Source: Straits Times
Date Published: Feb 16, 2005
I REFER to the letters, ‘Singlish not bad English, it’s another language’ by Mr Nur Shahid Ahmad, and ‘English as it should be spoken’ by Dr Lee Siew Peng (ST, Feb 8).
I agree that Singlish should not be considered ‘bad English’, but it is not a separate language altogether.
Singlish [...]
Great tongue-in-cheek article. Got this off mrbrown, who wrote it inToday.
A related article concerning this issue is “What’s wrong with putting family first?‘ by ST.
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Friday • February 18, 2005
At school or varsity, finding a job or getting married, it’s not like it used be
Dear Mummy,
I am feeling very sad.
Today in school, Zhong Guoren — [...]
Star, Malaysia
February 13, 2005
Insight Down South By Seah Chiang Nee
EDUCATED and financially independent, the new Singaporean woman is running into a wall of male traditions that is leaving some holes in their relationship, including marriage.
The trend had been building up over a couple of decades. In few other countries have women made larger strides in [...]
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ST did some cutting when they published the excerpt on the newspapers. Here’s a more complete transcript of what was really said:
Link to a more complete transcript
Link to the NUS Webcast [Auth required]*
* take note of the crowd reaction if you do watch the webcast. I mean you already know the gist of what LKY [...]
Continue reading about (Fuller) Transcript & link to webcast
Goh makes a useful suggestion of a ‘comprehensive career guidance program’, though I’m skeptical about how successful it would be. While such a program may help some, there are many problems which still stands in the way.
(1) Most kids don’t know what they want when they are 15/16, even with a good career guidance program. [...]
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