12/02/2014

PAP, do not be ungrateful


Now who is being ungrateful? When a party controls the media and the msm, it can keep on drumming whatever that suits its agenda and no one is likely to dispute or even has the chance to dispute whatever it is saying. The people are ungrateful. This is the accusation heard all over and utter by many jokers. The PAP has built this country from a 3rd world to a 1st world, raised the quality of life of the people to Swiss standard, but the people are so ungrateful. Without the PAP and the founder of modern Singapore, Singapore would still be a fishing village and the people would still be coolies and maids. Sinkies better be grateful and thankful to the govt, the PAP and the political leaders for the good life they are having.
 

Who are having the good life? The people that must be grateful must be those that are having a good life, not the losers. Why should losers be grateful? Definitely not all Singaporeans are having a good life. The people who are having the good life are the so called foreign talents here. They are given all the opportunities to lead an exceptionally good life that their countries could not provide them. An average mid executive Pinoy could be earning more than their ministers back home. A maid could be making more than their Pinoy PMEs in Manila. And this is applicable to all the 3rd world PMEs here. Even those from the western economies are also having a party that they could not dream of at home.
 

These are the people that must be grateful. They did not build Singapore but coming here at the right time to enjoy the fruits of Sinkie labour. But they are dreadfully ungrateful, thinking that they built this country and we owe them a living.
 

The Sinkies that should be very grateful to the rest of the Sinkies that built this country, it cannot be built by a few men talking and walking around, are those that are living the Swiss standard of living, emasculated and emancipated from the squatters and public housing to live in landed properties and mansions. The people that should be grateful should be those that are paid millions in public office. Remember, it is the people that are paying for their good life. They must not take the people for granted and called them losers, daft and lazy. It is exactly the daft and losers and the lazy that are footing their multi million dollar income and the good life.
 

Be grateful, be very grateful. The people’s tolerance has a limit. The people are not daft just because you called them daft. If you choose to remain recalcitrant, arrogant and ungrateful, the people will take your multi million dollar income away. Your good life and well being and the big salaries you are getting come from the grace and kindness and sacrifices of the people. And the people are the Sinkies whom you have chosen to kick aside in favour of foreigners. Keep taking away the jobs and opportunities from the very people that feed you, keep biting the hands that feed you, keep being ungrateful…the day of reckoning is near.
 

The foreigners are also here participating in the buffet spread but would flee when the daft Sinkies wake up from their ignorant and helpless slumber. The daft Sinkies will take back the buffet for themselves. They will take away from those enjoying the multi million dollar incomes and the good life but did not contribute to it, just inheriting the good fortune and pretending that they did it or created it for the people. Just keep believing that the daft will forever be daft. Don’t be ungrateful to the people that are paying for your good life.
 

PS. This is what Tsai Ingwen, chairwoman of DPP, Taiwan said, 'We will start from the local level and win back Taiwan. If a govt doesn't stand on the side of the people, the people can take away its power.

Kopi Leveln - Blue, thank you

12/01/2014

Headlines: PAP trounced!!!

When I saw the headline of a Taiwan paper with the words ‘KMT trounced’, the first thing that came to my mind is “PAP trounced’. I think quite a significant number of people are cherishing this magical moment, that this will be the headline in the next GE, a refreshing change from the suffocating political environment of fear, threats and a man named Sue. It has happened in Taiwan with the KMT losing so badly that they would just bend their heads in shame. KMT lost Taipei, its stronghold, and also Taichung, not to say Tainan and Kaoshiung. It is as good as over. Such a devastating defeat is rare, exceptionally rare in the history of KMT.
 

History is predictable but often also throws up exceptions in the most unexpected way. Would this scenario happen in Singapore? Would the PAP be trounced, and the ST splashed it across its front page? Highly unlikely. Many of the experts and apologists have already predicted PAP would be unbeatable for the next 15 years, that is 3 more GEs. And PAP is likely to remain in power for the next 50 years.
 

For those hoping for such a front page earth shaking headline, well, shall I say fat hope? It will not happen, it cannot happen. The political experts and pundits said it would not happen. At best it is a wet dream.
 

What do you think?

Kopi Level - Yellow

Smart City or Smart Nation and the Silver Brigade

Singapore is going to transform itself into a Smart Nation. Note the difference between a Smart City and a Smart Nation. Got it? Ok, we are drumming to build Smart Cities in India but promoting a Smart Nation for ourselves. You need to be a bit smart to notice the difference. Simply put, Smart Cities are simply Smart Cities, all wired with gadgets and fibres. Smart Nation involves making the people smart. The only problem is whether this is so easily said than done. My proposal is to input a smart computer chip into every Silver Hair to interface with all the smart computer devices in the same way C3PO and R2D2 related to each other. This will make the Silver Hair ‘computer smart’ at a jab.

There was an article in the ST on 29 Nov by a Calvin Soh on the topic of Smart Nation and the Silver Brigade. The concept of a Smart Nation as proposed by Hsien Loong is all inclusive. The seniors, many illiterate or computer illiterate, will be trained or educated to benefit from a Smart City. The lonely old folks would be the first beneficiary as computer and electronic devices would be installed in their homes to monitor their movements to protect them. This is only a small step in the whole process.

Training and education and high tech devices would be the natural follow ups in this Smart Nation process. The people, Silver Brigade included, would be made smart to use all the smart equipment. And I believe, though no one is saying it, there will be a compulsory scheme to make sure that no one is left out of this smart programme.

Where to find the money, it is not free you know. Who is going to pay for it? The users, including the Silver Hair for sure, will have to pay for it. Nothing is for free mah. There is no free lunch.

In the future, instead of buttoning my own shirt or making my own cup of coffee, a computer gadget would to that for me while I lie down in bed. Now all these must cost money right? Not to worry, did anyone suggest another compulsory scheme to set aside some money from the CPF for this Smart Nation Scheme? Don’t ask me, I can’t afford it no matter how affordable they are going to drum about it.

I think I am smart enough not to be duped into paying for things I do not need. The sad part is when they make it compulsory. But there is a way out of these compulsions.


Kopi Level - Yellow

The mental box that confines the thinking of daft Sinkies

Over the last few decades followed by daily repetitive drumming, the people have becomeso used to the false premises and false truths used to barricade their minds that they are now literally prisoners of this imaginative box. And the joke, they kept telling themselves to think out of the box when the box is inside their heads. Think about it, how many barriers have been erected around the Sinkie mind that have become permanent attachments to prevent them from thinking freely though they think they are thinking freely?

What are the artificial walls that the Sinkies are living with but not knowing and not seeing them?

1. Only the PAP can rule the island successfully.
2. Only the PAP has the talents to rule the island. The oppositions have no talents.
3. You want growth you must have an ever increasing population.
4. Singaporeans are daft.
5. Foreigners, no matter how shitty, are better than Sinkie talents.
6. We are a rule by law country. Think about it again.
7. We are a meritocracy and everyone is where he is by his own merit.
8. We are a free economy, free trade, free immigration, in other words a prostitute den. And these are good and necessary.
9. PAP will rule this island forever or at least another 50 years.
10. Extraordinary salaries for politicians are good and would prevent corruption.
11. We are a democracy.
12. High income inequality is good.
13. The fear of political masters.
14. Money is the determining factor for success and for everything.
15. Everything has a price and can be bought. The more expensive the better.
16. We are a country but more like a hotel in reality.
17. Our country is everyone else country, like a public toilet.
18. Everyone is equal but some are more equal than others.

I could go on with more walls. And these walls are there, inside the heads, and very effective in restraining the thoughts and activities of the citizens, controlling and moderating what they say or do, transcending all levels of society. All thinking processes and activities evolved behind these unseen walls. We are free in a deluded way. Our creativity and ingenuity are also restrained by these walls and you can see how creative or lack of it by our works and how we solve problems and their solutions.

Sinkies are in a way slaves behind these walls.


Kopi Level - Yellow

11/30/2014

How to deal with stupid people? Make hay while the sun shines

‘I honestly have nothing to say today except that I really don’t want to be ruled by the stupid.’ This is what Marina Mahathir, daughter Dr Mahathir, said in response to Najib’s retraction on his promise to remove the ISA. I am not sure if she is referring to Najib or Mahathir as Mahathir is the one that ‘spearheaded the call to retain the Act that Malay groups and most in the party say is crucial to defending the sanctity of Malay rights and Islam.’ Now the big question, is Najib stupid to retract his promise just because Mahathir instigated the UMNO ultras to force him to do so, and now looking stupider to everyone, to the bumis and non bumis? Or is Mahathir stupid to get the ultras to push for the retention of the ISA?

I think whoever is the stupid one is not material. What is important is to know how to deal with stupid people. Yes, make hay while the sun shines. Singapore or Hsien Loong just did that. After two decades of wrangling with the recalcitrant Mahathir to redevelop the Malayan Railway land, and in total failure, here came the white knight in Najib. In his new promise of a pragmatic leadership, to push Malaysia to a higher level of economic development, putting aside unproductive politicking, an economic and pro business deal was struck. An agreement was signed between Najib and Hsien Loong to remove this historical baggage of ill will. Both sides are happy with the deal. Malaysia was lagi happy when they won the international court ruling on not having to pay redevelopment fees on the use of the railway land.

The funny thing is that Singapore was deliriously happy with losing that legal tussle. I have been wondering why for quite some time. Now the answer is crystal clear. There was a small window to make things happened. Without losing a second, Hsien Loong was all graciousness and generous and offer everything that Najib asked for, topping it up with more icing. He probably knew that the window would be shut anytime without any notice or sign of a change in their party politiking.

When dealing with stupid people, this is the most important and effective strategy. Make hay while the sun shines. You wound know when the dull clouds would return, follow by thunderstorms and monsoons. But a word of caution. This strategy can only be adopted when the assets are here in Singapore where the rules and laws or agreements cannot be changed, cannot be retracted.

Things in Malaysia are quite predictable, really, if you understand what Marina Mahathir is saying.


Kopi Level - Red