Thank you. I feel humbled to be here today amongst the many individuals who have shown courage, strength and persistence in their advocacy efforts. Actually, I did what anyone in my position would have done. A person once beset with severe mental illness, having suffered and recovered, I can only feel amazed at the extent …
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Wordplay
The other day, I was re-arranging the letters of words to form other words. For example, the word ‘car’ re-arranged spells ‘arc’. Here’s what I found: In SCHIZOPHRENIA, You’ll find INSPIRE. PRISONS. REASON. OASIS. SCARS. REACH. SEARCH. In BIPOLAR DISORDER, You’ll find ASPIRE, ABLE, SOAR, DARE, LEAP, REAL, DOER. In VULNERABLE, You’ll find ENABLER. In …
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More should be done about Singapore’s distributive inequality
According to the Singapore Department of Statistics, Singapore’s GINI coefficient had increased in 2012 to 0.478. It can be difficult to compare GINI coefficients with other countries due to the methodological differences of the sources. Nevertheless, it has been observed that Singapore’s GINI coefficient is high by international standards. Bloomberg Businessweek, based on a report …
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How is food central to the Singaporean identity?
Indisputably, food is central to the Singaporean identity. The question that is rarely tackled is, how is it central? Can we explain the importance of food in our culture, and the extent of this importance? Can we specify the manner in which food relates to our most deeply held beliefs about ourselves? Unless we get …
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Bukit Brown by day and night
Pot(luck)
Printed in How do we deal with constant change? (FOCA, Singapore) The flats in Teban Gardens are only 35 years old. Yet, as early as 1997, they were considered old and shabby enough to be torn down. The flats now lie in their final stage of en-bloc, waiting to be demolished. Perhaps it was the cheap …
What is the relationship between suffering and art?
Traditionally, suffering is associated with artistic pursuit. If one led a happy and pleasant life, then life was easy. And an easy life could never penetrate to the deep and profound truths which give wisdom. It was only through pain and anguish that one could experience the deep and profound truths, the fundamental truths, and …
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Solving Asia’s e-waste problem.
A travelling spirit
As you know, i have often denounced travel. But I was just reconsidering the idea of travel. For many people, travel is a means of discovery and adventure. But travel can be so much more enriching if we were aware of the political connections, and socio-economic roots of the places we visit. Not the kind …
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