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Workers’ Party Rock Concert

Ok, it wasn’t a rock concert. But the speakers were certainly rocking! If elections were based on rally attendance, speaker charisma and audience participation, the Workers’ Party would win by a landslide. Their candidates seem aware of this. A few mentioned that they are glad that Singaporeans have come out in force to listen to [...]

Reform Party’s Inaugural Election Rally at Clementi Stadium

I attended the Reform Party’s rally at Clementi Stadium for West Coast GRC earlier. It had not dawned on me that this was the party’s first ever election rally. The party was founded in 2008, after the last General Election in 2006. I’ll just give some brief personal impressions. I’m assuming the mainstream and social [...]

Circle Line Discovery – Impressive… Most Impressive

This morning, I checked out the Circle Line Discovery event, ahead of the opening of the long-overdue Stage 1 & 2 of the CCL. If I were Darth Vader, surveying the new stations, I would say (in my wannabe-James Earl Jones voice), “Impressive… Most impressive.” And which station gives me the greatest sense of awe? [...]

OCBC Cycle Singapore 2010

Cycling: One of the few types of exercise I can do now without my joints and muscles screaming out for mercy. 40km is do-able, so I signed up again for OCBC Cycle Singapore. Last year, I did the distance in 2 hours 13 minutes, which is slow. This was supposed to be the impetus to [...]

A Saturday at the Peranakan Museum and Singapore Philatelic Museum

I finally got around to using my free museum pass. Back then, I said that the Peranakan Museum would be the first on my list. And so, it was. Now, I know that all things Peranakan are very hip-and-happening now, but that’s not why I wanted to check out the museum. A number of my [...]