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10/22/2010
What if it is Agent Orange?
The perennial blanket covering of Singapore and Malaysia by haze arising from forest burning is becoming an annual Great Expectation. We knew it is coming, and we know that there is nothing that we can do about it. We can ask to talk to them, call for conference, ministerial meetings, but the haze will still come.
Perhaps we shall just yield to their demand for a multi million dollar satellite and see if they will stop burning. The chances are that the burning will continue as the satellite could do nothing except to tell them where the burning is taking place, which we already know. They will probably make the best use of the free satellite for other commercial pursuits.
The thing is that everyone is treating this as just a nuisance. What if it is Agent Orange or something more toxic? They don't need an armed invasion or an army to decimate Malaysia and Singapore. It is so easy and cheap.
Too much of an exaggeration la bros. They themselves are also in smog. If is agent orange, they will be in heaven before you.
ReplyDeleteYou know?
I thought it was good news if population goes down to 4m. But my dreams of my flat going up to $1m will be blown away.
ReplyDeleteAgreed that it is a bit of an exaggeration. See what will happen if the haze is over Jakarta. The peripheral people are dispensable.
Yes, it is stupid to say that they can't do much. But they are not first world country, remember.
ReplyDeleteNow, here at home, they are now talking about raising parts of Orchard Road by 30 cm to tackle the floods. Didn't the wise old man said that even with the best engineers in the world, they can't do anything about the floods? So, are the PUB engineers out to prove the old man wrong? This was the question asked by The New Temasek Review.
>>This was the question asked by The New Temasek Review.
ReplyDeletei also asking myself...perhaps Yakault really worth his millions like that in the MyPaper "he walks the talk"?
The miracle of erection :)
ReplyDeleteMy apologies.
ReplyDeleteThe point about the PUB engineers out to prove the old man wrong, was in fact asked by TOC or The Online Citizen, another Opposition website.
My apologies to TOC for the error.
Impotence is not an issue, it's easily replaced by many artificial means and it's no shame too to admit. But whether Orchard Road or anywhere in Singapore is going to be flooded in future, it is not going to be decided by Yacob or anybody. Wait and see. Sometimes it is better to admit defeat.
ReplyDeletePerhaps you'd get more govt "proactivity" if is was Agent Orange
ReplyDeleteThis "be polite to the neighbour" is craven.
To those who claim: "It is the govt job to look after the people", well right here the people are being directly affected -- adversely, and the govt is "playing nice" with the FOREIGN aggressors, taxing the people;s taxes and doing ABSOLUTELY FUCK ALL.
But wait: if you so happen to as a peaceful foreigner overstay your visa, or write a funny book about the judiciary WHACK you kena hantam. No citizen was harmed, the only thing that got bruised was govt ego.
Useless, overpaid motherfucking thugs!
Our FM called his counterpart after our EM did same but without any effect. In fact, the haze got worse as did the floods a short time ago. Let me tell you fellas, dealing with the weather ain't no stroll in the park. When there is a cabinet reshuffle, I think he will opt for something without contending with the natural elements.
ReplyDeleteThe conversation must have been pretty civil and polite as politicians are wont to do.
Since I am no politician, I will call my counterpart in that shithole and ask in my most menacing Marlon Brando aka godfather fashion, "What the fuck is going on and when are you going to move your sorry arse and do something about it?"
Guys, you will see clearer skies in a day or two.
Hehe.
Let me tell you folks that this sorry haze episode is getting weirder by the minute.
ReplyDeleteThere was this guy who said that the haze problem is a trans national problem and that countries in the region must work hand in hand to solve this kind of problem or challenge.
What the fuck! He just spoilt my appetite for the nice curry dinner my wife just cooked!
If my neighbour starts singing karaoke at 3 in the morning, should I "work hand in hand with him" or should I just call the police?
Hehe.
Pity those farm workers that were/are ordered to burn the old plantations and clear the forest for new plantations. They probably are ordered by their foreign investors to burn.
ReplyDeleteIt can be said that much of the produces coming from the farmings end up on the shelves and tables of their good neighbours near their homeland.
They provide their foreign friends with oil, meat and vegetable and make all these items affordable to their foreign friends but in return get the flaks and wrath from those that benefitted from their toils which include burning the old plantations and creating new plots.
Indonesian and sometimes Malaysian farmers are exploited by foreign investors and cursed by the investors compatriots.
What irony!