TRE – The shadow Parliament

In a way the TRE is looking like the shadow Parliament where national issues are discussed furiously by the people and their representatives. Every issue is hotly debated and reflected the real feelings of the people, the tension, the angst, the misery, the pain and the frustration and exasperation, all came out as real as you can get. Though there might be some fakings, but it is hundreds of times more real than the real Parliament.

Here not only genuine issues are raised, genuine questions are also asked, issues that really affect the lives of the people. There is no time for superficiality and no material issues raised for the sake of raising just for fun.

The people’s representatives here are really the representatives of the people. If they are not and speaking 

against the people, they will be ‘goreng’ and chewed to pieces.

You can imagine how the parliamentarians or MPs and ministers appearing here and talking nonsense or incomprehensible things or things they wanted the people to believe are right or good for the people when they are not? They will be striped naked and whipped and torched here. Oops, cannot say such things like whipped and torched or some people will take it literally. Only figuratively like all the good things they said in Parliament, figuratively also.

What do you think, which is the more real Parliament? Or which Parliament is a talk cock session?

Khobragade won against the American bully

She was an Indian diplomat in New York and accused of making false submission on her maid and even suspected of drug smuggling. To make things more embarrassing, she was arrested in broad daylight in a public area and subsequently subjected to the most humiliating search conducted on a woman by the American police.
 
This sparked a diplomatic row and the Indian govt cried foul, brought her home and then appointed her as a counsellor to India’s mission in the United Nation. This immediately raised her status and protected with diplomatic immunity. Though this was technically foul as it was done after the accusation and charges, so what? This is the only way to deal with American treachery and devious plots against their political target.
 
After months of diplomatic chest thumping, the Americans finally backed off and dismissed the charges. India has succeeded in facing up to the international bully by being tough, as tough as the Americans to win this case.
 
Well done India. Other countries must learn from this episode and take the Americans by the horns when they turned devilish if they are to get an even chance to shrug them off. China better learn from India in how to deal with the American bully.

MH370 and Mas Selamat similarities

When Mas Selamat disappeared from the detention centre, it was like falling out from the radar screen. Troops were activated to search the estates around Bukit Timah. And the search extended to all the parks in all corners of the island. The only area that was left untouched was the water catchment area around the reservoirs. Not a trace was found of the disappearing act.
 
MH370 had disappeared and all the searches were in the area around where it was last seen. This is perfectly logical on the assumption that it had crashed or exploded in mid air. Now these two possibilities have increasingly been written off and the theory of hijacking is gaining prominent. And the search started to cover a wider area and into the Straits of Malacca and Indian Ocean. And like Mas Selamat, the South China Sea is left practically untouched except for the vicinity of the last sighting. And like Mas Selamat, not a trace was found.
 
Both cases are like they have disappeared into thin air a la David Copperfield’s magic show. And there were even leads or false leads pointing towards the Indian Ocean and the Straits of Malacca. Could the aircraft be sitting somewhere safe in Peninsula Malaysia or somewhere in the east, in the islands of Philippines?
 
When a crash is ruled out, the next logical thing is to look at the possible destination of the hijackers and how much fuel the aircraft had and how far this would take it to. It is likely to be an isolated or deserted location that has little human traffic or activities to conceal its presence. And by now, if this theory is to be true, the hostages would have been splitted into smaller groups and scattered in many safe houses very far apart to avoid detection or rescue by any task force.
 
The aircraft and the passengers/hostages could be like Mas Selamat, sitting safely somewhere by now.
 
PS. If the aircraft would to fly another 4 hours as rumoured, the destination is likely to be the Philippines.

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.

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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