MH370 – More misinformation

The more people questioned the information coming out from the Malaysian Govt, the more they corrected what they said and the more misinformation came forth as a result. The latest from General Rodzali Daud, ‘the military received signals on Saturday that, after the plane stopped communicating with ground controllers, it turned from heading north east to heading west, lowered its altitude and flew hundreds of kilometres across Peninsular Malaysia and over the Straits of Malacca before the tracking went blank.’
 
First point, under which radar was the aircraft tracked? Kota Bahru, KLIA or Butterworth? At the last spot quoted, none of the radars could pick up the aircraft signal. The second point is that if it were to head west from that point, it would be heading to the Isthmus of Kra, towards the direction of Phuket. It would not have been travelling hundreds of kilometers across Peninsular Malaysia unless it was heading southwest. Then it could possibly be picked up by KLIA if travelling at high altitude. If it was flying low, all the residents along its flight path would have been awaken by the noise it caused early in the morning.
 
What is the truth? Why all these misinformation?
 
Hishammuddin said Malaysia was transparent and had nothing to hide. Are they really not hiding anything? Could the aircraft have turned back and landed in Kota Bahru and they are negotiating with the hijackers all the time?

Water rationing, a wake up call for Sinkies

A Christopher Teo Kian Lam wrote to the ST forumer on the dry spell and how water rationing would be a wake up call to Sinkies who still treat the water supply as a God given right. They need a taste of what water rationing is like to take water conservation seriously. He said, ‘Do we need our reservoirs’s water levels to deplete further, or wait for a NEWater or desalination plant to malfunction under the increased production, before reality sets in?’
 
I agree with him the Sinkies must not waste water unnecessarily. But who is the real culprit in excessive water consumption? Wait till the population hits 6.9m, another 1.5m people in the island, then you won’t need a dry spell to ration water. You may have to ration water daily throughout the year.
 
Do we really have enough water sources to feed the need of 6.9m or more? Maybe the wake up shall be addressed to the govt. Do we need 6.9m population to feel the squeeze on our water supply? At the moment we have just about enough for 5.4m people and this applies to many other facilities and infrastructure. Can we really cope with 6.9m? Maybe we can, and by then, we will have to live with ERP on our water supply as well.
 
Is this dry spell a wake up call on the Govt to think thrice about the 6.9m population rather than on the Sinkies?

Little India Riot- Was it life threatening?

This question popped up in the COI hearing after people questioned if the Chairman was seen to be more concern with the burning of police vehicles than the safety of police officers. Selvam came out to explain that he did not mean that and the situation was not life threatening then and that was why the burning of the vehicles became an important issue. Or, if it was a life threatening situation, then the burning of vehicles would not be such a vital point in his comment.
 
‘A lot of people (have asked me that). I never said that. What I said in the proceedings was, on that day, it was not a life threatening situation. That means these rioters weren’t after the lives of anybody,’ said Selvam.
 
‘So what the responders were faced with was a simple rioting situation, where rioters were burning property, overturning cars. They never threatened the life of anybody, so there was no justification to pull out the gun and fire.’ This second quote did not mention who said it but presumably must be by Selvam, or is it, as the content was contrary to what he said and doubting that the rioters were not going to threaten lives. And it was reported that ‘the retired judge agreed that if the police had pulled out the guns, it could have changed the situation.
 
The judge continued to insist that it was not life threatening, ‘The situation you have was purely confined to property damage, not life damage. Fact of the matter is, they is no evidence of them wanting to kill anybody.’ Someone seemed to know what were in the minds of the very nice rioters who were behaving like spoilt children burning their toys and had no thoughts of killing anyone.
 
Really? I remember one of the earlier witnesses who understood Tamil was saying the rioters spoke in Tamil saying they wanted to kill the bus attendant. And in a situation like a riot, can anyone be so sure that it was not life threatening? All it needed wa a police officer to make the wrong move like charging into the crowd alone and you wanna bet that no life will be threatened?
 
I am just thinking aloud. But they are the experts the ‘knows all’. So the experts must be right. Let me guess, it is, it is not, it is, it is not....

What do you think?

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From Sin City to City of Ruffians

Anton Casey was an angel. He only made some funny remarks and faces, did not hurt anyone physically. In today’s report in MyPaper, a petite Singapore young lady, Dawn Ho, was punched in the nose by a Caucasian man twice her size for trying to stop him from bullying a taxi driver. This Caucasian ruffian is called Aaron Jeremiejczyk. His female companion, not sure a SPG or a foreigner, hit Dawn’s friend, a Munir Alsagoff with a beer bottle.
 
The police were called and it was reported that they were investigating. Not sure if the Caucasian ruffian and his woman ruffian were arrested. Very likely not. And very likely the two Singaporean victims would now have to get their own lawyer to sue them. Otherwise they would just be a punching bag and nothing could be done about it. And if the ruffians’ passports are not withheld, they could be on the next flight out of Ruffian City and laughing their guts out for having a good time punching daft Sinkies.
 
And the daft Sinkies would continue to invite more of such ruffians into the city to punch them. They would even spend millions to integrate them to be like timid and meek Sinkies. Can it happen? Would it work? Would wild Caucasians be turned into meek and daft Sinkies? What a joke?
 
No, they are saying it is not a joke. The Sinkies are serious, spending real good money to embrace these ruffians to be one of them.

Are Singaporean PMETs hungry enough?

Below are parts of a post by a ‘Return Singaporean’ on his experience and advice to Sinkies to go seek employment elsewhere to gain the overseas exposure. I removed a few paras to make it shorter to read.
 
The first point I like to make is that not all jobs required overseas experience. How many jobs needed that? The second point is that from what he said, Sinkies are just poor workers and those foreigners he recruited are good workers. Presumably he is getting all the good candidates with genuine qualifications. And this is possible as they came from the world pool where there are hundreds of millions out there.
 
So what’s the beef? In the Sinkie context, in many cases it is not because the Sinkies are not good and the foreigners better but Sinkies were simply sacked and replaced by foreigners. Two, in many cases, even with my eyes closed, many of the foreigners faked their qualifications and CVs. Three, many jobs don’t need overseas experience or exposure. And fourth, the most important, why are Sinkie running away from home and be willing to be replaced by fakes or people that are not better than them? By doing so, Sinkies are losing their homes and country by default when the foreigners keep coming in to replace them by cheating and Sinkies running away without a fight.
 
Returning Singaporeans may be writing his piece with good intentions but his reality is an illusion. The reasons for Sinkies losing their jobs are not because they are not good enough. And with so many jobs that don’t need overseas exposure, it is something good to have but not necessary most of the time.
 
The most important thing for Sinkies is to get their house in order and kick out all the fakes and foreigners that are practicing discrimination against the Sinkies. Ideally the govt should take the lead. If the govt is not going to do so and condoning the discrimination and alienation of Sinkies in jobs, that a new govt must be voted in to do the right thing for Sinkies, to protect their jobs, their homes and the country. Running away or going overseas is a defeatist thing to do and very dangerous, as Sinkies will lose their country by default. All Sinkies must look at the bigger picture of country and the people as a whole and not at individual cases. If one is looking at each case individually, I would suggest we replace the whole cabinet with more competent and cheaper foreigners.
 
What do you think? Should Sinkies just run away and be replaced by fake foreigners and ruffians in their own country?
 
You may now read what Returning Singaporean wrote below.
 
‘….Most of the locals lack overseas exposure/s and a rather severe skill-set mismatch with what the market currently needs (or will need in the future).
I’ve to confessed that I’d “lower” the benchmark for a couple locals, hoping that I was wrong in my initial assessment and that they will turn out to be a gem in the later stages of the selection.
 
Boy was I wrong! Not only do all the Singaporean applicants lack in-depth experience and knowledge, they also lack that sense of aggression, enthusiasm and that desire (or should I say… “hunger”) to succeed.
It almost felt as though as if, they are “entitled” to the job, because of the mere fact that they are….. Singaporeans.
 
I’d fought inch & tooth to increase the headcount in Singapore and not move it to lower cost bases in India or China. If this new hire is a poor match and does not succeed, it will be my neck on the chopping board….
 
This decision wasn’t made because of a “Foreigner-vs-Singaporean” conflict.
It was made because of the candidate’s suitability to the role. I’d to choose the best person, who can succeed and help us achieve the firm’s targets. It was just painfully sad that it was not offered to a Singaporean instead….
 
I strongly urge Singaporeans to widen their horizon. Go out to the world, try something new.
 
Increase your knowledge base, consistently venture out of your comfort zone/s and make this a habit….
 
If we do not make ourselves worthy of every single penny/cents, it is really that easy for firms to just unplug from Singapore and move on to the next “lower value cost center”.’

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