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Quote ANGRY BIRD: “GO AND ASK YOUR GANNY AND GREAT GRANNY WHAT LIFE IS LIKE IN THEIR THIRTIES, FORTIES AND FIFTIES. EVERY ONE GOT TIME TO SPENT WITH THEIR FAMILY. GONG GONG AND GRANNY WILL LOOK AFTER THEIR GRANDSON.” Now my P2 nephew’s 71 yr old Gong Gong and Granny have to become tuition teacher. My brother and sister-in-law... 

Speculations abound of a by election in Hougang plus one or plus two GRCs. Technically Tanjong Pagar is due for a by election and so is Marine Parade. One candidate is time to exit and one still a big liability. Talks of Hsien Loong vacating Ang Mo Kio is too far fetched. He cannot afford to put his head on the chopping block.... 

Tan Jee Say Professor Lim Chong Yah's "shock therapy" proposal brought back fond memories of my time at the heart of national economic and manpower planning in the Ministry of Trade and Industry. It was the early 1980's. I was the secretary to the late Dr Albert Winsemius, Singapore's economic adviser, who visited us about two...