Archive for November, 2007

Bread Index vs Food Index

choongyong.koh November 28th, 2007

The Department of Statistics replied (clipclip link) to a Straits Time forum post, citing figures that the overall food index has risen 4.6% over that in 2006.  Compare this with the informal “Bread Index” my friend lowen blogged about.

Decide for yourself, which figure is closer to your actual experiences in paying for food over the last few months?

Mistake clarified

choongyong.koh November 27th, 2007

Thanks to Ho Choon Hiong who promptly responded to my blog post. The mistake has been clarified and the names on the websites have been corrected.

Mistake in name

choongyong.koh November 26th, 2007

A fellow party member came up to me during yesterday’s Hammer Sales: “Hey, you went to give the big greeting card petition?” I was totally confused at this question. I was aware of some activists walking during last week’s ASEAN Summit and giving a petition in the form of a large greeting card to the ASEAN Secretariat, but what has that got to do with me?

The same party member told me that he saw my name in an article online, a certain “Koh Choon Yong” who was at the walk with Chia Ti Lik and Ng E Jay. I took some time to find out, and discovered that an article on SG Human Rights website had the name, and the same article was copied verbatim on SDP’s website. It would be an interesting thing for me to find another person with almost the same name (my name is Koh Choong Yong, but many people misspell my “Choong” as “Choon”), but on the other hand, it would be quite a bad mistake if there was no such person, and me reported to be doing something I did not do.

A quick look at SG Human Rights’ website’s About Us page shows that one of their members is “Ho Choon Hiong”. Could there really be a mistake in name? I wrote to SG Human Rights last night to clarify, currently waiting to see which is the case.