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Archive for December 5th, 2009

Weekly Roundup: Week 49

“The latest call to be “cheaper, faster and better” may be the last straw that breaks the proverbial camel’s back of Singaporean workers.”
Leong Sze Hian

“It would seem then [that] we are handicaps when it comes to languages of persons. We only have languages of functions… a prosthesis of bankrupt selves instead of being integral to these selves and enriching them… Perhaps our bilingualism is nonlingualism.”
Molly Meek

“Papmandering – a form of gerrymandering unique to Singapore.”
Subra

This week’s roundup and recommended reads after the break.
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You Will Not Be Forgotten
Joshua Benjamin Jeyaretnam
5 Jan 1926 - 30 Sep 2008

For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.


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