The height of idiocy

What do you think is the height of Singaporean idiocy? Giving the pioneers $500 for training when many are about to kick the bucket? Why don’t they just give them the money to have a good time, a good meal, to splurge for themselves while they still can? No, this is not a good example of idiocy. These seniors can still learn a trick or two and may start to work again.

What about allowing the govt to want a more or less ceremonial president to be  more honest than the PM, smarter than the PM, have better experience in senior management than the PM, have better integrity than the PM…Oh, I must clarify here, the PM is referring to the post of the Prime Minister, not to anyone in particular. Do we need someone to be better than the PM to be the President? Oh, this is also not a good example of idiocy.

What about saving for a life time, contributing nearly 50% of one’s income to one’s saving scheme in the CPF only to find out that the amount is not enough for retirement? Not idiotic enough? What about allowing the govt to decide to spend it on medical insurance? Not idiotic enough? What about allowing the govt to set aside a huge sum as a minimum sum that cannot be touched until death do us part? Still not idiotic enough?

Someone in my blog said a NS man, a corporal would probably be smart enough to avoid the death of the two trainees killed in the train accident. How so? Because the problem was due to a lapse in communication, or a system fault.  Someone already got permission to go down onto the train track to repair a fault. So 15 men, inclusive of an instructor, went walking on the train track during morning peak hours thinking they would be safe. Did they presume that once permission was granted, it was safe to walk on the track, no train would come and hit them, the system would take care of it since permission already granted?

So when they were on the track, there was no need to look out for on coming trains? Got permission already.  Now, why would a corporal make a big difference between life and death?  In a situation like this, the corporal would simply detail one or two men to be on the look out for on coming train, like sentry duty. So simple!

Whether got permission or no permission, system working or not working, got system fault or no system fault, got lapses or no lapses, a simple order to post a look out was all that was needed. No need expensive operating or warning system, no need to bother if got communication lapses or train driver was sleeping or train on auto drive.  The 15 men could simply moved aside when seeing the train approaching.

Would this be good enough to be called the height of idiocy? System fault leh. Communication fault leh, someone never switch off the power leh.  What more excuses needed for stupidity?

The Panama Papers prove Americans are angels

There was a big leak, and it came from Germany, and the French President praised the leak. It has nothing to do with the Americans. I can swear to it. And without even looking at the names in the leaked papers I can also swear no American, French, British, Australian or Japanese names would be in that list. These are honest people, like angels, they walked around with a halo on their heads. Though the average Americans and Europeans would not believe that this is true, the Asians and the bananas would believe it is true.

You see, the list of names would definitely be people from countries that the American regime regards as enemies. It is just a coincidence that there will be no American names or names of American allied nationals. They are not from the Dark Side. So God is kind and make sure their names would not be there.

The people from the Dark Side must know by now that there is no place safe enough to park their loot, definitely not in Switzerland or any American allied countries, and definitely not in the USA banks.  Now the Bahamas and the Virgin Islands are also not safe. Anywhere in Southeast Asia that will be safe? I think one place will be safe, under their beds.

This leak is worse than the Wikileaks and all the nationals of America’s enemies would be exposed. It is so timely. God is so kind to his angels, the Americans and their allies. It is now confirmed that the Americans and their allies are all honest and trustworthy people, incorruptible, no loot to hide.

This case is quite similar to the MH370 incident. The Americans are totally not involved, not a word from them. Only the Australians are fronting up in the MH370 case. So cannot put a link to the Americans.

In the meantime one piece at a time, a debris would float up somewhere in the ocean, near Diego Garcia. The point is that if the aircraft had crashed, the debris would be all over the place, not one piece at a time popping up from the ocean. If the aircraft did not crash but sunk, you would not have such debris.  The presence of debris, one piece at a time is mysterious and pointed that the aircraft must have crashed and blasted into pieces.  And God is releasing the debris one piece at a time. Of course this is a joke.

Oh, do not point the fingers at the Americans. They are angels. They are definitely not involved in the MH370 or this Panama Papers leak.  Both are inexplicable acts of Gods. Believe me, trust me. Believe in the Americans, trust them. They are the angels.

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.