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End of an institution 

Spent many an afternoon around Claymore Road, usually Muddy Murphy’s, before an evening in the Four Floors, but it must be over 10 years since I was last there, Feb 2011 if memory serves me right.

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I think I was last there just before Covid lock down, maybe January 2929 or December 2019. 

 

Ahhhh many silly stories. 

 

I had a mate who kept confusing katoeys with girls on his first trip to Bangkok

 

On our next outing to sillypore, on the top floor I turned to see him with a horrendous katoey on his lap, with a huge shit eating grin.

 

I decided then he must actually like katoeys and I'd no longer save him from himself

 

A mate of mine always had a bottle of whiskey there 

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Used to go there from before it became an institution..  Favourite hangouts for me at the time was Club 392, a shop house at 392 Orchard Road, just a few doors down. Then there was Tropicana, just around the corner from Lido, Jockey's Pub afternoon jazz jam sessions, and the infamous 'Ang Teng' Red Lantern at Clifford Pier. Fun days.

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Made me think twice before I did something again 😳

Singapore Approves Caning For School Bullies Under New Anti-Bullying Guidelines

Students look at a teacher standing at the whiteboard in a classroom.

New standardised anti-bullying measures have been rolled out across Singapore schools. (AP Photo/Ray Chua)

In short: 

Boys in Singapore could face up to three strokes of the cane for bullying at school.

The education minister said it would be used as a last-resort disciplinary measure with strict safeguards in place.

But the World Health Organization has found overwhelming evidence corporal punishment of children carried multiple risks of harm.

School bullies in Singapore will face a caning under new guidelines.

Boys could face between one and three strokes of the cane depending on the gravity of the offence.

Girls are exempt because the country's Criminal Procedure Code states "women shall not be punished with caning".

Singapore's Education Minister Desmond Lee said it would only be used as a last resort for "egregious violations" with strict safeguards.

"Our schools use caning as a disciplinary measure if all the other measures are inadequate, given the gravity of the misconduct,"
he said.

"They follow strict protocols to ensure safety for the student. 

"Schools will consider factors such as the maturity of the student and if caning will help the student learn from his mistake and understand the gravity of what he has done."

He said the use of the cane had to be approved by the school's principal and would be administered only by authorised teachers.

The school would then have to "monitor the student's wellbeing and progress", including providing counselling.

Girls face suspension, detention or an adjustment to their grades as a punishment.

Singapore's Ministry of Education introduced new anti-bullying measures in April and the country's parliament discussed how the changes would be standardised across schools on Tuesday.

Caning was introduced in Singapore under British colonial rule, but the United Kingdom has long abolished corporal punishment.

Is hitting a child a UN human rights violation?

 
Corporal punishment

Australia's failure to outlaw the smacking of children is a United Nations human rights violation, a team of legal scholars and psychologists has found.

Australia also banned the use of the cane in government schools in the 1980s and 1990s, but some non-government schools in Victoria and the Northern Territory did not stop corporal punishment until the early 2000s.

Human rights groups have regularly criticised Singapore for the use of corporal punishment, which remains part of both the education and criminal justice system.

But authorities have defended it as a deterrent to crime and serious misconduct.

According to a World Health Organization report last year "there is now overwhelming scientific evidence that corporal punishment of children carries multiple risks of harm and has no benefits".

AFP

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-05/singapore-approves-caning-for-school-bullies/106645716

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