China Dream blueprint ready and available

China has come out with several initiatives to promote growth and cooperation among the Asian countries, the AIIB, the One Belt One Road, offering trading and infrastructure packages negotiated with big and small countries on an equal basis, an is being attacked by the Americans and their allies for all kinds of hideous and mischievous excuses. China took it in its strides and it is good that more and more countries are seeing the goodness in these Chinese initiatives to want to work with China peacefully for economic growth and development that benefit every country in the process.

The most powerful, comprehensive and beneficial initiative yet to come from China would be the China Dream blueprint that China can offer to other Asian countries. China has been there and done it, to turn around a poor underdeveloped country, lack of capital, resources of all kinds, skills, technology and ideas, into an economic giant with a complete list of industries and products to become the world’s biggest economy in less than 40 years. No other country has ever transformed itself, its economy and people in such a short span of time. In the process, China has lifted 500m of its people out of poverty. The USA and Indonesia each has less than #00m people. The whole of SE Asia is probably 500m people. China is the envy of many developing nations and even developed nations in the western hemisphere. It is a miracle of disproportional scale never seen before in human history.

China is now in a position to write this blueprint to offer to other developing Asian nations for a start. It is a proven formula. If the Chinese can do it, and with blueprint in hand, other Asian countries should also be able to replicate and duplicate this success formula. It would be a new Asia, an Asian Renaissance in the next 50 years if other Asian countries could pick up the blueprint and set themselves on the path to economic growth and prosperity for its people. China could offer the formula of success and export the knowhow to interested Asian countries hungry for quick economic growth and development.

China not only has the blueprint but also the resources, technology, skilled manpower and finances to assist other countries to grow if needed. From Eastern Europe to North Korea in the East and to the region in SE Asia, many countries could benefit from this blueprint from China.  Countries that could do a rapid transformation of their economy and infrastructural developments would be North Korea, the IndoChina states, Myanmar and the Indonesians. North Korea could embark on this mission with the assistance of the South Koreans, with the latter’s finance and technology and skilled manpower, to follow the China Dream with the Chinese blueprint. Vietnam and Indonesia could easily do the same act.

Without the Americans here to incite and agitate for war, Asia could be the continent with the highest growth rate in the next few decades and be the new Europe of the world, bringing wealth and prosperity to its people. There is no stopping Asia from rapid growth if they put their minds to it with the China Dream blueprint, and if needed, Chinese blueprint and knowhow and money. Asia need not be a continent of poor and developing countries struggling to become developed countries. There is a way and China can show the way.

There is a China Dream for all Asian countries, without having to go to war. China has done it.

A ‘khongcum’ or nutty statement

I will quote this from a blogger in mysingaporenews.

‘Simply just do away with that entitlement mentality, work harder and longer hour and stop being lazy’  - agongkia

Agongkia is talking about the daft Sinkies, lazy and suffering from an entitlement mentality. He believes what he is saying. And many daft Sinkies also believe in this ‘khongcum’ statement because they have been told that they are like that. And daft Sinkies have been cooked in a system that taught them not to think and they forgot that they can think, and it is for their own good that they should think about such ‘khongcum’ statement that is used to brand and degrade them.

Let’s look at the facts to see if this ‘khongcum’ statement can withstand the test of reality.
Would a lazy people of 3m won 84 gold medals in the SEA Game competing with bigger countries with tens or hundreds of millions of people? Did they say they are entitled to the 84 gold medals?

Would a lazy people work and slog at 70 or 80 years old in the foodcourt to clean tables? Did they say they are entitled to retire at 55 or 60?

Would a lazy people with entitlement mentality pay thousands of dollars to get a place in a nursery or kindergarten to give their children a headstart in life?

Would a lazy and entitlement mentality people spent hundreds of thousands to give their children a good education?

Would a lazy and entitlement mentality people score straight As in their examination?

Who are the students filling up the places in the top universities in the USA and UK? People with entitlement mentality and lazy?

Are kiasu and kiasi people lazy and suffering from entitlement mentality?

Would lazy people with entitlement mentality work more than 44 hours a week?

The only thing I may agree is daft. Only daft people will believe in ‘khongcum’ statement without thinking. Only daft people who spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to get the best education and believe the 3rd world creeps are better than them. Only daft people will believe in fakes and cheats and go to the whole world to recruit them to replace the ‘khongcum’ people.

Do I make any sense?
  

Malaysian royalties – We are back!

A royal battle has started between the Crown Prince of Johore and the Tourism Minister Nazri Aziz after Tunku Ismail Sultan Ibrahim commented about Najib’s absence from the 1MDB public forum.  Nazri was unhappy with Tunku Ismail’s comment as interference in politics and commented ‘the royalty was not above the law and should not comment on politics, “otherwise he will be subject to the same rule and we will whack him”’.  This has drawn a response from the Crown Prince saying ‘Do not think the people of this country exist to provide you with position and wealth; the positions exist for you to serve the people.’

A police report has been made against Nazri and he is now under police investigation. And Mahathir has come out in support of the Prince for freedom of expression. What is more important is the comment by the Sultan of Johore that Malaysia could learn from Singapore in its education policy. He reflected on the switch to teach mathematics and science in English and then back to Malay and how it has affected the performance of Malay students in these two subjects. Related to this is the lower proficiency of English among the Malays and the breakdown in national unity with the difference races attending different schools.

Would Nazri also think that this is another attempt by the royalty to be involved in politics? Since the removal of legal immunity by Mahathir in 1993, the royalties have taken a low profile in the politics of the country. Now both father and son of the Johore Royalty are in the limelight again. Would this mark the return of the royalties to play a bigger role in the politics of Malaysia? The timing is expedient with the politicians creating a mess of themselves and weakening their positions as the legal and moral authority of the country. This provides the royalties to stand on high moral ground to say their piece about what is happening to the country and to have a bigger say as rulers and protectors of the people.

How would this new dimension affect the political ethos of Malaysia? Would the royalties return as another force to be reckoned with after an eclipse of 20 years from the political affairs of the country. Would Mahathir and the royalties join hands in a new coalition of forces to take on the ruling govt? Such a possibility would put UMNO on the defensive and would further weaken its hold to power and the support of the Malay ground. It could mark the return of the royalties from the cold to the thick of Malaysian politics and a bigger influence in the affairs of the country.

What the hell was Kishore saying?

Last Saturday, 13 Jun, Kishore was thinking aloud in an ST article titled, ‘Trust the people, share govt data’.  In the article he praised the highly educated population and our world best education system only to contradict himself by saying we have the most ill informed population. How so, highly educated but not well informed? Then he went on to put the blame on the civil servants for their reluctance to share information. And he went on and on to lambast them about lack of transparency and how good it would be if the people are well informed and can make wise decisions in difficult times.

Did you people find the above strange? What was Kishore saying, or who was he referring to? He praised Hsien Loong for his call for more transparency and for ‘the public sector to cooperate with the IPS (Institute of Policy Studies) and to be forthcoming with information and access’ to information.  Is an insider like Kishore that naïve? Actually no, he knew what he was saying and he knew who he was addressing, who was the culprit that was depriving the people of information and transparency, but he had to go round the mulberry bush to be politically correct.

You see, Kishore also said that he likes to analyse issues as honest as possible, without the bulls. And he quoted LKY, GKS and Raja as his mentors, the kind of men that would not tolerate bullshit like he did above.  The most important lesson he learnt from the holy trinity is ‘to be brutally honest in analyzing problems and situations. Both of them (LKY and GKS) would prefer to confront an uncomfortable truth rather than accept a comfortable lie.’

Who is the real culprit that was depriving the people from information and being not transparent? The civil service? Kishore must be joking or living with a comfortable lie.  He knew the problem but could not say it out aloud. So he conveniently quoted Ho Kwon Ping’s called for more transparency and sharing of information and his suggestion for a Code on Information Disclosure. Who should abide by this Code to disclose and share information to keep the people informed?

Then he let the cat out of be bag without naming the culprit that is behind the non disclosure of information and transparency issue. ‘The big question we have to ask is: Can we trust our own population to make wise judgments with the information given to them?’ Who is this ‘We’?

Kishore concluded by saying that there was a need to change this culture of not sharing information. And he said it was good that the Govt was forming a Strategic Policy Unit to identify national priorities and action plans. Here is Kishore’s beef. ‘Perhaps one additional task that could be assigned to the SPU would be to change the culture of sharing information. We can and should do so.’

Here he used the word ‘We’ again. Who is this mysterious ‘We’?  Who did not trust the people and did not want to share information?

Khaw Boon Wan - HDB Lease Buyback Scheme a success

‘Through the Lease Buyback Scheme (LBS), the elderly living in HDB flats can use the tail-end of their flat leases to fund their retirement plan, without leaving their flats. Since LBS was launched in 2009, we have taken on board public feedback and made several enhancements to the scheme.

The latest enhancements took effect on 1 April 2015. We extended LBS to 4-room flats, raised the income ceiling from $3,000 to $10,000, offered varying leases, and allowed households with two or more owners to get more upfront cash.

The enhancements were well received. Over two months, 450 households applied for LBS. If all are successful, this will be a 50% increase over the 965 households currently participating under LBS.’ – Boon Wan

I cannot fault the Govt for all the schemes they have crafted to help the people that needed help to survive in the world’s most expensive city of millionaires. Some may find it strange that the Govt would have to come up with all kinds of things to help the millionaires and half millionaires to get by, including selling the only piece of worthy asset they have. And this LBS is getting more successful by the day with more and more half millionaires hooking up to the scheme.

I am sure all the generous schemes to help the poor millionaires are also very successful. The queues for free abalone porridge or free chicken rice must also be very long and very successful. The queues for handouts must also be very long and a good thing to celebrate, another successful govt aid scheme. Last night the queue at MRT stations for a $50 top up was so successful that MRT stations were packed and some scenes were quite chaotic with the oldies frantically pushing to get their $50 in case they missed it.

From another angle, I look at these successful schemes as a failure in our society, where people are in desperate needs for help, all kinds of help that the Govt can offer. I would rather celebrate when all the Govt assistance schemes failed, made redundant, in the sense that the people did not need them, that the people are wealthy or comfortable enough to be on their own, without having to depend on Govt assistance schemes. The more Govt assistance schemes available, the more successful they are in terms of recipients and people hoping and needing assistance, the more it is a sign of a failed society.

Why would a city of millionaires and half millionaires be seeking Govt assistance schemes and willing to queue in public to tell the world that they need handouts, charity and assistance, that they are failures in life? In this sense, I hope to see that all the Govt assistance schemes are not well attended and not well received or even rejected by the people as the people are comfortable enough not to have to beg and queue for such schemes.

When all these schemes are successful, it is not something to crow about, to be proud of, not something to cheer about like winning gold in the SEA Games. It is a sign of failure to improve the well being of the people, to spread wealth and affluence to the people.

When the pawn shops are doing roaring business and more new pawn shops are sprouting up the HDB estates, it is bad, it is not something to claim credit for.

Am I crazy to say this?