Sinkies, aren’t you lucky?

With the latest govt proposal to provide health insurance for Sinkies till they die, even if they live up to 120 years, what more do the Sinkies want? Aren’t they lucky? I don’t think any govt in the world can do such a thing, to provide healthcare to all it citizens regardless of their age. Got meh? You mean in Australia and other First World countries their govt provide free healthcare to their senior citizens? Don’t bluff can? There is no free lunch. We Sinkies know that this life time Medishield health insurance we must pay ourselves.

And not only the govt is helping the people, the foreigners are all here to help them. The best talents from the Third World are here to help the Sinkies who are obviously sinking. Many could not even find jobs with their high qualifications and experience. They are so lucky as more would be jobless without the foreigners here.

And not only they came to help Sinkies with the economy and provided them with jobs, many foreign celebrities are here to help raise funds to help the old and the sick Sinkies as well. At the rate it is going, soon God too will descend from heaven to help the Sinkies. Why not when the middle class are all in debt and needing help? Soon our middle class will go the Detroit Way. But God will send the immortals down first to do the helping. Just hope the immortals are not helping themselves first.

There was a little thought by Chua Mui Hoong in the Sunday Times today. Though she was talking about the hot issue of tuition, her main point actually was a revelation of the kind of group think within the party/govt. For once she was saying something quite enlightening, about the way the group think among themselves and closed up to put on a united false front to the public. And many real issues were swept under the cloud of unity, a common position. She listed all the grouses of the people, from housing, healthcare, education, PMETs and populations, all disgustingly buried liked an ostrich just because some gods have taken a position and all must close ranks and complied.

The interesting point she made about Medishield Life for all, sick and unsick, tells the thinking behind the half baked solution. It is not fully cooked yet and still a WIP. Yes, the high medical cost to the oldies and sick has been raised much too often like all other issues but disregarded quietly, not heard, not seen, thus dunno.

Now there is a change. They are going to tackle it. But you pay, not the govt. They are going to rope in everybody to pay for the oldies and the sick. The healthy and those who don’t mind dying would not be given a choice to opt out of the scheme. The govt is going to dip into the pockets of everyone to fish out whatever it can get hold of to help the oldies and the sick. What a generous gesture! Daylight robbery for a good cause, like Robin Hood.

What is the problem? The problem is high medical cost. The problem is that not everyone wants to live forever and has the money to pay for it. The problem is that the govt could have cough up the money for the sick and oldies, with some conditions and limitations to prevent a bottomless healthcare scheme from emptying the reserves. The problem is that the govt is collecting too many taxes but not using it in the right place. A few monuments built less could be more than enough to pay for this Medishield Life. Just the annual running cost of that Avatar Garden that is losing its novelty would be enough to pay for the premiums of the oldies and sick with spare to change. And the land could be put to better use.

But the change is really no change. The problem comes from the people and the people will pay for it, not the govt when the govt could well afford it without being extravagant on the ‘good to have’ and the wasteful.

Sinkies could be much luckier if the govt spend its money in betterer ways, for the good of the people. To be specific, for the good of Sinkies.

JEM ceiling collapsed - must be the tightening of foreign worker policy

I quoted below statement from an editorial article posted in TRE. ‘Chairman of the Government Parliamentary Committee (GPC) for National Development Lee Bee Wah said that sometimes developers and contractors compromise on the quality of construction materials in order to lower costs.

The tightening of foreign workers policy may also be a factor.

Ms Lee said, “Every time a contractor renews work permit for their workers, they face some difficulties and therefore keep changing staff. That could mean we don’t have experienced engineers or inspectors. The government should really look into this.”’

I think this is a good way of looking at the newly built shopping complex. It must have been built during the time when the govt was curtailing the import of foreign workers and thus the quality of the building is affected. Either shortchanged in material or quality of workers could be a factor. It is very likely the later as the only thing changed was foreign worker policy. Now, is this true? When was the building built and was it really affected by the foreign worker policy? Another question, is the foreign worker policy to curb bringing in of construction worker or white collar foreigners that the people were angry about, esp the PMET? I thought there was no problem with construction workers and everyone agreed that in this sector it is very difficult to get Sinkies to work? And another question, how could construction worker be such a big factor when there are engineers, supervisors and QCs overseeing the jobs?

Nevermind, got some small fries to take the blame. And good reason to bring in more construction workers, which was never an issue. Hope this would not translate into bringing in more foreign PMETs.
Another way of solving this problem is to borrow the logic of preventing corruption. You know what I mean. Then the work quality will improve and contractors would not take short cuts. And nothing will collapse. QED.

The need for tuition

This is going to be the hot topic for a while. It is the concern of every parent and their children. To have tuition or not to have. For those children who are better endowed, tuition may be just a little additive like chicken essence, a little booster to get that extra few marks. To some it is not really necessary. How fortunate for these parents and children.

As not every child is gifted the same way, some would really need that little help. Some are slower or develop a bit later. Some are just afraid to ask in class or not getting the attention of the teachers in a class of 40 children. Then there will be the teacher that may go too fast or just not getting the message across.

For the slower students or late developers, tuition helps a lot. Tuition becomes personalized and tailored to their individual needs and pace. Caveat, a good tutor is needed. A tuition teacher could give the personal attention to find out what really was needed to help a child to improve. The proviso here is that the child is willing to learn

But like all things, some children are just not gifted academically and tuition could not do much and literally a waste of money and time. Just hope no clever people will come up with a solution that fits all. It cannot be. There are so many variables that affect a child in his/her growth and acquisition of knowledge and information, the environment, the motivation and the nature of things.

This also applies to teaching, teaching methods and how to motivate children. Not everyone will be uplifted by the same approach. Please, no one size fits all solution. That is why there are so many variations of schools, Normal, Express, ITE, polys and universities. Different target at your own time, fire.

The problem today is that everyone expects every child to fit into one mould, or have an education system that fits every child. And no one is brave enough to say, look, we need to provide a big enough buffet spread to cater to different tastes and the likes and dislikes. For those who need tuition, let them have their tuition. For those who don’t, good for them.

One thing the govt can do is to provide the facilities and teachers to help those who need tuition at little cost, not affordable fees or more subsidies. Free would be better as this is an investment into our precious resources and you are talking about the young that needed help to make them better people for themselves and country.

How to go about it and how much would the govt cough out for this very important needs of the people? No hawker centre, foodcourt and restaurant analogy please. This is serious business.

My two kids were differently endowed. One was slower and needed a little help in maths. She flunked in her late primary class but enough time for me to repair the damage. All I did was to clarify her thoughts and mental blocks, explained the concepts to make sure she understood. And with some perseverance and motivation, she went on to ace her maths in O and A level. Without knowing her problems and lack of understanding of basic mathematical concepts, tuition would not help much. A tutor must know what is the problem or where is the problem.

The other type of tuition which is very popular is exam jamming, cramming to ace exams. This is only good for the exam but the effects are temporary, like an instant high but no residual or long term effect. My other kid is different, better endowed. He came to me only once for a maths problem in P6. I took too long to get the answer using the old method. Before I could complete he said he had worked it out and that was the last time he came to me. He aced his O and A level and aced his Masters with Distinction in Engineering in Imperial College.

Both my kids did not have a day of tuition. One just had 15 mins with me in his whole life as a student and never came to me again. They were lucky, or I was lucky. But not every kid is so lucky and has parents to guide or fall back on. Tuition is necessary to assist, to guide, to motivate and support a child. Showing them the way, opening up their minds and clearing road blocks are very important. That would pave the way for the child to find his own way ahead. Tuition to game an examination is another ball game.

Talent is an abused term in employment

The term talent has been shooting off everyone’s mouth like referring to gold or diamond. And often this term is prefixed with another word, foreign, and conveniently attached together as foreign talent. What does this mean to the users of these terms, the ordinary people, the employers, job seekers and the govt?

Very often we also heard people quipped that there is not enough or no Singaporean talents to fill a vacancy. And many do not pause to ponder what is this vacancy that needs talent and why are the talents not found locally. Take an example of a HR Manager. What kind of talent that is so rarefied that no Singaporeans are found to have them that this position must be filled by a foreigner? In the same vein, an Admin Manager, a Finance Manager, a Sales or Purchasing Manager, a Banking/Finance Manager, an IT Manager and so on, even politicians.

On more technical skills like Engineering, IT, Medical or Science, why are the local graduates not good enough as talents and foreign graduates are the right and suitable talents? Did their universities teach them different stuff that is useful to the industries and ours don’t? If that is the case, either we revamp what is being taught in our universities or we close them down and send our students to those universities that are teaching the right stuff.

In the more generic jobs as mentioned above, what talent is one talking about? A HR or Finance professional will have acquired the same basic training and knowledge to do the job reasonably well. All that makes the difference is the attitude and drive in the person, unless the applicant is a moron. And if one is to know the extent Singaporean students drove themselves to acquire good grades, that is telling in itself, that they have the drive, stamina and determination to do well. These graduates who worked so hard to get good grades cannot be the same employees that switched off when employed and paid to do a good job. They strove for good grades without being paid, and now refused to work when they are paid well?

Even those that do not have the good grades but rose to higher management, this fact is enough to show that they are able and capable of doing the job at that level. The knowledge and experience on the job are more valuable than the qualifications of a fresh graduate.

Now, what kind of talents that the foreigners have that the local talents did not have? The foreigners have two brains, three mouths and trained differently and acquired unusual skills from their universities and countries that made them better than the local PMETs?

For the very technical and highly skilled jobs that needed post graduate training, the expertise would set them apart. But many skills can easily be trained, be transferred with on the job or in house training that would not take more than a year to do so. What is so difficult about that?

The truth is that many jobs even at senior management level do not require this thing called talent or exceptional talent that cannot be found in local PMETs. The word talent is an abused word, a red herring that means nothing really.
Anyone who uses this term to justify his special needs as an employer, make him explain why it is a talent in the first place. Talents are needed in very special positions, in special appointments, in highly skilled fields that demanded gruelling years in academic discipline. Another type of talent is how to cheat which is inborn, how to get paid excessively without having to do the work or not knowing how to do the work but getting others to do it and claim the credit. This is unusual talent.

Actually one of the highest level of talent is to be able to con your way to success without acquiring any useful skills but by capitalising on connections, wealth, associations, politicking and conspiracy.

Boorish primitive genes are good

Most people are aware of the problems of inbreeding. The genes, no matter how superior, would degenerate with too much in breeding. Even the animals, we are no different, in the zoos need wild genes to keep the stock healthy. So the tigers and lions and the elephants need to have mates from the wild to retain the wildness in them.

The years of genetic engineering in developed countries like ours have created a breed of people that are very different from the days of old, or from those in less developed countries. There the people are hungrier and are mentally tuned to fight for their piece of meat or loaf of bread. They are mentally tough to fight for the right to live, to exist. They have little refinement, less care about niceties like gracious, little thought of what will be the consequences of their unrestrained and selfish acts.

The most obvious sign of the new breed of Sinkies is their spectacles. Then their nature, more careful and self restraint, the kiasu and kiasi traits. They would not go out to fight for food, or even their little rights. They withdraw from society, into their little world of comfort and safety. None of my business, I am comfortable and secure within my cocoon. That is the new sinkie, an inbreeding of the nerdy kind, intelligent intellectually but minus the brawn and muscles.

Flash back to the uncouth, boorish and aggressive Ah Tiong in the MRT. We will be no match for such aggressive. He is tough, bigger, louder and daring to pick up a fight. The Sinkies will shy away. I have seen a couple of such roughness this morning in the train, one likely to be a Malaysian and another a Pinoy, both getting hostile to two oldies. The same traits when imposed on an army of boys, specky, soft and tender, meek and weak, what would we have? An army of school boys, looking every bit like boy scouts. And they will have their favourite weapons in their hands, the mobile phones and ipads or something similar. These are the things they will be comfortable with. They would probably faint when they see blood, and screaming for mother.

Yes, we need to input some wildness into our degenerative gene pool. We have too much brains but lacking in brawns and muscle mass. We are shrinking in every area except a head that is getting bigger by the days, a swollen head, so they said. But this is no good in the face of aggression. We need to stand up to aggression individually, to protect self and the weak, and to defend the country.

We have lost that aggressive trait, we have lost that feeling of hunger. So the Ah Tiongs and the likes are a good thing to have here. We need more cross breeding with the wild and primitivity. Go and sow your wild oats or bring home some Ah Tiongs. It is good for health and the future of the people and the country.

Heheheh. Let’s welcome the Ah Tiongs and all the wild men and women from the hungrier countries. They are good tonics, ‘chiat poh’. Forget about being graceful when being so becomes disgraceful, to be bullied by the simpletons and the simple minded.

The case of the reappearance of empty ballot boxes

The official explanation so far, after the counting is over, the ballot boxes would be disposed off by contractors. So there would no longer be consequential to the election and not really meaningful or accountable. A few seen floating around and reappearing would just reflect that the contractors were ‘slaykay’ at most, nothing to worry about. There is no need to make a case out of the two boxes found and nothing serious really. Let’s move on, this part I say one.
 
Two of the Presidential candidates are still not happy and smelling foul. What is the real system of checks and balance? Would all the empty boxes be part and parcel of the election process and must all be accounted and destroyed together without any one left floating around. Did they claim that something is amissed?
 
Presumably, this part I guess one, since I have not been a polling agent and thus would not know what is the correct procedure. Presumably, at the end of the counting of the ballots, all the ballot papers would be placed in these same ballot boxes to be transported to the High Court for safe keeping. There was no need to pack them into the same boxes according to the area or groupings they came from, but in some of the boxes would do. Presumably they were not packed into new or different boxes that were brought in for this purpose. Presumably, some boxes would be empty if all the boxes were fully stuffed.
 
Presumably every box was a controlled item and there would be an officer to count them and check them out, X number used for ballot papers and Y number extra were empty. Presumably the total would match and all squared up.
 
Then the puzzling part, should all the boxes, as they were controlled items, be sent together to the High Court and eventually be destroyed together? Looks like this is not the case and those extra boxes were left behind to be removed and destroyed by the contractors after counting was done. They became not controlled items. If this be the case, then the reappearance of the five empty boxes needs not be an issue. It was just a slip by a slipshod contractor on non controlled items.
 
But if the procedure is for all the ballot boxes, empty or otherwise, to be destroyed together and kept together, then people may ask how come these controlled items could be left behind as they were countables and if missing would not do? But then again, as an after event, ie, after the ballot papers had been properly delivered on the counting tables, the missing boxes would just be a technical issue and would not affect the results.
 
This does not mean that imaginations cannot go wild like the boxes were already missing and switched before the counting. The understanding or assumption at the moment is that they were left there after counting. Is this assumption and understanding true or reasonable? Or is this proven, a fact? This, I presume, would be playing in the minds of those who wanted to see mischief. But this is highly impossible as the polling agents would have their eyes glued to these boxes and no one could take them away without being noticed. It could only happen if there was a gap in which the ballot boxes were out of sight from the polling agents while they were on the way to the polling stations. Presumably there was no such window to begin with.
 
So? What do you think?

USA – The warring state up to mischief again

When there is an opportunity to incite war, to create rivalry among nation states, to create tension, be sure the USA will be there. The USA has for many decades being trying to provoke the two Koreans to destroy and kill each other in North East Asia. It has repeatedly held provocative joint military exercises at the borders of the two Koreans, simulating an assault or landing into North Korea. And with the used of western media and reporters, continuously accused the North Koreans of being aggressive and unstable, unpredictable for reacting negatively to the joint military exercises at their doorstep. The most recent and closest attempt to start war between the two Koreans was of course the sinking of a South Korean Naval ship, the Choenan, and killing several tens of seamen in it.
 
Now sailing several thousand miles across the Pacific Ocean, the Americans are at it again holding joint military exercises with the Japanese to simulate attacking Chinese islands. And further south, it is conducting a more dangerous wargame with an equally trigger happy but top empty Filipino armed forces in the disputed waters of the South China Sea. And China would be blamed by Washington and all the western media for reacting to this hostile provocation at their front yard.
 
China cannot stay away and look the other way with such blatant and provocative acts of aggression. China must react firmly which is what the Americans wanted to be used as proof of China’s militancy against a small country like the Philippines. And China must react, like it or not, to keep these warlike countries away for good. Appeasement or taking a low profile will only embolden the Americans and the mindless Pinoys to think China is weak. It would not be surprising to see China showing its muscle and intent not to be pushed around by the Americans.
 
The American pivot to Asia is a hostile military strategy. Do the Asean countries understand this or pretending not to see it? How many Asean countries are welcoming this American move to stick its fingers in between the legs of the Asean countries and calling it a peaceful interference? The American lackeys would no doubt sing praises for the Americans to be the new master and ruler in the region. Asean and South East Asia will again be the chess board of American imperialism and Asean countries by its chess pieces for military dominance in the region.
 
China will not only protest, but will also have to stand up to push back this unwelcome initiative of the Americans. How many Asean countries will be on the Chinese side, to keep the region free of American power, provocation, intimidation and eventually war? Like it or not, China has to confront the warmongering USA and may have to risk a war in order to hold its ground and defend its territorial integrity. It is only a matter of when.

Talking Point – A special moment

I caught a couple of minutes of Tuesday’s Talking Point programme in CNA. I couldn’t remember what was the exact title of the discussion but it was all about public transport and how to improve it. The local counterpart Sinkie expert was a professori. And when probed, he gave the standard govt reply of all the shortcomings and excuses that we have heard for the last century. Oops, I am exaggerating.
 
One particular hilarious moment was the question of whether it would be better to nationalize the public transport system and then came the parroted answers, it would become inefficient, the operators would skive and lack the motivation to improve the quality of the service, service quality would fall. Basically it would just rot. They forgot to say that the operators or management would become marbok or would be waiting for bribes or else would not work. In short, once it became a public service run by civil servants they would all forget about working, about responsibility, about excellence, and spent their time drinking kopi. And nothing could be done to them. No one will be watching over them to kick their asses.
 
The Hongkie expert roared into hilarious laughter on hearing these. He was shock into disbelief that such stupid arguments could be uttered in public by supposedly respectable people and professionals, including very top people. I squirmed too.
 
How silly can Sinkies be to believe in such craps? The instant and spontaneous reaction of the Hongkie expert only showed how stupid Sinkies are to allow this nonsense to be repeated over and over again and for stupid people to say it again and again without knowing how stupid they sounded. Didn’t they know they looked silly saying it?
 
So? Never mind. It is group think like they said.

COPS IN MALAYSIA

Subject:  COPS IN MALAYSIA

My  friend sent us this information. Though we can't verify it it's a warning to take note as many of us drive in to JB for makan and provision.

Travelling is a wonderful experience when you want to get away from the humdrum daily routine.. It's just that the natives there can make it troublesome. Even if you take along the correct passport.

Blessings

James  

DON'T "DUIT KOPI" or BRIBE THE POLICE OR JPJ AND FALL INTO THEIR TRAP FROM NOW ON !!!To:  Friends, Heed the warning. Don't offer bribe to the police cos they get more than what you would give and you get into worst trouble.....   WARNING : DON'T OFFER DUIT KOPI FROM NOW ON!  DEAR FRIENDS If you have ever paid or are thinking of paying ' Coffee Money' when stopped for traffic or other offences, DON'T EVER Do This Again. The traffic department (JPJ) has recently started a campaign to be rid of corruption. Every Officer on duty will be rewarded with RM100.00 if they report each case of bribery to the department. This is how they do (trick you into) it. They will note down the details of your IC/MyKad, and ask you how you want to settle ( 'Macam mana nak selesai?') If you indicate yes or even offer to give them any money, they will report the incident by rejecting your 'Kopi Money' and get the RM100.00 instead as an incentive for their integrity and 'Honest' pubicity. This means that You will end up having a summon issued to you and perhaps a charge for bribery. SO DON'T PAY DUIT KOPI AGAIN, especially if you hope to go free with a lesser amount of money compared to the fine. Even if you want to pay over RM200, the JPJ Officers would rather have a 'good' name than to take your kopi money. Just beware of their trick because the cops are now accumulating 'cookies' points for their promotion and pay increment - with your help if possible. They should have done this to stop corruption long time ago... But anyway it's better late than never, right? SPREAD THIS MESSAGE TO EDUCATE OTHERS ON THIS NEW ANTI-RASUAH POLICY!  AND DON'T YOU DARE TO CORRUPT ANY JPJ OR EVEN POLICE OFFICERS AGAIN!

More help for senior citizens on the way

It was reported yesterday that Gan Kim Yong is leading another team to Japan to study how to deal with ageing problems and senior citizens. This comes quite soon after Boon Heng’s team went on a similar visit with a similar mission. With two big guns leading teams to Japan, it only shows how serious the govt is on the welfare of the senior citizens. With this additional trip, both Gan Kim Yong and Boon Heng could have a retreat with their teams to concoct some great solutions to help the senior citizens. The seniors can now rest at ease that the govt is taking them seriously.
 
One thought came to mind without needing to go for a study trip is to consider the income of senior citizens that are mostly out of jobs for 10 to 40 years. Should the govt offer them some kind of income to pay for 3 meals? Some would need a roof over their heads too. And now every one of them would have to pay for the compulsory Medishield Life Insurance. Where are they going to get the money to pay for it?
 
Maybe I am jumping the gun and there will be good news for the silver hair citizens after the return of Gan Kim Yong. Keep the fingers crossed, grand dads and mums. You will be able to enjoy your twilight years, your golden years bathing in golden light. Though the govt does not believe in free lunch, maybe this time the free lunch will be offered knowing that many would have nothing to live by given their lack of income.

The tuition woe or tuition blur

Parliament is debating seriously about the impact of tuition for school children and how tuition could create an uneven playing field with some getting a leg up in their academic pursuits. This is definitely unfair. Why should some students with parents having so much money be allowed to have the best tuition to score straight As and some got to struggle without tuition to just get by? Cannot right? Wrong?
 
And there is also a problem of good teachers quitting teaching to be tuition teachers for the monetary rewards. Like that also no good as the schools will be deprived of having good teachers. And parents are also spending too much money on tuition, another NG.
So, what is the problem? Dunno. So? Commission a study lah, or at least conduct a survey to know what is wrong and what are the implications then something can be done.
 
Ok, good idea. One finding I can guarantee will come out. Unlevel playing field. So? Level the playing field, so easy. One solution, tuition be banned henceforth, so every student will start from the same starting line. Or the govt will provide tuition, subsidized definitely, so that every child will have tuition. And make sure it is also compulsory. Like that the field will be leveled, surely.
 
As for good teachers leaving the teaching service, have a term included in the contract like those in the private sector. Teachers leaving the teaching service will be banned from providing tuition for 5 years. Like that good teachers sure would not leave. Not so good teacher can leave, never mind.
 
See, problem solved. No need to waste time and money to conduct study or survey. If the ministry is going to spend public money on such study and survey, they must be serious in what they want to do, to take remedial actions. It cannot be a look see, look see, and then nothing done. This is like sending them overseas to study what other countries are doing then come back and just make a report also can. No need any follow up actions or plans. But this also costs money and if it ends up as NATO, then what? Simply spend public money is very easy. But don’t forget money must be well spent. There must be clear objectives and follow up actions to improve something. 

Maybe institutionalized or nationalized tuition and tuition centres. Then it will be easier to level the playing field. Rich parents pay more, poor parents pay less or subsidized. Now I used the term subsidize like no body’s business. I am also getting used to the term compulsory with compulsory payments. No opt out.
 
What do you think?

Putin’s gambit backfiring

It was touted as a great manoeuvre that put Obama on the defensive, like a cornered man. Now the Americans are up to their tricks again, like they did in Iraq and Libya. All they need is a license to take one step and they will walk a mile. In Iraq, they first went in with the WMD inspectors who insisted that everything should come under their microscope, even Saddam’s pubic hair. Sure the Iraqis objected and that gave the impression that the Iraqis were unreasonable. And the rest is history. In Libya, the UN only authorized the western powers to keep a no fly zone over Libya. But they went ahead to bomb the daylight out of Libya and Gaddafi. They murdered both leaders and Assad is next on their wanted list.
 
So, what is new in this Putin gambit? The Americans and their two lackeys in Britain and France as usual went on to interpret everything to their advantage, agreed or not agreed, in the meeting between Kerry and his Russian counterpart Lavrov. They now wanted to impose all kinds of unreasonable terms on Assad to comply and failing which will justify an attack. So, what is so clever about Putin’s gambit?
 
Putin has in a way accepted that it was Assad’s fault, and so his chemical weapons much be destroyed while his enemies’ chemical weapons remain intact. The Americans, the Brits, the French, Israel and all the rebels will be allowed to keep their chemical weapons, in a way admitting that they are not guilty.
 
How clever is Putin to fix Assad up? If he is sure that it was the rebel or anti Assad’s forces that used the chemical weapons, why did he not do anything about it but willingly surrendered Assad to his enemy? It reminds me of Gorbachev and his glasnost that led to the breakup of the Soviet Union. Putin’s stupid gambit could lead to the breakup or downfall of Syria. He is showing a pair of weak hands while facing a bunch of treacherous gangsters who have a penchant for killing civilians and children and dismissing them as collaterals.
 
Now he must make up for it or else Syria and Assad will be history.

His name cannot be mentioned

It is not that his name cannot be pronounced or spoken that will incur the wrath of God. Mentioning his name will bring brickbats instantly, at least to me here in this blog or in any blogs or forum. And if I were to sing him praises, my blog will be torn apart and I may get rotten eggs thrown at me. I will be lucky if my bones are not broken. So I need to be careful when talking about Him.
 
He is the creator of wealth and brought good fortunes to many, and is held in high esteem, even prayed to. In His name many were blessed. Some may fall on their knees in his presence, in awe. That is how powerful he is. And all his opponents were blighted to oblivion. No one can be more powerful than Him.
 
He did what needs to be done, he has everything planned and executed as he wished. At the end of the day, his work is done, complete, and he rests. No one has such good fortune to be able to see everything done in his lifetime to near perfection. His son was installed. His enemies faded away, no one left standing in the name of enemy except the sly ones that passed off as friends. And he is adored by all around him, or feared by those on the dark side.
 
Just the ability to see through and to complete his job, nothing left undone that needs to be done, is such a blessing. He has all the time to do it, in grace and in a leisure pace. Yes He is the man. How many men have such good fortune to be able to call it a day at his own time and calling, and to see his own monuments being erected in his life time? He is untouchable even in his last breath, and surrounded by his loved ones and his admirers and beneficiaries.
 
God will envy Him.

Go to the promised land

Singaporeans are encouraged by a new group of Moses to go to their promised land, overseas. This little paradise that we have created is not good enough for our able and talented, or not meant for them. The talk is to go to all corners of the world. This sing song session is gaining in decibel and the Moses must really believe that this is the way to go.

Let me fast forward to see what it will be like if this call is to take its natural course. Our talented will be moving out to sell their expertises overseas, residing in foreign land, their new promised land. Some may leave their families at home with the maids. Some may rent out their precious and multi millions homes to the mosquitoes or to new tenants. Only the daft and less talented will be left behind in their near to a million dollar public housing.

In the general economy, our industries too will be moving overseas to make their pot of gold. There is no need to worry about hollowing out. Many foreign companies will be welcomed to take over their vacated places, same business or new business, all the same. And the foreigners will also bring in more foreign workers, talented and not so talented, to fill up the shortfalls of manpower as the citizens left for their promised land.

Our paradise and the beautiful and expensive homes will be occupied by foreigners, own or rent, to enjoy the first world city and facilities while our talented will be fighting it out in third world countries for their trophies, roughing it out and taking the risks in foreign land, away from the safety and comfort of the paradise they were used to.

What happens if 50% of the citizens left for their promised land and are replaced by foreigners? Is this a good thing? Why do we work so hard to build a paradise only to be encouraged to vacate it for third world people to share and enjoy? Logical?

When the Europeans were building their empires, they went overseas too. But their missions were different. They left their homes to conquer, to rob, to loot, to bring the resources and gold home for their loved ones to live a life of leisure and to pursue the good life. They went out to bring wealth home, not to abandon their beloved homes. They know where were their homes why they were out conquering the world. Their promised land is still home unless they could turn the foreign land into homes like the USA, Australia and other conquered land. They did not bring in foreigners to fill the vacuum left by them, at least during the glorious days of the empires. The Europeans built their era of renaissance by conquering the world and bringing wealth home. We are emptying our nest of talents.

What are we thinking when we want our talented to go out when paradise is here, when home is here, when all the third world talents or no talents want to be here? And the net effect is to leave a void at home to be filled by the dubious talents of third world countries.

What do you think?

Obama, the Whitemen's tool and pr0xy for mass murder.

Obama might have received the Nobel Peace Prize but right from the beginning he has shown to the world that he is a war monger and a mass killer. He is a willing tool and proxy for White Americans agenda to dominate and control the whole world under White men's hegemony. He takes instructions from his evil masters in the White House, The Senate, Congress and on top the warmongering masters in CIA and The Pentagon where all American wars of aggression and conquest are planned and carried out.

Strictly speaking, Obama has no say in international and foreign affairs . He is only a mouth piece for his White masters and he articulates and acts only what he is commanded to do so. He is only a smoke screen for all the evil designs of the West headed by the White Americans especially in their wars of aggression . When the American drones and military aircrafts and missiles kill thousands of other people their leaders like their president, senators, congressmen and military are praised and considered as heroes. They are all wanton killers and criminals and should be brought before the International Court of Justice for trial and be summarily executed. When  a fellow countryman of victims carries out revenge singulary in killing a white man , it is always blown out of proportions by them that he is a bad man, a killer and murderor.

America and many other European countries hold thousands of nuclear tipped missiles and bombers and store thousands of chemical weapons . They tell us their nuclear bombs and missiles and chemical weapons are clean and for peaceful purposes only. As of old, they are using their military might for aggression and to hold sway over other people  - other countries. Therefore other countries big or small must ensure they too have nuclear and chemical weapons to deter White men's aggression. The White Americans and the Europeans must remember that there is only one planet earth, and we either live together or die together. The White Americans and the Europeans have created enough trouble for other peoples and countries in the last few hundred years . They had genocided over eighty-five million native Americans in North American and over a hundred million in South America. With their military might they had created endless wars of aggression, conquests and destruction that culminated with the most wanton and destructive First World War ( 1914 - 1918 ) and The Second World War ( 1937 - 1945 ). The world has to put a stop to all these acts of wanton aggression or face a Third World War where no one can survive not even the White Americans and the Europeans wherever they may be.

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The Singapore Dream flying high

There was once the American Dream that made many Americans rich or at least promoted to the middle class with reasonably high pay, home ownership and cars and a good life of plenty. This American Dream was real and known world wide that people from across the world came knocking at the American shore. Many foreigners were equally happy with their American Dream.
 
The Chinese flocked to America once the barrier was lifted, to live the American Dream. The early birds caught the worms. Unfortunately the American Dream is crumbling. Many middle class Americans woke up to find the Dream gone. They became the new poor of America. Those from the Third World are still chasing the American Dream as the average American lifestyle is still worth many times their pathetic life in their home countries. This has changed for the Chinese who are starting to go home. Even the Hongkies are going home.
 
There is now a Chinese Dream where many became millionaires and billionaires within a generation, where jobs are aplenty. Many talented Chinese, trained and educated in the best American and western universities and systems are returning to China to chase the Chinese Dream.
 
Those who came to Singapore to chase the Singapore Dream are also returning except for the low level unskilled and semi skilled food court operators and those in Geylang. The Singapore Dream is also crumbling to the educated and professional Chinese. But to the Third World arrivals, the Singapore Dream is still much alive and flying high. Many are dreaming of becoming landlords and business men and women after making their little fortune here. What they earned may not seem much here but on going home they will be much richer and could start a new life with their new found wealth acquired chasing the Singapore Dream. Yes, the Singapore Dream is good to the Third World foreigners.
 
To the Sinkies, the Singapore Dream is changing. The latest is to stop dreaming of a car. Many have stopped dreaming of private properties or even a 5 rm flat. The Singapore Dream to the Sinkies is disappearing just like the American Dream to the Americans. Only the foreigners from poorer and less developed countries are cherishing this Dream, to be rich and to upgrade themselves to the middle class or better, to live better lives. To Sinkies, the new Singapore Dream is to downgrade, to downgrade their expectations, to downgrade their jobs, their homes, and forget about car ownership. Can’t believe it but the new Singapore Dream is all about downgrading.
 
Might as well call it the fleeting Singapore Dream.

Half baked survey or half baked analysts?

While many do not bother much about surveys and survey findings, the latest survey by the Institute of Policy Studies is gaining some traction to the extent that some took it quite seriously. We have a race relations problem. You mean we don’t have a race relations problem until this survey came about? Or do they mean that we won’t have a race relations problem in the future if the right things are done? Heheheh, I didn’t know there are so many children around.

I did a very interesting survey myself and the results were stunning. 10% of the respondents said they will kill their parents. 30% said they will like to swap their parents. 40% will want to sell their wives. 60% of women would want to change their spouses. And 30% are very happy with their mother in laws. This survey was conducted without the input of race, so it is race free. The respondents were from all the races. Would the result be different if race is added? I dunno, but for sure it will rub people up the wrong way and they will be many stereotyping of the races by the analysts and the readers. And they will tell you, see, all racists!

Why would there be 10% wanting to kill their parents? Don’t they love their parents? Should this simple question elicit a 100% result or near there, that they all loved their parents? And 30%, horror, so many want to swap their parents, not happy with the parents who gave birth to them. As for the men who wanted to sell their wives and the wives who wanted to change their spouses, shouldn’t this be the natural response, or should the number be higher given the fact that familiarity breeds contempt, or once you get too close the spots became obvious and more difficult to live with?

And there are 30% who are happy with their mother in laws, the most undesirable part of a marriage equation! Should this be down to 1%?

Should the survey findings be different? Nay, when human nature is concerned, the results are likely to be the same like among every few good men or women there will be a few creeps, a few mad, a few insane. Does anyone really expect a survey on human perceptions of things or opinions be perfectly skewed in one way or another? Just like the Institute of Policy Studies survey, are the 20 or 30% of so called undesirable traits bad, unacceptable or should not be there that people are alarmed by them?

Even if the same person is to take a survey questionnaire, his answers would be different by the days and by his moods or by his gains or losses in the casinos. Surveys or analysts or readers that do not understand the flirtatious and superficiality of human nature would be worked up by the findings of surveys when in fact the answers are just the norm, something that will hardly change because human nature is such, unreliable, fickle and full of themselves.

So is it the problem of half baked surveys, or half baked analysts or half baked respondents? Or is it the fault of half baked readers that find survey results disagreeable or enlightening?

Nobel Peace Prize recipient Obama is a joke

They gave him a peace prize without knowing whether he is a war monger or a peace keeper. Now in his second term as the President of the USA, Obama has proven to be just as eager to conduct war instead of peace. He continued to wage wars in the Middle East and Afghanistan only to shift the tension to East and South East Asia.

Now he is thinking of starting another war in Syria and he said he is going to attack Syria with or without the approval of the UN. In other words, he is defying the world and world opinion, just like George Bush. He is going to war in Syria and rejecting international law which needs the approval of the UN. And the reasons given for this new invasion is very similar to Georgie’s WMD lie. This time the lie is that Assad, the President of Syria, has used chemical weapons to attack the rebels.

The truth is still uncertain and in more probability the work of the Americans or its allies to give the justification for an attack on Syria. And the Americans arrogantly concluded that it must be the work of Assad and not themselves. They have already decided, or fixed the issue and no one is going to prove otherwise. They are the white knights, the good guys, going to save the Syrians. They are going to bomb Syria.

Are they? What if there is conclusive proof that it was the Americans and their allies that used chemical weapons? Would this Nobel Laureatte be prosecuted in the IJC for crimes against humanity?

Go view this interesting video, http://2012indyinfo.com/2013/09/08/obama-torn-to-shreds-by-fox-news-over-syria-seriously-a-must-watch/

Change the Singapore Dream – Kishore

This call sounds like insanity. If it is to dream for the moon, perhaps it may be more agreeable. But to dream to downgrade and give up cars as a convenience, is like telling Sinkies to downgrade to a 4 rm HDB flat that cost $1m and only 60 sq m. But what Kishore did was to be provocative, to think tangentially, to walk the unbeaten path. It is always refreshing to think a bit wild, to be unorthodox, to sound a bit insane but to get people out of their comfort zone.

The only weakness in this dream is that he forgot that this is an unnecessary dream if the planners did not go bonkers to follow the economists blindly. We need critical mass to have a sustainable economy. And that critical mass was 2m, then 4m, then 5m then 7m then 10m. And we can build to heaven’s high or deep down and get closer to living hell. Sure the possibilities are unlimited given the expansiveness of the human mind. But there is a cost involved, just like the insane Medishield Life to cover all and sundry, young and old, healthy and sick. Who is going to pay for it or where is the money coming from?

Car ownership is a luxury, and more than a luxury, it is freedom to travel, it is progress, it is what human beans strived to better themselves and their way of life. It liberates the constraints of time and space. Why all the cries for progress, for economic growth, for technology only to abandon it because some economists got their numbers mixed up and forgot the good from the bad? Do we want economic growth only to abandon our dream of car ownership? Do we want to abandon the dream for landed properties or owning a 1000 sq m home or bigger? Do we want to dream of only eating in foodcourts and hawker centres? It is regressive thoughts surely. Why do we ever think of downgrading, downsizing, giving up the good stuff and con ourselves that less is good, no cars is good, smaller flats, the smaller the better? Idiotic isn’t it?

But if I am the rich and powerful, and living in a 5000 sq m homes and owning a garage of luxury cars, I would not mind conning the daft that no cars is good, and living in a dog’s kennel is quality living.

Kishore said we have to give up the Singapore dream of owning cars, he fell short of saying we also have to give up dreaming of a 1000 sq m 5 rm home as well. And I quote, ‘We have to give up this insane dream of owning a car and replace it with an ecosystem of a public transport system that makes it irrational to own a car.’  I would like to suggest that we should give up this insane dream of a bigger population and replace it with a friendly ecosystem and allowing more people to own cars and living in bigger homes. Just cut the shit in growing the population to consume more of the little land we have. In this case, smaller population is good, and there are many countries that are small in population but doing much better than us and with much better quality of life. And their land mass is also bigger, with more space for living and recreation.

The insane dream is 6.9m that will make life a living drudgery to many average Sinkies. They will be reduced to slaves of the economic system while a small elite will continue to live in sprawling landed homes and owning several cars and laughing at the idiocy of the easily conned Sinkies.

There is a need to recalibrate where we are going and how not to destroy our ecosystem and make it more favourable to living than to working for the sake of working. Yes the planners need to change their insane dream and come down from high heavens to uplift everyone to a higher plateau. They need to plan in such a way that there will be more space for living, for bigger homes and for more cars and more roads. And please, no need creative shit to down size the furniture to make the small space look bigger.

The moment the Sinkies start to accept to downgrade their dreams, they are heading towards a colony of mindless ants or bees, busy, busy, busy all for nothing. We must have dreams, big and better dreams for a better tomorrow.

KNN, why we work so hard for?

Dismantling the CPF Minimum Sum Schemes

The govt’s hold on the people’s CPF savings is growing to become a sore point among the hard up citizens that have not enough cash and struggling to make ends meet with some ended up borrowing from the loan sharks. And the painful thing is to see the money, tens of thousands or more in their CPF statements. Would it be a case of want to laugh also cannot laugh, as the money is as good as untouchable. Now with the new proposal for a compulsory Medishield Life Insurance, this is indeed going to be a decisive point that could be a game changer in the next GE.

Now I am wondering would there be a political party that would make this an election issue, to pledge to dismantle the minimum sum schemes and to put a stop to this compulsory Medishield Life Scheme. The alternatives need not be a total change but to give the people an option, to opt in or to opt out of the minimum sums schemes as well as the Medishield Life Scheme.  If these schemes are intrinsically good, there will be many CPF members who would voluntarily leave their money in their CPF savings for the higher interest rates. In the case of Medishield Life, those who want and have the money to pay would still be opting for it while those who do not want can opt out.

Any political party that is offering the people a choice, the free will to opt in or out of these schemes would definitely be very well regarded and rewarded by the voters. So far, other than the ruling party that gave the people no choice, the other parties are keeping very quiet about this, also giving the people no choice. I think the people must be hoping that one of these parties would stand up to offer the people a real alternative to choose what they want, what they think will be good for them, and not be compelled to leave their money in the CPF or to pay for an insurance scheme that they did not want.

Would there be a choice in the next GE for the people to choose a party that will be will more willing to listen and would not force the people into no choice positions or no choice schemes? It would be a very refreshing platform and let’s hope the alternative parties will consider such options seriously in the next GE.

Who is the liar? Putin or Obama/Kerry?

 Putin has gone on record to say that the rebels were behind the chemical attack and not Assad. His commentary was published in the NYT, ‘…there is every reason to believe it was used not by the Syrian Army, but by opposition forces, to provoke the intervention by their powerful foreign patrons, who would be siding with the fundamentalists”.
 
If one is to look at the intent and the outcome of the chemical attack, it is very clear who would want to commit such an act and who has the reason to do so. Similarly, the Assad govt would have the least reason to use chemical weapons to invite an attack. They are not idiots to want to invite an American attack knowing that the Americans have drawn a red line on chemical attacks. People should not take the patronizing position that the Assad is daft and unthinking.
 
On the other hand, Obama and Kerry spoke with a blank face to the American people and their allies that it was the Assad govt that attacked the rebels with chemical weapons, exactly like what Colin Powell did at the UN. So who is telling the truth and who is lying? One of the two parties must be lying, telling white lies to the Americans and to the world.
 
Remember the sinking of the South Korean naval ship Choenan and the killing the sailors on board. They even fabricated the weapon used with hastily written words to deceive the world that it was from North Korea until they were proven to be fake.
 
With all the wild accusations in this case, not much different from the accusations of WMD against Saddam Hussein, to discover the truth it is best to look at the intent and the consequences of the act. Who will benefit from the act and who will suffer from the act? This kind of deduction is the most logical as it is based on the premises that all the parties are intelligent and rational people.
 
How many more lies would the liars say before their noses grow to one foot long? The liars in this case are evil and wicked, using chemical weapons to serve their private agenda and killing innocent Syrians and wanting to kill more. Is there justice? Is there a God to punish such compulsive liars?
 
The American people are no fools and will not be fooled again. The British have already shown their middle finger to Cameron. And there are many Americans out there gathering evidence and protesting against an attack on Syria with another lie. Obama and Kerry are looking more devilish by the days.

Racial relations Survey

Racial relations are taking the limelight again with the Survey by the Institute of Policy Studies. The survey revealed some expected results in a multi racial society that has been subject to some violent rape and assault recently. There is nothing new really and the findings could even be deduced with a little bit of thinking. The Survey only confirmed the situation with the numbers from the respondents.
 
What did the Survey expect to find out other than the obvious? What is behind the thinking of the people behind the Survey? There seems to be some preconceived ideas or expectations that are deemed to be good and not good. There are some presumptions of what a good multi racial society should be. And one of the good or right things is that all the different races would be hugging and kissing each other everyday. And all of them will be socializing with each other, visiting each other and making friends if not sleeping together. The people are expected to reach out to understand other races and their sensitivities! Are these the expectations? If so, then they will be very disappointed. Is it the responsibility of individuals to make time to understand others when they hardly have time for themselves?
 
There are many conditions and natural behavior of human beans that would not allow it to be so. Even in a homogenous community, not everyone is hugging and kissing everyone and loving everyone or knowing everyone. There is the limitation of time. In a hot bed society like ours, everyone is so busy trying to make his living better, chasing after that dollar to pay for whatever that is needed. How much time would one have left to go sneaking around other people’s homes and prying into people’s affairs, people who have nothing to do with you or do not matter in their lives?
 
The days when life was less hectic, when there were plenty of idle time to do what one pleased, socializing, talking shop and playing are over. You can’t rewind the society to those days when living was easy and there were plenty of time to gaze at the stars or making love and raising children.
 
Then there are the individual traits that may not be particularly social in nature. Not everyone would like to be busybody or poking their noses at other people’s life and affairs. There are many that are more comfortable doing their own things, be themselves and amusing themselves in their private pursuits. What the heck is this thing that everyone is expected to be socializing with everyone and with other races to be seen as good, normal and expected? What craps! Oh, there are people who would want to be around with people, talking and yaking the whole day and night. Not everyone will conform to the same mould and expectation of the social scientists.
 
People will get together when they have the time and the common interests. People make friends by sharing their common activities in common areas. If the interests are different, how could they be seen messing around with each other? Would the crows and the mynahs be kissing each other or feeding in the same trough? Would one scorn at the crows or mynahs for not associating with each other or for not playing ball together? Would one be unhappy with the introverts, the not so sociable, the not so kaypoh for keeping themselves away from the maddening crowd? Different people chose to have different lifestyles and different ways of living, and people should respect that. Are the people expected to open their doors or go down to the community halls after work to prove that they are part of a community? And why bother to do that in a hotel of strangers? Are the people expected to be sharing their food with their neighbours, greeting and kissing their neighbours along the corridors?
 
As a country and community, what is expected and important is for the people to feel as one people, to believe in the share destiny and common interests, to have the freedom of choice to live as one chooses, but behind all these, to stand up for the country as one united people when a situation demands it. I think this is already asking too much of the people.
 
Is the Survey expecting too much? Or the Survey already knows what to expect and any shortcomings would be seen as unsatisfactory?

Japan about to declare war on China

Last year the Japanese created a farce by buying the Chinese islands of Daioyu from one of its citizens with a fictitious ownership. This has created alarm in China while the Japanese thought the Chinese were as dumb as the Manchus and would agree to their silly act. This final act of aggression is the last straw and China would not allow any further misstep in this direction. Another false move by the Japanese to assert control over the Chinese islands would be tantamount to a declaration of war.
 
Shinto Abe’s election platform was to put Japanese official in the islands and they are saying it again, this time by the Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga that Japan is considering deploying personnel to the islands. Any attempt of such nature will be war as far as China is concerned. Japan must not try to move another inch as the Chinese have taken their position and drawn the line that Japan would not be allowed to cross.
 
War between the two countries is so close and only a matter of time as the highly charged nationalistic group in the country, with Shinto Abe as the leader, is bound to try its luck with China. This group would want to revive Japan’s past military glory and claiming Diaoyu Islands is the first move.
 
China is watching closely and is preparing for the day the Japanese make the next move. There will be no nonsense, and no need for the National People’s Congress to approve. Any Japanese officials landing on the islands will be war.

Wake up old Sinkies and all going to be oldies

Are the Sinkies still in a stupor? The temperature is near boiling point and they are not noticing it, still happy like hell. After reading the few latest postings on the sum of premiums NTUC is charging and the near to 40% increases annually, with the sum hitting $4000, this is no longer a laughing matter any more. The complainants did not reveal their age but they are likely to be around 50 or 60 to be slammed with such high premiums. I cannot imagine what the premiums for Medishield Life will be like for those in their 70s, 80s and above. Do people really expect someone to be buying medical insurance at 90 or 100 years old?

All you senior citizens out there, if your faculties are still functioning and thinking, and not in a state of dementia, you are in deep deep trouble should Medishield Life be made compulsory. At the rate things are going, if the current premiums and rate of increases are what things are likely to be, you would soon be on your knees begging for mercy, for having nothing left in your savings to pay the robbers. When people are going after your coffin money without giving you a chance to say no, ‘NO, Don’t you dare touch my money,’ you need not be polite to them anymore. Robbers are robbers in any guise.

The Medishield Life is going to be like another Population White Paper that will be shafted down the people’s throat. There can be no resistance from the oldies. Any attempt to fight back is futile. If you want to kpkb, better make it now, and loud and clear, to frighten away the monkeys. By keeping quiet, you are only encouraging them to plan to finish off your savings. You are as guilty as them for emboldening them to do as they pleased.

All the oldies, and going to be oldies, this includes every young person, it is your money at stake. They are coming after your money, the last few dollars you hope to last till your last breath. No, they will finish it before you conk off…. unless you stand up on your feeble feet, wave your feeble hands to tell them you mean business.

It is a very wicked thought to think of making oldies that are out of jobs to pay for a hefty medical insurance that they did not want and have no right of refusal. Who the hell do they think they are? Robbers? Bandits? Pirates? And they are so ruthless that they would not spare the oldies and would not let them live in peace.

Whoever that is working on this scheme, if you are really kind and caring, leave the oldies’ money out of your scheme of things. The oldies cannot afford it. Any design on the oldies’ money only reveals the true intent of your scheme. You can’t be so desperate to even think of robbing the oldies of their last few dollars in their last few years of existence? (I stand corrected if the premiums will be foot by the govt). Please don’t tell the oldies it will be affordable. To the oldies that have no income, everything is unaffordable. I know there are exceptions, with some oldies drawing pensions that could make them millionaires every year.

Would the oldies dare to make their last stand, I mean just standing? Or the legs are too weak and feeble, and the knees are wobbling? Or the mind is gone and they are not able to protect their own interests anymore and are at the mercy of cunning robbers?

Heaven have eyes.

Did Putin blink?

It looks like Putin, the Russian equivalent of Rambo in the political arena, is backing down and trying to appease the Americans. Putin is asking the Assad Govt to surrender their chemical weapons to the Americans. The Western media gave the impression that the Syrians are outlaws, not a signatory to the banning of chemical weapons. But the western media did not say that the Americans and Israel and many other pro American countries are also not signatories and also in possession of huge cache of chemical weapons, no, Assad did not have the most chemical weapons that the western media would like the world to believe, it is the Americans and also Israel that are possessing the most chemical weapons in their arsenals.
 
Now you may want to ask why the Americans and the Israelis are allowed to hold on to their chemical weapons but Assad not allowed to keep his? The same reasoning, the Americans and also Israel are allowed to possess nuclear weapons while Iran and North Korea not allowed. The simple answer, they are stronger militarily and would attack or invade any country that dares challenge their dominance in the possession of nuclear and chemical weapons. Only they can have them and others cannot unless the latter can stand up to them.
 
Putin has capitulated and compromised the position of the Assad Govt. If they surrender their chemical weapons, they will be at the mercy of the Americans and Israelis who have chemical weapons and can use them against the Syrians. This concession by Putin, though a sign of weakness, has somehow pulled the rug under Obama’s feet. It could be a bargaining ploy from a weaker position. The Americans could attack Syria and the Russians could not do much about it. It is like Cuba once again. The Americans are dictating the terms and the Russians backed down.
 
In this case it does have some positive effects in the sense that it has taken the wind out of the warmongers in Obama’s camp whose only professed position is to stop Assad from conducting chemical attacks, which unfortunately he might not have done it but been framed for it. This is the ugliness of the Empire and how it schemes and fabricates situations to fix its enemies. Putin is playing the world’s opinion against the Americans and also gives the anti war Americans a reason to say no to the warmongers in the White House. The Syrian Govt has conceded defeat, there is no more reason to launch an attack.
 
Really? When the hawks in the White House have decided to attack, they will not abandon their cause and will continue to find excuses to attack Syria. The chemical weapon attack is just a ruse, an excuse. What they want is the removal of the Assad Govt even if they have to support terrorist organizations like the Al Qaeda against a legimitate govt of Assad.
 
The Evil Empire has many other agendas to want to attack Syria. Now it is up to the American public and Congressmen and women to haul back these war hogs. It is thus a fight in the White House without any real issues except to promote American military supremacy, to kill more or less Syrians, to show who is boss or the supreme international gangster.

The COE system is the best ever

I am so glad that the COE system remains practically intact with a couple of minor changes that have nothing to do with me, or neither would they affect my chances of getting my COE whenever I need to buy a car. You see, what I have is money. And I simply tell the car dealer to put in as high a bid as needed. Money no problem. And I know very well that I need not pay for the exorbitant bid that I put in. Bao chiat one. And I am very sure I will be paying the lowest possible that those losers can afford to bid for. This kind of bidding is really the best. And I need not bribe anyone to design such a wonderful system that favours me, the rich man.

Who cares if the premium goes higher and higher? I can afford what. Psst, don’t tell the losers that no matter how much I bid, I always pay the lowest, like them.

And also, LTA decided not to levy extra for my 9th or 10th car. Now if I buy my 20th car, I still pay the same low and very affordable COE. I hope the clever people in charge will keep this system for as long as they can. It is flawless really, near perfection I would say. Only the losers who cannot afford to pay or bid higher would be complaining. Not me for sure. I love it. Keep it up! Good work.

Thank God we have so many brilliant people supporting such a perfect system. I don’t think anyone can ever think of a better system than this. It is so good, so efficient that they can’t improve on it anymore. Should submit a patent to protect its copyright in case other countries want to copy it.

Now who dares to say this system is no good?

The mentality of prostitutes

There have been many comments telling foreigners to become citizens, to be one of us, to do NS etc etc. This is not much different from being invited by a prostitute to become another prostitute in a whore house. Our citizenship is so cheap, so shameless and unworthy, to be given away to anyone freely.
 
Isn’t citizenship, to be the citizens of a prosperous, safe and rich country something valuable? We are now saying anyone can come and be one of us. Some Sinkies even begged foreigners to be one of us. How cheapo can we be? Our citizenship is actually one of the most highly sought after item among the citizenships of developed countries. And silly Sinkies are treating it like a piece of toilet paper, like the pink (or is it yellow) card of prostitutes? Come, come, come and get it.
 
The other stupid thing that I am hearing is that anyone can come and serve in our military? Do we know who that person is, what is his agenda, where is his loyalty, and what he can do to the military secrets that he will be exposed to? Do we trust any stranger with our military secrets? Are we so trusting and gullible like prostitutes? Anyone can come here and screw us? Oops, my apologies to the prostitutes. I think the prostitutes are much smarter streetwise and they don’t offer themselves for free.
For goodness sake, Sinkies, have some pride in yourself, in your country and the citizenship. Be proud of them and treasure them and not to give them away like freebees. Stop behaving like prostitutes, with no pride, no identity, no values, except thinking of money.
 
Our citizenship does not come only with the right to be a citizen and the right to work here. It comes with a lot of perks and substantial monetary values. Getting our citizenship is like striking lottery to many. The HDB flats will bring them instant profit in hundreds of thousands of dollars should they sell it latter. And the innumerable subsidies in education, in national bonuses, angpows, subsidies for hospitalization, for conservancy charges, top up of Medisave etc etc, these are all real monies.
 
How silly can Sinkies be?
 
Foreigners should remain foreigners, at most PRs without the same privileges as Sinkies. And only foreigners that met our criteria of what we want may only be granted citizenship. Now we are flooded with all kinds of flotsams floating in the seas. Is that what we want?
 
We have louts, touts and thugs. I just viewed the video clip of the Ah Tiong threatening a Sinkie in the train. Do we need such aggressive country bumpkins of the 19th century? Maybe there is a reason to import such uncouth peasants to boost our dying and degenerating genes of Pampered, Meek, Effeminate and Timid Sinkies. 

Sinkies need to be assaulted, beaten, chased around by foreigners, to be yelled at in their own country. The Ah Tiong would not see the daylight if he is in any country where the citizens have some pride in themselves and believe that foreigners have to know their place in their country. In this Sin City, foreigners are here to kick the locals around.
 
Yes, make more of such talented peasants as our citizens and we will have a more gracious society, with nice people around.

The cursed Singaporeans – Part 3

This group needs no introduction or explanation. They are the so called Pampered, Mediocre, Expensive and Timid jobless Singaporeans. Very qualified, very experienced, some still fairly young, but cannot find employment in their home city that employed more than 1 million foreigners, because they are Singaporeans.
 
They can only fend for themselves by trying to be self employed in jobs that amount to under employment relative to their qualifications and experience. Many still have responsibilities to support children, family and parents and a mortgage to service. They must be cursing for wasting money and time getting that degree or diploma that they don’t need as a taxi driver.
 
This is what the saying goes, 吃不饱饿不死, eat not full but not hungry enough to die. And they have, yes, 30 or 40 years to be in this state of limbo. All their qualifications and experience going to waste!
 
Think carefully and don’t turn away. In this very expensive city when everything needs money, to go on in life without a proper job or income for 30 or 40s is no joking matter. We could be seeing a revolt of the silver hair, or seeing many of them turning into beggars if things are not changed. No job, no money, no savings, no children or children unable to help, all struggling to keep themselves alive.
 
And many are now faced with a more frightening and real situation, finding enough money to pay for a medical insurance they don’t need, did not want, cannot afford to pay, but it is compulsory for life man! There is no running away. Are they expected to pay for life? Yes, paying an insurance scheme for life! So many idiots could not see the implications of this paying for life thing.
 
By the time they are 70 or 80 they would not have a single cent left in their Medisave Account, not even in their CPF account, except those that are mandatorily held back by legislation or arbitrarily decided by their keepers.
 
The oldies are going to need a lot more money to live on as they grow older and older. Is this real? Can this be true? Only the destitute in the charity homes or those abandoned can be exempted from paying.

Medishield Life – What affordability?

The unthinking Sinkies are behaving like sheep without a mind of their own. The agenda has been set and all have dutifully following the cue to talk about affordability. They have forgotten that affordability is worse that a four letter word when misused or abused. What is affordable to a king is not affordable to a pauper. So they are all hoping that Medishield Life premiums for the oldies and the grand oldies will be affordable. Is there such a thing?
 
The few latest articles of real situations when medical insurance premiums have shot up to $4k and will continue to go up by some 40% annually is a good case study. The examples given were of people likely to be economically active and in their 50s. And they are screaming hell about affordability. Try imagine what kind of premiums would those in the 70s, 80s and above would have to pay.
 
And the other simple fact, most of them would be unemployed and have nothing left except a few dollars held hostage by the minimum sum schemes. Even $1 is unaffordable to oldies without an income and who have nothing left in their savings. Who are these jokers talking about affordability? Oops, sorry, my apologies, there are many oldies that have million dollar pensions to pay Medishield Life premiums even if it is $10k or $20k. Small matters really.
 
And oh I almost forgot. The Medishied Life thing can be a good thing also. You see, many of the oldies by then would have $50k or more in their Medisave Minimum Sum Scheme. And many of them would not have the chance to spend them. With the compulsory Medishield Life Scheme, they need not worry. They can now spend them without feeling it. As they said, money not spent is not yours. So the govt is smart to introduce a scheme to help them spend their coffin money. They can spend them happily.
 
After all my grumbling, come to think of it, Medishield Life is a good thing after all. The oldies need not waste their coffin money in the Medisave Minimum Sum Scheme without spending them. They can spend every cent they have. Why didn’t the silly Sinkies think of this? Why didn’t I think of it? Affordability is not an issue. The oldies got a lot of money in their Medisave Minimum Sum to pay for it.
 
Okay, can continue to talk about affordability to stretch the money in the Medisave Minimum Sum Scheme to make it last.