“I never felt that I’m an elderly person. When I go down to my
constituency, I’m often helping many people who are younger than me. I
still move around regularly in my constituency.” Chok Tong
I must agree that Chok Tong is looking younger and healthier by the
days. Shall I say thanks to more bird nest soup and spring chicken ginseng
broth? I must say that there are many more good years ahead of him
with his good health. Maybe we can look forward to see Chok Tong in the
thick of Singapore politics for many more years to come. And for those
who are thinking that Marine Parade would miss his clout and Chuan Jin
would have to face Nicole alone, maybe not. Maybe Chok Tong would still
be there to lend his tall shoulder to Chuan Jin and his team and cast a
towering shadow over little Nicole.
Would we be seeing a rematch and a showdown at Marine Parade with the
same PAP team against a reinforced and stronger NSP team led by Nicole?
4/08/2014
ESM Goh calling for review of social policies
I was quite excited when this piece of news popped up on the evening
news. After all Chok Tong was once the mover and shaker of our little
island and instrumental in all the major policies. When LKY opened the
door to Chinese nationals to the island, he responded with his forward
policy to India with the signing of the landmark and earth shaking CECA.
Both policies have benefitted Singapore greatly, I think, though some
may disagree, in terms of population growth and its accessory rewards of
a vibrant economy and property prices, bringing great prosperity to the
citizens and to those renting homes and of course the train and bus
companies.
The influx of PRC Chinese and India Indians have greatly affected the social fabric of our society and, despite the great economic benefits, there are increasing social ills and concerns simmering among the population. So, I thought Chok Tong, with his experience and wisdom as the Emeritus Senior Minister, would be sharing them with the younger ministers to rebalance the social compact.
We have grown over the years from frowning at Singaporean quitters to glorifying foreign quitters to our shores. Both have serious consequences if left alone to flourish unguided by govt measures. I must say the glorification of foreign quitters have been so successful, more successful than the Stop At Two policy, that it will grow on its own steam to steam roll over the last remaining few pathetic and talentless Sinkies left on our shore. If this trend continues, we would need to build a museum to house the memories of the pioneering generation or to legislate a reservation to protect their welfare and existence.
For a start Chok Tong is calling for the forming of a committee to take social policies more seriously and to look into the interests of all the stakeholders, probably this would include all the new stakeholders as well. Forming committees to understand problems is a good new beginning. We just had a great committee looking into the problems of rioting in Little India. And the Tourism Board is also setting up a fund for the tourist industry to understand what the tourists really want to see in Singapore. Such committees are really useful as without them many policies, money and effort would be wasted without knowing what are the right things to do. Cannot imagine how so many policies and activities were formulated and executed in the past without the benefits of the valuable inputs of committees. Would it not be better to form more of such committees ahead of policy formulations and, like in the case of tourist attractions, not to build gigantic and unauthentic attractions that the tourists did not want to see? Millions and billions of dollars could be saved, time and manpower too.
Setting up committees and conducting research and surveys are a good start to all good policies and tourist attractions.
Kopi level - Green
The influx of PRC Chinese and India Indians have greatly affected the social fabric of our society and, despite the great economic benefits, there are increasing social ills and concerns simmering among the population. So, I thought Chok Tong, with his experience and wisdom as the Emeritus Senior Minister, would be sharing them with the younger ministers to rebalance the social compact.
We have grown over the years from frowning at Singaporean quitters to glorifying foreign quitters to our shores. Both have serious consequences if left alone to flourish unguided by govt measures. I must say the glorification of foreign quitters have been so successful, more successful than the Stop At Two policy, that it will grow on its own steam to steam roll over the last remaining few pathetic and talentless Sinkies left on our shore. If this trend continues, we would need to build a museum to house the memories of the pioneering generation or to legislate a reservation to protect their welfare and existence.
For a start Chok Tong is calling for the forming of a committee to take social policies more seriously and to look into the interests of all the stakeholders, probably this would include all the new stakeholders as well. Forming committees to understand problems is a good new beginning. We just had a great committee looking into the problems of rioting in Little India. And the Tourism Board is also setting up a fund for the tourist industry to understand what the tourists really want to see in Singapore. Such committees are really useful as without them many policies, money and effort would be wasted without knowing what are the right things to do. Cannot imagine how so many policies and activities were formulated and executed in the past without the benefits of the valuable inputs of committees. Would it not be better to form more of such committees ahead of policy formulations and, like in the case of tourist attractions, not to build gigantic and unauthentic attractions that the tourists did not want to see? Millions and billions of dollars could be saved, time and manpower too.
Setting up committees and conducting research and surveys are a good start to all good policies and tourist attractions.
Kopi level - Green
4/07/2014
From independence to servitude
The war cry of Malaysia is ‘Malaysia Boleh’. This is how Malaysia wants
its people to feel, to psyche themselves up to build a prosperous
nation. In 1965, we became independent. We were cast adrift like a
flotsam in the ocean. We either swim or sink. We did not shout Singapore
Boleh. We just do it. We did not sink, we turnaround an entrepot
trading country into a prosperous city with manufacturing and financial
services as the main driving sectors of our economy.
When we became independent, we were more or less in the same state of social and economic development as our neighbours. Some were better off than us. In a way we were the most risky state because of our physical limitations. Our people were not up to it to turn the country into an industrial and manufacturing state. We were ill prepared for that role. We were ill prepared for all aspects of building a nation. Our talent pool was very small. Our leaders and top civil servants were mostly lowly educated. Many were non graduates, many with only a school certificate or less. The trained and skilled workforce was non existence. We had to start from scratch.
The govt knew our limitations and weaknesses. They asked for outside assistance to train our people to build our nation. We brought in advisors from around the world to teach us how to industrialise. We levelled the hills and forest, we built housing and industrial estates. We built schools to educate our people. There were no foreign talents running here to help us. We relied on our very own people, the govt then had faith in our people to build a prosperous nation together.
It was all about self reliance, about independence, about training and nurturing our people to build our nation. We did not cry Singapore Boleh. We did it. From 3rd World to 1st World, with our own people.
Today, we have a very well educated, trained and skilled workforce. More than 50% of our new workforce is tertiary educated. We have been producing scholars and scholars, thousands of them over the years. Today, our scholars had a sudden awakening. Other than them, the countries are made of daft Sinkies. We need to import foreign talents to replace them or we will sink. As long as they are foreign talents, fakes also can, we will bring them in without questions. Fakes are better than daft Sinkies. We need the help of all the fakes to bring us back to the 3rd world. We have transformed ourselves from a ‘can do’ nation of hardworking and ‘never say die’ people to one when everything is ‘tak boleh’ without the help of foreigners. We are now a hopeless nation without foreign talents.
Everywhere, every industry, every level, we are now dependent on foreigners to run this country. Our people, the best workers in the world, the best educated in the region, are now being bullied and discriminated by the foreigners with dubious qualifications, and at their mercy for jobs.
At the rate it is going, if the Sinkies did not sink, the country will. How could a country be so desperate and dependent on 3rd World fake talents? How could a country, once proud of its highly rated and educated citizens, be rejecting its citizens in favour of unknown and questionable foreigners?
What are our scholars thinking? Are they smoking pots or popping ecstasy pills?
There is a sinking feelings, but some Sinkies do not think so.
Kopi level - Green
When we became independent, we were more or less in the same state of social and economic development as our neighbours. Some were better off than us. In a way we were the most risky state because of our physical limitations. Our people were not up to it to turn the country into an industrial and manufacturing state. We were ill prepared for that role. We were ill prepared for all aspects of building a nation. Our talent pool was very small. Our leaders and top civil servants were mostly lowly educated. Many were non graduates, many with only a school certificate or less. The trained and skilled workforce was non existence. We had to start from scratch.
The govt knew our limitations and weaknesses. They asked for outside assistance to train our people to build our nation. We brought in advisors from around the world to teach us how to industrialise. We levelled the hills and forest, we built housing and industrial estates. We built schools to educate our people. There were no foreign talents running here to help us. We relied on our very own people, the govt then had faith in our people to build a prosperous nation together.
It was all about self reliance, about independence, about training and nurturing our people to build our nation. We did not cry Singapore Boleh. We did it. From 3rd World to 1st World, with our own people.
Today, we have a very well educated, trained and skilled workforce. More than 50% of our new workforce is tertiary educated. We have been producing scholars and scholars, thousands of them over the years. Today, our scholars had a sudden awakening. Other than them, the countries are made of daft Sinkies. We need to import foreign talents to replace them or we will sink. As long as they are foreign talents, fakes also can, we will bring them in without questions. Fakes are better than daft Sinkies. We need the help of all the fakes to bring us back to the 3rd world. We have transformed ourselves from a ‘can do’ nation of hardworking and ‘never say die’ people to one when everything is ‘tak boleh’ without the help of foreigners. We are now a hopeless nation without foreign talents.
Everywhere, every industry, every level, we are now dependent on foreigners to run this country. Our people, the best workers in the world, the best educated in the region, are now being bullied and discriminated by the foreigners with dubious qualifications, and at their mercy for jobs.
At the rate it is going, if the Sinkies did not sink, the country will. How could a country be so desperate and dependent on 3rd World fake talents? How could a country, once proud of its highly rated and educated citizens, be rejecting its citizens in favour of unknown and questionable foreigners?
What are our scholars thinking? Are they smoking pots or popping ecstasy pills?
There is a sinking feelings, but some Sinkies do not think so.
Kopi level - Green
Japan crying wolf
For the whole of last week the western media were aggressively painting a
picture of a timid and frighten little Japanese boy hiding behind Uncle
Sam in fear of being attacked by the Chinaman. They made it so real
with the Japanese politicians acting very panicky that China was going
to overrun Japan in the like of the Russians taking over Crimea. And for
no reason China is being propped up as the big bad wolf again to the
delight of the western thinking audience.
In reality Japan has a military force that could challenge China for supremacy in East Asia. It has never stopped bullying and harassing China since its defeat in WW2. Its military is strong enough to overrun the two Koreas once again. Its problem with China and South Korea is caused by its seizure of their territories during the days of Japanese Imperialism.
Not only had the Japanese been scrambling fighter jets to intercept Chinese aircraft, it has regularly been arresting Chinese fishing boats in the disputed islands with China and Korea. Is that the act of a timid and frighten nation needing protection from the Americans? Japan is behaving like the Yakuza against its neighbours.
Recently it was emboldened enough to threaten to take military actions against China. It arrogantly announced the building up of its military forces and openly sided with the Philippines and India to fight China in case of war.
The most dangerous act of the cunning and lying Japanese is its latest announcement to shoot down North Korean missiles. This is an act of hostility, an act of war. Any attempt to do so would force the North Koreans to declare war on Japan. Now, would a frighten little short ass nation be so trigger happy to shoot down another country’s missile that is not aim at Japan? Only the Japanese and the Americans would commit such a hostile act against another country.
The western media and the Americans are totally blinded to their ally’s hostile acts and intention and instead playing it up against its neighbours, painting the neighbours as the aggressors instead. Reading the western media will give the readers a strongly skewed and biased view of China and the Koreans and giving the impressions that Japan is such an innocent and peace loving nation and being bullied by its neighbours. The truth is that Japan has always been the aggressor and the bully. But this is not what the western media and the Americans would want the world to know for their own vested interest. Their goal of dominating the world and Asia with Japan as an ally would dictate their views and actions against countries in the region, particularly China and the Koreans.
The world must stop listening to the lies of the Japanese and the western media and the Evil Empire. One is acting like a victim and the other drumming up to support the lie.
Kopi level - Green
In reality Japan has a military force that could challenge China for supremacy in East Asia. It has never stopped bullying and harassing China since its defeat in WW2. Its military is strong enough to overrun the two Koreas once again. Its problem with China and South Korea is caused by its seizure of their territories during the days of Japanese Imperialism.
Not only had the Japanese been scrambling fighter jets to intercept Chinese aircraft, it has regularly been arresting Chinese fishing boats in the disputed islands with China and Korea. Is that the act of a timid and frighten nation needing protection from the Americans? Japan is behaving like the Yakuza against its neighbours.
Recently it was emboldened enough to threaten to take military actions against China. It arrogantly announced the building up of its military forces and openly sided with the Philippines and India to fight China in case of war.
The most dangerous act of the cunning and lying Japanese is its latest announcement to shoot down North Korean missiles. This is an act of hostility, an act of war. Any attempt to do so would force the North Koreans to declare war on Japan. Now, would a frighten little short ass nation be so trigger happy to shoot down another country’s missile that is not aim at Japan? Only the Japanese and the Americans would commit such a hostile act against another country.
The western media and the Americans are totally blinded to their ally’s hostile acts and intention and instead playing it up against its neighbours, painting the neighbours as the aggressors instead. Reading the western media will give the readers a strongly skewed and biased view of China and the Koreans and giving the impressions that Japan is such an innocent and peace loving nation and being bullied by its neighbours. The truth is that Japan has always been the aggressor and the bully. But this is not what the western media and the Americans would want the world to know for their own vested interest. Their goal of dominating the world and Asia with Japan as an ally would dictate their views and actions against countries in the region, particularly China and the Koreans.
The world must stop listening to the lies of the Japanese and the western media and the Evil Empire. One is acting like a victim and the other drumming up to support the lie.
Kopi level - Green
4/06/2014
Sermon of a dead fish
For those who have been to the market, a dead fish can be
just as good looking as the one swimming in the ocean, with its scales and
colour intact. The fishmonger will tell you it is fresh and will poke at it to
show you how good it is. No matter how fresh and alive it appears, it is a dead
fish. Its head is dead and the rotting process has started. It has no life and
no feeling. It is only a matter of time before the smell and rot spread across
the whole body. But this will take some time.
The fishmonger will offer the fish to you at the best price
he could get from you, for a fresh but dead fish. You would have to cook and
consume it while it is still fresh or it would lose its value fast. The process
of rotting is silent and unseen. It is the work of the billions of bacteria and
micro organisms in and outside the body of the fish. When the brain is dead, it
no longer controls the defensive mechanism to protect the body from the attacks
of these foreign organisms. And the organisms will have their meal of the whole
body, and as they eat away, it will manifest itself first with the stench and
then the rot. At its final stage, the maggots would wriggle out of the rotting
flesh to make a point that it is all over.
A ‘bo cheng hu’ country is like a dead fish that is brain
dead. A country without a head, or ‘bo cheng hu’ will run on its own for a
while, but keeps drifting and spiralling down towards self destruction. In such
a state, there will be things like autonomy or deregulation, where every
sector, institution, ministry or department will be running on their own,
serving their little narrow interests without a clear and defined common goal.
And they could tear the whole country apart and still looking very good
individually, like a gleaming dead fish. It is like a soulless nation, just a
country existing without a purpose, without knowing that it has a people to
look after.
Kopi level - Yellow
Kopi level - Yellow
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