The luxury of photo taking
It was in compiling photos for my wedding montage that I realised that I haven’t much photos of my army days and before. Those were the days when photos had to be developed from negatives.
MoreThe five persons around me
They say one is defined by the five persons around that person. It is often in the context of financial success, of status and of power. For as unsuccessful as I am, I have around me the most compassionate and down to earth people. And I suspect that 90% of the people in the world […]
MoreI am too comfortable and it is bad
Apart from being unable to fit into my pants, as well as unable to sit and reach for my toes because my belly is literally in the way, there is one other indicator that tells myself that I have gotten comfortable beyond acceptable. While I generally do not purchase goods and services, my wife and […]
MoreThe more I walk Bangkok, the more I hate it
As with every first visit to a country I have never been to, I wish my country was like theirs. This naive thinking really belonged to the period when I was younger. Now that I have walked Bangkok almost twice yearly since graduation, I am increasingly hating it. The ugly side is increasingly apparent, as […]
MoreAwareness against monopolies
When I was in NUS (National University of Singapore), every student could buy laptops at subsidised prices from it. The white Macbook Pro was cool and I wanted it badly. It was at a time when compatibility for Microsoft office was a major concern to my peers. Hence, I was one of the extremely few […]
MoreWikipedia
When I was in NUS (National University of Singapore), Wikipedia was in its infancy. I had a sense of what were credible academic resource and what were not. Wikipedia was not one of them. The shock came, however, when a tutor for my Sociology tutorial class provided us material directly printed from Wikipedia. Fast forward […]
MoreLower caste jobs deserve higher pay
I argued that lower caste jobs such as toilet cleaners, dish washers and the likes need to be paid more but my friend argued that raising their wage does not help the social standing of these jobs. Huh!? I do not think that my friend meant that people filling these unwanted jobs ought to be […]
MorePractical compact between wife and I
I love the practical arrangement between my wife and I with respect to our families. Neither my family nor I expect her to return to my parents’ home for gatherings such as the eve of new year etc., as would be expected traditionally from the daughter-in-law. Neither am I expected to look like I am […]
MoreChoosing a business or brand name
I’ve been through litigation for my family business’ name and brand name, even though we have operated under those names for more than 25 years in Singapore. The long and short of it is that a foreign company using the same brand name attempted to have our trademarks, which were registered with IPOS, cancelled. It […]
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The first time the concept of money hit me
I was the class treasurer in ACJC. On one particular month, I had to collect $50.00 from my classmates to pay for the upkeep of the school swimming pool and printing of lecture notes. With something like $1500.00 worth of cold hard cash in my hands, I couldn’t, for the first time ever, wrap my […]
MoreSustainable consumption patterns gone unnoticed
There are enough people in the world who consume goods and services sustainably but probably aren’t recognised as such. Examples include people repairing their old kettles, reusing their belt buckles by replacing the worn out belt, pickers of pre-loved items etc. Yups.
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