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It's your funeral: Mind your language this Chinese New Year or shirt happens
Woe is the Chinese person who doesn’t know Chinese.Just ask Mr Derek Leung.The Chinese-Canadian, who was an exchange student at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in 2015, had tried to register for...
View ArticleMP Tin Pei Ling warns about photoshopped image of her, instead calls more...
So MacPherson MP Tin Pei Ling posted this on Facebook:Before this, I didn't even know there was a doctored version of the banner being circulated.But because she posted about it, it's news and has been...
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Updating Phua Chu Kang’s Sar-Vivor Rap: 'I just cannot tahan this new virus...
“Some say ‘leh’, some say ‘lah’, Uncle Phua say time to fight Sars.” How many remember those opening lines from the Sar-Vivor Rap by Gurmit Singh as Phua Chu Kang?After the first case of the Wuhan...
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Coronavirus: The witch hunt has begun
So this showed up in my Facebook feed:And this is how it begins.EARLIER: 'I just cannot tahan this new virus from Wuhan'
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Hey, ministers, stop getting photographed watching other people doing actual...
Dear ministers,How are you holding up? You must have your hands full dealing with this Covid-19 thing. Just remember to wash them regularly with soap. Ha!You should take care of yourselves too, and...
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Don't panic: Someone living on my street has the coronavirus
On Saturday, I finally caved.I bought a box of 50 masks for $35 from a pop-up store in the basement of Yew Tee Point. (Actually, it was more like a pop-up table.)So each three-ply mask costs 70 cents....
View ArticlePeople are making the same damn joke about Ronan Keating's 'viral' Instagram...
Ronan Keating, you say it best when you say nothing at all.this is what a regular, busy port should look like lah bodoh peh fish and chip. pic.twitter.com/69O4w5wbtP— SMRT Feedback by the Vigilanteh...
View ArticleCancel culture: I started working from home last week because of coronavirus
This column has not been cancelled. Unfortunately.It seems like everything else has been cancelled or postponed because of the coronavirus.Movies that were supposed to open this month, A Quiet Place...
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Singapore should be grateful to Trump: 'Very few' infected here, thanks to...
Dear President Donald Trump,How are you holding up? Have you been washing your hands?No, not because of the Covid-19. But because of all the women you grabbed by the you-know-what.Luckily, since your...
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How it started: Evolution of The Straits Times coverage of the 'Wuhan virus'...
Nowadays, it seems that the news is nothing but the coronavirus. Of course, it wasn't always like this.This was how it started:January 1The first Straits Times print report of the virus was on New...
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Fake news & chat groups: How WhatsApp ruined my childhood with viral...
Dear WhatsApp,I have stupid friends and relatives.Actually, my friends aren’t really friends, just people I used to go school with, whom I barely see over the years.Unfortunately, I am related to my...
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Virus Vanguard aftermath: Paging VR Man, we need you now more than ever
Dear VR Man,Where are you?The last time we saw you was in 1998.(I’m not counting your brief 2015 appearance in the Channel 5 animated series Heartland Hubby because you are not a cartoon – even though...
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Warning from the future: It's not too late to prevent the robot apocalypse
Dear Singaporeans of 2020,I’m sending you this urgent message from the future to warn you.Listen to me if you want to live.In my timeline, robots have taken over. They are sovereign. A robot is not a...
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Viral NUSWhispers post: 'Louis Vuitton is for poor people who want to look rich'
Dear Louis Vuitton,I just Googled your name and found out that you were an actual person, unlike, say, Gioven Kelvin?But you died more than a hundred years ago. So I guess I'm writing to the company...
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Don't brush your teeth: My wife had dengue in the time of Covid & this is...
My wife had a fever.Or at least we believed it was a fever.To double-check, we used different thermometers, but each thermometer showed a different temperature. Stupid cheap thermometers.I suggested...
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Yes, Progress Singapore Party member Craig Teo is the guy from old 90s local...
So I chanced upon this on social media today.I thought, hey, that guy looked familiar. Even the name Craig Teo sounded familiarHe looks like the guy who starred in local 90s sitcoms Happy Belly and...
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Inspired by Alfian Sa'at, I wrote a poem called McDonald's, You Did Not Have...
Dear McDonald’s,Look what you made me do.Last Monday at exactly 6pm, I opened your app to order the $24.90 McDelivery Night In bundle that included loungewear (which is just a McFancy way of saying...
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That’s a fowl: I finally got free Texas Chicken meal by pretending to be a...
Dear Texas Chicken Singapore,I have a confession to make – I’m not a football fan.But I’m a fan of free food.Because I’m a fan of free food, I have pretended to be a football fan – specifically, a...
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How the projected 6.9 million population became 10 million: It's not a target
It started with this bombshell report about the Population White Paper released by the Government in January 2013:Singapore's population could hit 6.9m by 2030Which kicked off a chain of negative...
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Misleading headline: Did Nikkei Asian Review report that URA plans to build...
Amid the 10 million population imbroglio, you may have seen this screenshot going around:At first glance, you may think, wow, an independent foreign media outlet such as Nikkei Asian Review said that...
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