MacDonald reviewing its non halal food policy

Read about this on the news and recalled another piece of news about this policy over the weekend. Cakes or food that is not halal cannot be brought into MacDonald restaurants. I felt guilty as I used to buy takeaway char kway teow or roast pork for dinner and then queued at MacDonald restaurant to buy hamburger, or actually beef burger with the takeaways in plastic bags. I did not know that MacDonald has such a policy and that I had unintentionally violated this policy. My apologies, would not do it again.

For MacDonald to announce that it has such a policy is a good thing so that its customers would know and would not break the policy unknowingly. MacDonald as a business should have its right to have whatever policies to make its customers happy. Just make the policy known, put up big banners at the main door so that no one could miss it and would not bring non halal food into the restaurants.

Now, why is MacDonald reviewing this policy? I have no problem with MacDonald having no halal food in its premises policy. I either don’t bring non halal food into MacDonald or just don’t patronize MacDonald. No big deal. There are other choices available.

What is the point of making a policy public and within a week and starts to talk about reviewing it? We used to have the very popular Banquet Food Court that sold only halal food. It was their policy and preferred choice of doing business. I used to patronize the Banquet Food Court too. Unfortunately all closed down.

Let the restaurants make their policy choice and the customers make their own choices who to patronize or where to eat.  Everyone happy.  Singapore is a multi cultural and multi religious country with plenty of choices for everyone with each free to do what he pleases.

Singapore Motor Show 2017 - Latest Models

Tomorrow will post all the beautiful models.

Assholes – The CPF is the people’s life savings

Stop having more designs on the people’s life savings. The money is saved by the people over a life time for retirement. Do not think that it is your money and you can suka suka anytime decide what it should be used for without the people’s consent. Just take and take.
 
First you have compulsory CPF Life and then Medishield Life. Now what, compulsory Eldershield Life? Who the fuck do you think you are to decide for the people how to use their life savings? Don’t you think you have taken enough of the people’s money through the sale of HDB flats, the minimum sum schemes and the two compulsory CPF Life and Medishield Life Schemes?  Not enough, now wanting to take more in another compulsory Eldershield Life Insurance Scheme?
 
The oldies did not have anything left for you to take. They need to eat and pay bills, and the few dollars left are all that they have. They no longer have incomes to feed your million dollar salaries. Spare the old folks. Stop having more designs on their money. If you really have a heart, cough up some money from the state coffer or divert the excess premiums collected from the other compulsory schemes for the oldies.
 
Remember, if your intention is ill conceived, you will have to answer for it one day. Don’t mess around with the blood, sweat and tear money of the hapless oldies. All these compulsory schemes were not part of the contract of CPF savings to start with.  The people put money in the CPF for their retirement, not for you to do as you pleased. Their life time savings are not for you to take, not for you to spend. It is very easy to take the money from the defenceless oldies. Remember, there is no free lunch, what you take you must pay back in some ways.
 
Taking the people’s life saving like sing songs, no need to ask the people’s permission, just legislate it. Go and find out what is the meaning of ‘chek ark’. There is no good reason to take the people’s money against their wishes. It is as good as daylight robbery.

The evil Empire has declared war on China

According to a Bloomberg report filed by Isabel Reynolds, Rex Tillerson, the State Secretary designate, said these: ‘China must be denied access to artificial islands built in the disputed waters…a failure to respond to China’s actions had allowed it to "keep pushing the envelope" in the South China Sea. "We’re going to have to send China a clear signal that first the island-building stops and second your access to those islands is also not going to be allowed,"’

This kind of irresponsible statements coming from the trigger happy evil Empire is trouble to the world. China would not budge and would put up a fight. So what do the Americans think they want to do? This is no longer a game of chicken. China would confront the aggressive American military head on, might with might. Once the Americans make the first move, it is all the way, come what may.

And this cock American said this, ‘They are taking territory or control, or declaring control of territories that are not rightfully China’s.’ Did this cock Tillerson remember that their forefathers invaded America, killed all the native Americans they called Red Indians and robbed their land, now called the USA? Was the continent of North America, inhabited by hundreds of millions of native Americans, rightfully the land of the European Americans?

This cock thinks that China would sit there and wait to be pushed out of their islands. China though still trying to be diplomatic, would be sending all their military weapons and reinforcement to the islands and hardened their defences and in waiting for the Americans to come ashore. This is not 1492 when Columbus landed in America and with all the weapons in hand, went about killing the poorly armed natives that died fighting the European invaders.  The Americans must be prepared for the sinking of a few aircraft carriers if they are mad and reckless enough to try this game again.

Tighten your seat belt for a rough ride with the world’s Number One warmonger rattling its sabre and calling for war.  They failed to get the Aquino govt to do the fighting, now they have removed the veil and showing their hands behind all the tensions in the SCS. They are going to do the fighting themselves as no Asean country would be stupid enough to want to die fighting for the American interest. Oops, I stand corrected as there could be some silly ones out there thinking that they could fight on the side of the Americans and don’t mind looking like dead heroes.

SCS is not the only region that is going to see high tension and threats of war.  The Americans are also raising temperature in Europe by sending troops and tanks to the Russian border to confront Russia. Now, how many silly Asians still stick to their unthinking view that the Americans are peaceful people, for world peace when they are raising tensions and threatening wars everywhere? Oh, it is the fault of the Russians and the Chinese, and the North Koreans, and the Iranians and the Arab countries that the Americans have to go to wars with them, murdering Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein like a past time.

Stupidity has no cure.

Honest dishonesty at work

I saw this runner on the TV screen. ’99.9% O level students passed at least one subject’. Wow, what a great achievement. Our education system or the teachers have done well, very well. Or is it the students have done exceptionally well? 99.9%  passed! Wait a minute, passed at least one subject? What does this mean? Passed one subject also passed? I have left school for so long and I know that in my time passing one subject is as good to repeat in Sec 4. Passing 3 subjects also considered failed in my time. You need to pass at least 4 or 5 subjects and with some decent grades to pass and get a Grade 3. Now passed one subject can already, passed?

I am out of touch. Is this the reason why the employers have no faith in our education system when passing one subject is considered passed and something to rejoice, to shout about? What is the truth? Would the student with one or two passes go home and announce to papa and mama, ‘I passed, one subject’ and get rewarded?

The statement is very honest or very dishonest or honest dishonest? Ok, there was another banner that stated something like 84.3% passed at least 5 subjects. Though we must not embarrass or discourage those that did not do well, but we must be honest with them, that one pass does not qualify to pass the whole examination. Or maybe nowadays there is no such thing as pass or fail an examination. Just count the number of passes good enough. What a merry world of semantics and make beliefs. Yes, say the right things and hear the good stuff.