Above all else

So I finally went for my long overdue health screening the other day. I've gotten to the age where every year I kind of expect that there'll be some anomaly or other! So thank God this time everything was fine. Must be all the circuit breaker home workouts :D One interesting thing though - the doctor pointed out that some antibody levels were dropping, so I should go for booster vaccinations. This was a bit surprising to me, since I knew I had gotten vaccinated just a few years ago. I am generally not gooey about injections, so I'll probably get around to getting those booster shots soon. This got me thinking. The only reason why I was even considering getting booster shots was because someone had pointed out that what I thought I had (immunity), I actually didn't have. If we think we have something, naturally we don't go looking for it. We're only motivated to go looking for something we realise we don't have .  This is something I've recently re-encoun...

So General Election 2020 is over. Interesting results, and I look to seeing how it plays out over the next 5 years. I thought it was one of the most civil contests of ideas I've seen - like, ever! When the Ivan Lim episode broke out, I didn't see many of the opposition parties trying to make a big deal of it. When the Raeesah Khan episode broke out, I didn't see many of the ruling party jump all over it either. When someone tried to drag Murali Pillai's family into the fray, Chee Soon Juan said, let's rise above that. At the end of the election, PM even made a particular point of Pritam Singh being formally appointed Leader of the Opposition and provided adequate resources and staffing to discharge those responsibilities. We did still have some people try to sling mud, but honestly it was a couple of disgruntled overseas commentators or over-enthused citizen vigilantes (or Stompers), posting grumpy "analyses", allegations or snapshots, rather than the poli...