I recently read that the government, through MCYS, is launching a campaign to “promote dating among its notoriously love-shy singles.” Article (here). To quote: “The Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports (MCYS) issued a tender this month through the government’s official procurement website calling for proposals on how to encourage singles to date…No details [...]
Archive for the ‘Current Affairs’ Category
C’mon Singaporeans…Date For Goodness Sake!
Monday, 30 August, 2010
“Test Run Shows Motorists Do Give Way To YOG Vehicles”
Tuesday, 3 August, 2010
To quote from the article (here): “Test runs conducted by the organisers since July 12 show that many vehicles give way to Youth Olympic Vehicles…the Land Transport Authority’s group director for Road Operations and Community Partnership, Dr Chin Kian Keong, said he’s confident that motorists would show their support for the Games by being gracious [...]
Congrats!
Monday, 26 July, 2010
Whenever this blog starts to get an inexplicable surge of hits from readers searching for terms such as “sumiko tan” and “sumiko wedding” and “sumiko tan hurricane”, you know something must have been written about them in the papers recently. I haven’t seen today’s papers yet so I don’t know what has been written. But [...]
An Intense Storm
Wednesday, 21 July, 2010
This is breaking news so I thought I’d better post my thoughts on it. Do a simple search and you’d find that the Ministry of Environment has recently released a statement saying that their investigations have found that the Orchard Road flooding was caused by “an intense storm…”. Now this is important stuff which we [...]
Seems To Be The Hardest Word
Wednesday, 14 July, 2010
“DBS CEO personally apologises to customers for service disruption” The word “sorry” is a word seldom heard here in Singapore. Whether Mr Gupta said it because he was sincerely sorry, or whether it was to do damage limitation…that is besides the point. The point is that he was big enough to come out and say [...]
Passing Of A Composer
Sunday, 11 July, 2010
A sad piece of news which I read about in the papers recently was that Ken Low, the composer of our well-known musical “Chang & Eng”, has recently passed away of pneumonia. Now I’ve never watched “Chang & Eng” before, and I’ve not heard of Ken Low before until this recent news. But nonetheless, when [...]
“If You Are Grossly Obese, We Won’t Promote You”
Thursday, 1 July, 2010
I read with interest a recent story (here) about how the CEO of Alexandra Health Mr Liak Teng Lit had recently stated that the weight of his staff would now be one of the KPIs for promotion. Now, this issue is a toughie. The initial reaction would obviously be one of outrage. (“How dare they [...]
Confessions Of A Viral Video Creator
Tuesday, 29 June, 2010
I have a confession to make: Last week I created a viral video. Just for the fun of it. As far as I’m aware, it has now spread like wildfire, and people are posting the video on their Facebook walls, and many random strangers have started messaging me on Facebook telling me how much they [...]
Thoughts On Sumiko’s Marriage
Friday, 25 June, 2010
It’s not every day that Singapore’s most famous female columnist gets married, so I thought I’d milk it for all it’s worth. I’ve been getting mad hits on this blog since this morning like you won’t believe, all searching for “Sumiko Tan” and “Hurricane”. Seems like she’s still a very popular figure here in Singapore. [...]
“More S’poreans Open To Online Dating, Matchmaking”
Friday, 25 June, 2010
Another CNA article which I just spotted: “More S’poreans open to online dating, matchmaking” It’s kinda ironic how one day they’re saying more S’poreans are staying single, then the next day they’re saying more S’poreans are open to online dating and matchmaking. Something isn’t adding up here. Anyway, I guess the online way is quite [...]
