“One of the implications of more people working for themselves, and working from home, is that people will be somewhat freed from the tyranny of teamwork. I wonder if that bodes well for the future of humanity.”

“MP for Aljunied GRC Cynthia Phua has asked that the government reviews its policy and consider adopting the modular system in secondary schools.

She said that this will help students focus on the subjects that suit their standards and do well before moving on to the next level of subjects.” – Yes!

“Mediacorp has been calling up actors and making appointments with them to attend an audition at Mediacorp for an English-language project which has been described as a “still in development drama-dy”. This is in fact completely disingenuous.”

Everyone – you must read this. Your heart will break, and then you will be Singaporean.

“Yet, are heartlanders necessarily conservative? Or are we being bulldozed into thinking so by the insistent framing of the issue in this way?” — I say yes. Sometimes when ideas are repeated enough, they become the truth. I have an example I want to share with everyone, but maybe in another post, when the time calls for it.

“The Canadian Plastic Industry Association commissioned a study concluding that using cloth bags is bad for your health because they’re full of bacteria (and certainly not because using cloth bags is bad for the profitablity of Canadian Plastic Industry Association members!).”

“I think it’s the right thing to do because before I started, almost no kid at school but myself took an active interest in reading! Now not only are all the kids reading the banned books, but go out of their way to read anything they can get their hands on.”

Er… Okay.