TR EMERITUS

With X'mas round the corner, it's time to make my wishes known. This is not a goofy goober request but real serious national concerns. Back in 2019 I made 27 requests, none of which has been realised. Had my request #19 been attended to, we might have been spared the lost of S$275m in FTX, and very possibly many more crypto... 

I recently took a Comfort taxi and I had an interesting conversation with the driver. Among other things, he told me that one of his grievances being a taxi driver is that some passengers who have made taxi booking cancelled their booking even when the taxi is turing into the carpark and they simply got away without any penalty... 

I just saw an interview with Trevor Noah on the BBC, where he had to famously defend the remark that “African-Americans” are “not African.” This interview reminded me of one of the most pressing and never-ending debates in nations that are multinational – namely the question of racial identity. Mr. Noah made the point...