Earlier this week, folks chortled at the news of a panel that's currently being set up just to certify the ethnicity of presidential hopefuls. Basically, a group of people are being appointed for the sole purpose of deciding if a candidate belongs to one particular race or not.
As you can imagine, this might cause a wee bit of clamour in a society that prides itself with racial harmony (although extremely not colour-blind). Who are these people to decide which distinct category to pigeonhole one's ethnicity? The spectrum of race doesn't shine in black and white — especially in a historically interracial country like Singapore.