Dewdrop Publications

29/01/2025

Happy New Year. If you're staying at home, it may be a good time to catch up on some reading. 😆

20/01/2025

Free rice, no matter how little, can make some people think of rice falling from the sky

Uncategorized Scams & Gian Png People by admin January 20, 2025 No Comments Good news. At the launch of the grocery exchange on Jan 18, Prime Minister Lawrence Wong said the cost of living has gone up, with prices rising in the last two years. Over 10,000 households in Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC will be....

12/01/2025

A true leader protects his followers; not accuse others of slapping to create a sensation but take no action.

Uncategorized What If They Slap Me? by admin January 12, 2025 No Comments PSP first accused PAP volunteers of following them around last Saturday and taking photos and videos of them when they were visiting residents in the estate. Ms Low refuted those allegations in a Facebook post on Wednesday con...

29/12/2024

Published only in 2022, this is a book that I must collect.

It wasn't business as usual after the Japanese surrendered. A new enemy emerged from the opportunistic former allies of the British, declaring and defending liberated territories, extorting money from businesses and holding kangaroo courts to punish the alleged traitors.

The British returned to Singapore first, restoring law and order. Residents on the island were a little more fortunate. Malaya on the other hand was deep in anarchy. My maternal grandparents didn't really like the British, but they knew well that they were the lesser evil.

28/12/2024

The attention spans of the current generation of readers are measured in milliseconds. Should this title be written and presented as a conventional novella of say 30,000 words? Or should it be presented as an adult picture book with minimal words - like what we read as children? Please check out the link and give us your comments.

Kangding Love Story

25/12/2024

Mr Tan Kin Lian should get out of his tourist bubble.

https://zh.m.wikipedia.org/zh-sg/2022%E5%B9%B4%E6%B2%B3%E5%8D%97%E5%A4%9A%E5%AE%B6%E6%9D%91%E9%95%87%E9%93%B6%E8%A1%8C%E5%8F%96%E6%AC%BE%E9%9A%BE%E4%BA%8B%E4%BB%B6

The xiao mei in charge of the money in Kopi Singapore came from Henan, China. Earlier, I thought she was from Malaysia.

Henan was a poor province of China, but has since developed well.

25/12/2024

Saviours and Fools by James Rinaldi

"Friday nights at the ER were notorious for "Grandma dumping". Mr and Mrs La Jolla Country Club couple, or whoever, would show up at the ER dressed for an evening out. In tow would be "Mom", who was undoubtedly an elderly family member living with the couple and not capable of being left alone to take care of herself on a Friday night.

"Mom is complaining of pains and some other things, right, Mom?" the husband would say, careful not to let the spilled urine that someone forgot to clean up by the sink touch his sports jacket.

With that, we would start the routine. Mom, being about 400 years old, would have a bag of prescription medications that were directed at the scores of maladies old people have when they get to a certain age and have decent insurance. We would document each and triage Mom, running vital signs and asking questions. The beauty of this for the young, cosmopolitan abandoners was that at her age Mom could reasonably show symptoms of about a half-dozen ailments. We would have to look at each, spend a lot of physician time going over old ground (no pun intended) and ultimately and this is key - keep Mom in the hospital overnight. The couple would then come back the next morning, check one fully babysat Mom out of the hospital, and be on their way."

Anybody guilty of this on Christmas? 😂

18/12/2024

New book cover. Thanks to AI 😆

09/12/2024

We go out on a limb to catch the desperate drug mules and poor prostitutes, but we leave the wealthy folks with Interpol Red Notices alone.

Yan Zhenxing. We go out on a limb to catch the desperate drug mules and poor prostitutes, but we leave the wealthy folks with Interpol Red Notices alone.

07/12/2024

I find it strange that folks like Jerson are often seen by some Singaporean Sinophiles as traitors who have been manipulated by foreign powers and any social uprising has to be instigated by the West. They simplistically assume that every loyal Chinese person must agree with the authoritarian regime in Beijing.

The biggest irony is that these folks are themselves rebels and mavericks in their own countries. How would they feel if observers insist that they have been manipulated and their actions have been instigated by the West?

Hongkongers Have No Reason To Rebel? I find it strange that folks like Jerson are often seen by some Singaporean Sinophiles as traitors who have been manipulated by foreign powers and any social uprising has to be instigated by the West. They simplistically assume that every loyal Chinese person mus...

01/12/2024

😆 cocktails 🍹 inspired by classics.

01/12/2024

Have you been "living wrong" all these years

30/11/2024

Robert Kiyosaki's "secret" to riches is not what he teaches in his books and courses. In fact, his first pot of gold was earned by selling the strategies he had yet to adopt. Is this a case of 无中生有？

Robert Kiyosaki’s Dirty Trick – 无中生有 I read his Rich Dad Poor Dad many years ago when it first came out. I agreed with some of the things he said, but the bank wouldn’t lend me money to carry out his advice. However, I had friends who managed to raised the money and yes, some of them l...

26/11/2024

A lot of this worrying is actually quite unnecessary. The PAP will definitely form the next government after GE2025. That’s because a good majority of voting Singaporeans are hamsters. They wake up every morning to go run on their wheels. It’s doesn’t matter that they are going nowhere. It doesn’t matter that they will need to run faster and harder even as they age. They are on auto-pilot. They leave all the adjustments, calibrations and directions to the PAP government – the only government they know.

Uncategorized Why Worry, PAP? by admin November 26, 2024 No Comments At the PAP conference held on 24 November 2024, PM Lawrence Wong said that the party must “come out in front” to explain its policies, engage Singaporeans on the issues they care about, and show them why they can trust and depe...

23/11/2024

Manjusri, bodhisattva of wisdom. Beautifully painted.