Weekend Bulletin (Apr 01)

• Why Leaders Must Be Paid More

  from SingaporeSurf

• A New City-State Rising

  from SingaporeSurf

• The Quest for a National Identity

  from The Void Deck

• I want to vote !

  from Singapore politics through the eyes of an ordina

• Beating the dead ministerial salary horse

  from Hear ye! Hear ye!

• A creepy elitist arrogance

  from zyberzitizen

• Idealists and Pragmatists
• A democratic society, based on justice and equality?

  from this lush garden within

• The only thing that is really uniquely Singapore

  from Hear ye! Hear ye!

Advertisement

Taking You Away for Some “Rakh-heeh.” (Travelogue Series – Istanbul / Turkey)

Rumi once whirled his way to spiritual fame in the same streets I am wadding through. Are ministers getting paid enough? Will we eventually lose talent? What did Philip Yeo say again? What didn’t he say? Is our government really going to regulate the new media? Who really cares? I am going to take you to a place, a secret garden tucked somewhere deep amid the labyrinth of Moorish minarets, cupolas, lime washed walls and narrow streets. I am in Istanbul for business a world away and in a while, I am going to take you deeper into another world within this world.

Like Rumi, Istanbul is a poet, and much what she has to say changes with the timbre of the light. In the evenings, when the sun turns everything a golden splendor, she whispers a verse that reaches out to the spiritual voyager in all of us.