12/13/2014

Kshore Mahbubani – How to love Singapore




I saw this sticker on the top right hand corner of the ST today. I swear my eyes were not deceiving me. My first thought, goodness, this is deep trouble. I have written a few articles questioning whether Singapore would be in deep trouble. But this has nothing to do with Singapore. It was about Kishore. There are only two possibilities, between the devil and the deep blue sea. Is he growing stupider by the days? Or is he going senile?

Who does not know how to love Singapore if they are being paid by the millions and have all the riches in the world to last a few generations? Actually no need so much lah. Anyone who has the wealth of Kishore and be in his position would make loving Singapore so easy.

Kishore went on to explain how dirty Singapore has become and how Singaporeans can make it clean by loving Singapore. Here he unintentionally disclosed a little of his mental state. He claimed that the dirtiness of Singapore is the fault of Singaporeans. He didn’t even know the real cause. He made a farcical assumption that even a child in school would have told him off. For every two persons here, one is a foreigner. In fact if we include all the new citizens that are here for less than 10 years, it is likely that 60% or more of the people in the island are foreigners. So blaming Singaporeans for dirtying the island is a no good reason. And expecting Singaporeans, now a minority, to clean up the littering of foreigners, and Singapore will be clean is nonsensical.

Kishore went on to talk about happiness, about promoting Singaporeans to be like Lat and how the rich should help the poor Singaporeans. And he indulged in the same crap that if Singaporeans laugh a lot, even living in a pigeon hole they can be. When he quoted the experiment on how animals got unhappy and ate up each other in confined space I thought there is still some sanity in him. But he has proven beyond any doubt that senility is catching up with him. And I told myself, if he keeps on this way, I would write to the ST to publish his articles in the juvenile section.

But on reflection, reading the whole article all over again, he is getting to be like me, so innocent and appearing so naïve in what he wrote. Actually there are deeper messages in what he said other than the little distractions to lower the guards of his readers. His cartoonist part, about the ability to laugh at our ourselves and the names that he quoted, like Mahathir as a good example, and the names of people for people to ridicule, like Tommy Koh, Chan Heng Chee, Ho Kwon Ping and Gerard Ee. Look how clever he ‘eh lar’ the more meaning names to avoid saying the wrong things? This part shows that he is sane after all, and very smart by not suggesting himself to be the cartoonist’s joke.

His most important message in the whole article is in this phrase, ‘If our deeds do no match our words, we do not love Singapore’. He said this in the beginning of the article and to make sure the readers get his message and did not think he is really going nuts, he repeated this again, ‘Many of us say we do so. Here again, the one question is: Do our deeds match our words?’

Think about it, ignore all the rubbish that he spun in so many words. The gist is, ‘Do our deeds match our words?’ This phrase alone said what is bothering him about Singapore. And it is not about his $2 contribution to Sinda every month.  He would not give more or would want to stop contributing.

Kopi level - Green

15 comments:

  1. As kaki lang Teochew Ah Hia already said, and it is worth repeating, majority (aka 60%) Sinkies are very scared they accidentally vote PAP out in a GE because WP is not ready to be govt.

    Hence PAP will remain as govt after next GE and so again they can do what they want lah.

    Similarly, Kishore will most likely also retain his post and can also continue to say what he want lah.

    Tio bo, u say lah?

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  2. If I were Kishore, I would tell those daft, money no enough and suffering Sinkies. Be smart like me and go make lots of money, have a good life in Sinkieland and stop complaining.

    And I can bet that despite saying that, PAP will still win next GE.

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  3. Selling mental opium to daft Sinkies.

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  4. And I can bet that despite saying that, PAP will still win next GE.
    Anon 10:19 am

    Don't say Kishore say, even if Lee Hsien Loong say that, I bet PAP will still win next GE.

    That's how scared 60% Sinkies are of accidentally voting PAP out in a GE.

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  5. "How To Love Singapore"

    A: why not start by securing our MRT train depots against teenage vandals?
    - The Bishan train depot is located in Singapore, a friendly country.
    - All four break-ins was done by amateurs. Not God forbid well trained enemy commandos or terrorists.
    - The SMRT CEO is an army general ... presumably SAF provided him with some expertise in security before making him General.

    On a comparison basis.
    The SMRT CEO does make PM Lee look competent.

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  6. The SMRT CEO does make PM Lee look competent.
    Anon 10:36 am

    Tiok. And more importantly, the "not ready to be PM" Teochew Ah Hia does make PM Lee look competent too.

    What is SMRT CEO not competent as compared to strongest opposition leader not ready to lead as PM?

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  7. Seriously, and much as I wanted him to, but Teochew Ah Hia is really not ready to be PM lah.

    But that's not the point.

    The point is why Sinkies vote in a strongest opposition but with a leader like Ah Hia? Why not Aung Juan Soon Chee? Don't say Soon Chee, but why not even Hainan Ah Ko?

    Why, u tell me lah?

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  9. Mr Mahbubani is one of the reasons I so love doing what I do: being a small-time, occasionally vulgar social critic of my dear homeland.

    I absolutely LOVE Singapore. Most of the people--a waste of oxygen IMO--I cannot fucking stand. I wish they'd all die in a fire :-))

    The people, or rather SHEEPLE are the reason for my moniker: Matilah Singapura! (say with verve and intent as if you really mean it).

    Singapore will ultimately be destroyed by her own people--and they will do it unknowingly over a few (more) generations. Singapore was founded in 1819, and then re-founded in 1965 and in both instances the governing cultural norms were hard work, thrift, enterprise and productivity, sense of community (aka "kampung spirit") and a respect for each others ethnic group and their culture.

    Now, the culture has degenerated into a fucking mess, and it gets worse. The PAP govt is the glue keeping things together and working, and thankfully there is a ROBUST private sector to deliver the goods and services for the sustenance of life.

    But the people have completely degenerated into a culture of ENTITLEMENT--it is so common to notice that every motherfucking Sheeple is capable of writing screeds of rationalisation on how the world owes them a living--a good living-- with all the luxury and boundless opportunity for "self actualisation".

    The Sheeple's current culture resulted form their own rapid success. For instance: the govt (for the sheeple by the sheeple) organised mass public housing-- The sheeple started pissing in lifts, dumping garbage all over the shop and sticking spit-saturated chewing gum on public surfaces, and killing their fellow sheeple with KILLER LITTER--gravity-assisted projectiles launched from the floors of HDBs. (like Palestinians firing rockets into Gaza). and then there are the PUBLIC TOILET habits of The Local Singaporean Sheeple: in a word: DISGUSTING!

    So the govt had to step in and wallop these miscreants, thus earning the monikers of a "controlling and authoritarian" govt. A favourite Yellow Journalistic activity of "Singapore bashing" emerged in the world's mainstream media.

    If there wasn't a stern and pro-active govt to hammer these lift-pissing, killer-litterering, toilet-destroying WANKERS into some form of "ENFORCED social responsibility", it would be very difficult to "love Singapore" today.

    Singapore, you are so easy to love, as long as you ROCK and stay AWESOME!

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  10. You silly fuck never read what RB was saying. More than 50% of people here are foreigners and you still blamed Singaporeans for the dirt and the shit here.

    Kishore acted stupid, you are real stupid.

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  11. `If our deeds do not match our words, we do not love Singapore`

    Who judges if our deeds do indeed match our word?

    We need a different starting point.
    Loving Singapore must begin with loving SINGAPOREANS; our people, our history, our culture, our identity. It means putting them first in our concerns; their welfare, their future, their potential, their opportunities. It means appreciating the sacrifices of the nameless many who have contributed in ever so small ways to the success of Singapore and showing this appreciation in tangible terms; in `deeds that match words`. More practical issues like cleanliness etc are what naturally follows from this love and loyalty to Singapore and Singaporeans. Kishore is confusing symptoms with causes; a consequence of his penchant for superficial analysis as with his other `Big Ideas` where he does not even bother to do proper research.

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  12. Thank you anon 7:58. I have been watching him for a long time. His fake vulgarities were just a cover.

    Lately he has slipped by exposing his true identity. He is getting desperate for failing to destroy me and my blog. So he has to do the necessary even revealing who he is working for.

    He was uncomfortable when I reported the threat by Raymond, one of his kind and tried to discourage me from doing so.

    Now he repeatedly called me a xenophobe. I said fuck you Matilah. I didn't know that you are willing to sell your soul for a few dollars.

    Everyone here will be watching you. You can't hide anymore. Your identity is now known to all.

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  13. Agree with you RB. He must have been told to put this tag on you. And he is persistence about it. He is out to do damage to you and your reputation by calling you names. And a really bad one.

    These are the real enemies of Singaporeans, attacking Singaporeans for the interests of a small group of people.

    Let's watch him and see what is his next move. I will watch him very closely for you.

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  14. 'Now, the culture has degenerated into a fucking mess, and it gets worse. The PAP govt is the glue keeping things together and working, and thankfully there is a ROBUST private sector to deliver the goods and services for the sustenance of life.

    But the people have completely degenerated into a culture of ENTITLEMENT--it is so common to notice that every motherfucking Sheeple is capable of writing screeds of rationalisation on how the world owes them a living--a good living-- with all the luxury and boundless opportunity for "self actualisation".'

    What kind of people would sing such music to the ears of who?

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  15. @ panic-stricken wearing tin-foil hat to ward of the demons of 'conspiracy", redbean:

    Please lah, I'm neither here to destroy you or your blog. As I'm mentioned and repeated myself so many times in the past: I write opinion for sheer selfish fun firstly.

    ...however if you want to allow your imagination to run wild, and cause you to end up barking mad...go ahead. I have only one thing to ask: make it hilarious and entertaining, so I can laugh my balls off!

    OK? Good. Now go and get on with the objective of your own self-sabotage ;-)

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