Singaporean core in banking and finance

Tharman said this at the Association of Banks annual dinner, ‘Our vision is to be a financial centre that is among the leaders globally in workforce skills and expertise, and one with a strong core of Singaporeans at every level.’ This statement prompts a lot of questions as to why the need for such a statement and what happened that resulted in this statement.

Singapore as a financial centre has always been our mission since the 70s and we have been the top financial centre in the league of Tokyo and Hongkong. And for two decades, Singaporeans were in charge, the top financial talents were Singaporeans. What happened after that? What happened to all the Singaporean finance talents that today we are faced with a dearth of Singaporean finance talents that almost every top finance and banking jobs must go to a foreigner? And when a job is vacant there will be a mad rush to look for a foreigner as they could not find a Singapore to fill it? To the people responsible to fill these positions, Singaporeans are misfits in the finance industry.

Some may take this lightly like a non issue, but is a very serious issue. It is mismanagement of our human resource in the finance and banking sector. It is negligence, dunno on whose part, that we have reached such a dire strait. Is there anyone who is supposed to oversee this manpower need? It cannot be that such an important function was left to chance. Under Goh Keng Swee, his fingers were on the pulse of the finance industry and Koh Beng Seng was clearly instructed and given the task to ensure that Singaporeans would be groomed to take over the top jobs in the banking and finance industry.

What happened? No body knows I guess. No body cares? Was this policy abandoned, dropped like a coconut and not to be remembered? Or was there a change in policy to let foreigners to take over the banking and finance industry and Singaporeans were left out of the picture? Would anyone want to take responsibility for this fiasco, a sell out of Singaporeans in a very important industry that is now controlled and dominated by foreigners?

You mean no one knows what is happening? Sure no one knows or else someone’s head will be on the chopping block for such a gross mistake. Are we back to square one, to want Singaporeans to be in charge in the banking industry?

Now that Tharman is talking about the next 10 years to salvage a bad situation by ‘a string of programmes and initiatives, paving the way forward for Singapore with less emphasis on academic qualifications and more focus on the mastery of professional and technical skills,’ I am puzzled, very puzzled. What did he mean by less emphasis on academic qualifications? Did he mean that top banking and finance jobs do not need academic qualifications? Or did he mean that our tertiary institutions are not teaching the mastery of professional and technical skills and only the industry could teach the mastery of professional and technical skills? Then what is the point of going to the universities? O and A levels will do, and let the industry train the top managers needed?

Whatever magic that Tharman is going to pull out from his bag, we have 10 years to watch and see if the damage in the last 20 years can be redeemed. Let’s hope in 10 years time we will not be hunting around the world for finance talents and Singaporeans are still blur like sotong in the mastery of professional and technical skills in the industry. 

Today we are a laughing stock as a financial centre that has no finance talents. It would not be funny if after another 10 years we will still be in the same state of nothingness. By the look of it, by the programmes suggested, it is going to be the same.

There must be a detailed plan of affirmative and positive actions and training to ensure that the Singaporean core exists in the banking and finance industry, and not the type of core from issuing pink ICs to foreigners and called them Singaporean core. Someone must be named to be responsible for this important task and be held accountable if nothing happens again. And tell him he will be hanged if he fails.

A financial centre that has no local finance talents and has no programme to ensure that this is being done for the last 20 years!  What, everyone gone to hibernation? This must be another Uniquely Singapore thing. Or someone finds it more expedient to depend on the instant tree formula, so no need to grow our own timber? Hire the best regardless of nationalities, the parrots are heard squawking. Should someone take a shotgun and shoot the silly parrots?

Did anyone say we are always planning ahead? Did anyone notice the big hole in the banking and finance industry?  What kind of brilliant planning is that? And the best part, it’s over, let’s move on. No one is responsible for it.

GE 2015/16 issues for the voters to consider – Issue 6 – Is CPF your money?

What is happening to your life time savings in the CPF? Is it your money? Are you happy with the shifting goal posts, the minimum sums, the Medishield life and Medisave Life? Do you want to take it back earlier at 55 or 62 or dunno when?

You can decide what you want to do with your CPF savings by your votes in the GE. The GE is the time to change the fate of your life savings, to take it back.

Another patronizing western view on what is good for Asians

‘Asia must rebalance not build banks’, an article by a Jonathan Holslag, a professor of international politics sat the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, in the ST telling China/Asia not to build new banks to challenge the western dominated banks like IMF/World Banks and Asian Development Bank but to change them. Reading his other book titled, ‘China’s coming war with Asia’ you can tell where he is coming from. He would not know that he is speaking from the point of what is good for the West must be good for the Asians.

It is not right and not a good thing to build a new Asian bank like the AIIB. China is doing it for its self interests and at the disadvantage of other Asian countries for influence and creating more demands for Chinese goods. What he is saying is that the IMF and World Bank and the ADB were created not for the interests of the Americans/West and Japan but for altruistic goals, to give money to Asia and the world.  They are so selfless and generous. The AIIB is not like that?

Really, why is it necessary for China and other Asian countries to want another bank if the IMF, World Bank and ADB were out there to serve them and not western interests? Why is it necessary to work with these old western establishments to rebalance them and not to create new banks? Have not the Asian countries been trying to work with these establishments for change for the last 5 decades and not making any headway and forced to build their own banks?

This is the admission by Holslag, ‘The AIIB is a master stroke of economic diplomacy. The debate about its possible benefits distracts from the imbalanced economic partnerships to the  vague benefits of influencing it from inside and the bad habit of the United States and Japan to cling to their privileges in the World Bank, the IMF and the ADB.’ Despite this admission that the Americans and Japan would not yield an inch to accommodate the rise and interests of Asian countries, despite saying that they looked pathetic and China looking magnanimous with the AIIB initiative, he must sneaked in another blow that China is ‘seeking to advance its own selfish interests’.

And he wanted Asian countries to work harder to reform the IMF, World Bank and ADB? After 50 years of working from within, from a position of weakness, the Asian countries were totally ignored. And this is the exact reason why Asian countries have given up on trying to work with them and wanting their own banks, and with a bigger voice to serve their own interests, not the interests of the West and Japan. It is too late. Why didn’t the IMF, World Bank and ADB agree to reform and change to accommodate Asia earlier?

They are willing to change, to serve Asian countries and not their own interests? Please remove your tinted lens and look at yourself and how the American and the West in collusion with Japan have been exploiting these old establishments to serve their own interests first and foremost and Asian countries are there for show and to be exploited.

Now Asian countries have their own banks and their own voice. The loudest voice is Asian and Asians are calling the shot in their own banks to serve Asian interests. Is that not acceptable, bad? You want the IMF, World Bank and ADB to continue to exploit the Asian countries at your terms? If they don’t change, they would be history. And the change must come from them, voluntarily. The world has changed and Asian countries are rising and want a say in these organizations serving western interests.

Can the professor see this?

Did Roy damage Hsien Loong’s reputation?

Roy said no, ‘that his blog’s reach was too low to hurt Mr Lee’s reputation….Mr Lee did not suffer a lower standing in the eyes of the public as a result of the defamation’. It is interesting to know if Hsien Loong’s reputation did take a plunge, that in the eyes of the people, he is no good or not as good as before. The question is how to determine this point. Should someone conduct a straw poll or a survey to check on Hsien Loong’s reputation before and after Roy’s article? If not, how is one to know the effects of the article? And if these cannot be determined, how then to decide on the compensation for damages?

A second point is the allegation by Davinder Singh, ‘that Roy’s allegation of “misappropriation” undermines Mr Lee’s ability to “lead the country, sustain the confidence of the electorate and discharge his functions as Prime Minister and Chairman of GIC’. Must this allegation be proven, that after Roy’s article, Hsien Loong’s ability to lead the country is undermined, affected, losing confidence of the electorate and unable to discharge his functions as a Prime Minister? These are very broad allegations and claims but how to prove that these are happening?

I have heard of accident victims claiming all kinds of sickness, fainting spell, dizziness, cannot eat and sleep, cannot shit, pain here and there, nightmares, hallucination, fear, bouts of frightening flashbacks that affected their lives as a result of the accident to claim for more damages. Some even walked with crutches and put on neck support.  A lot of drama. This kind of things can be supported by medical and psychiatrist reports. In the case of undermining ability to rule, confidence of voters etc etc, medical psychiatrists reports would not be applicable.

It would be interesting to see how Davinder proves that Hsien Loong’s reputation has taken a hit and how his confidence and ability to perform as a PM are affected. Would Hsien Loong be walking around with his head hanged low, afraid to look people in the eye, would the people be distancing themselves from him, giving him dirty glances, would he be trembling in fear, wetting his pants and afraid to go to work?

How would Davinder prove that Hsien Loong is no longer the man he was and a lesser man as a result of Roy’s article? How would he prove that the article has a sweeping impact on the people that they no longer trust Hsien Loong?  No, no need to prove anything, just allege, assert and claim to be so?

Like dat can or not?

GE 2015/16 issues for the voters to consider – Issue 5 – Do you want to give your country to foreigners?

Maybe there are now 50% new citizens among the Singaporeans and with many more as PRs or Employment Pass holders. This is as good as giving away half of the country to foreigners who are now new citizens. And if the population goes to 6.9m or 10m, we are as good as giving our country away, have been occupied by foreigners, now holding pink ICs.

Is this what you want to happen to your country? We own this country. Our parents and grandparents built and willed this country to us and our children. Why are we giving our country away to foreigners for free and giving them additional rebates, subsidies, national bonuses and financial incentives to occupy our country?

Amos Yee – Heckling special needs children

When special needs children were in the wrong place, many cried outrage, vile, vile, vile. How can people heckled children with special needs? That was the kind of reactions from caring and righteous people out to protect special needs children. What a show of nobility and compassion.

Would a boy suffering form Autism Spectrum Disease be called a special needs child?  Would such a child need the protection of caring adults from wicked people out to do harm to him? Got diminished responsibility or not? Any clever lawyer wants to comment?

What if such a child is snatched away from his mother, pronounced mad and thrown into a mental hospital where serious mental patients are locked up? Is it vile? Is it the right thing to do? Is this to help the child, to protect the child, to save the child? What would a child affected by ASD ended up in the company of mental patients?

And the child is screaming for justice. Would anyone listen and offer a helping hand? While the child’s plea gone unnoticed, abandoned by the caring and righteous men and women with halos above their heads, a lonely mother cries. The world turned to look the other way.

First World or Third World?  What happens to human decency? Where are the people of kindness, the people of God or Gods, the angels and immortals?

After this shameful ordeal, would anyone dare to talk about moral high grounds, about righteousness, about kindness, about compassion, about a caring society?

And a mother cries.

Freedom of expression at its best in Sin City

Many of you may not have noticed this. Freedom of expression is the new thing in Singapore. Everyone is freely expressing himself in the freest way unmatched by any other country in the western hemisphere. And this is not confined to just foreigners expressing themselves with their special privileged positions as the darlings of this island, the most sought after talents from the world, and must be handled with care and sensitivity in case we offended them and they choose to go to our neighbouring countries where the conditions are more hospital than this piece of rock.  Cannot rock the boat and see them fleeing.

Let me offer a few examples of freedom of expression by the citizens. One guy said he would cut off the cock of a boy and shaft it down the boy’s throat. Now there is another guy saying he will pay someone to rape a boy remanded in the mental hospital. The price for such freedom is quite cheap and did not bother them. They can afford to pay for it. Was it a stern warning?

Another guy went even further by exercising his freedom of expression and slapped a boy outside the court house in front of the media. Stylo milo. One was caught talking about shooting the PM but released and given a stern warning. Where else can you find people so daring and bold in expressing their feelings so freely? Sin City got no freedom of expression? Cannot be right? These are clear daylight evidence that freedom of expression is alive and practiced freely here. What about Amos? What Amos?

As for the foreigners, they even have more leeway in expressing themselves. They feel very free to mock or insult the citizens, calling them stupid and daft, poor, no talent, and the citizens were chided not to take it out on them personally. Beating up a foreigner, taking the law into one’s own hand, will be dealt with harshly by the authority. We are a rule by law country. Violation of the law is unacceptable unless one is mentally insane. Then one could enjoy the comfort of a mental hospital stay with tender loving care from all quarters.

What else did the foreigners enjoy? When they are unhappy with the taxi drivers, if the taxi drivers got the audacity to insist they pay the taxi fares after a drunken spree, they simply expressed their unhappiness at the taxi drivers by beating them up. Again, the price for such freedom of expression is cheap. They can afford to pay for it.

Freedom of expression is flourishing and well at a small price and many would be encouraged to express their feelings freely. Would there be a time when someone say he will pay for a hire gun to take out someone he is not happy with?

Amos Yee - Protest at Hong Lim Park Sun 5 Jul 15 at 4pm

For Amos, For our children:

July 1, 2015 at 12:32 pm  For Amos, For our children(Quote)

Hong Lim Park event on Sunday to rally for Amos Yee’s release.
A protest will be held in Hong Lim Park this coming Sunday, 4 pm, to ask for the release of Amos Yee, a 16-year-old blogger who is currently being held in the Institute of Mental Health (IMH).

The above is a comment in TRE and Andrew Loh's post on the same topic confirmed that there is a protest this weekend.

GE 2015/16 issues for the voters to consider – Issue 4 – Do you care for the future of our next generation?

I like to borrow a quote from Katherine Tseng and Lim Tai Wei’s article on China’s rise and Taiwan’s dilemma with a little Singaporean twist.

Do you want a younger generation of Singaporeans that does not enjoy the same career opportunities, stable employment and competitive salaries as their parents?

Think before you vote. Think very carefully about people who want to bring in foreigners to replace Singaporeans regardless of nationalities to compete with our children.

Who is responsible for the well being of our future generations?

Redbean Soup update

Latest from the publisher, after going through the final stages of proof reading and layout, the book would likely to be ready by 15 Jul. Publisher would try to get it out earlier if possible.

Cheers
Redbean

The future - the Chinese or American way?

What is China creating for the future and the New World Order? What have the Chinese been doing? Domestically they are building new cities, modern cities, clean cities, highways, super highways, high speed trains. Internationally it is trade and growth, more trade pacts and more growth. The One belt One Road is about economic development and about trade. The AIIB is about infrastructure development for economic growth, connectivity for trade. These are the Chinese initiatives and way forward to a new future and a New World Order of peace and prosperity.

What is the American Way? Defence Pacts is the way. The Americans are signing defence and military pacts with every country they could convince to sign on the dotted line. US India military pact, US Australia military pact, US Philippines defence pact, US Japan defence pact, US Taiwan defence pact, US South Korea defence pact. And the Americans did not stop at just signing military pacts. They moved their weapons to Asia, conduct war games everyday to simulate an attack on Asian countries. And they have military bases in South Korea, Japan, the Philippines, Vietnam, Australia, Singapore, Thailand, Guam, Gan. And they are conducting wars in the Middle East, and inciting and provoking wars in the East and South China Seas.

This is the future and the New World Order of the Americans. It is all above wars and conducting wars. It is all about waving an iron fist. It is not about trade and peaceful economic developments. And they are conning the Asians and the world that they are for peace, freedom of navigation, human rights and regime change. And the silly Asians believed so without thinking. And they told the silly Asians that China is belligerent, would run over all the countries, China would not allow freedom of navigation, China is assertive. Which country or countries have been intercepting ships in international waters against freedom of navigation? You guess it. Which country has been bully every country with the slogan you are with me or against me? And the silly Asian countries believed.

The Silk Road is not for peace or trade. AIIB is not for peace. It is about control. The Americans are not controlling anyone. They just patrol all the oceans and fly surveillance planes over other countries. They have 7 fleets of aircraft carriers and ships of war all over the high seas. China reclaiming islands from the sea is expansionist and a hostile and aggressive act. All the military and defence pacts the Americans are signing are for peace. All the military weapons and military bases are for peace. All the surveillance and war games are for peace. All the wars the Americans are fighting are for peace. Who is the Empire controlling the whole world?

China is for war, but never fight a war, no overseas military bases, no war games, no military or defence pact, but still a warmonger.  China is dangerous?

Can the Asians and the world see through the hypocrisy and the American myth and how the evil Americans are demonizing China and controlling the world?

A new conditioning process in play

The 1.2m common corridor in Pasir Ris DBSS is not a joke. This is the thing to come for daft Sinkies. And the song is being sung every day, small is good, small is good. The size of new flats is a shame to raise a family. Which joker is talking about building family ties when flats are shrunk to an obscene size?  Did I hear no choice, because we want 6.9m population, or is it 10m population? How to bring in so many people if flats are not shrunk? Small is good, it would not affect the quality of your lifestyle. If daft Sinkies are willing to be conned by such creeps parroting this sick view, they deserved to be called daft.

The second message, public transport is good. Cars are bad. Take public transport. It is a new lifestyle. And better still, go buy a bicycle. Bicycle is good. Green and healthy!

Foreigners are good. Foreigners are talents, not cheats, not fakes. Believe them and you do not need any thief or robber to rob you of your job and your country.

No need for degrees. There are plenty of foreigners here with degrees to choose from, fakes and degree mills still ok. Never mind. Why waste resources on our children’s education, skills and talents when they are plenty in the whole world, all hungry and queuing at the door?

Can you see that they don’t believe in any of these things they said? Their houses are like palaces, with a lot of space to wander around. Their toilets are bigger than your master bedrooms. They don’t take public transport. Each family owns at least two cars. The foreigners will not take over their jobs. They know how to protect their high value jobs but not yours.

To the daft Sinkies, the fate of smaller homes, no cars, take public transport or cycling are for you, good for you. Losing good jobs are for you. It doesn’t affect them. Wake up and think if these things are good for you? Why can’t you live in bigger homes like them? Why can’t you own cars? Why can’t you have good jobs? Why are foreigners taking over your good jobs?

How long would Sinkies want to remain daft?

A light drizzle turning into a storm

First the Taiwanese protested and demanded the release of Amos Yee. Then the UN Human Rights Organisation and then the Human Rights Watch. Now the Penangnites are taking up the cause for Amos Yee. Any decent human bean would see the injustice and wickedness in this case. Only the evil and wicked would keep on drumming about a crime that was not a crime.

‘Now, Penang civil society groups would also like to remind that Singapore is a party to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and we hope the Singapore authorities can respect the regulations of the CRC and release Amos Yee immediately.

Expression is not a crime and nobody should face any inhumane treatment or torture for criticising the government. If you want to break the silence, please join us on this 1 July to show your support and solidarity’.

Date: 1 July 2015 (Wednesday)
Time: 6PM
Venue: Penang Speakers’ Square (Esplanade)

Who else will stand up for Amos Yee? Don’t count on the elite Singaporeans or the hypocrites. They are too righteous and holy to see any wrong in this case. Is there any decent people in Sin City?

'Scholarism, HKUSU and and Lingnan University Students’ Union will stage a petition outside the Singaporean consulate in Admiralty today afternoon (30th June) to call for Yee’s immediate release.' Full article in TRE.

Whither the Malays in Malaysia

The recent spate of moral policing in Malaysia is a sign of things to come in Malaysia. Non Malay citizens were forced to wear sarongs to enter govt offices by security guards who acted as if they are highly moral and religious puritans to impose what is the right way to dress. Though govt officials subsequently apologized and claimed that there is no such regulation, the security guards were not disciplined and more cases continued to appear.

The opposition leaders are taking up this issue to question the govt on why this is allowed to continue and the govt not taking a stand on these incidents? If it is not a govt regulation, why not put a stop to it? Why allow it to continue?

Malaysia is a beautiful country with beautiful culture. The Malay culture, dresses, customs and way of life are distinct and beautiful in its own right. At the look of things, soon they will all be covering up in drapes of black and grey like the Arabs. They will change their culture, custom and way of life to be like the Arabs.

What then would happen to Malay culture? Who is going to protect Malay culture and custom? If Malay culture is going to be replaced by Arab culture, then what would be the definition of Malay? Would there still be Malays in Malaysia?

Or would Malaysia become a little anomaly in Southeast Asia, as a mini Arabia? Would the Mlalays become Arabs but not accepted as Arabs by the Arabs? Would the Malays destroy their once proud and beautiful culture for the Arab culture? If there is no more Malay culture and custom, whither the Malay race?

Are the Malay leaders protecting Malay culture and custom or protecting Arab culture and custom? Are these better than Malay culture and custom?

The Singapore Malays will continue to enjoy their beautiful culture, traditions and custom. Would Malaysia turn into a country where people wrapped themselves in black and grey and walk around without anyone having a clue what is inside the drapes of cloth?

What do you think?

Volunteer soldiers in SAF

A lot of fanfare and publicity have been given to this new animal called SAF Volunteer Corp. Someone must be congratulating himself or themselves that they are able to think out new ideas in the vein of innovative and creative solutions to a non existing problem.  And they must be saying how clever to get non citizens to the defence of the country.  Really, so good ah? The Alternative View, a blog site has an article on the foolishness of this scheme in the TRE and I quote a paragraph from the article here.

‘However, the fate of Singaporeans now lies in the hand of these newbies and volunteers because they are assigned “to one of 17 vocations …. to pick up rifles and patrol KEY installations like Changi Airport’.

Need we say more? With the spate of fake degree foreign talents slipping through, the security breaches at our entry points, the threats of terrorism, the pillar of our security system is already in tatters. (We are like walking naked with MERS in the island).  Yet, we are placing our lives in the hands of people who are trying to integrate – foreigners who step forward to volunteer to help protect our land.’

There are many valid points of concern raised in the article about security of our country. Presumably all the concerns must have been thought through and nothing to be alarmed, a kind of unnecessary fear mongering. Everything is well and fine. The volunteers will be a good thing for nation building and integration of foreigners.

Have we learnt anything yet? Many of the new citizens or PRs are unknown unknowns. Can anyone remember the new citizen who was given a SAF scholarship to study in Australia and ended up being charged for clobbering two SAF scholars to death? He was acquitted after an appeal, after serving several years in prison, for insufficient evidence.

Are we so naïve to trust foreigners in the defence of our nation? There is a saying, 来者不善，善者不来。The volunteers all look so nice, so innocent, so enthusiastic and so good. We are inviting them into our security organizations, train them to fight!

Not to worry, we have many good experience in the industries that foreigners are trustworthy and would not do harm to our people and country. We even have so many foreigners running out IT systems, exposed to all the confidential data and information especially in the finance and banking industries. If they wanted to, they will have all the information on the wealth of every citizen here.  But see, after so many years, no problem. Nothing bad happens. Trust the policy, trust the foreigners, they are very nice people. Everything has been thought out.

The Japanese also thought out everything about nuclear safety before they built all their nuclear power stations. Think Fukushima. Think Murphy!

Do not wait until some ugly incident happens to regret and call for a review, call for a BOI. We can’t allow our national security to go blowing in the wind. Anyone in the security business interested in such matters? Anyone think this is not suicidal, not idiocy? Maybe our super talents know better, like the millions of fakes and cheats that they think are genuine here. What security do you need for a hotel? A hotel is for hotel guests from all over the world. We need to treat hotel guests well or they would not come.

Open the legs. Oops, I mean open the immigration doors. Open up the SAF for more volunteers and new citizens and PRs. They are assets to our national defence.

Dum da da dum dum, dum dum.

GE 2015/16 issues for the voters to consider – Issue 3 – Do you want to be replaced by a foreigner?

Do you want to vote for a party that says we will bring in the best from the whole world regardless of nationalities?

Many of you have spent a small fortune on yourself and your children for the best education money can buy. Would that be enough against the best of 7 billion people out there?

How many of you think this is a hotel and citizenship has no privilege except to sacrifice 2 years for NS and another 20 years as reservist? How many of you think that foreigners should replace Singaporeans if they are found better, more meritocratic than Singaporean and not having to serve NS?

You shall vote for this in the GE. This is the future you are voting for.

Think about it.

Amos Yee – The cuckoo in IMH

Amos Yee has been pronounced as insane in many shades of colours by the psychiatrists, the latest by a Professor Munidasa Winslow for saying, but not confirming, that Amos ‘may’ have Autism Spectrum Disease. For this suspicion, Amos is now in the IMH with the really mentally disturbed patients, in the same Ward 7, a most feared place by any normal person or mental patient. How cruel can the system be, how thoughtless can well meaning adults be?

The political cloud hovering over this Amos Yee case has led many people to comment about it, and the UN Human Rights Office had written to the Govt to release Amos Yee immediately. The Human Rights Watch had also written to the Govt about their strong views of this case. Notwithstanding these interferences by international organisations, the Amos Yee saga continues in its own course, according to our highly legal judicial system in a country that respects the rule of law. It is all legal, transparent and above board, as legal as it can be to the commas and full stops. Amos is in IMH for more psychiatric reviews to confirm if he has ASD or just a may be. Question, does a person being suspected to be having ASD need to be warded and live with the insane?

Another article appeared in the TRE on 27 Jun by a ‘Cuckoo – parent and psychologist’ titled ‘Amos Yee case – One flew over the cuckoo’s nest’. His concluding paragraph reads,

‘The politically-motivated move to label Amos Yee as someone who is suffering from autism is an insult to the integrity, humanity, and intellect of parents everywhere in Singapore whose kin, child, or relative are truly afflicted with this debilitating disorder and are coping with it every day.

I beseech parents who feel the injustice to voice out now.’

No one has been brave enough to make such a stark comment. This article and the other articles, all expressed an unspeakable exasperation that something very wrong is happening but nothing could be done to stop it. The fact that the people writing all these articles to show their frustration and dismay were netizens, mostly unknown or not prominent citizens, except perhaps Dr Ang Yong Guan,  may be a reason why they did not matter. Who are these ordinary people to make a case for a boy already pronounced as a bad boy, a mental case and to expect things to change in favour of the boy? What about the UN and HRW? The ethos of this govt is that foreign interferences in our domestic affairs should be ignored at all cost, they should not matter. We are responsible for the welfare of our people and we will do what is right. We know what is good for Amos Yee.

What is right looks like right in this case if silence is consent. Not a minister or MP, not any elite, not a person of any stature or distinction, has said anything in favour of the boy or to cast any doubt that this case may be not that right after all. Knowing that Singapore is a highly righteous society where the elite are men and women of high moral standing, that would not allow any injustice to happen before their eyes and do nothing, remember the noise of condemnation about heckling sensitive children at Hong Lim, the silence says a lot. Hypocrisy, no, just being pragmatic, to go with the flow. This is essential to get rich and dignified in this place. The silence is to mean that there is nothing wrong, nothing fishy that demands our elite and people of prominence, people with a lot of conscience, to open their golden mouth. There is nothing wrong with the case. Period.

This must be the only reason why there is a total silence or an appearance that everyone has gone into hiding, to stay clear of this Amos Yee case.  We used to have very vocal personalities speaking out on things that they perceived as wrong.

Maybe this is a holiday season and everyone has gone on vacation, or at least their conscience has gone on leave. The fortunate thing is that no one of any respect or reputation has step out to say the boy deserves it. Only the trash has been very outspoken in the social media to condemn the boy and with threats of all kinds. Maybe this is supposed to be an encouraging sign, that only trash would spew trash and the decent at least would do the decent thing, to keep their mouth shut. Perhaps there is an uncomfortable and grudging reluctance to believe there is still some hope, some goodness that are temporarily concealed or went underground.

The AHPETC has already caused the PAP a lot of votes though it thinks otherwise, that it has done a brilliant killing of the WP and scored a convincing victory. There will be the superficials that could not see through the façade and believe innocently that it was a simple case of questionable management practices. What is the intent of this effort to harp on how a town council is being managed and ignoring the bigger issues when huge losses are happening almost every other day?

How many more votes would the PAP lose in the Amos saga? Taking on a boy is already a no no and politically unwise thing to do. The whole process is making things looking so ugly that if it still thinks it could walk away unscathed and go on to win the goodwill of the people, then it must be totally out of sync with the sentiments of the people. A few die hard unthinking IBs fighting furiously with their stupidity, to put on a brave front in the social media, is not going to do any good. The damage has already been done, and this damage is likely to be a hole too big to cover. Damage control will be a vain effort.

Contempt of Singaporeans

‘NUS assistant law professor Sundram Peter Soosay, who was convicted by the court earlier for assaulting a 70-year-old cabby Mr Sun Chun Hua, has been sentenced to 4 months imprisonment and ordered to compensate the victim $1500.’  TRE

This almost daily happening of Singaporean taxi drivers being beaten by foreigners, drunken or otherwise, refusing to pay their fares, is not funny anymore. It reads contempt, an intolerance of Singaporeans by these foreigners being hired by our Pinkerton sickos as foreign talents and being paid very good money they could not get anywhere else. Many have proven to be fakes and foul individuals that somehow could not be detected and instead held in awe by our sickos. And despite the repeated bashing of Singaporeans, a manifestation of some kind of hatred, contempt and derison against Singaporeans, the hiring of these scum is not slowing down is still going on.

The contempt of Singaporeans is not limited to the westerners who historically has been looking down on the natives of former colonies, but even low down 3^rd world country natives brought here are finding Singaporeans disgusting, stupid and intolerable. Some foreign agencies openly pronounced that they could not find talents among daft Singaporeans and have to recruit the needed talents with the right skills sets from their God forsaken villages and run down village schools. And we have several Pinoys who had no qualms in expressing their contempt of Singaporeans after being here and being paid money that they never ever dreamt of in their own countries, never have such a good environment to live in if they were to remain in their villages and slums. They took our hospitality and generosity as a right.

For all the kindness shown to these foreigners, for deprecating ourselves by telling the foreigners that they are talents, we are no talents when in fact many are fakes and half bakes, this myth that Singaporeans are daft and untalented is becoming real to the foreigners. They really believe in this myth that they are superior to the Singaporeans, and the repeated bashing of Singaporeans, taunting, making humiliating and racist remarks to the natives for providing them good jobs and a good life, are just a reflection of what they really think and feel about Singaporeans. Unbelievable, Singaporeans being despised by the scum they brought into their country and providing them with good jobs they could not find any where.

The Singaporeans deserved to be in such a pathetic state of being, to be bullied and despised by the foreigners from all over the world to head hunt to be here to enjoy all the good things in this cosmopolitan city. Don’t blame the foreigners, blame yourself and the sickos who are still mesmerised by the word foreign talent.

Yes, Singaporeans deserved to be beaten, to be despised, as they have admitted that they are a useless people, no talent, no skills and only fit to be taxi drivers and security guards. Do not be surprise if the foreigners become the new master of this island one day and pass a law, like the American Chinese Exclusion Act, and Singaporeans can only be taxi drivers and security guards. This is still a big concession and better than becoming maids and boat people.

If the daft Singaporeans continue to sleep and remain apathetic and allow the sickos to replace them with foreign trash, the fate awaiting them in the future is not going to look good. Singaporeans better believe in themselves and take back their country to run it for Singaporeans and let the foreigners know their rightful place in this country.

Maybe the bashing is not enough and they need something harsher or more drastic needs to happen before they can feel the pain. Where is the confidence and pride of being Singaporeans when foreigners think it is fair game to beat up Singaporeans in Singapore?

A most awaited once in 50 year event

They say great things don’t happened everyday, and often it happens once in 50 years. If that is not the case then everyone will be celebrating everyday or every hour. A 50 year break will give people the pent up feeling to want to let it all out at one go. The building up of a desire or expectation of something to come will make the event that much more enjoyable. How many of you have been caught in a situation when you have to let go but unable to, caught in the train, bus, in a meeting or half way in the highway or a long traffic jam? Imagine the explosive instant release and relief, after all the cumulated pressure, can be a most deserving experience

I heard many people have been storing up on their champagne and wine. Some were saying they will party all night out for that day. Some say they will cry in joy, hallelujah. Some say they will visit the places of worship to say thanks.

Never have Singaporeans been so excited by a coming event that would mean so much to them, almost, not Amos. It is really good that the people have something to look forward to, a great hope of jubilation, emancipation and change.

And with the whole island being in a celebration mood, the public places all nicely decorated, freebies and money to spend, this one in 50 year event better be good and better be real, and better come to the people. The people have waited for it for so long.

When the day comes, the streets would be full of people jumping in joy like children breaking out of parental control, getting their independence with the key at 21. I just can’t imagine the joy of the people in the streets. It would be just like the movie Independence Day, a people in celebration as one people, free, freedom and relief and a new beginning.

I too will be in the streets to join the party with champagne bottle in hand. It will be a celebration no Singaporean will ever forget, like a new child is born, on that fateful day. Yes, 50 years, and it is about time for a new star in the sky, A most welcome event about to happen and A most welcome child is here spreading the good news.

The day is coming. All the signs are there. Everything is moving and pointing to the day everyone is waiting for. Do not despair, there is hope. Darkness will soon give way to light and a new morning.

GE 2015/16 issues for the voters to consider – Issue 2 – Your representative, your interest

Do you want to vote for a govt that represents your interest in Parliament?

Do you want to vote for a representative that listens to you and go to the Parliament to speak up for you? Or do you want to vote for a representative that thinks what is good for you without consulting you, without getting your consent, and go to Parliament to vote against what you think is good for you?

Or do you want to vote for a representative who votes for pary interest aboveyour interest?

Think about it.