TR EMERITUS

Recent events has led one to reminisce about those 'kampong days' where "red/yellow fleshy, juicy" rambutans used to grow gloriously in someone's compound and also in abundance by the waysides, though delightfully colorful, are almost impossible to be eaten, really damned sour. “What’s this?” someone candidly remarked,... 

* The following is a long comment posted by our Techie, Andrew in an ongoing discussion with a fellow reader in a thread about Iris Koh, the founder of HTD, edited slightly for clarity. Since it is mostly a true narrative  of the path that TR Emeritus (TRE) took in its over a decade of existence, we think it is more appropriate... 

I will contribute my 2 cents worth of feedback sought by the Ministry of Finance on changes to our GST. To begin, a very large majority of our citizens have the mistaken impression that our GST is going up by a mere 2 %, ie, from the current 7% to 9%, ie, 1% next year and another 1% in 2024. In order to have any meaningful discussion...