tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47575108873105615202024-02-21T07:34:27.290+08:00Think free and fairExpressing my thoughts freely but fairlythink-free-and-fairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10296594028733080609noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4757510887310561520.post-9258024240835686482012-09-08T15:04:00.001+08:002012-09-10T09:35:55.095+08:00Resolve unfairness felt by Singaporeans first before integrating foreignersIt has been almost 2 years ago since I last posted on the sensitive foreigner issue in Singapore. Sensitive topics are best to be avoided. However, when they pose great risks to the nation's future, we have to talk about it openly, freely but fairly. Singapore will be finished if 60% of the population cannot get along with the remaining 40%. This is really a serious problem.
I try my best to think-free-and-fairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10296594028733080609noreply@blogger.com33tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4757510887310561520.post-57567519699808092242012-07-01T20:15:00.001+08:002012-07-04T13:04:50.678+08:00City Harvest Saga continues. Analysis into the wealth of City Harvest Church (part 2)It has been two years since I wrote an analysis on the wealth of City Harvest Church (CHC). This week, news broke out that the Pastor has been arrested over alleged misuse of church funds. It is really amazing that the most fervent defenders of the Pastor are the very victims whom he was alleged to have abused - the stakeholders of City Harvest Church. A business with such loyal following among think-free-and-fairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10296594028733080609noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4757510887310561520.post-17922507552017636932012-03-04T10:29:00.010+08:002012-03-05T19:36:50.999+08:00Why Sun Xu 孙旭 NUS scholarship should be revoked for the good of everyone, including Sun XuName-calling is always bad. However, when mature adults indulge in this behavior, there is usually a good reason. Sometimes, it is absolutely unforgivable.
Hong Kongers call Mainland Chinese locusts. In retaliation, a Beijing lecturer Kong Qingdong(孔庆东)called Hong Kongers dogs. I can understand the frustration from both sides. However, when a foreign scholar who has benefited from think-free-and-fairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10296594028733080609noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4757510887310561520.post-74146925299289527202010-10-10T01:23:00.002+08:002015-03-25T21:08:33.482+08:00Lee Kuan Yew as a role model rational, family manMr Lee Kuan Yew (LKY) is known to the world as a great statesman with brilliant insights and widely credited to be the man who turned Singapore from Third World to First in his lifetime. Ordinary mortals like me cannot aspire to that kind of near-impossible achievement. However, as a role model, there are certain attributes of him which all of us can copy with some hopes of success. Mr Lee Kuan think-free-and-fairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10296594028733080609noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4757510887310561520.post-84274237226992021752010-09-26T01:07:00.013+08:002012-09-08T15:42:33.765+08:00Fairness to all - Singaporeans and ForeignersThe massive influx of foreigners into Singapore in recent years has become the hottest issue in the coming General Election. The anti-foreigner hate comments on internet forums have alarmed even a pro-Singaporean reader like me (true blue native Singaporean who has completed 2.5 years of NS).
Foreigners make up 36% of the Singapore population. This figure excludes the group of foreigners think-free-and-fairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10296594028733080609noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4757510887310561520.post-14691786630627400602010-03-29T23:35:00.130+08:002012-07-03T09:07:09.778+08:00An analysis into the wealth of City Harvest Church
Update: I have updated this analysis with a new article in the aftermath of the Pastor's arrest.
Although I am aware that City Harvest is one of the richest churches in Singapore, I am still shocked that it is rich enough to pay SGD310 million for a stake in Suntec City. Nevertheless, an entity which is able to amass such wealth is certainly worth studying. I was think-free-and-fairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10296594028733080609noreply@blogger.com128tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4757510887310561520.post-63878525490431684852010-03-20T21:49:00.001+08:002010-10-02T21:53:18.046+08:00Keeping men from temptationThrough the ages all over the world regardless of race and religion, the phenomenon of wealthy men keeping mistresses is so common that it has almost come to be accepted as a social norm.
Concerning the Jack Neo sex scandal, one of our MPs caused a furore with the following quote "Actually, a man who has good career development would find such scenarios unavoidable,”
He later think-free-and-fairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10296594028733080609noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4757510887310561520.post-88893111505542172332010-03-13T20:41:00.008+08:002010-09-26T20:54:01.888+08:00An analysis on Singapore's Tigerwoods episodeJack Neo's sexual escapades have engulfed the nation for more than 1 week (1, 2, 3, 4, 5). I am not here to judge him morally. Although I have never had a mistress, it is not because I am more morally upright but because my line of work devoids me of such opportunities. I am not rich, not attractive and there are few women in my industry.
Here is my hindsight analysis on the actions of the think-free-and-fairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10296594028733080609noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4757510887310561520.post-67302104812177063112010-02-28T10:17:00.019+08:002011-04-22T00:18:50.537+08:00Suggestions on tuning the free scholarships to foreignersThe article that enraged several Singaporeans did not enrage me. Since my university days, I have already known that the government has been providing free tertiary education plus monthly allowance to PRC/Indian/Asean scholars. This has been going on for more than a decade.
America attained its greatness partly because of its ability to attract the finest minds of the human race think-free-and-fairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10296594028733080609noreply@blogger.com4