NUS and NTU needs a washing machine

Singapore is very proud of NUS and NTU that have been ranked among the best universities in the world. As an alumnus it is a good feeling to be a member of prestigious institutions even if the rankings have been the subject of ridicules and uncomplimentary remarks. What is important is the aspiration to want to be the best, and for doing so there are many things that must be put right in the process of getting there, even if we are not there.

In brief, without going into an academic discourse, there are four main factors that contributed to the quality of a learning institution, the academic staff, the students, the culture of learning, and the infrastructure. The most difficult to achieve good and respectable quality are the students and the culture. The latter is a complex issue that can prove to be evasive and defeating. As for the students, it is an issue of that is all we got. But today, good students can be bought or brought in from all over the world. If the responsibility of educating the children of the country is secondary, we can buy all the top students from the world to be here. But this is unlikely except when the govt is made up of silly asses that think this is a non country, where the interests of the citizens are expendable. If the children of our citizens are not top material we will give the places to the gentiles of the world.

The quality of the academic staff and the infrastructure are easier to manage. We have the money and can build and provide whatever that is needed. The most advance leading edge equipment and facilities would be made available. As for the academic staff, if we want the best from the world, we have the money, we can even relocate Yale, Princeton, Harvard or Cambridge lock, stock and barrel here. It is only a matter of price.

While we are in blind pursuit of quality and reputation, to create the best learning institutions here, we must not be so blind to bring in the shit and fakes as well. We have our embarrassing moments of fakes in our midst and held in high regards by other fakes who could not tell the difference between a fake and the real stuff. And we also have a lot of creeps and rogues that are hired to beef up the quality of our institutions. Unbelievable! How can the institutions live with fakes, shits and character flawed professors and teaching staff to teach our students?

Some organizations, even govt related, can dismiss fakes and degree mills as no crime, as part and parcel of importing foreigners and living the fakes. But for institutions that are being pep up to be the best among the best, any slipshod or shits must be gotten rid of immediately. There is no room for mediocrity or fakes and flawed personalities if we want to be the best. And one by one the fakes and freaks and shitty characters are revealing themselves. The latest as reported in the TRE, and I quote, ‘NUS assistant law professor Sundram Peter Soosay was convicted by the court yesterday (29 May) of assaulting a 70-year-old cabby, Mr Sun Chun Hua, while drunk.’

Other than the aspiration to be the best institutions of learning, it is madness to have fakes and shits among the academic staff to teach our students. The thought of their existence, and they are given the responsibilities to teach our young undergraduates/post graduates, is simply disgusting. How many of such fakes and shits is still hiding in our world best institutions and being paid world best pay and doing damage to our students? Eventually the reputation of these institutions would cave in. It is very unflattering to be infamous for having fakes and shits as teaching staff and very embarrassing for graduates to have been taught by them.

I recommend the two institutions to buy the best washing machine, those with fuzzy logic, to clean up the shits and fakes in them. Please don’t swear that all is well. We pay top dollars and should be getting the best, not freaks and sluts to shit on our young and impressionable minds. The two institutions have a grave responsibility to do due diligence to the public funds given to them to ensure that we have the best to teach our young. Please do not just believe in the papers and testimonials. I can buy tons of them for a song. Not only there are degree mills, there are also testimonial mills.

When weakness is strength

Goliath took on David and lost. The PAP has recently taken on two Davids and won. Roy and Amos were two little midgets clashing with a behemoth and no one would expect them to do a Goliath killing act. First battle and both lost badly, no fighting chance, no contest. Many would think that would be the end of the two young men, They have absolutely no capital or resources to mount a serious challenge even if given a second chance. This assumption is only partially right. Their lack of capital is in fact their strength. When they have nothing else to look forward to, nothing to lose, and with a nerve tough as steel, they would not accept defeat and crawl away. They stood up to fight, with everything they got. Nothing is going to stop them now.

Roy has declared war and going for broke. Amos had refused any probation and refused to be sent to reformative training. He demanded to be sent to jail. This is something the authority never expected. He is fearless. When a jail sentence is nothing to fear, what else can frighten him, what will he be afraid of, who will he be afraid of? Roy and Amos are like two droids programmed just to fight, with their minds focused to take their enemies down, and to go down with their enemies.

The suicide bombers are fearless and cannot be stopped when they chose to die with their enemies. Roy and Amos are in some ways like the fearless suicide bombers. You may call them fanatical, so what? They know what they are up to, they know the stakes involved. The ordinary guys would have many things to hold him back, many things to think about and would end up as kiasu, kiasi and kia cheng hu. Anyone thinks Roy and Amos would fit into this mould to be cowed and go down on their knees?

Roy is talking more and louder. He is doing a lot of research and has just posted another long article in his blog and reposted in the TRE titled ‘How the PAP turned against the Singaporeans from the mid 80s’. This is a fairly long piece but interesting to read. And so is Amos, and his postings. He refused to be gagged. He will keep talking and talking as freely as he wants, to say his peace. It is unbelievable for a boy of his tender age to take on the establishment and the masses of unthinking adults baying for his blood, and making everyone looking so evil.

The PAP must have regretted picking on these two young men thinking it would be a piece of cake, They are sinking into a quagmire. The most they can do is to keep suing them and keep mounting on the pressure, hoping that they would break or run away. They didn’t and are standing their ground to fight on with everything they got. Using the law and legal institutions against two young men whose crimes are questionable in the eyes of the public would backfire.

The two are turning their weaknesses into strength in a never ending battle against all odds. They will go down, but not pulling the behemoth down with them.

Asia and Asean beware – The Americans are here to start a war

The peace in Asia and SE Asia is at risk. The Americans have shown their
true intent in its pivot to Asia, to dominate the region as the Empire.
They are claiming the right to meddle in the affairs in the region, to
bully the countries here, to throw their weight around to show that they
are the Number One Gangster in the region. Accept American hegemony or else
get a black eye.

The Americans tried the insidious way of allowing their running dogs like
Japan and the Pinoys to do the barking and biting. They tried to rope in
the South Koreans, the Indians, the Indonesians, the Malaysians and other
Asean countries, to be part of the gang to go against China and any other
country challenging their supremacy. They failed to get these countries to
be part of their pointman in a war against China.

Asian and Asean countries do not want war. They know how destructive and
dangerous war can be to their countries and people. War means the Americans
would triumph and they will forever be under the control of the American
Empire. They would not want to be used and manipulated by the Americans to
fight and die for the Americans. They are staying out.


Now the Americans are showing their hand, having failed to get the hands of
other Asian and Asean countries to do their fighting. It is now all hands
on the table, the Americans, the Japanese and the Pinoys against China who
would likely bring in the Russians and the North Koreans. After setting the
Middle East on fire, the Americans are here in South East Asia to start
another fire. This time this fire is going to be very big and could burn
the whole world when it is lit.

The Americans are dangerous, and are telling the Asian and Asean states
that it would use brute force against anyone refusing to acknowledge the
Empire is in charge.  They are demanding that China stopped their land
reclamation immediately. China would show them their middle finger for
sure.

The situation now is Redcon 2. The gangsters have spoken. Their warships and weapons of war are here.

The Americans are here to rule. Forget about the pivot. Forget about the
crap of protecting freedom of navigation and over flight.  It is Pax Americana that they are here for. And they are daring China for a fight in China's backyard. This is a declaration of war.

Asian and Asean countries must prepare for war in the region, a war brought
about by the Evil Empire that claimed to come in peace and for peace, but a
peace under its domination.

Bow everyone or be flattened. You are with me or against me. Now is the
time for the Asian and Asean countries that have been buying and upgrading
their military arsenal to see if they are of any use in the face of a big
bully.

Amos - Face of the most dangerous boy

This boy made a few rants in his Youtube post about a politician and a religious leader.  He has been held in remand prison for 18 days though he is only 16. His hand was handcuffed, his legs shackled ala prisoners from Guantanamo when he appeared in court. He has been found guilty of posting pornographic material on the youtube that would excite young people into experimenting with sexual acts.

He is now awaiting sentence. The prosecution is asking for a 12 to 18 months reformative training. The boy is asking for a jail sentence. And the prudes, and the highly virtuous gang, and there are so many in paradise, are cheering, and looking forward to see how this dangerous boy would be punished, would be put away for the good of the people. He is so dangerous that the 50 year old man fled in fear after a sneaky slap at the boy. That man probably wet his pants while running away. And people who are normally kind and compassionate would not even say any good words for him. Not even the Kindness Movement. Dangerous or not?

So far no one has been beaten or hurt by him, or killed by him. So far there has been no reports of young boys and girls imitating his suggestive cartoon to experiment with the wheelbarrow. I am not sure if there are adults that are so stimulated by this boy to push out the wheelbarrow to play. Not sure if the believers of the religious leader he called horrible have been hurt badly. Some have said they were not affected, in line with their forgiving teachings and have forgiven him.

I am still staring at the above photo trying to imagine two horns growing from his head. To me he looks angelic. Maybe a devil in disguise.

What do you think?  Is Amos so dangerous?

PS. Photo credit to TRE.

American propaganda in full swing to attack China

A few days ago there was a report about China’s investment in Indonesia and the basket of infrastructure projects it is offering to Jokowi. The most important piece of the article is a sneak comment that the Indonesians are wary of the Chinese as if the Indonesians are not wary of the Australians and the Americans. Who poses an immediate threat to the Indonesians, China or Australia or the Americans?
 
Who twisted Suharto’s arm during the Asian financial crisis to force the closure of ailing banks but allowed their own failed banks to continue by pumping more money into them? Are the Indonesians that stupid not to see who was the devil? Are the Indonesians so daft to sign a deal with the Chinese without doing their due diligence? And the Chinese did not put a gun at their head like the Dutch and the European powers and during the financial crisis. What the Indonesians are negotiating with China is at arms length with both parties as equal, and working out the best deals they could get for themselves. The sneaky western reports are simply sneaky and insulting the intelligence of the Indonesians.
 
Yesterday, 28 May, there was a similar Bloomberg Editors’ article in the Today paper trivializing the leaders of Latin America in the same way they did to the Indonesian leaders. The Latin American leaders are stupid, daft, and are misled or cheated by the Chinese in their economic deals with China. The Latin American countries are in for a bad deal, without the Chinese putting a gun at their heads like the European colonialists and the Americans did. So, the Latin American countries had very good deals with the Americans and their colonial masters until today, with their nations’ resources exploited and robbed, that they are still trying to climb up the value chain?
 
What had the colonialists and the Americans being doing to the Latin Americans that today, they are still lagging behind the industrial world, and their economies are still that of developing nations? China is a new kid on the block, just entering the Latin American market to trade, not to pivot like the Americans did in Asia with their military machine and weapons of war. What is so bad with China coming to Latin America with money to trade, to buy up their natural resources that they are going to sell anyway? Should the Arab countries stop exporting their only natural resource, oil, to the world as the rest of the world is exploiting them? Who are Bloomberg Editors trying to bluff?
 
Or are they telling the Latin Americans to buy more arms and weapons from the Americans? Are they saying that these leaders are idiots and did not know whether they are getting a good deal or bad deal? They are still treating the rest of the world as daft colonized people, to be exploited, to be conned and to be controlled by the American and European powers. Only these powers can provide the Latin Americans good deals, like the last few centuries of colonialism and exploitation with power coming from the barrel of the gun.
 
Is China a threat to any Latin American country? Did China bring its warship to trade? Can the Latin Americans say no to the Chinese if the deal is not to their favour? Come off it, the world leaders are not daft anymore and will strike deals freely for their own interests. If they can’t find a good deal they would walk away and look for another better deal.
 
The western media would not fail to daily implant their disinformation to influence the minds of the unthinking. They have succeeded for centuries when they controlled the media. Now there are alternative media and people need not read their propaganda unthinkingly. Only stupid people and stupid media will reproduce their trash happily without thinking, and paying for it.