Human beings expect to receive equal pay for equal work. Any perceived inequality in pay by an aggrieved party will often lead to protest in some form or other. This attitude towards equal pay is best exemplified by the workers in the “Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard” (Matt.20: 1-16): “For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner ...

Where making movies in Singapore is concerned, you can bank on Jack Neo. His latest movie Ah Boys to Men (新兵正傳) has broken local box-office records by earning more than $1.5 million over its opening weekend, in the process beating the James Bond movie Skyfall, which was in its second week of release. The coming-of-age film about youths stepping out ...

An email about a quote by Albert Einstein has gone viral, generating much discussion online.  This is the quote that was supposed to be attributed to Einstein:  “I fear the day when the technology overlaps with our humanity. The world will only have a generation of idiots.” The email contains these photos that offer proof that Einstein was right about ...

I first watched Dancer in the Dark about ten years ago when I was working in Brunei. It is such a powerful movie that it has remained etched in my memory as one of the best movies I have ever watched. Forget about Hollywood. This is a movie in a class of its own. I have been trying a get ...

Dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has officially hopped on the Gangnam Style bandwagon with his version titled Grass Mud Horse Style, a jibe aimed at China’s communist regime The video clip, posted on October 24 to Chinese sites such as “Tudou”, features the hefty 55-year-old artist showing off his moves with a cohort of associates in his Beijing courtyard studio ...

A 31-year-old Netherlands-based artist is creating startlingly realistic 3D illustrations that appear as if they are coming right off the paper all with the help of a pencil and a vivid imagination. Ramon Bruin developed the technique he calls anamorphosis through his experiments in airbrushing, a style he studied at the Airbrush Academie in Lelystad, Netherlands, and promotes through his ...

Alma Deutscher is just seven but music lovers are already comparing her to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The Surrey schoolgirl can play piano and violin beautifully and has even composed an opera.She has her own YouTube channel to showcase her talents and actor Stephen Fry is among her growing legion of admirers. Fry has twitted about Alma: ‘Simply mind-blowing: Alma Deutscher ...

One-minute video clip entitled You Need to Toughen Up A Bit featuring four-year-old Delilah O’Donoghue reprimanding her two-year-old brother Gabriel has gone viral on YouTube, attracting more than a million views since it was uploaded to YouTube on October 9. The clip shows Gabriel receiving the dressing down from his sister after he found himself in hot water with their ...

After a long morning of playing in the pool and building sand castles on the beach, 22-month-old twins, MJ and AJ, battled hard to stay awake to finish their spaghetti lunch which they were really enjoying. It was a match between Sleep v.s. Tasty Spaghetti……..and Sleep won! The video of the twins ‘falling asleep while eating’ uploaded to YouTube by ...

A 33-year-old Italian artist from Bologna in central Italy, working under the pseudonym Dito Von Tease, has created amazing portraits using his fingers as a blank canvas. The graphic artist and illustrator said he uses only his “happy hand” and Photoshop to create his finger portraits. Dito is Italian for finger and the artist’s pseudonymis a play on burlesque dancer ...