‘Squid Game’ vs ‘Hospital Playlist’
These two amazing but completely different Netflix Korean dramas show the worst and best of humanity. But why did the former become the massively runaway hit?
The old man and his driving licence
TODAY I am revisiting a concern which I wrote about two years ago: elderly drivers becoming road menaces.
Be a man and carry a bag!
MY son has bought a manbag. No, I’m not talking about the classic leather briefcases guys carry for work. It’s also not the hard case that middle-aged blokes like his father attach to their belts to carry their handphones.
Aliens to Earth: We come in peace
WHAT would you say if I told you aliens – as in extraterrestrials (ETs) – tried to warn us against destroying our environment 27 years ago?
We are family yeh! yeh! yeh!
A COUPLE of weeks ago, someone from the Agriculture Department contacted The Star asking to speak to me.
Shop till you drop in a click
That’s what e-commerce allows us to do as millions of housebound folk have discovered this pandemic.
Return to the House of Altercation
At their first gathering after seven months, our MPs couldn’t wait to draw blood.
Laughing to numb the pain
Even in these worst of times, we can trust some of our politicians to bring us comic relief.
Still a life worth living
There can be meaning and joy in doing the little things amidst the gloom and doom of the pandemic.
Ramping up the likeability factor
Despite the pandemic fuelling anti-China sentiment, the nation’s soft power is proving hard to resist.
Lessons from a derailed chairman
WELCOME to my month. Can you believe half the year has gone, seemingly at lightning speed?
First India, now the US?
LAST week, a news item that left me gobsmacked was this: it is possible for mammals to absorb oxygen via the anus!