Talking Cock in Parliament: IndigNation Videos

Knockout Comedy by Ruby Pan, Hossan Leong, Alex Au, Mr Brown & Mr Miyagi. Talking Cock in Parliament is officially reviewed here
Big thanks to SaltWetFish for making these videos available

Ruby Pan “Some English is More English Than Others”

Hossan Leong “A Short Concise History of Singapore”

Dr. Kirpal Singh “Making Babies”
Alex Au “Honourable Member for the super-sized 25-member GRC of Ang Mo Kio, Marine Parade and Tanjong Pa-Gay.”

Mr Brown & Mr Miyagi “We Are Singaporean”

 

 

 

 

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Why I Hate Teaching

Tharman Shanmugaratnam, MOE – listen hard, and listen well. Things have got to change.

“At lunch time the other day, someone commented that it’s amazing how some teachers can survive teaching for, like, 20 years. Ah yes, many of my more senior teachers have often reminisced wistfully about the good ol’ 90’s, when teaching was more fun, more humane, and more satisfying. The late 90’s was when the evil dynasty began and now teaching is more of mindless slogging and frenzied labouring for purposes that few could articulate convincingly anymore.

I’m not a new teacher, neither am I a veteran. I’m a late entrant into the teaching profession (a mid-life crisis survivor so to speak). But with Teachers’ Day round the corner, I find myself reflecting on my job again and it really is not difficult to come up with a list of Why I Hate Teaching.” …more (Trisha Reloaded)

Piper has also responded to Trisha’s post here

Weekend Humor: Satire in Today Article?

“A certain Ng Ya Ken writes an article for Today: make ’em feel true ‘blue’ residents. Molly doesn’t know if he’s being a partisan player in politics a la mr brown.” …more (Molly Meek)

A Short Review of the National Day Rally 2006

“Last Sunday (20/8/2006), PM Lee made his annual National Day Rally speech which was broadcasted live on almost every local TV channel (so you all couldn’t really miss it unless you all don’t have a TV set at home or were watching SCV).

On the overall, the speech by the PM, which covered a whole gamut of issues, was insightful, intelligent and confidence-inspiring. Yet, though perhaps I am nitpicking here, it seems to me, in contrast with the speeches of previous years, there was a significant lack of concrete policy proposals in this year’s speech.” …more (Free Thinker)