Chinatown hawker centre. Hawker Centres are a national heritage, selling a wide variety of food at very reasonable prices. They are spread across the whole island and is part of the Singapore way of life.
1/31/2007
Singapore Can!
Singapore Can
Yes, Singapore Can. This is slightly different from Singapore Boleh. What Boleh needs is a little system, money and technology(SMT). When Singapore Can, these three factors are fully engaged to make something happens. We go about a problem or task systematically, involving the latest technology if needed, and of course with a lot of money. It is not an emotional thing like boleh. Just do and insist that it is ok even if it is not ok. And if the result turns out otherwise, still insist that the result is good.
Singapore Can, faced with the perennial problem of water supply and interstate bickering, we went ahead, systematically, methodologically, to make ourselves self sufficient in water by the time the water agreements expired. We are almost there.
Just 30 years ago, we only have 3 reseervoirs, the biggest of which was MacRitchie. Today we have 15 reservoirs, plus new water and desalination plant in the pipeline. And many of the reservoirs are many times bigger than MacRitchie. And the biggest are yet to come. The Marina Reservoir is going to dwarf MacRitchie. It will itself be dwarfed when Pulau Ubin is dammed. By then we will have excess water to sell to Johore at our price. We can then say enough is enough. No need water from Johore.
And the sand issue. Soon we will be harvesting the sea for sand using technology. And with supply from other sources, we too will be self sufficient in sand. Then we can keep our money for better uses.
Yes, Singapore Can. We thrive under adversities. We find solutions to our problems systematically, and over come them.
We shall over come.
1/30/2007
nkf story - durai a visionary
Durai a Visionary
According to Dr Ling Sing Lin, a director from MOH and once a director of the old NKF, Durai is a Visionary with great plans in IT to put NKF in the World map. This Durai has succeeded. NKF is now famous around the world.
As for the conduct of board meetings, apparently there was only one CEO and many cardboards that were programmed to nod in agreement without a speaking a word. That was the experience according to Dr Ling.
And minutes of meeting were not allowed outside the boardroom. This is even more stringent than the Ministry of Defence or any other ministry. The matters discussed and reported in the minutes must be very sensitive and probably may compromise national interests.
characteristics of SPUs
Characteristics of SPUs
Sex - Neuter
Sexual Preference to be programmed
Brain - ST Brawn 128k Microprocessor
Artistic Sensitivity - Zero
Financial Computation - Elementary
Emotion Index - Stable with 0 variation
Intelligence level - Fully programmed to 128k capacity
Critical Analysis - Not programmed. No requirement
55 year limited warranty
Special Features
Easily programmed to do manual and routine tasks.
No delinquent problems.
Highly reliable.
Drawbacks
Reprogamming needed for every change of task.
Unable to do critical thinking tasks. No software.
myth 111
'Buyer be Where?
Economy's growing, but retailers aren't seeing benefits. More cash - but it's not being spent
7.7% Economic Growth
4.4% up retail sales
2.8% up Domestic private consumption
1.97% up HDB flat prices
The above were in the front page of Today paper yesterday.
Lee Ching Wern wrote: 'When you have an economy charging ahead - it grew by 7.7% last year - you would expect cash registers to be ringing non stop as more people hit the shops. But the reality has left economists and retailers scratching their heads...'
Now is this the truth or is it a myth?
The Mindless SPUs II
The Mindless SPUs
When I posted the above article on CPF contributions the normal response I got back is that Singaporeans will squander all their hard earned money away if the govt does not lock it up for them. And when they have done that, who is going to look after them?
Are Singaporeans so helpless, irresponsible, mindless, of unsound mind, to the verge of stupidity, that once they get their CPF money back they will splurge and throw their life time savings away?
Who do you think created this properous country? Who raised all these young upstarts to think that their parents are old fools who cannot manage their own finances?
It is very sad that Singaporeans have become such unthinking lot that they have turned themselves into nothing but Mindless Singaporean Production Units (SPU). They are trained so well to be a useful production unit in the economy but utterly helpless in looking after their own finances and old age.
Does anyone know what they do with unserviceable or no longer useful production units? They will be carted away and dumped. Production units are only useful when they can produce goods and services.
And now we have a nation of SPUs! Not exactly. The handful of elite will never consider themselves as SPUs. SPUs need to be managed, controlled, and programmed. That's where the elite comes in, to think, planned and managed these mindless SPUs for their own good.
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