TR EMERITUS

I couldn’t stop thinking about the new MacBook Pro with Retina display. I went to Apple’s online store, clicked all the specifications I wanted and saw that the price came up to S$5216/-. But I did not click “Check Out Now” because I remembered something a friend has just done. He has decided to forgo buying a new MacBook... 

Grace Fu, Minister in the PMO and Second Minister for the Environment and Water Resources, is brilliantly spot on when she described Singapore as a city of paradoxes. A tiny city with one of the largest landfills in the world is truly amazing she gushed. I agree. A land-scarce city that has devoted prime land to Gardens by the... 

Note the sentence construction: "On Friday, the Land Transport Authority (LTA) said its expenses for the Committee of Inquiry (COI) hearing came up to $4 million - less than the $5.9 million that rail operator SMRT earlier said it had incurred." A superficial read gives the impression that that the COI cost only $4 million,...