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For years, companies have creamed off a larger share of economic gains – larger than those in other developed countries or industrialising economies in Asia.

As a result, workers get a slice of Singapore’s gross domestic product (GDP) that is considered unusually small compared with their counterparts’ share in those countries.

Signing up for this course… now!

Meme-worthy, but I am lazy. Anyone keen to take up the challenge?

One thing I shared was that I hoped to see another teacher education institute. Why? For the simple reason that competition is good! As much as we brainstorm, we suffer from group think. And we might get complacent because there is no threat to what we think we do best.

– Respect, man.

Vagina dentata – coming to a store near you!

Read the section on Singapore. Do you notice anything odd re: business and racial lines?

You must read The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe before you understand this comic.

Would you support me if I used this to set up Laremy Lee’s Endowment Fund?

Ternovskiy, meanwhile, sees school — and college — as a waste of time. “The last three years at school, I haven’t done anything,” he says. “I just can’t make myself. There’s so much interesting stuff in the world, and I have to sit there with textbooks?”

It’d be nice if Singaporean politicians were similarly transparent.

Pin all your romantic hopes on Google.

In no other profession are workers so insulated from accountability.

Always say it like it is!

The Oatmeal goes on a date and has some issues with stir fry.

Subtitle: “A handful of the Lion City’s citizens want to abandon their homeland for less strict digs.”

I never knew about this/thought about this issue before!

“Precisely because we have been mollycoddled for so long, the catching up has to be faster-paced. In short: be bold.” – Yawning Bread rocks.

‘Many Singaporeans will be caught out. They can’t afford to buy, they can’t afford to rent. They will park themselves with their parents or in-laws, and defer marriage and/or childbirth.

A few years later, PM Lee will stare at his charts and numbers, and lament once again about how come Singaporeans are getting married later and later, and why are the birth rates falling lower and lower again.

Then in his great wisdom, he will conclude, “Oh we need to import more foreigners.”‘

“Then I imagined. I imagined if Sunshine’s boyfriend or ex-boyfriend was at the drowning. To all of a sudden notice the absence of your loved one and then suspect he is drowning, to frantically look around but not finding, to know that he is drowning yet you cannot find him, to be helpless and not know what to do, to wish that you could be his substitute, suffer in his place but you cannot–that must be one of the greatest pain of all. And then to be someone’s lover and yet not to be acknowledged a proper status in his family.”

Singaporean men are such dicks!

“Most fascinating is a feature that would make any journalist tremble. Tuyuca requires verb-endings on statements to show how the speaker knows something…. English can provide such information, but for Tuyuca that is an obligatory ending on the verb. Evidential languages force speakers to think hard about how they learned what they say they know.” – I guess The Temasek Review would come crashing down like a house of cards if they were forced to write in Tuyuca.

Yawning Bread demonstrates how alternative political parties might present alternative policy schemes to those already in place through the example of negative income tax.

“‘We aren’t providing realistic social models to young people. We need a healthy cohabitation program … [and] healthy relationship education,’ Dr. Santelli said. ‘We just say how wonderful marriage is. Abstinence programs are aimed toward getting you married at 20, not supporting you and helping you make healthy and smart choices as a single 20-something.’” – That’s true for Singapore too.

“In 1957, the leadership of the PAP, wishing to have tighter grip of the party, decided to change the original democratic constitution. The organisational inspiration was said to come from looking at the Vatican. There the Pope appoints the cardinals, who then appoint the Pope. It has lasted the church 2,000 years.”

“The SRS is nothing new – it was introduced about a decade ago – yet many Singaporeans do not seem to know about it. Briefly, it’s a voluntary government scheme which gives you tax benefits, in order to encourage you to save and invest for your own retirement years.” – Mr Wang explains the SRS.

“Hilarious Irene Ang was the host and she played [Don't Forget the Lyrics]. She asked what line followed these in the song “Little Drummer Boy”:

Come they told me
Pa rum pum pum pum
A new born king to see
Pa rum pum pum pum
Our finest gifts we bring
__ _ _ _ _.”

LOL!

What to do/how to eat sushi when you’re in a sushi bar.