Facebook: Set childish things aside

WINSTON Churchill once said that eating words never gave him indigestion.
If anything, I hope that a certain female Singaporean teacher will be spared a tummy upset as she stomachs the furore over her poor taste in posting a note detailing grammatical errors by her students on Facebook. Snippets from their English essays had been posted [...]

Keeping that glint in the eye

NEWS of two American reporters having been sentenced to a labour camp for 12 years in North Korea makes one thing clear: What journalists do is a public service.
And it is commitment like theirs to report on world issues that will keep rookies like me invested in the industry, eyes wide open to its occupational [...]

The Cs that guide us forth

What are the new Cs that will guide today’s youth caught in the world’s deepest recession since the Great Depression? YouthInkers give their two cents’ worth on the shift in values
Build on health and abilities
TO QUOTE a cliche: Youth is wasted on the young. Why? Because we spend so much time and effort chasing the [...]

Keeping the young in touch with grassroots reality

Get our heads out of the clouds
HOW can tomorrow’s leaders be attuned to the grassroots community if many of us are confined to our privileged backgrounds and elite schools?
If all we fret over is getting first class honours or organising chi-chi parties, we will never understand how some struggle to put food on the table.
Many [...]

Saying no to liabilities – future kids included

THE current recession has made me more attuned to current affairs and instigated a burning desire to take charge of my financial life.
What disturbed me deeply were newspaper reports about elderly investors hit by the DBS High Notes 5 saga and young families downgrading their homes to cope with wage cuts.
Determined never to put myself [...]

I’m not nuts – just allergic to them

FOR an estimated 240,000 people in Singapore, a meal out is a game of Russian roulette: They suffer from fatal peanut allergy.
I am one of them.
While the culture of dining out among young working adults seems to be thriving despite the recession, with no shortage of peanuts in Asian cuisine, my experiences have been dampened [...]