The handling of this Pandemic by the 4G leeders has gone from bad to worse.
Singapore now ranks number 2, behind UK in terms of number of infected with the B1617 series per million population.
Their
stubborn refusal to take action early, when they could have easily
done, reflects very badly on their leedersheep (meaning leeder and
sheep).
No one can claim that because there is no hindsight that's why he cannot perform competently and decisively at the early stage.
A
good leader uses foresight, not hindsight, because in any situation,
there is no such thing as 100% information at hand. Usually, a good
leader makes his decision based on 60% to 70% information available,
which is the best one can get in all situations, if you are lucky.
Those
who want to make use of hindsight to make good decisive decisions are
not leaders, but followers. Such people are reactive, not proactive.
Such people cannot become leaders, no matter how well they have been
propped up and how high they have been promoted to. No matter what
background they may come from, also.
True leaders are proactive, not reactive.
Diamonds are diamonds. They will never crack under extreme pressure.
Glass are always glass. No matter how you treat it, under high pressure they will still crack miserably.
So,
those glass materials put up on display as diamonds can be easily seen
through, and exposed, the moment they crack! In this Pandemic, sad to
say, most of the displayed glass materials have cracked!
LIPS
ReplyDeleteWhen China was at its nadir from the 1910s to 1940s true genuine selfless and self-sacrificial leaders, heroes and heroines appeared in great numbers to help, struggle and fight against the aggression of both Western imperialist powers, the US and Japan and also against the highly corrupted Chiang Kai-Shek Kuomintang. With great determination and self-sacrifice these heroic leaders succeeded against all odds to beat down and defeat all China's enemies both foreign, external and internal enemies and proclaimed the establishment of the proud Peoples'Republic of China on October 1st, 1949. These saving stars of the once humbled and humiliated China and the Chinese people were the great Chinese nationalists led by the shining Chinese Communist Party of China under the brilliant heroic leadership of Chairman Mao Tse-Tung and his colleagues.
But in this tiny dot under the sun we appear to be hopeless. Looks like we need to exorst the spirits of the First Generation leaders to come out and help.
How do we come into such a nadir situation? I really don't understand. I am confused and confounded.
Hopefully the spirits of the First Generation leaders will show their guiding hands and save us from the mouth of hell and danger.
A Singaporean patriot. Eagles Eyes
PAP have a well thought out strategy. The present head is like a Aircraft Carrier surrounded by the guards (Navy battles ships). No matter what happened, the head is shield. Sacrificed lambs would take the hit and would be replaced.
ReplyDeleteDuring his 1984 National Day Rally speech, LKY said: “Everything works, whether its water, electricity, gas, telephone, telexes, it just has to work. If it doesn’t work, I want to know why, and if I am not satisfied, and I often was not, the chief goes, and I have to find another chief. Firing the chief is very simple.“
ReplyDeleteHe was a political coward himself.
DeleteWhen the pay and rewards are beyond imagination it is impossible to have leaders. Everyone from the top to the bottom of the command line will have their eyes focused on the money. They keep the status quo at all costs to preserve their position in the gravy train.
ReplyDeletePS:
ReplyDeleteMore detailed comparison between diamond and glass:
1. Diamond goes through millions of years of pressure in order to be hardened to become the hardest precious stone in the world.
2. Good leaders are like diamonds. No matter how strong the pressure, it becomes stronger instead of breaking and shattering into tiny bits and pieces.
3. Man-made glass have been tampered with fire up to a certain degree of heat, not pressure.
4. Although glass can be made to look like a diamond. It can even be made to glitter like a diamond, but its glitters are dull, not brilliant. Experienced eyes can easily distinguish the difference.
5. Glass also cracks, breaks and shatters easily. When it breaks and shatters it also makes a very loud noise and everyone around it can hear it and see it. The bigger the piece of glass, the louder the noise and the more the damage.
6. Bad leaders, fake leaders, mistaken leaders or mere followers propped up as leaders are like glass. They are not like diamonds, not even fake diamonds
7. One good example of a big piece of glass breaking and shattering into pieces is the case of a PM-Designate who chickened out and withdrew from his designated top leadership responsibility, when under pressure, looking like a defeated animal limping and licking its wounds as it cowed out of the arena.
8. Another example of a glass-type of leader is the case of a failed leadership that has been voted out by the people in a General Election but sneaked into Parliament through the backdoor hiding under a big umbrella, who has now been kicked around, like a football, from one ministry to another before he could even prove his worth to the public at large.
9. Last but not least example is the case of one fat cat that has failed the people and the country making blunders again and again and again, but has been propped up and kept in the same ministry for years to make it as though he has done an excellent job.
10. There are many more examples of glass-like leaders and fake leaders in Singapore. You can single them out quiet easily.
The frequent episodes of recreational angmoh FT cyclists on Singapore roads blatantly flouting Singapore traffic laws and arrogantly challenging Singaporean motorists eking a living is a reflection of weak nationalistic leadership.
ReplyDeletePlease don't anyhow blame our ministers and the head honcho for the dire pandemic situation in this little red dot. Blame must go to the sinkies for not knowing how to behave. Sinkies are the culprit because they are not capable of doing the menial jobs. Therefore we must bring on the hoards of Indian with their whole families to help us build out condos, MRTs, dig trenches etc. So, don't anyhow complain, blame yourself for being so choosey in your jobs.
ReplyDeleteTrue and good leaders do not play the blame game!
DeleteThey will take on responsibility and blame themselves even if mistakes are made by subordinates or the citizenry.
Fake and poor leaders always push the blame to others as scapegoats, in order to shield themselves from blames even if they make big blunders.
They always play the blame game and think of various ways to throw blames on the citizenry. Playing the blame game is a no-brainer.
Fake and lousy leaders who are quick to come out with excuses to blame their citizens for being choosy, lazy, etc are shameless, disgraceful, unthinking idiots, not fit to be leaders.
If Singaporeans are choosy, they would have obviously chosen better leaders instead of fake and lousy leaders.
If the Singaporeans are really choosy, they would definitely not have voted for the irresponsible fat cats. They would have thrown them out long ago.
If Singaporeans are lazy, the LKY and the Old Guards would not have been able to bring Singapore from the third world to the first.
So, please don't sprout nonsense. It only reflects on your disability to think. You are just like a parrot that simply imitates your keeper to regurgitate a few words of gibberish nonsense and making a fool of yourself.
Singapore: A COVID-19 Halfway House In The Making
ReplyDeleteAfter one and a half years of economic downturns, and after spending more than $100 billion of hard-earned taxpayers' money in the Reserve, the world-best super talents of Singapore are desperate, very desperate.
They are now in the process of turning the tiny island of Singapore into a "Lepers Island", where all potential lepers are sent to, for quarantine, until they are proven "cleaned", before they are allowed to proceed forth towards their destinations. A COVID-19 Halfway House of sorts.
It's all about the economy. It is all about money. Money is more important than preventing, protecting, preserving and saving their own citizens' lives, their own citizens' children and their own citizens' children's future.
If the economy tanks, no amount of safety measures implemented against the COVID-19 coronavirus for the safety and health of the country men, women and children can save them from the ultimate misery and suffering.
If the economy fails, thousands of jobs will be lost, foreign talents will desert, foreign investments will escape, and even some local talents and leaders will abscond. The suffering will be immense.
If the economy collapses, the whole country collapses. It becomes a failed state. It becomes a shame, a disgrace, a laughing stock and horrendous experience for the elites as well as the majority or the commoners through no faults of theirs. The suffering will be unimaginable.
There are some fake leaders who always talk about reviving the economy while the COVID-19 Pandemic is still in existence, still in progress, still marching on and still rampaging. But the beauty of it all is that they don't even have a single clue as to how to go about doing it, how to revive the economy while the COVID-19 is still very much alive. How to have the cake and eat it, so to speak.
There are some fake leaders who are quick to parrot other leaders' use of the phrase "coming back stronger" but how do you come back stronger when you don't even know how to come back in the first place?
So, the best they can do is to grab at any straw that floats towards them. In other words, they will seize any opportunity that may accidentally or incidentally comes across their paths.
So, now that some countries like Australia and Japan are presenting the idea of using Singapore as a Covid Quarantine Station (CQR) for foreigners who wish the visit their countries, the desperate world-best super talents quickly seize the opportunity, and so Singapore is now on its way to become the first (or the only) world-best COVID-19 Halfway House!
Fact is stranger than fiction.
LIPS
The Shangri-La Dialogue, which had been scheduled to take place on Jun 4 and Jun 5 in Singapore, has been cancelled two weeks before the meeting.
ReplyDeleteThis is due to the deterioration of the global COVID-19 situation, the organiser of the defence summit said in a statement on Thursday (May 20).
World Economic Forum in Aug also cancelled three months in advance.
ReplyDeleteBig shots all scare to die.
Heavy blow to Singapore as a Convention Centre.
Hotels, restaurants, convention centres, meeting places, petrol kiosks and places of interest - all of them and more - lost the opportunity to make money. What a setback! All due to the incompetence, irresponsibility, inefficiency, and stubborn attitude of the Covid-19 Task Force and their so-called scientific experts.
ReplyDeleteAnd, of course, also include the Big Boss, who seems to be MIA or enjoying a holiday in his ivory tower paradise.