Singapore the most expensive city? So?

What is the fuzz all about that Singapore is the most expensive city in the world? To me everything is fine and nothing changes, really. I still have my breakfast and whatever, dining in whatever chic joints that I fancied. My Lamborghini is still running fine and attracting all the attention that I need. If it feels jaded, I can always jump into my Ferrari for a change. So, what’s the big deal?

The cars are so cheap that I could buy a new one with my salary every month. The landed properties too are affordable, really, only a year or two years income will be enough to pay for one, with spare change.

The only thing that I am complaining is that the roads are too congested. They should raise the ERP charges to $20 a pass or even $50. And for those wannabes who cannot afford to buy a decent car, they should take public transport and stop hogging the roads by limping around at 90 kph on the expressway. They are real irritants and always seem to be blocking my right of way. Shitty drivers who think their little cheap sedans are a status symbol to show off on the roads.

Everything is so affordable here and nothing is expensive. I am very comfortable with my level of contentment without being complacent and lazy. Life is a bliss and for enjoyment, and this city just is about everything that I need. Oh, I am no big entrepreneur taking high risk with my investments. I am just an ordinary employee with a decent income to boot.

Now who is complaining? 

Kopi Level - Greeen

PS: I need to clarify here that this is a satire or else stupid people cannot understand and think that I am talking about myself earning million dollar salary. Then the daft will think he is smarter to call me daft.

COI – The Altar of Sacrifice

The COI is set up to investigate the causes of the Little India Riot and probably with recommendations to prevent such an incident from happening again. And if it does, this time the police will be in a better position to deal with the mob. And the possible causes could be things like alcohol consumption, too many people concentrated in a small area, congestion, (didn’t they said 4 is illegal assembly?), narrow roads, rude bus attendant or bad bus driver or something like that.

What has happened over the last few sessions has turned into a grilling of the men in blue. It is looking more like an Altar of Sacrifice and a sacrificial lamb would be presented eventually to satisfy the gods. Now who is going to be the culprit or rogue of the Little India Riot? Would it be the rioters, the policemen or would it be the govt, definitely not the COI?

At the moment it looks like it is the police that is on trial. Or is it? Who else is also on trial? Looking from outside the fishbowl, it looks like everyone is a possible candidate on trial, from the right side to the left side, from those in front of the bench and those behind the bench, and those outside the bench.
This is truly a contest to prove who is the cleverest of them all on the basis of if? And which lamb will be offered on the Altar of Sacrifice? It is nice drama pitting the wits of the witnesses with those of the committee with accusations of all kinds thrown up in the air. Some say it is amusing, some capricious, some say it is conceit and egos and bundled into one.

What do you think?

China should show the middle finger to the Americans

The American defence budget is US$600.4b compares to China’s US$132b. And the Americans are unhappy and questioned China’s intention in raising defence spending! Is it the right of America to have a super big military force and no one else can have their own big military force, even spending at a fraction of what the American’s are spending?
 
China should just ignore this kind of nonsensical question. In fact China should ask the US why they need to have such an enormous budget. Ok, the American will reply, ‘We want to be the Number One Super power to rule the world.’
 
Should China wish to respond to the Americans instead of showing them the middle finger, China could tell the Americans that it also has the aspirations to be the Number One Super Power. Can or not? Or China could tell the Americans that it must have a force sufficiently big to deter an American attack, one that is big enough to keep the Americans away but not too big to attack the Americans.
 
At the moment, the Americans are maintaining an overwhelming superiority to allow it to attack any country including China and know that China would not hit back. So the Americans can adopt an adventuristic policy like striking at China’s Embassy in Belgrade for no reason and pretending that it was a mistake or flying B 52 bombers towards China. China must have a defence force strong enough to keep American adventurism and cowboy mentality at bay. And China can only do that when it is at parity with the Americans in terms of military might.
 
Does that answer the American’s question? Or are they so stupid and still want to ask again?

World’s most expensive and cheapest cities- Trading place

‘IBNlive.in.com, 4 Mar 2014
Singapore has topped a list of 131 cities globally to become the world's most expensive cities to live in 2014, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), reported by the BBC. India's major cities - including Mumbai and New Delhi - were found to be among the least expensive in the world.’
 
This piece of news is really funny and I am going to write funnily. You see, the talents from India are taking over many of the top jobs in Sin City to help the City to grow. And they are getting all the plum jobs and paid better than the Sinkies.
 
On the other hand, the daft Sinkies, after building this great City, are getting less talented. I think it will be a good thing to switch places. Let all the daft Sinkies sell their HDB flats and move over to Mumbai or New Delhi while the Indians move over to take over Sin City.
 
Hopefully, this will put a big spur on the daft Sinkies’ hide and they could rebuild Mumbai and New Delhi into a new and prosperous Sin Cities with all the first world attributes like this most expensive city today. It will give them the drive badly needed but lost through years of affluence to be like their forefathers were, to build a new city for themselves.
 
What do you think?

The new moral code of the elite

The elite are living life in their ivory towers and would do all they can to convince or coerce the masses that the new status quo is either good, natural or inevitable, and nothing can be done about it.
 
The first myth they are selling is that the wide income gap is normal and that’s it, live with it, meaning they keep their high income and the masses keep their low income. They are so talented and the average guy is so untalented. They need to pay themselves so high or they will be poached by MNCs that are willing to pay them more. The income of the masses has to be kept low as the whole world is waiting outside our door to take the jobs at lower pay, and they are willing, hungry and more talented.
 
Another myth is the price of public housing, even when it is a 99 year lease, is affordable and reasonable at the kind of price they are selling and to be repayable over 30 or more years. And they are forcing young people to incur huge debt to service, while those with a little more income are forced to take even bigger debt in private housing. They want it that way, for whose benefits? Definitely not for the young home buyers who would be burdened for almost their entire working lives.
 
A new myth they have created is that taking public transport is gracious living, reduces jams on the roads. They are also saying the roads are congested and to reduce the jams, high car prices, including $100k COEs are necessary. And who will be enjoying the jam free roads? And they pay themselves crazily to make sure the high prices of car ownership look cheap and affordable. And what is the main cause of more cars on the roads? Is it high population? You dunno meh? And they are going to make the population density go even higher and higher.
 
Who would have to pay the price for the big squeeze? Not the elite for sure. They even try to con the daft Sinkies that living in dog kennel size flats would not affect the quality of life and to have more children, to have 3 generations living in the little kennel called home.
 
What else have they fiddled with to their advantage and to the disadvantage of the masses? They told you GST is good and meant to help the poor. How many of you believe in this new moral? They abolished estate duties to encourage the rich to get richer. The rationale is not to discourage the rich from becoming more enterprising, and their talent should not be punished. They deserved to be rich for generations as they are so talented, or talent breeds in the same pool of genes. My eye balls are rolling all over.
 
What else are the elite telling the masses? Keep more money in your CPF and be happy knowing you have so much money in their safe keeping. Only clever people will put their money in the CPF to grow and the money will not run away. It will be there forever, even after you die. Great moral wisdom isn’t it?
 
Oh, I nearly forgot, $600,000 is peanuts. Many peasants would never even see $6000 in their bank accounts in their life time. And housing prices drops by 1% they started to kpkb. But when housing prices went up by 200% or 300% they did not bother. They laughed all the way to the banks.
 
Another interesting new moral is for poor young men and women to defend the riches of the elite, to protect their mansions when the young men and women are paid not even peanuts but more like pittance. And they expect the young men and women to be valiant and to die defending their wealth without thinking or questioning. ‘Si beh kiang or si beh gong’?
 
Then there is this new wisdom or moral code, that it is the right thing to do to bring in foreigners to replace the citizens in good jobs and allow the citizens to be underemployed or unemployed. It is called meritocrazy! And the citizens are threatened to buck up or their wives and daughters would become maids. Why is there a need for a defence force, and what is there to defend when foreigners are invited to feast themselves at the expense of citizens, to boss over the citizens, to cheat the citizens?
 
Would the deregulation of the financial industry to allow the banks to do as they pleased, to create money out of nothing, be the new moral code of the elite? You tell me.
 
This new moral code is not exhaustive. You could have seen and heard even more than are written here. This is the new morality of the elite. And they would tell the daft that these are the hard truths and they have to accept it, like it or not.