Half way through a prepared speech on the reliability of the train, Boon
Wan could not tahan anymore and went off the cuff to berate the
negative reporting of the breakdown of public transport by the main
media. ‘I don’t like the media reporting…Even our main media have turned
tabloid. Yes, exciting and so on…frightening figures, headlines.’
According to Today’s readers comments, the media were reporting the
truth, what were happening exactly on the ground and these were very
helpful to commuters who needed to know the real situation and to plan
their travel. It would be terrible if the media were to report average
of breakdowns over24 hours like the reporting of haze situation and the
commuters would be like lost sheep, not knowing what to do.
Some comments from interviews conducted by Today, ‘The media is
basically reflecting the sentiments of regular train commuters….the
updates provided by the media have helped commuters such as herself to
plan their commute…I don’t think the media has (exaggerated) recent
train delays and breakdowns….)
Professor Lee Der Horng of NUS has this to say, ‘…that mainstream media
coverage of the recent train delays was an accurate reflection of the
situation, and it played a role in getting train operators to come
forward and explain to the public the cause of those delays….The media
cannot be so blind that when the re-signalling work casuse delays,
they’re not reported. I think (in that case) the public would be
furious.’
Now the media is caught in a vice, between a hard rock and the deep blue
sea. How and what should the media be reporting? Or should the media be
telling the people just to hear the good stuff…and ignore the bad news?
What Boon Wan could do is to follow Donald Trump and go twitting and
instruct the train operators to twit as well. Just keep twitting and
ignore the main media. It would be better if he could tell the main
media to stop reporting on the train delays and all news on public
transportation and delays would be available on twitters. That would
make the job of the main media easier and commuters would only hear the
good news, the good stuff, the right stuff, from twitters.
What is fake news and real news is a fine thin line. I am being generous.
The latest missile test by the North Koreans has drawn immediate
response from the world's number one outlaw and its fellow gangsters.
The Americans not only responded by more military exercises to threaten
the North Koreans, Trump also added this rhetoric,
'By threatening the world, these weapons and tests further isolate North
Korea, weaken its economy, and deprive its people,...The United States
will take all necessary steps to ensure the security of the American
homeland and protect our allies in the region.'
This is the normal reaction of the outlaw, to show the other party that
it has bigger guns to hit them and also to fool the world that the North
Koreans are threatening them and the outlaw is there to protect the
rest of the world from the North Koreans. Now, who would be fooled by
the American rhetoric, who would believe the North Koreans would be
firing nuclear weapons at them for no good reason? Or is there any
country been poking at the North Koreans and now felt guilty about it
and thus has good reason to know that the North Koreans would not be
happy with their big mouths?
The North Koreans are doing the right thing, to make sure it could give a
few deadly blows at the outlaw should it tries to nuke them. The best
part is that attention is directed at North Koreans' ability to hit the
US homeland. Should the Americans nuke NK, Japan would be the first
target for the short range missiles from NK. Japan would go up in smokes
as the North Koreans have plenty of short range missiles to cover all
the big cities and American bases in Japan.
The first victim of a nuclear war between the US and NK would be Japan.
They better don't play with fire and tell the Americans to back down
from their madness.
And why is North Korea becoming China’s problem and China has to solve
it? What has China got to do with the affairs and defence capability of
another sovereign state? Who is poking the North Koreans and threatening
the North Koreans and demonizing the North Koreans?
China should show its middle finger to the Americans and tell them to
deal with the problems they created, or was there really a problem in
the first place? Just stop provoking and harassing the North Koreans and
they would not threaten to blow up American cities. Stop your war games
and flying nuclear armed bombers over the Korean Peninsula.
The Americans are the real problem, the threat to North Korea and world peace.
The controversy over the new batch of representatives for the Miss
Singapore Universe contest is turning very sour and distasteful. Some of
the comments were outright discourteous and nasty and uncalled for.
What is this beauty contest all about? It is all about beautiful and
intelligent lasses representing their respective countries to show off
to the world. It started off as an innocuous event but now becoming more
political and commercialized and as fake as one can get.
While being fake is acceptable, let’s go one step further by doing what
Singapore is good at, buy, buy, buy. Just like our dream of buying a
football team for the World Cup and our embarrassing displayed of
foreign players winning medals for our country to prove that we have
talents, why not go the extra mile and buy the most beautiful girls from
around the world to represent Singapore in the Miss Universe or Miss
World contests? When money is everything, when money can buy everything,
let’s use our money to its fullest advantage and tell the local lasses
to step aside, we are going to import beautiful girls from around the
world to represent Singapore.
This would add another plastic layer to our everything beautiful
country, a country full of foreign talents and no local talents. But
never mind, as long as it is good for the country. Never mind if it is
good or no good for the people. Anyway we are already deep in the
process of replacing all the unwanted, untalented and now unsightly
Singaporeans with better foreigners. It is just part of the process of
renewal for the better. Let’s fake this one as well.
What do you think?
Next on the list to be replaced by foreigners would be the top military
and police officers, the top civil servants, the judges and of course,
last on the list, the ministers and Prime Ministers and the President.
Singapore must pay for the best foreigners to take over jobs that
Singaporeans cannot do better. And there are billions of foreigners out
there that can replace every Singaporean, from the toilet cleaners to
the President and PM of the country.
Let's not kid ourselves that what we have the best in the world. The best in the world are out there, the foreign talents.
My alma
mater has made Singaporeans proud by believing in the abilities of
Singaporeans as among the best academics in the world. After the
disaster in NTU where the heart of Chinese education continues to be
headed by foreigners and the incident of Chinese language not allowed, it is a pleasant surprise to see NUS raising the
flag of Singapore in appointing another Singaporean to be the President
of our premier university. I would not know where to hide my face if all
the heads of Singapore's universities are headed by foreigners.
This was reported in Channel News Asia on 29 Jul 17.
SINGAPORE: The National University
of Singapore (NUS) has named Professor Tan Eng Chye as its new
president, an appointment that will take effect in January 2018.
Prof
Tan, a mathematician and an NUS alumnus, has been the university’s
provost for the past 10 years. He will succeed current president Tan
Chorh Chuan who will be seconded to the Ministry of Health, said NUS in a
news release on Friday (Jul 28).
The incoming
president, 56, said he will be focusing on three areas - lifelong
learning, personalised learning and inclusive learning....
If
Singapore and Singaporeans do not believe in Singaporeans, then this
country would go to the dogs. Singapore belongs to Singaporeans, true
blue Singaporeans, not those instant tree Singaporeans. Singaporeans
need to take back control of this country before it is taken over by
foreigners and instant trees.
I am proud of my alma mater.
The CNA also reported this,'
'NUS also announced the appointment
of Professor Ho Teck Hua as its new senior deputy president and provost
from January 2018. He is currently the deputy president (Research &
Technology), and heads two national research and development programmes
in artificial intelligence and data science.
“With these two appointments, NUS
will have a truly outstanding leadership team,” said NUS chairman Hsieh
Fu Hua who led the search for the new president.
Recently Singaporeans have been bombarded with the myth that Bhutan is
the heaven on earth where the Bhutanese are the happiest people in the
world. There are some truths on this statement without the ’buts’ being
exposed. The happy Bhutanese are as happy as the caged canaries. A caged
bird’s happiness is about living in a cage with food provided, secure
and safe from the paws of a hungry cat and ignorant of what lies outside
the cage.
Bhutan is in all definition a protectorate of India. It has an agreement
with India, supposedly signed voluntarily and happily, that India
guides its foreign policies ie India decides its relations with other
states. In the current border dispute with China, or India’s border
dispute with China by actually hijacking Bhutan’s border to start a
dispute with China, it was repeatedly highlighted that Bhutan has no
diplomatic relations with China. It did not say that Bhutan also did not
have diplomatic relations with all five powers of the UN Security
Council. Why would not Bhutan want to have relations with the five
powers or with more countries of the world? Because India decides it to
be so. Having relations with other powers and countries would be bad as
it would reduce the influence and control of India over Bhutan.
Why didn’t Bhutan wants to participate in the BRI project? A landlocked
country would definitely benefitted from more access to the rest of the
world. No, India would not allow that. India would not allow Bhutan to
have FDIs other than those from India. Japan and European countries and
now China would like to invest in Bhutan. But permission was not
allowed. Whose permission? Bhutan or India?
Bhutan has very little trading activities and trade relations with other
countries, not allowed to participate in such activities. On the
surface, Bhutanese love to remain in their present state of heaven and
are very happy with their way of life and want to be protected to be in
this state of living forever.
Is this what the Bhutanese want or what India imposed on the Bhutanese?
The current border trouble with China, or is it Bhutan’s trouble with
China or India’s trouble with China? India is claiming that China wants
to invest in Bhutan, wants more relations with Bhutan and wants Bhutan
to participate in the BRI project. But Bhutan refused and wanted to
remain a protectorate of India, did not want to open up, want to remain a
happy cage bird, look after and fed by India, and to remain a nation of
very happy canaries. Oops.
What do you think is the truth? Do the Bhutanese have any aspirations
and ambitions to be a free people, to decide what is good for them, to
be a normal country like everyone else? Are they really happy to be
canaries in a cage?
The current border dispute is India's excuse to move in troops into
Bhutan to strengthen its control over Bhutan in the name of protecting
Bhutan. And Bhutan could hardly say anything within the approval of
India. The canary can only sing but not speak up for its own interests
