Connie

There is a good ending to the story of lift-up-grading. A few months later, after complaints and protests to the local MP, another vote was taken. This time one of...

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There is a tub of honey sittting on my kitchen table. It comes from China – the first time I was buying Chinese honey as all  other brands of honey...

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Let me tell you a story, no two stories. Recently we had an upgrading exercise in my block of flat. Residents were required to vote to put in a lift...

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Let me interest you to two books that explore the current preoccupation with questions of identity and culture. The first one Pico Ayer’s “The Global Soul: Jet-lag, shopping malls and...

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The other day there was a letter from a reader, Wee Hung Lih ( see Today 9th Nov. 2006) who confidently stated that , and I quote, “I can see...

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One of the joys of being old and retired is that there no need to rush – for instance, rush to get out of bed in the morning. I love...

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Remember Mdm Chow Ai Hwa? She is the old lady who was against the en-black sale of her flat because she had lived in that flat for many years and...

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