461 views
Here in Singapore

Why not start an annual Orang Utan Run in our universities?

I say, why not start an annual Orang Utan Run — modelled after the famed Polar Bear Run of the University of Chicago — in our universities? Better this than let our undergraduates run foul of the law by streaking unauthorised along the corridors of the university hostels.

Horror of horrors, some might say. This is [...]

192 views
Quotable Quotes

Foolish to advocate the learning of dialects

Source: The Straits Times Forum Page A32, 7 March 2009
Letter by: Chee Hong Tat, Principal Private Secretary to the Minister Mentor

Many Singaporeans are now fluent in both English and Mandarin. It would be stupid for any Singapore agency or NTU to advocate the learning of dialects, which must be at the expense of English and Mandarin.

That [...]