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The topic of workplace related stress has been discussed in the media quite extensively recently. It all started with the World Health Organization (WHO) mistakenly announcing that it has classified "Burnout" as a medical condition, before reclassifying it as an occupational phenomenon. Closer to home, the Sentosa Development Corporation (SDC) conducted a survey , and the results showed a few sobering realities. 52% of respondents felt they were in a daily routine they cannot get out of 74% wished they could spend more time with their families and loved ones 30% mentioned they do not know how to relax 50% responded that they were stressed out by the thought of doing nothing This commentary by a writer from Mothership.sg also hit me on a personal level, where she mentioned how even as a student we would spend all our holidays trying to do something productive, and in the workplace more often than not we will prioritize our work over our free time and even health. ...

I realized that recently I have been recently blogging a lot on current affairs in Singapore such that I have not blogged about personal issues in a while. To be honest, it is a lot easier to blog on current affairs rather than personal issues, as personal issues involves having to share some parts of my private life, which I am more often than not uncomfortable to do so. However, recently some events have been very unsettling to me, and I feel that there is a need to address it on this platform. As some would know, I am the person in charge of Finance for my unit at my NS work. Recently, as part of a welfare initiative I decided to arrange (using unit funds) for food and drink items to stock up our pantries. After the order arrived, I also took it upon myself to personally split up the items to stock in each pantry, carrying heavy boxes across the unit. It was hard work, but to boost the unit's morale, it was the least I could do. However, that was just the start of m...

INTRODUCTION This post is to continue on my review of the IPS Survey on Religion, Morality, and Conservatism in Singapore, conducted by Mathew Mathews, Leonard Lim, and Shantini Selvarajan from the Institute of Policy Studies (IPS), National University of Singapore. In my previous post, I commented on the respondents' views on various moral issues, paying close attention to gay sex and gay marriage. I concluded that while progressive steps have been made towards the acceptance of LGBT in Singapore, much more work still needs to be done. Not only does the pro-LGBT camp need to gain more in numbers, they also need to successfully influence the religious groups (Christians, Catholics, and Muslims) in particular for any chance at having LGBT rights legalized in Singapore. My previous post can be found at this link , and the IPS Survey report can be found here . In the second half of the report, the respondents were asked to give their stances on various conservative-liberal...

Recently, the Institute of Policy Studies (IPS) in the National University of Singapore (NUS) published a report titled "Religion, Morality, and Conservatism in Singapore". The survey was conducted by Mathew Mathews, Leonard Lim, and Shanthini Selvarajan. All data and pictures in this post are all credited to their hard work. What was widely covered in the media was the respondent's views towards homosexual sex and homosexual marriage. One good example can be this piece from Channel NewsAsia . I was personally very intrigued by such a piece of news, and managed to find the time last weekend to read the report. The report can be accessed  here . Initially, after reading the CNA article, I thought that the report would only be about respondent's views towards homosexual sex and marriage. I could not be more wrong. I can summarize the long, 110 page, report into 2 categories - Singaporeans' opinion on various 'vices' (including but not only homosexual s...

So it's been all over Instagram, all over Facebook, and all over the news.  The issue of NUS Student Monica Baey coming out to public on her experience being filmed during her shower, and thereafter her negative experience dealing with NUS and the Singapore Police Force (SPF). The issue has effectively blown up on social media, in fact there was this period where in an hour I would actually see at least 10 of my female friends comment/post/IGStory on the matter. Various mainstream media outlets have also reported on this matter. The last I heard, NUS is convening a committee to investigate this issue. For the uninitiated social hermits, you can read up on the matter by searching up her name (Monica Baey) on Google and read whatever article comes out. I will not be commenting my views on this matter, as I think public sentiments are still very raw over the issue and I do not wish to offend either party (those supporting Baey or otherwise) with my views. I will rest ...

About more than a month ago, I wrote a blog post about wanting to change telco away from Singtel to a telco which provides more data for lesser costs. During the IT Show, it was down to M1 and Circles Life. I chose Circles Life in the end because of a lower overall cost (looking to the future), considering its popularity, and partially because M1's queue was super long (more than 3 hours wait). After more than a month of usage, it is a good timing for me to blog about my experience using Circles Life, to talk about the pros and cons. Although I got my new SIM on a Saturday, I had to continue using my Singtel SIM until Monday night, when the port over took place. In the meantime, I was trying to figure out the Circles Life app. My new SIM, which was a temporary number from Circles Life, had to be used to activate the app. Afterwards, I registered my existing number for the port over, and then changed back to my old SIM. On Monday evening, I changed over to my new SIM and used WiF...

Would like to start off today's post by apologizing to all for not posting in the past 2 weeks. It has been a tiring few weeks for myself, alternating between sleep and work, and during weekends I still feel extremely tired with not much motivation to blog. Must be the work induced stress. However, I will still try to keep up the weekly blogging the best I can, but if I fail to do so, I hope my readers will understand. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Given my 2 week break from blogging, there have been many topics that surfaced for me to blog about. However, the issue that I felt the most strongly about, and potentially the most controversial one, was one that happened very recently, just a couple of days ago. On Friday, Prime Minister-Designate  Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat mentioned during a forum at NTU that the older generation of Singaporeans were not ready to accept a non-Chinese Prime Minister. When ...