I was on a taxi heading back to town after a board meeting at Yishun yesterday afternoon, and was privy to some ‘grassroot sentiments’ from my 61-year old taxi driver uncle that I thought I’d share and comment upon. The gahmen (poorly pronounced Singlish, read as government) will collect...

I first caught sight of this on a note in Facebook by a friend, and was surprised by the tremendous amount of negative comments that resulted. Full letter over at TODAYonline. As far as I could tell, they came from a good mix of Singaporeans and foreigners. I republish some of these here. I am absolutely...