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  • Facebook Pages: Paying to Shape Your Mind?

    Facebook Pages: Paying to Shape Your Mind?

    Ryan Quek looks at the issue of sponsored posts from political pages on your Facebook News Feed, and how to deal with this issue.

  • Taylor, look what you made an old fan do.

    Taylor, look what you made an old fan do.

    They start off pure and innocent, starry-eyed and ready to take on the world. Their career begins and they ascend slowly but surely. Eventually, they release that one song which lights the afterburner of their careers and they are thrust into gargantuan fame. Yet fame is fickle. And so slowly, they lose control. They descend […]

  • Good ol’ days before today’s pop music

    Good ol’ days before today’s pop music

    As I was writing this article, the song ‘Rock And Roll’ by Led Zeppelin aptly played on Spotify:   It’s been a long time since I rock and rolled, It’s been a long time since I did the Stroll. Ooh, let me get it back, let me get it back, Let me get it back, […]

  • RIP Chester Bennington

    RIP Chester Bennington

    On the 2 month anniversary of Chester Bennington’s suicidal passing, Bach reminisces about the lead singer of his favourite band in his first orbituary. #RIPChester

  • Debate, Disagreement, Democracy – for a resilient Singapore?

    Debate, Disagreement, Democracy – for a resilient Singapore?

    Non-Constituency Member of Parliament Leon Perera recently spoke to Tembusuians at the invitation of Tembusu’s public policy interest group Polity. Bryan Kwa reports and reflects on Mr Perera’s take on how to build a resilient Singapore that would stand the test of time.

  • Daenerys Should Not Be Queen Of The Seven Kingdoms.

    Daenerys Should Not Be Queen Of The Seven Kingdoms.

    Game of Thrones may be taxonomically listed next to Lord of the Rings or Eragon as masterpieces from the genre of medieval high fantasy, but it vandalises the tropes found in historical high fantasy since Tolkien wrote The Lord of the Rings. Where Tolkien and Lewis imagined knights and noble crusaders, the people holding political […]