Disclaimer: Opinions expressed herewith are strictly mine as a private citizen and has nothing to do with my employer, the National University of Singapore. People ask me why I don’t write more often. It turns out that I actually have a job (or some say many jobs) and no one…

Disclaimer: Opinions expressed herewith are strictly mine as a private citizen and has nothing to do with my employer, the National University of Singapore. Not sure why but it has become fashionable in the West to bash meritocracy these days (Meritocracy is tyranny? Seriously?). …

Disclaimer: Opinions expressed herewith are strictly mine as a private citizen and has nothing to do with my employer, the National University of Singapore. I don’t write these days because I am up to my eyebrows in work. However, I am deeply troubled enough by what recently transpired during the…

Disclaimer: Opinions expressed herewith are strictly mine as a private citizen and has nothing to do with my employer, the National University of Singapore. Truth be told, I really shouldn’t be blogging. School is about to start again next week and I feel like dying. But I am incorrigible. In…

Disclaimer: Opinions expressed herewith are strictly mine as a private citizen and has nothing to do with my employer, the National University of Singapore. There is this post by one G Kethlyn Gayatiri that has gone viral. In summary, Ms Gayatiri’s mother is a widow and she applied to MSF…

Disclaimer: Opinions expressed herewith are strictly mine as a private citizen and has nothing to do with my employer, the National University of Singapore. Our Law and Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam made a very long and detailed Ministerial Statement about Parti Liyani in Parliament to make 3 points: (i)…

Disclaimer: Opinions expressed herewith are strictly mine as a private citizen and has nothing to do with my employer, the National University of Singapore. I had dinner with this young man last week and we discussed meritocracy. He talked about the common narrative about meritocracy, aka how society today is…