No goody bags, no sweet treats and no gifts. Instead, a simple birthday song sung in class should suffice. Some primary schools are laying down the law on birthday festivities in schools, saying they should be kept to “no-frills” celebrations….
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There are a few things I don’t abide in my classes. One of them is racism. Today in class I pulled a boy out of class because he called one of his classmates “死黒人” (it literally translates to “die black…
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The mid day prayer time was about to end and I quickly took my wudhu at T2’s airport toilet this afternoon and was rinsing my feet at the sink when the cleaner, a PRC, gestured me to not do that….
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This is a response to the recent posting made by Azman Ivan Tan who asserted that homosexuals are “delusional”. Sexual identity and religion are sensitive and contradictory issues in Singapore. Only a few are willing to discuss them open-mindedly. Most…
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