Status Updates From Notes from an Even Smaller ...

"If you had grown up in a kampung but now had a home, a car, a steady income, an annual holiday and could provide a decent education for your children, what is a little censorship and homophobia?"

"Do not pursue every business you undertake too seriously. Look in the mirror each day, laugh at yourself and issue a dry slap to every boring person you encounter."

"The HDB makes the best of a difficult situation, even if it does weaken that wonderful kampung spirit."

Hmmmm

Pg43: Singaporean youngsters... are not interested in efficient transport services or in Singapore's struggle for economic success. Why should they be? They have known nothing else. I only hope they can learn a sense of perspective from their aunties and uncles before it is too late. There may well be more to life than a train that consistently runs on time but there is categorically more to life than soulless greed.