March 2018 - You Write

Panmure, a tired residential suburb

March 24, 2018 FLAI40 Leave a comment

With nearby Glen Innes (3 kilometres away) being reshaped as another residential million-dollar suburb, Panmure is poised to be an important business and commercial hub in years ti come. This is the right time for the project managers, Panuku Development, to consider the development of the air space above the elaborately designed (but hopelessly underused) Panmure Train Station where the buses in the area also have a huge area for stopping. Read the article on this topic from the East & Bays Courier, published on Wednesday 14th March 2018, below: https://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/east-bays-courier/101968806/proposal-for-auckland-council-to-cash-in-on-104-million-worth-of-land-to-fund-suburb-makeover Take a look at the photos of Panmure […]

Nineteen Moves - that’s all it takes

March 17, 2018 FLAI40 Leave a comment

A Memo to all younger Chess players, those under the age of twenty-five. To My dear younger friends, especially to my grandchildren - Dan, Livvy, Ahryn, Beca, Reuben, James and Blake, Yes, you need to start playing chess if you have not started already. If you have started already, I would like to encourage you to play at least three games a day through the website www.chess.com This website can be downloaded free of charge and you can play with other chess members throughout the world. I recommend that we play on the 10-minute game format first as this would […]

Dr. Goh Keng Swee - Architect of Modern Singapore

March 15, 2018 FLAI40 Leave a comment

He was someone who could come up with fresh ideas and fresh insights. He had a sense of mission - when he felt that something had to be done, he would do it. He was a visionary and it was his unseen hand that had helped build Singapore into a modern metropolis. He was not just Singapore’s economic and social architect, he also played a significant role in Singapore’s political destiny. And YES, he was Dr. Goh Keng Swee, who, together with Lee Kuan Yew, Toh Chin Chye, Kenneth Burn, and Tun Abdul Razak, started the pro-Independence Malayan Forum in […]