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[This article first appeared in Mr Yoong's blog in 2008. However, the situation he described then for the old civil servant pensioners is as relevant as today's. The article was retrieved and re-published on TRE with Mr Yoong's consent.] Do you know that some of the government pensioners who retired in the early seventies... 

EVERY TIME I WALKED INTO A LOCAL SUPERMARKET AND WHENEVER FRESH LYCHEES ARE SOLD, YOU WILL FIND THIS – plenty of lychee’s skins mixed with the rest of the lychees on offer display. On some occasions, I see DIFFERENT PRCs middle aged “lychee taster” and on one occasion as a couple – obviously not appointed and uninvited... 

In 2010, I wrote about the start contrast between the quality of pre-school education for rich and poor children [Link]. Richer parents can spend up to $20,000 a year for high quality preschool education while many poor children do not attend pre-school: 300 children from lower-income families get a feel of Primary One by Kavitha...