Roy Ngerng – The saga takes a nasty turn

For more than a month, nothing was heard of Hsien Loong’s libel case against Roy Ngerng. Privately I thought the two parties were trying to work out an amicable settlement out of court. I personally thought that would be a good thing for both parties. An outright confrontation when both refused to give an inch and went for body blows would only hurt both badly. None will walk away triumphant but with wounds and bruises all over. So I thought wise counsels must have prevailed and both will walk away with the least harm possible. Then I read Roy’s article posted in The Real Singapore, ‘ROY NGERNG: PM LEE TAKES ISSUE WITH 9 MORE OF MY BLOG ARTICLES TO PAY HIS LAWYERS $50,000 - 11 January 2015 - 1:48pm’

What Roy wrote in this latest article was not what I hope to see. Roy was acting like someone being pushed to the wall and would either scale over or bite back with all he got. It is a case of you want me dead, I will fight you to the end. And Roy has little to lose.

I have a lot of misgivings after reading the article. This development is bad for both of them. What happened? I can only guess that Hsien Loong was given the wrong advice again to raise the stake, to take Roy to the High Court and to demand higher compensation in the process. Assuming Hsien Loong won and Roy is made to pay a huge sum for damages, so what? Roy would be down and likely be made a bankrupt. Or he could go to the public for financial support to pay the damages like before. The latter would only excite more negative emotions and bad publicity for Hsien Loong and his party.

What would these bode for Hsien Loong? I could not see any good coming out of this for him. There is nothing of benefit to Hsien Loong. It would not only be a hollow victory but worse. How would the people look at Hsien Loong in his tenacious pursuit of this case? I am sure Hsien Loong would know that it can only do him harm than good. Then why pursue this case to such an unpleasant ending that would cost him dearly politically?

Who would benefit from the fallout of this case? Definitely not Roy, and not Hsien Loong. It would be like the proverbial saying, when the clam and crane fought, the fisherman would stand to reap the rewards. Who is or are the fishermen in this case and waiting eagerly and patiently on the sideline for the two to fall? Who would stand to gain the most when both parties ended in the gutters?

I must say I am taken aback by this latest development. Why is Hsien Loong forced to take this drastic step and in the process hurt himself more than he could hurt Roy? Some may think otherwise and thought this is a good thing for Hsien Loong, that he is doing the right thing. I choose to disagree. I would advise Hsien Loong to take the middle path if asked.

Kopi Level - Yellow

Sin City going upmarket – everything 6 stars!

Things are getting better in Sin City. The Jewel at Changi is going to be developed as a destination for air travelers.  Tourists around the world will fly here just to see the Jewel like seeing the Great Wall or the Pyramids. The rich will just fly to Changi to shop at a 6 star shopping paradise. On a cautionary note, just make sure it would not be run by rogue retailers.

As the most expensive city for the rich and famous, everything has to go up scale to pamper the super rich and share their appetite for the good stuff. Recently there was a report of a 6 star dog hotel with pipe in music, leather bed linings, fully aircon, room service and massages for the dogs’ needs on demand.

The latest is a 6 star columbarium in Sengkang West with all the high tech leading edge technical stuff for the dead to RIP. But this has met with a little resistance as the ‘would be residents’ nearby were up in arms against its location, too near to their 3 star HDB flats.  Though they were claiming all kinds of reasons to protest, I think the real reason is the disparity in wealth when their lodgings are the ordinary run of the mill HDB flats while the columbarium will be fitted with the latest gadgetry and all the glittering stuff, laser beams and pipe in music.

This must be it. How can people be living in less comfortable quarters than the dead in their luxurious 6 star niche apartments? The inequality and wealth disparity are simply unacceptable.

Where else or what else will be upgraded next to 6 stars? I think Geylang will be a good candidate. All the red light joints can be redeveloped to be luxurious suites to pamper the rich, to amuse them and make entertainment an art or a new life style where the rich would patronize the place in their limousines. Let the rats go somewhere.

Kopi Level - Green

Born to rule, made to rule or you are told they are Good to rule?

The debate as to why PAP is seen as the only political party fit to rule, to be the govt, or PAP candidates are simply ruling material, talented politicians while the opposition parties and candidates are NG is still very hazy in the minds of Sinkies. Why would anyone put up by the PAP is a political talent, an unquestionable talent to rule? Maybe I should use a very simple elaboration to clear this myth.

Let me put up a few famous sons of Singapore as potential candidates in the GE, Quah Kim Song, Fandi Ahmad and Sundram Moorthy. There is no intent to show any disrespect to any one of them. Assuming the PAP would to invite them for tea and found them suitable to stand as its candidates, they will instantly be deemed as good catch, good enough to sit in Parliament as MPs or maybe even ministers. Tiok boh? Every PAP candidate is either born to rule or made to rule by wearing the PAP badge. Their ability simply manifest itself, just like that.

On the other hand, if they are chosen by the WP or SDP or any of the alternative parties, what do you think? Would they be ridiculed and called names or condemn as unfit to be MPs? An easy line of attack will be not enough As or not distinguished academics or professionals. Footballers are a different type of professionals. Only academics and industry professionals, civil servants and uniformed chiefs are worthy to be politicians. You can bet the PAP would not put up any non academics as their candidates.

Maybe change the three names to some academics or professionals like Eugene Tan, Yang Razali Kassim and Janadas Devan. It would be quite easy to see these people as government material with very little doubts. But if they are to put on the badges of SDP or WP, would they be seen as the same good candidate material for political office? Anyone got any doubt of their abilities to be able to run the country?

Why are people forming different opinions of candidates immediately not because of the quality of the individuals but by the badge they wore of the party that put them up? Why are those wearing the PAP badge become instant good politicians, Born to rule and Made to rule but not those from the alternative parties?

Branding, brainwashing, conditioning or because the Sinkies have lost the ability to think and judge for themselves? Why is a duck better than a chicken as a politician or vice versa? Why choose a duck over a chicken? Any difference, or what is the difference? The badge, the party? Because someone said the duck is good and the chicken is no good?

Have the people forgotten how to think for themselves?  The people of Hougang and Punggol East have started to exercise this innate ability to think, to think what is good or NG, and to make their own judgement. Yes, the people are starting to think, and it is as simple as that. When the people start to believe in themselves and dispelling the myth that they are daft, there is hope. Remove the shackles and set yourself free from the evil spell of being daft.

Kopi Level - Green

The consistent social media narrative

Branding is the key to market a successful product. Branding in politics is also very successful in branding a person or in tainting a person. Just keep the narrative going, the unthinking and the sycophants would sing in chorus. Better to have a few cheer leaders to lead a few young punks to jump high and low when the chorus is sung. It always works. Among the notables that were branded and have to live with the tags on them are the 3 doctors, actually more, JBJ, Tang Liang Hong, Chee Soon Juan, the Marxist Conspirators, and lately Roy Ngerng and Han Hui Hui

Today there is another very strong narrative in the social media. And they are singing the same songs daily, more vociferous and scandalous, more vicious than anything the main media could print. The narrative is unprintable. The adjectives used to describe the victims are also unprintable. The point is they are singing a different chorus and there are no short of cheer leaders and their teams of dancers and followers to do the same.

I am restraining my self, with all my fingers taped and bound, to resist typing out the things that were floating in the social media. Like they said, there are two sides of the coins. What you can do I can do also. And the effect is just the same. The believers to this new narrative are growing. The believers of the other church just have no replies, their feeble attempts and whimpers just could not be heard.

When people are being branded as stupid, idiots, clowns, traitors, and much, much worse, and spoken often enough, some would believe they are the truths, and some that used to think otherwise would have their doubts about what they were told before.

The battle of the hearts and minds are fought daily, started long ago, in the internet. Alternative opinions and views are offered, often unchallenged, (except ineffective, stupid and shameless personal attacks on the authors) just like those views and opinions in the main media. Many are new converts to an alternative narrative and an alternate truth. The thinkings are hardened, back by testimonies and hard data.

Call it psy war, call in propaganda, half truths, untruths, brain washing, the battle ground is now more level.

Kopi Level - Green

TTSH dismised Pinoy

Singapore Hospital Corrected Wrong Medicine.

TTSH Took Corrective Action to Remove Human Contagion.

By MIKOspace

Many Questions Remained Unanswered:

Have the Human Contagion been Totally Destroyed?

Have all Co-conspirators, if Any, been Identified and Eliminated?

Reports of a Statement by the Hospital on 9 Jan 2014 announced that Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH) has dismissed a Radiologist Nursing staff member, one Ello Ed Mundsel Bello [Facebook nick: Edz Ello], after he had admitted to “offensive comments” made last year (2014). The pattern of similar derogatory anti-Singapore remarks on his Facebook were in fact discovered only AFTER more recent, and possibly criminal, inflammatory threats to “kick out Singaporeans” and “prayed (wished) for Singaporean deaths” were made on 3 Jan 2014, also on his Facebook.  

The Statement particularly mentioned that this decision, coincidentally by the New Top Hospital Management, was NOT related to the more serious Threats to National Security posted by the Staff on the 3 Jan 2014.  I am baffled and wondered why the need for this Caveat since these threats is not a laughing matter.  

TTSH had earlier wrongly placed the Staff on administrative duties, pending police investigations of the recent Threat instead of the standard HRM practice of suspending the Staff pending the police investigations as well as an Internal Inquiry.

TTSH was founded 170 years ago on the spirit and values of compassion and care for the people as personified by its Founder Tan Tock Seng.

That a Staff of TTSH should harbor such murderous thoughts regarding Singapore and all things Singaporean had understandably shocked our Nation this week.

Yet this Week, in the face of obvious death threats and a fellow co-worker’s desire to inflict possible personal harm to Singaporeans, TTSH Singaporean staff continued to report to work and attend to the hundreds of Hospital patients and visitors, trusting the Authorities to do the Right thing.  This resolute spirit of TTSH Staff in caring for its patients this week is legendary.  And Singapore is once again reminded of their similar bravery and courage which touched us across the island when SARS hit Singapore in 2003.

Singaporeans fondly recalled TTSH as our “Ground-Zero” bastion in the Battle Against the Deadly SARS Virus in 2013.  SARS had also inflicted many Healthcare workers including 49 nurses, 13 doctor and 22 others (attendants, radiographers, housekeepers, a porter, and a cleaning supervisor).  Healthcare workers constituted more than 40% of those who had contracted SARS.  This week, we too remembered the TTSH heroes who died from the disease, and the many more heroes in TTSH who made invaluable contributions and sacrifices.

Many Questions however remained Unanswered:

How did this happen?

Are there more like-minded “Hate Singaporeans” Foreign Talents?

Have the Human Contagion been Totally Destroyed?

Have all Co-conspirators, if Any, been Identified and Eliminated?

Are Singaporeans NOW Safe?

It is critically important that we should not treat this lightly as an isolated case. We need to be clear-headed and study the circumstances for such a human contagion to flourish right under our very eyes and noses.  It is NOT a call for a witch-hunt for “Sook Sing” [or “Kill Singaporeans”] serial-killers among foreign talents from any particular country.  The end of our Post-mortem must be to send an unequivocal, categorical and yet loud message that Singaporeans WILL NOT laugh away any threats to our nation, community and loved ones. 

An unmistakable example must be made out of this incident to project no doubt that Singaporeans will respond swiftly; and as totally, resolutely, strongly and decisively to any Threats to Singapore and our way of life in the same ruthless manner that we had dealt with the SARS virus.      

Kopi Level - Green