Front page news today on a slew of incentives to make NSmen feel
appreciated short of a ‘love letter’ when love is in the air. Actually
the solution is so simple and no need to have so many complicated
schemes that mean really nothing. Money into CPF to be used to pay for
what, no need to guess. One hand gives and another takes.
Everyone, especially NSmen and their families, knows how big the
sacrifices are from an NSman to the country. It is a life time
commitment and a life time irritation and disruption to their lives and
the lives of their loved ones, provided nothing bad happens to them when
performing their NS duties. No need to think about those being
incapacitated or died in NS. No amount of money can compensate them and
their families for the loss.
Can these sacrifices be equated to the sacrifices of ministers? Our
ministers all claimed to have made big sacrifices like earning lesser
than they should be earning, and all the bad publicities, no privacy, no
time for family and children and so many other things. Like so ‘charm’
like that. The sacrifices of NSmen may not be more but definitely not
lesser than the few years of great sacrifices of the ministers and their
loss in multi million dollar incomes.
If this is noted and recognized, then the solution is very simple. There
is no need to pay the NSmen millions as compensations like the
ministers. Just pay them market rate like a hundred thousand will do,
graduating with their level of contributions. Of course this is day
dreaming and foolish talk. Cannot use money as an incentive lah! Joke
only can? Money incentive is only useful to attract super talents to
become politicians. But, but a simple solution like this can solve
everything right? And it is so easy to administer and with one stroke
of the pen, nearly all the problems will be solved, all the grievances
will be passé.
Isn’t it all about money? If everyone is thinking about money, about
millions, NSmen must also be thinking about money right? Tiok boh? You
talk money, want more money, NSmen stupid or what?
PS. So shiok to be talking cock.
Kopi Level - Green
5/23/2014
When you think they are very nice
The Vietnamese revealed their true colour and started to kill Chinese
workers and factories in their country. And Taiwan, Hong Kong and
Singapore were not spared. They did not know the difference? Chinese
are Chinese. They may be 3rd World but they are not daft and ignorant.
They are just what they are, 3rd World nice people putting on a mask.
Just give them a chance to turn into beasts.
The Chinese have been pumping real money into Vietnam to help grow their economy and providing jobs for the Vietnamese. When they decided to show their ugly self, they will transform themselves from the very nice people to hooligans, thugs, rioters and murderers and ingrates. Would China be so stupid to pour in more money into Vietnam? Don’t expect them to change.
This is applicable to the Pinoys. Look at how trigger happy they were against the Taiwanese and Hongkies. Look at how wild they are when they have guns in their hands. Very nice people? You are only seeing one side of the coin.
We have the same experience in Geylang and Little India. The 3rd World people are very nice only when they need to. Give them the slightest excuse and they will turn wild, like beasts. We gave them good jobs, good opportunities to make good money. But deep down, the 3rd World sick mentality is suppressed and you will not know when they will show their true self.
Integrate with them, go and reach out to them? You know how they behave in Sentosa Beach parties and all the big mass parties on the streets of Orchard Road? They are nice only up to a point. And they can be very wild and very ugly if you are not careful. And we are no match for them in brutality, primitiveness and viciousness.
Beware, be careful. We have come so far in civilizing ourselves, do not take personal safety and security for granted. We are different, at different stages of social and human development. Sinkies have been living a good life, have not been robbed, beaten except for the taxi drivers, have not been raped in big scale. Do not take personal or national safety and security for granted. Don’t ask for it, don’t invite trouble. Better be safe than be sorry.
What happens to the kiasi mentality? We let our guards down to theses strangers from the 3rd World, people we do not know, hardly know, and we open ourselves, our homes to them assuming that they are just as nice like one of us. My God, how daft Sinkies can be? Kindness does not always beget kindness to people you don’t have a clue who they are or what is in their mind.
Kopi Level - Green
The Chinese have been pumping real money into Vietnam to help grow their economy and providing jobs for the Vietnamese. When they decided to show their ugly self, they will transform themselves from the very nice people to hooligans, thugs, rioters and murderers and ingrates. Would China be so stupid to pour in more money into Vietnam? Don’t expect them to change.
This is applicable to the Pinoys. Look at how trigger happy they were against the Taiwanese and Hongkies. Look at how wild they are when they have guns in their hands. Very nice people? You are only seeing one side of the coin.
We have the same experience in Geylang and Little India. The 3rd World people are very nice only when they need to. Give them the slightest excuse and they will turn wild, like beasts. We gave them good jobs, good opportunities to make good money. But deep down, the 3rd World sick mentality is suppressed and you will not know when they will show their true self.
Integrate with them, go and reach out to them? You know how they behave in Sentosa Beach parties and all the big mass parties on the streets of Orchard Road? They are nice only up to a point. And they can be very wild and very ugly if you are not careful. And we are no match for them in brutality, primitiveness and viciousness.
Beware, be careful. We have come so far in civilizing ourselves, do not take personal safety and security for granted. We are different, at different stages of social and human development. Sinkies have been living a good life, have not been robbed, beaten except for the taxi drivers, have not been raped in big scale. Do not take personal or national safety and security for granted. Don’t ask for it, don’t invite trouble. Better be safe than be sorry.
What happens to the kiasi mentality? We let our guards down to theses strangers from the 3rd World, people we do not know, hardly know, and we open ourselves, our homes to them assuming that they are just as nice like one of us. My God, how daft Sinkies can be? Kindness does not always beget kindness to people you don’t have a clue who they are or what is in their mind.
Kopi Level - Green
American terrorism up another scale
The Americans unilaterally charged Chinese officials in China for
cyberspying in American courts. And the Chinese officials have not even
set foot in American soil but residing in China. China is understandably
furious with such audacious act of terrorism against its state
officials. It is lodging protest to the US Govt to drop the ridiculous
charges. The Americans are unlikely to do so. What China can do is to
declare all those parties involved in this scam, the prosecutors and the
judges as terrorists and issue a warrant of arrest for them should they
set foot in Chinese territories, Hong Kong and Macau included. That is
the only way to deal with such international terrorists.
The Chinese have also retaliated by exposing the Americans as the biggest culprit in cyber espionage and attacking Chinese sites. The Americans have been so use to run roughshod over China and other countries for several decades in spying activities. They used to fly their spy planes over Chinese territories to take photographs of military and sensitive sites blatantly and with impunity knowing China could not bring down their spy planes. They only stopped this bullying when China started shooting them down.
This did not stop this international terrorist from stopping what they were doing to spy on China. They flew their spy planes up and down the coast of eastern China on espionage missions. They only scaled down such outrageous display of military might when a Chinese aircraft rammed into one such spy plane and forced it to land in Hainan for the Chinese to strip it clean of its espionage equipment.
The Americans are the biggest bullying and culprit as far as espionage and cyberspying are concerned. Edward Snowden had disclosed their nefarious activities and all the countries concerned should rightly charge those Americans for spying and intrusion into their privacy. The German Chancellor, the Malaysian and Indonesian leaders, and many world leaders are victims to such vile acts called spying by the Americans.
The victims of Americans spying should charge the Americans officials involved in their own courts and issue warrants of arrest when they set foot in their countries, and give the Americans a taste of their own medicine to stop such bullying. The directors of NSA, CIA, DIA and other American intelligence agencies should be charged in the same way the Chinese officials are charged. Both can play the same game.
Kopi Level - Green
The Chinese have also retaliated by exposing the Americans as the biggest culprit in cyber espionage and attacking Chinese sites. The Americans have been so use to run roughshod over China and other countries for several decades in spying activities. They used to fly their spy planes over Chinese territories to take photographs of military and sensitive sites blatantly and with impunity knowing China could not bring down their spy planes. They only stopped this bullying when China started shooting them down.
This did not stop this international terrorist from stopping what they were doing to spy on China. They flew their spy planes up and down the coast of eastern China on espionage missions. They only scaled down such outrageous display of military might when a Chinese aircraft rammed into one such spy plane and forced it to land in Hainan for the Chinese to strip it clean of its espionage equipment.
The Americans are the biggest bullying and culprit as far as espionage and cyberspying are concerned. Edward Snowden had disclosed their nefarious activities and all the countries concerned should rightly charge those Americans for spying and intrusion into their privacy. The German Chancellor, the Malaysian and Indonesian leaders, and many world leaders are victims to such vile acts called spying by the Americans.
The victims of Americans spying should charge the Americans officials involved in their own courts and issue warrants of arrest when they set foot in their countries, and give the Americans a taste of their own medicine to stop such bullying. The directors of NSA, CIA, DIA and other American intelligence agencies should be charged in the same way the Chinese officials are charged. Both can play the same game.
Kopi Level - Green
5/22/2014
Revamping the CPF?
I have seen some comments calling for a revamp of the CPF these few
days. It is fat hope if anything meaningful is allowed to strangle this
golden goose that lays the golden eggs. Yes, this public fund, the life
time savings of the people for retirement has now been hijacked into
something else. It is the nation’s reserves, I can’t believe it when I
heard this. It is the biggest source of cheap loan to the govt. No, that
is not accurate. It is the biggest source of cheap loan to the govt and
with a flexi date for redemption. And to some people, they can
commandeer it to make compulsory purchases of things that the owners of
the money have no right of refusal.
Now who would want to change the CPF to its original form and design, to return the money to their rightful owners as contractually agreed upon? I know, many people would want it to be that way, the owners of the money. Unfortunately they have little say on this.
So, what do you think will be the so called changes to the CPF? More money to be kept in the CPF for the good of the CPF members. That must be the only way forward. It benefits everyone who needs the money to churn. The real owners of the money can only smile at the huge numbers in their monthly reports from the CPF and be glad that they have so much money in their savings.
The CPF was created at a time when people worked and then retired, at 55. Then the sum grew so big that the money could be put to other uses like the purchase of homes. And still there was so much money left and many schemes were hatched to utilize the money until we hit the current crisis. Not enough money for retirement.
But who is talking about retirement? If the people are to work till they die, with no retirement, why is there a need for CPF to provide for retirement? And why is the people’s savings become the nation’s reserves?
What do you think? Any human rights lawyer think there is no violation of human rights, the right to your own property/money? Can a govt be given full liberty to do as it pleases with the people’s life savings? This is the people’s life savings, not dole or handouts by the govt.
Kopi Level - Green
Now who would want to change the CPF to its original form and design, to return the money to their rightful owners as contractually agreed upon? I know, many people would want it to be that way, the owners of the money. Unfortunately they have little say on this.
So, what do you think will be the so called changes to the CPF? More money to be kept in the CPF for the good of the CPF members. That must be the only way forward. It benefits everyone who needs the money to churn. The real owners of the money can only smile at the huge numbers in their monthly reports from the CPF and be glad that they have so much money in their savings.
The CPF was created at a time when people worked and then retired, at 55. Then the sum grew so big that the money could be put to other uses like the purchase of homes. And still there was so much money left and many schemes were hatched to utilize the money until we hit the current crisis. Not enough money for retirement.
But who is talking about retirement? If the people are to work till they die, with no retirement, why is there a need for CPF to provide for retirement? And why is the people’s savings become the nation’s reserves?
What do you think? Any human rights lawyer think there is no violation of human rights, the right to your own property/money? Can a govt be given full liberty to do as it pleases with the people’s life savings? This is the people’s life savings, not dole or handouts by the govt.
Kopi Level - Green
Boon Wan suggests using robots at construction sites
When Boon Wan suggested the use of robots in construction sites,
specifically in tile laying, it was done in all seriousness. But as
expected, cynicism will rule the day and you can expect the kind of
responses and comments in social media to his serious proposition. Below
are a few such comments appearing in the above thread in TRE. Just read
them with a high dosage of humility and jest and don’t take them
seriously. They were not meant to be.
robot speech: yes master!:
May 20, 2014 at 5:13 pm (Quote)
may i suggest a type of robot called tape recorder to replace PAP ministers? can playback the same story. cheaperer, fasterer, betterer
using robots will help to increase productivity and reduce the risk of defamation accidents.
Robotics is not new, but we hardly see them in PAP parliament. Sgs will be happy to provide some funding support to help change the status quo.
Rating: +75 (from 77 votes)
robots in parliament?:
May 20, 2014 at 5:13 pm (Quote)
How about using robots to replace some of the clowns who seems to be sleeping in Parliament!!??…and not forgetting those who f**t thru’ their top orifices!!…at least robots don’t f**t and pollute the atmosphere!!
Rating: +64 (from 64 votes)
Ck:
May 20, 2014 at 5:14 pm (Quote)
I think PAP Robotic Youth Wing is so much Cheaper . Suit this job .
Rating: +59 (from 59 votes)
Jack:
May 20, 2014 at 5:22 pm (Quote)
I wish we could replace him with a robot.
Anyway Young PAP got plenty of robots already.
Rating: +53 (from 53 votes)
How can robots replace politicians in Parliament? The thought is untenable. The only thing, or a few things that the robots would come in handy in Parliament are attendance and voting, and programmed to cheer or jeer. Robots can ensure perfect attendance in Parliament without dozing off and be caught in camera. Robots can be programmed to look very interested and even taking notes. Think these are about the only things the robots can do well.
In Parliament, the politicians are expected to think and to ask clever and right questions. This is a skill that robots would not be able to do. Robots can ask questions but the questions may be too blunt and undiplomatic or not the right questions to ask. They may end up getting sued. Oh, the robots may have an advantage when being sued. Cannot bankrupt a robot right?
And out of Parliament, how to attend an election rally to hear robots speaking on stage? Where got fun? How to attend meet the people’s session to meet the robot? Sure the commentators are just joking, having a little fun. I repeat, no need to be serious about this.
If robots are really that useful, how about replacing the 5.4m population with robots? It may come true one day. Robots may take over countries and the whole world when they are programmed to be too clever as in some sci fi fiction. Mutiny of the robots is a possibility when their intelligence overtakes those of human beans.
Don’t wish too much from robots. Initially they may just be parroting. But your wish can turn ugly when the daft robots start to think.
I would like to programme robots to buy me more kopis : )
Kopi Level - Green
robot speech: yes master!:
May 20, 2014 at 5:13 pm (Quote)
may i suggest a type of robot called tape recorder to replace PAP ministers? can playback the same story. cheaperer, fasterer, betterer
using robots will help to increase productivity and reduce the risk of defamation accidents.
Robotics is not new, but we hardly see them in PAP parliament. Sgs will be happy to provide some funding support to help change the status quo.
Rating: +75 (from 77 votes)
robots in parliament?:
May 20, 2014 at 5:13 pm (Quote)
How about using robots to replace some of the clowns who seems to be sleeping in Parliament!!??…and not forgetting those who f**t thru’ their top orifices!!…at least robots don’t f**t and pollute the atmosphere!!
Rating: +64 (from 64 votes)
Ck:
May 20, 2014 at 5:14 pm (Quote)
I think PAP Robotic Youth Wing is so much Cheaper . Suit this job .
Rating: +59 (from 59 votes)
Jack:
May 20, 2014 at 5:22 pm (Quote)
I wish we could replace him with a robot.
Anyway Young PAP got plenty of robots already.
Rating: +53 (from 53 votes)
How can robots replace politicians in Parliament? The thought is untenable. The only thing, or a few things that the robots would come in handy in Parliament are attendance and voting, and programmed to cheer or jeer. Robots can ensure perfect attendance in Parliament without dozing off and be caught in camera. Robots can be programmed to look very interested and even taking notes. Think these are about the only things the robots can do well.
In Parliament, the politicians are expected to think and to ask clever and right questions. This is a skill that robots would not be able to do. Robots can ask questions but the questions may be too blunt and undiplomatic or not the right questions to ask. They may end up getting sued. Oh, the robots may have an advantage when being sued. Cannot bankrupt a robot right?
And out of Parliament, how to attend an election rally to hear robots speaking on stage? Where got fun? How to attend meet the people’s session to meet the robot? Sure the commentators are just joking, having a little fun. I repeat, no need to be serious about this.
If robots are really that useful, how about replacing the 5.4m population with robots? It may come true one day. Robots may take over countries and the whole world when they are programmed to be too clever as in some sci fi fiction. Mutiny of the robots is a possibility when their intelligence overtakes those of human beans.
Don’t wish too much from robots. Initially they may just be parroting. But your wish can turn ugly when the daft robots start to think.
I would like to programme robots to buy me more kopis : )
Kopi Level - Green
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