Salt * Wet * Fish

Well, I was in Hong Lim park today to show my support for SDP when I bumped into Charles, who was there for the sit-in. So we chatted about what’s happening, how has things been and what’s going to happen.. you know lah, these are what activists talk about. But Charles looks visibly tired, but […]

As some of us may be aware, SDP held a Empower Singaporeans Rally and March at Hong Lim park on Saturday, 16 Sept 2006. I passed by Hong Lim park yesterday in a bus and saw scores of people arounding what I would assume is Dr. Chee with reporters taking photos and lots of […]

Seeing 911 again (and again) reminds me of a Chinese poem written by Jack Sim of the Restroom Association. In a TV interview, Jack showed off a Chinese poem he wrote after the tsunami, but it also applies to 911. I hope my translation is correct as I remembered it:
Heaven (or nature) destroys humans, sadness
Humans […]

If you haven’t watch Singapore Dreaming the movie, you should. And if you haven’t heard of Singapore Dreaming, where have you been?
Unlike Yawning Bread’s opinion of the movie, I thought it was very well done, bringing in multi-facets of a portion of the Singaporean life and well-paced enough for the audience to be emotionally tuned […]

The dsuen dialogues is a series of conversation between someone by the pen name of Dsuen. He started a thread in the ST forums (or was it CNA forum?), which formed the dialogues. This was the follow-through from the October 2000 interview with the then SM Lee by Terry Gross of National Public Radio in […]