Medisave tweaks, to save pockets?

So many reports on how the Medisave is being tweaked and becoming more flexible to allow the people to use to pay for more medical services, including drugs. These must be music to the ears of the people who are short of cash.
 
One thing has been silent through out the reports and all these months when the cost of medical services were reported. It was all about how to pay, and even the buffet spread of Medishield Life is also about how to pay. Though the equation has two parts, the Govt seems to be only interested in how to get the people to pay and nothing much really was said on how to bring down medical cost.
 
Not a word, yes, not a word in this as if it is something that nothing can be done to it. Why? You think and tell me.

Kopi Level - Yellow

Changing the DNA of Sin City

We acknowledged the pioneer generations for building this great city into what it is today. And this is a one time exercise for a good reason. We are paying our debt to the pioneer generation once and for all and good riddance. We don’t need these coolie stocks anymore and by making this payout we have settled our debt to them.
 
We are going to start a new Sin City with good stocks, not coolie stocks anymore. We are having our own formula for Year Zero, unlike those of the Pol Pot regime that massacred their adults to start a new generation of people without the old thinking. We are doing differently from Mao who started the Cultural Revolution to delete centuries of superstitions but also in the same stroke, wiped out centuries of wisdom and historical treasures.
 
We are going to do it better than Mao but not as vicious as Pol Pot. We would not commit genocide. But we will replace our coolie stocks with good and clever stocks of the rich and famous all over the world to start a new city of Sin. (Shsssssh, 3rd World also can lah. But please don’t mention about fakes). We would only take in all the talents of the world, we will called them foreign talents. This would form the immediate need and the current elite.
 
We would spend money to buy other sporting talents also for our immediate needs in these areas. At the same time we would spend money to train and educate foreign talents in our schools and universities to be our new citizens of the future. We will budget hundreds of millions annually for this goal. We would ignore the coolie stocks and would not use the budget to nurture their poor stocks when we could have better foreign stocks.
 
Our open door policy to immigrants is to prepare the ground for them, too lure them to breed here with their good genes, make them comfortable and wanting to sink roots here. It is their children that we are coveting. This forms the third part of a three part strategy to fill the island with good stocks.
 
By Year 2050 we should have a new population of good stocks forming the bulk of the population and Sin City will be the model of the world, a City of sinfully intelligent people with super talents.
 
What do you think? Good idea or not?

Kopi Level - Yellow

Singapore Turf Club - My personal collection of Singapore's history

I just saw the Channel News Asia programme called Treasure Hunt with the items being exhibited at the National Museum. And I recollect that I have this scrip of paper which is a betting slip of the Singapore Turf Club dated 4th October 1958. It is quite a long time for a worthless piece of paper to survive that long. Its reason for longetivity is the herbal prescription written on its back, I think. I am not sure what it was for.

This is something I found left behind by my mother. A little legacy of the past.

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?