that a...

Photo Credit: Jeremy Brooks, whirljack.net I’ve been mooning about quite abit in our neighbourhood park recently.There was the mid-Autumn...

Photo Credit: http://www.chinatownconnections.com Today is the 8th day of the 8th moon of the lunar calendar; seven more days to the...

Photo Credit: Talking Pieces http://www.circle-space.org I’ve been waiting and waiting for that invitation. But, it hasn’t come. Yet. I...

FROM SINGAPORE: On September 11, I was twelve time zones away from New York, watching the NYSE on my Bloomberg screen in the study....

I went out for lunch with two old  colleagues –  one I’d kept in touch with recently, the other I hadn’t met for years. They were retired...

Have you ever experienced that same feeling of empathy and dread? Share it. Leave a comment. Home alone The morning is frisky with dogs ...

We went to Alaska for the summer. It’s beautiful country. For someone from Singapore, too big to grasp. We had time, so much time. And...

Our Singapore morning paper is reporting that a whole lot of people are having sex on the side, sex for money, sex for grades....

I spent the second week of Advent on a silent retreat in Chiangmai contemplating the mystery of God In the poem below, I’ve tried to...

I had a nightmare about pacmen shooting at me; they were shouting – Resistance is futile! resistance is futile.   Clearly the product of...