“…In line with Mr Goh’s (former Singapore Prime Minister) call to build a gracious society, the Singapore Kindness Movement (SKM) aims to encourage Singaporeans to make a positive commitment to gracious living through simple acts of kindness in their daily activities” – Singapore,2009

Singapore has a strange ability to launch very weird (educational) campaigns with a serious background on a more then humorous level.

A survey was conducted last December to find out how much weight Singaporeans gave to being kind and gracious, and how well they fared in each of these areas. The overall result was a mere 58 out of 100

Because They Are Banned In Singapore!

If you browse through ten books, written on Singapore’s history and how the nation transformed into the expat friendly, economically booming Disneyland it is today, nine will tell you the story through pink-foggy glasses, one … Continue Reading

The Best book for a lazy Sunday afternoon is a really bad travel guide about Singapore.

I live here since two years and its actually very entertaining to see what people write about this little country.

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Rushed home last night, earlier than usual, cos the wife sms-ed she was feeling hot. Turns out she was talking about the weather – Mr. Brown

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“.. Singapore’s newspapers are, at least in part, willing partners, of the state ..”

Is this true? What should you be aware of when living in Singapore and not wanting to be influenced and controlled unknowingly by the states instruments, in this case seemingly the media.

I personally knew Singapore better for being the “cleanest” city of the world and the famous “Chewing Gum” ban then for being a Pseudo-Democratic country with government controlled institutions in all kind of public areas before moving to Singapore.

Gathering some information might not be the worst thing to do before switching on the local TV channels, opening the daily Newspapers or believing the loud talking voices claiming Singapore’s above dark side. After all I really like it here and I don’t want my overall impression to be disturbed my “some” people, emphasizing this bad image of Singapore.

You are addicted to gossip. And the Internet is your best companion. Every country has its stars and wannabes that tend to pop up with some stupid comment or …naked… in the local gossip newspapers and corresponding web pages. And … Continue Reading