Dear You - A Teochew budget chart buster from China

 This is the most unassuming budget movie Made in China, from a relatively unknown producer and with a crew of relatively unknown and first time actors and actresses. It would have simply be blown away with time in Singapore if not of the attention it gathered from being politicised by Lianhe Zaobao. According to Sim Tze Wei, the writer of the article, it was China's 'united front work' to win the hearts and minds of overseas Chinese. How did this writer came up with this interpretation of the film, who authorised her to look at it from this angle, who approved the article for publication, are no longer important. The attention it got from local and foreign readers has stirred great interest in a small budget film that many would not be bothered to take a second look. 

Like they say, forbidden fruit tastes better, or attracts more undue attention. The film is now the talk of the town, especially among the Teochew dialect speakers in Hougang. All tickets were sold within a couple of hours of listing. And the Teochew speaking Singaporeans are appealing for more screening in the original Teochew dialect instead of the Mandarin dubbed version, more authentic flavour and nuances, closer to the hearts. It  is good to feel with the heart. To the older generations that were Teochew speakers, there is this sense of nolstagia to listen to the language live again in full glory, to reflect and live the time when the early Chinese migrants, mostly poor and illiterate peasants, arrived in a foreign land to eke a living, and how they adapt to the harsh and unfriendly local environment. The film touches mainly on the emotions, relationship and attachments of human beans when their main concern was about filling the stomach, about feeding and caring for the families they left behind in their Motherland...when they had barely enough to feed themselves. It was a time when everything was not enough, when life was simple, eat, sleep, work and responsibility to their dear ones they left behind in China.

To the strawberry generation of entitlement and eating too much, stomach too full, tired of eating chicken and meat, the film is a good reminder of the hard times their forefathers had to face, to start from scratch, from nothing. Many left their villages with nothing except the clothes on their backs. What unemployment rate, what jobs? There was no job in China, especially for the illiterate peasants. The jobs available in Nanyang were mainly manual labour, to be coolies, trishaw pullers, odd job labourers, servants etc etc. No 8 to 5 jobs in the offices, no gig workers, no employment benefits, no permanent jobs, no retirement benefits. The few cents or dollar they earned were from blood, sweat and tears. 

Their dwelling or abodes were mostly cubicles, tiny rooms divided by wooden planks, sometimes several heads in a room. A single room, not bigger than 10ft by 10ft, could be home to a family of 5 to 10, and sharing a common toilet or kitchen with many families. No radio or TV. Life was rustic, simple and bare. No 5 Cs, no posh cars, condos, good class bungalows, no HDB flats. The cubicles survived till the early 1970s in Chinatown area. The big fire in Bukit Ho Swee swept away a large part of early Singapore.

Life in those those time was anything but politics. No united front work till the fight for independence from colonial rule in the 1950s. What Singapore is today must not be taken for granted by the entitlement generation. Singapore was built from the bare backs of our forefathers, literally from nothing. Do not give Singapore away freely to the new foreigners who are here to pluck the low hanging fruits from the trees our forefathers planted. It is not easy for what we have today, everyday dreaming about becoming millionaires, about condos and GCBs, about jobs that paid a million. 

Go see the film and have a peep at what life was in early Singapore, the times of have nots, of deprivation, when any job is a good job, when every job available is manual labour. Dear You is a little bit of history of how we started and arrived here today. Do not forget your past, do not forget how we get here. Don't think easy come easy go. The Singapore today is a cumulation of the struggle and hard work of several generations of pioneers, built piece by piece from a virgin tropical jungle.

Put aside the silly thought of united front work. This is 2026, not the 19th Century or early 1900s.

America is a failed state, oops, America is not a state but an Israeli controlled regime

 The American Empire used to rule the world with its mighty military might, its number one economy and a Hollywood and pop culture that captured the imagination and aspiration of the world. America was everything the world wants. Everyone wants to be in America, to be American. Everyone accepts American leadership with very little resistance. America is the paragon of all virtues and all goodness. The Americans deserved to be proud of who they were. Only a few years ago, up to the time of Bush Junior and Hillary Clinton, the Americans were still standing on high pedestal looking down at a world ruled by them, untouchable. American exceptionalism, manifest destiny, the beacon of democracy, human rights, rules based order and all the jest.

What is America today? What has happened to the great American Empire, the leader of the world? Did anyone notice the change, that America is not the America that it used to be? When did this happen? Actually the decline of America started a few decades ago when the American democratic system started to fail, when it no longer be able to throw up good and able leaders to lead. Caveat, the Jews will not allow any credible and strong will American to be elected, that they cannot control. Every POTUS is looking more dull and clueless as his predecessor, even lack of virtues and human decency. The Jews conduct regime change in America during every election, deciding who should be elected, not the hillbillies. The Americans did not bother, accept all the freaks and clowns to be their leaders because they still believed in their presumably superior democratic system, not knowing that the system is not working and has been hijacked by the rich and powerful Jews to do their bidding.

The rot was there but not bad enough until Trump came along, a gangster with no morals, a man of bad character that any decent American would not want to be near to. But he was and is their president, specially put up by the Jews, and that means he is untouchable, has to be respected. Even American luminaries would address Trump respectfully as my President, the President, while knowing how depraved this clown is...that he is a stooge of Israel.

Everything fell out of the bag in Trump's second term. He treats America, the American Empire, as a mafia organisation, his own mafia organisation, and also takes order from Israel. He calls the shot, he thinks so. There is no law, no principle to talk about. What he feels and thinks, if he is capable of thinking, is the law. This is bad enough, but not bad enough. The Americans suddenly realised that America did not belong to them but to Israel. Israel is the master of the American Empire. Trump, the supposedly brash and arrogant mafia don, is only a puppet being ruled and controlled by the Israelis to do what the Israelis want him to do. What happens to the great American Empire or America? There is no America, no American Empire, but a colony of Israel. The Israelis controls the Senate, the Congress and the White House and the President. All the financial and military resources of America is at the disposal of Israel. Israel owns America. 

And the daft Americans accept this as their new fate, as a colony of Israel, and its POTUS a kept man taking orders from Netanyahu, his handler. America is now a joke. No American is protesting about being a colony of Israel.

American terrorists used fabricated 'intelligence reports' to dupe silly leaders to fight one another

Is there any war that the USA is not involved? Even civil wars is a bonanza for the USA military industrial complex, selling weapons to both sides to kill each other. Or supporting one side under the radar for a regime change. What is happening in Myanmar is indicative. What is happening in some African country is also suspicious, as weapons sent to Ukraine have been found in some African states.
The USA does not need to start a war actually. Just creating a hoax that some country is threatening another will create fear in the threatened country to buy more updated weapons for defensive purpose.

The propaganda is so obnoxious that even Russia is still not spared the stigma of the fallen Soviet Union, by being narrated as trying to claw back its satellite states that have been hijacked by the Europeans. The agreement with Gorbachev was that NATO will not expand an inch Eastward after the collapse of the Soviet Union, yet NATO is dangling a carrot in front of Zelenskyy to join NATO. Now this is the Red Line that Russia cannot agree, which is what the Ukraine War is all about. Given Ukraine's proximity to Russia's border, a NATO membership is giving the USA the opportunity to station nukes near to Moscow. All the propaganda being fabricated is about Russian aggression against the Europeans, creating a hoax that the Europeans have fallen into.

Europe is falling apart by toeing the USA agenda and suffering as a result. One country is obviously in tatters with changing leaders like changing underwear. Kier Starmer is now out as UK's PM. But the game of musical chairs in the UK will still continue. Leadership of the UK is a joker's paradise.


Anonymous

To the hillbillies, Chinaman can only cook and do laundry

Oh no, China must give back the Great Wall to the USA if true. But the Great Wall was built starting from the 7th century onwards, when America was not even discovered by the Whites. In fact, the USA was not even born yet by a long shot.

If the Great Wall could be stolen, it would not be inside China today. It would be inside one of the Western Museums long ago, lol. I do understand that most of the items now in Western Museums were stolen artifacts from China, India, Africa and other countries of the Global South. Some have been returned to the original owners after much shaming probably.

Now there is a new narrative floating around that ASML may have sold a complete EUV machine to China. ASML has vigorously denied the accusation by Howard Lutnik, the USA's Commerce Psychopath, one of many in the Trump Administration.

That machine weighs 180 tons and cannot be smuggled inside a travelling suitcase to be delivered to China. It needs specialized transporting expertise and supporting engineers to deliver and assemble. And in spite of all the scrutiny, if such a thing happened, it is a slap on the face of the USA's intelligence people. The actual accusation was that ASML or its suppliers/agents shipped some components to China. The reality is that some common components are used by both the DUV machines, which China had bought, and EUV machines, and the USA is using this argument as proof that China could not have advanced so rapidly without being gifted a EUV machine. Moreover, ASML also need to source for components for its EUV machines from Japan, Germany and elsewhere.

The real reason why this issue was floated is to tell the world that China had depended on ASML's EUV machines to rise to where it is today. The USA is still trying to promote the argument that China could not have make such progress on its own steam and expertise. Give a dog a bad name and then skin it is the agenda of the USA.


Anonymous

US still wants to con the Arab states that they are there to protect them

US promises to protect Gulf states' interests in Iran talks

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio kicked off a tour of the Middle East on Wednesday in a bid to reassure Gulf allies of America's security commitments.  CNA

How long did the American racist terrorists think they can keep on lying and duping the Arabs that they are there, with their military bases to protect them? How long will the Arab leaders continue to want to be made suckers, looking stupid and silly, to continue to believe in the American terrorists and pay them handsomely for the right to kiss their ass, and to be betrayed by the Americans over and over again?

Clown Rubio thinks the Arabs leaders are stupid, that he can sweet talk them to trust Americans to protect them. After what had happened during this Operation to Kill Iranians and to wreck havoc to all the Gulf states economies, are the Arabs that stupid, that blind and did not know what is going on?

Throughout this bombing and attacks on the Iranians, including false flag attacks on the Gulf states, the Americans were not only seeking to destroy Iran, but to destroy all the Arab states to help Israel to create a Greater Israel from Arab lands. First is to finish off Iran, and the Arab states would have no one to turn to and be like sheep being led to the slaughter house. Iran is the king pin that prevent the American and Arab terrorists from taking over the whole of the Middle East.

And the Arab leaders still laying out the red carpets for clown Rubio to lie to them? 

The American bases and weapons in the Middle East were all for the dominance of Israel, all for the destruction of Arab and Muslim states. Period. And the American terrorists were able to make the Arabs and Muslims pay for their military presence and bases, to keep them under control, and for 70 years, duping the Palestinians and all the Arab and Muslim states that they are there to protect the rights of the Palestinians. Now Palestinians have been massacred in the hundreds of thousand, still massacring them daily by the American and Israeli terrorists, and their land as good as gone. 

Do the Arab leaders know this, see this, and still hugging and kissing the American terrorists that are scheming with the Israelis to take over their lands, to kill them and chase them out of their lands? It seems that the Arab leaders have not had enough of the deceit and lies of the American terrorists. Let's see how they party with Rubio, and maybe offer him a private jet for his own travel for all the good work Rubio is doing with the Israelis to take over Arab lands.

This is just unbelieveable! So insane! Who are the real enemies of the Arabs and Muslims? Iran, Israel or the Americans? Oooh la la, the foxes are coming to tell the hens they are going to protect the hens. All the wars, chaos and instability were caused by the American terrorists.  Get that! No American terrorists, no wars, no chaos, no instability, no fabricated enemies and threats.