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Monday With The Editor

Doing good deeds

A Sunday ago, my wife and I were having our breakfast in the kitchen of our 3-room HDB flat when we smelled burnt rubber in the air. I thought something might be wrong with some of our electrical connections and made a thorough check of the whole flat.

It turned out that the smell was coming [...]

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Monday With The Editor

Fumbling through Mother Tongue

Over television last weekend, I heard Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew remark ‘I used to believe we could learn two languages…I was wrong’. 

Minister Mentor Lee’s admission did two things to me:

1. It made me feel at peace with myself – I could tell the world I wasn’t such a failure after all. You see, I [...]