Attack on Madrasah students

Shanmugam has appealed to the public to be calm and let the police investigate this case and not to speculate. Three Madrasah female students were beaten by a Singaporean man.  The man has been arrested. His brother, Mohammad Johan Koh had apologized for the incident and revealed that he attacker had some mental problem and had been admitted to IMH before.

Let’s hope this is a looney case and not a case of Islamophobia. It would be very serious if Islamophobia has come out in the open. The authority must be highly sensitive to this trend and make sure it does not surface in our fragile multiracial and multi religious society. We cannot allow such incidents to happen and any signs of it popping out must be slammed with a sledgehammer.

Every Singaporean has a duty and responsibility to make sure inter racial relationship is not undermined or agitated by irresponsible individuals.  It would be good that civic minded citizens could step in when such infringements happened in public places. Unfortunately when every other person is a foreigner, things would get more difficult as there are very few Singaporeans to do anything to keep things in order. Everyone would be looking at everyone and foreigners are less likely to interfere. This is the price to pay for having so many foreigners here to dilute our identity and existence.

Where are the Singaporeans to stand up and say this is my country and we are all Singaporeans?

PS. In the media there were hints that this attacker is a bit loony. But loony or not, what he had done is very serious to our racial and religious harmony.  Time to call for maxing out the punishment.

Globalisation is good for Singapore

For once, let me agree with this mantra. How can Singapore survive and compete with the best in the world with a small population of daft? Even our best would be half bakes compared to the best in the world. And there are more than 6b people out there with many that are much more talented than the best Singaporean in any field, yes, in any field, including political leaders.

The head of UBS Asia Pacific wealth management, Edmund Koh, said he is proud to be a Singaporean. And he supported the idea of hiring the best man for the job, regardless of nationality. He is concerned that Singapore is swinging too much towards hiring Singaporeans and missing out on hiring the best from the rest of the world. The fact that the ST gave him so much attention and prominence to hire the best talents regardless of nationality is itself an endorsement of this policy.

This doctrine of hiring the best to make Singapore the best in all fields is a good aspiration. Let’s make it real. Come on, look around and see the number of clowns and half bakes everywhere.  They just don’t stand a chance when the best is to be hired. No need to look very far. And look at the state of the Singapore economy, negative growth or zero growth in the last few decades if not of the flood of immigrant workers.  Singapore sorely needs the best talents to be here. Let’s make it happen.

Let me for once support this policy of hiring the best from the world. Forget about Singapore as a nation, a country.  If Singapore is not a country, there are many advantages arising from it.  We can forget about citizenship and national service. We can give citizenship freely to everyone. Our young men no need to be strangled by NS.  These are age old concepts, irrelevant today, outdated, out of sync. There is no need for a country with globalization. There is no need to have NS and guarding a country when there is no country. Everyone just go out there and be the best he can be, competing with the rest of the world.

Singapore should bravely step up this call for globalization.  Not to worry, it is coming with the Asean Community and the concept of free movement of labour and talent. Borderless, and everyone within Asean can move freely to find jobs in any Asean countries. And you don’t have to guess where all the Asean talents will gravitate to. Singaporeans will shine if they move out into the other Asean countries. 

We shall hire the best from the world and pay them the best salary we can afford. I am sure there are millions of people out there that are better than all the politicians we have in Parliament, all the permanent secretaries in the ministries, all the top bankers in all the banks, all the CEOs we find here today. And these incumbents would most graciously to want to be replaced by the best from the world, for the good of Singapore.

Let’s do it. Let’s replace these duds and half bakes quickly.  We don’t need silly Singaporeans here. I support. Let’s make Singapore the greatest place to be, with the best talents from the world.  The average Singaporeans and the duds and the sillies would find their right place in the hierarchy of jobs.  They will know where they belong.  We need a lot of security guards, taxi drivers and personal assistance to serve the best talents of the world here.

I heard many sillies quietly saying to themselves, not to worry, I am the best, I would not be replaced.

What do you think? Plant your own timber? That mantra only bluff bluff lah. Hire the best is the way forward. Singapore does not owe you a living.  The politicians do not owe Singaporeans a living. Stop the entitlement mentality, exception, it is ok to think you are entitled to millions. What? I heard still got people talking about creating a Singaporean core or looking after out PMETs? Am I mad or those people are mad? Or am I out of sync? When people were talking about foreign talents good I was talking about Singaporean first. Now people want to build a Singaporean core and I am talking about replacing all the silly and daft Singaporeans with the best from the world.

I must be very confused.

Singaporeans becoming security guards

Have Singaporeans turned themselves into security guards? I don’t mean the security guards at the shopping centres or guarding housing estates but guarding the island? Our regular soldiers and NSmen are guarding the country with all its assets and reserves but the big question is for who? Have Singaporeans turned themselves into security guards, the only skill they are left with, and the good jobs are left to foreigners as Singaporeans no longer have the skill sets and talents to work in high positions, even to be political leaders? Have we reached such a hopeless state that Singaporeans are now guards to a rich island but have nothing to do with the wealth, except for some elites, that they can only look from the outside of the fence like guards usually do?

Just read the below comments from a reader in the blog.

‘For example, sinkies are put into pressure cookers from cradle to grave and guys have to sacrifice 2 precious years to serve national slavery ...... oops ...... national service ...... not mentioning life time yearly in camp trainings till 50, yearly IPPT tests and trainings, yearly ad hoc briefings, "suka suka weekends / public holidays mobilisation exercises " when u are celebrating your bd, having lunch/ dinner, looking after your new born etc?’

Is this the life of the average Singaporeans, whose main duty is to jaga the island day and night so that the foreigners can come here and get rich, take over the good jobs and may even take over the island? There are so many good stuff to guard and protect, but do the Singaporeans have a share of the good stuff and the good jobs when foreigners are even invited to be political leaders and CEOs of Singapore’s own institutions? Yes, yes, Singaporeans got no more talents. Without these foreign talents Singapore will go kaput. So no choice lah, better to be guards, still got jobs to do.

If Singapore doesn’t provide these foreigners with good jobs, they cannot provide jobs for Singaporeans.  Then Singaporeans want to be guards also cannot. Be grateful and guard the island well.

Lee Wei Ling – Welcome to social media

‘Lee Wei Ling: I will no longer write for SPH’ This has appeared on 1 April after Wei Ling posted in her Facebook that she would no longer write for SPH. Yahoo News quoted her saying, “I will no longer write for SPH as the editors there do not allow me freedom of speech. In fact, that was the reason why I posted the article on LKY would not want to be hero-worshipped.”

Initially many thought it was another April Fool’s joke. Since April 1 has passed and no clarification has come forward, this must be true. This must be the biggest slap the SPH ever got from someone renowned and from the establishment, and from the family. What does it say about the SPH?

I think Wei Ling has quite a big following when she was writing for the SPH when they gave her the attention due. It would be a pity that her followers and Singaporeans would not be hearing her version of the truth any more. I think many people would like her to keep on writing about the things that no one would write about and from a privilege insider’s view, someone who is in the loop.

Perhaps she could consider penning her thoughts in social media. Someone has suggested that she should write to TRE to express her opinions now that the main media is taboo to her. She is definitely welcome to post in mysingaporenews. I would be glad if she could be a resident contributor in my blog.

My blog is not about anti establishment as some low thinking insects would want to make it to be. It is about controversial policies, thoughts, ideas and views, not about individuals, good or evil. In a way it is about the force and the dark side.

Wei Ling will be most welcome to say her piece here, with no editorial restrictions or curbs. I personally guarantee that, freedom to write as she wishes. She must speak up when necessary, for her conscience and the good of the people. The social media is at her disposal. But of course she has her Facebook to tell all.

James Cook invaded Australia, NOT discovcred

A BBC news reported on 31 Mar 16 that an Australian Premier wanted to change the true history of Australia, that Britain invaded Australia, not discovered Australia. And I quote,

‘A top politician has backed university guidelines saying students should refer to Britain's "invasion" of Australia.
The University of New South Wales (UNSW) rejected claims on Wednesday it was "whitewashing" its curriculum.
Its Indigenous Terminology guide urges students to use the term "invaded" rather than "settled" or "discovered", and to avoid the word "Aborigines".
Queensland state Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said she supported universities teaching "the truth"….

"A lot of Indigenous people lost their lives, there were massacres and the truth always must be told."
When the premier was asked if this meant Australia had been invaded, she answered "yes"…. There were already more than 250 separate language groups of Aboriginal people living on the land.
Then began a process of colonisation and land confiscation which denied Aboriginal rights to land, citizenship and equal status - rights which in many cases were only finally bestowed in recent decades.’

This piece of news would not be of interest to the West or even people in Asia. Our New York Times would not be bothered with such news but would reported profusedly on the island dispute in the South China Sea because it serves a different agenda and the interests of those favoured. The indigenous people of Australia have lost their land. It is history. No point talking about them. The main purpose now is to prevent China from claiming the islands. It is easier to control the South China Sea if the islands are claimed by the Asean countries than by China. It is better to keep the dispute alive and let it fester and agitate the claimants to go after one another, then sell them more weapons in a divide and rule strategy. Keep reporting the dispute and tension and keep stirring hatred and conflict among these countries. Let it become second nature and the Empire will sail in to take control.

The Asean countries have retaken their land, regained their independence. The important thing to them is to go out and claim islands in the South China Sea like Britain claiming Australia and the Europeans claiming the world outside Europe in the seventeen century..

The status of the islands in the South China Sea is in a way similar to Australia, New Zealand, the continent of North America and many other pieces of land all over the world. The only exception is that the islands have no indigenous people, uninhabited. Yes, anyone can claim them. But the rule of this game is still the rule of yesteryears. It is finder’s keepers, and if there is a dispute, the claimant must be able to make the dispute go away, to make it a reality. It is a different ball game for any country going out to claim land or islands. Face the fact, you need the barrel of the gun.

The Asean countries are strong, military powers in their own right and thus are able to make competing claims against China. Go ahead and make your claims a reality, if you can.

Let me return to this BBC news. Who is this Premier? Read her name. Yes, she is an indigenous people. She is a minority that survived the massacre and lives to tell the truth and wants to claim the rights of her indigenous people. She wanted the truth to be told. Who asked her if it was discovery or invasion? Obviously the descendant of the invaders, and his truth was that they discovered Australia. That was why he had to ask if Australia was invaded. What, indigenous people the owners of Australia?

The Doctrine of Christian Discovery, a Papal Bull, gave them the authority in the name of God the Almighty that non believers were sub humans and had no rights to land ownership. And the superior Europeans had all the right to take their land and their lives in the name of God. The Europeans, in Australia’s case it was James Cook and his British sailors, discovered Australia. The indigenous people were like the live stocks in the land, no rights to anything. That was their truth. This is not worth reporting, not worth to know.

So, would Australia rewrite their history books after more than 200 years of British and western truths? There have been some changes in mindset and some left over surviving tribes were given some land, while the rest of the continent is still owned by the European settlers that ‘discovered’ Australia.

Can you live with the truth? Whose truth? White men don’t tell lies. They just tell their own truth. You can’t handle the truth.

PS. BBC reported this, ‘Meanwhile, the University of Queensland says it does not teach that Captain Cook "invaded" nor "settled" Australia’. So, what did they teach?

PS. People who did not know their history would be happily deceived.