Tikam tikam in Parliament

WP’s Sylvia Lim is so lucky. After 3 times of failing to speak in

Parliament this time her bid to speak was balloted. She wanted to ask the

PM on the basis for deciding who should be considered as the first elected

President from which the latest EP election was counted as due this year.

Everyone knows that the first EP was Ong Teng Cheong. Somehow Wee Kim Wee

term as the president was counted as the first EP. Sylvia Lim is asking in

Parliament whether the counting process is a legal matter or a policy

matter.

 

Is this an important question? It concerns when to hold an election for a

minority EP and the difference is as good as 5 years. And if the question

is so important, why should it be decided on a ballot, like a lucky draw?

It means if Sylvia Lim is unlucky, this question could not be asked for the

next 1000 years.

 

According to the newly promoted Speaker of Parliament, Tan Chuan Jin,

 

‘“Just balloted for tomorrow’s adjournment motion (3 Oct 2017). Sylvia

Lim’s motion has been picked. She was present for the draw, as she had been

the previous round. Vikram Nair’s motion would have to be deferred again

for the fourth time. His topic is on the future of NS.

 

It is important to note that apart from the adjournment motion, we also do

have a Private Member’s Motion that doesn’t require it to be balloted.

Christopher de Souza is in fact tabling one tomorrow and will see quite a

number of MPs speaking on it.

 

There are various platforms for every individual MPs to surface issues that

concern them. Do make full use of these opportunities.’

 

I dunno what is the difference between an adjournment motion and a Private

Member’s Motion, but I do know that a MP is a people’s representative and

has all the right to speak in Parliament and this right should not be

curtailed or be subjected to tikam tikam. What is an MP if his right to

speak is not a right but a lucky draw?

 

Funny isn’t it? First world politics or first world political game aka

tikam tikam.

 

Now Sylvia Lim must count herself so lucky to be balloted on the third

time. Heng ah! The right to speak in Parliament is like striking lottery.

And to be sure that her question is being put into the ballot box, she had

to be present every time they conduct a ballot. Really BTH. Uniquely

Singapore.

 

Sylvia Lim’s question on whether the decision on the changed EP for

minority is a policy or a legal matter has been answered by Shanmugam in

Parliament. What came out of Parliament is that the govt can make a policy

decision to override what is in the Constitution. Or the govt, by saying

that it is making a policy decision can interpret the Constitution the way

it thinks will suit the policy decision. Tiok boh? So, what is bigger, a

govt policy or the Constitution?

 

My layman’s thinking, the Constitution is law, is sacred, cannot anyhow

suka suka interpret to one’s liking. No? The govt is above the Constitution

or the govt’s policy decision is bigger than the Constitution? Like that

can or not? Any big time learned one out there, can enlighten or not? Law

big or policy big?

 

‘Bo how seow boh kong’ or ‘limpeh kong’ so what you want to do? Singapore’s

lawyers’ thinking and interpretation of the law is world class, super first

class, unbeatable, unchallengable, at least in Singapore.

 

How many of you want to challenge Shanmugam’s explanation in Parliament? I

am sure no lawyer in Singapore would dare to challenge his interpretation

of the law. Case over. When Shanmugam, the Minister of Law, opens his mouth

to talk about Singapore’s law, ‘bao tiok’ one. Who knows better about the

law of Singapore if not the Minister of Law? Laymen cannot anyhow talk one

talk two because laymen dunno, but the lawyers will know and therefore

agree in silence.

 

Respect, respect.

 

PS. The whole truth and nothing but the truth is the advice in the letter

by AGC to the PM.

Spot the liar

Paddock killed 59, how many North Koreans is Trump going to kill?

Everyone is screaming foul when Paddock killed 59 innocent people attending a concert. No one bother to ask how many innocent Arabs have been killed by George Bush and Obama. And no one is going to ask how many innocent North Korean farmers, mothers and babies Trump is threatening to kill. I want to ask Trump about his bragging to kill 50m North Koreans, how sick is this man?
 
Trump is reported in thenewpaper to have said this, Paddock is ‘a sick man, a demented man’…We are looking into him very, very seriously, but we’re dealing with a very, very sick individual.’
 
The paper also said, ‘What sort of monster would arm himself to the teeth and strafe thousands of concert revellers with countless bullets from his sniper’s nest in his high rise hotel room?’ Would the paper ask, what sort of evil people or country would arm itself to the teeth and threaten to nuke a country with nuclear weapons? What sort of sick country would carpet bomb a country like Vietnam, killing everyone that is alive, indiscriminately? What sort of sick country would kill hundreds of thousands of Arabs and simply called it ‘collateral damages’?
 
Compare Paddock to the country called USA or the Presidents in the White that ordered the killings of hundreds of thousands and maybe millions, Paddock is an innocent child playing with his small toys. The real evil ones are playing with WMDs and killing hundreds of thousands and now Trump proudly claimed he is going to kill millions of North Koreans.
 
Anyone feel disgusted? Any American with a little conscience would cry out loud that Trump is going to commit a heinous crime against humanity?
 
America, you know what is hypocrisy? Do you know how many lives are there in 50m? 

It is 50,000,000 not 59. Get that?

The Soh Rui Yong saga – All for nothing

Singapore sports cannot excel if the sportsmen and athletes cannot put food on the table. Period. Don’t ever think of getting world class athletes for free.
 
In many countries, the sports champions are paid handsomely, financially very well rewarded for sports excellence. Singapore’s table tennis team did well because the foreign players are paid to play. For the other sports, if they did well, it is sheer dedication and sacrifices. Runners like Soh Rui Yong, Dipna Lim Prasad and Shanti Pereira are trying their best with the little financial support they got from their sponsors to run. What great difference would it make if they could run full time, no worry about lack of a decent income, and can concentrate fully on their sports?
 
It is high time the national bodies spend real money to support the outstanding sportsmen and athletes to push them to their limits and be among the best in the world. Of course the criteria for financial support must justify by the performance of the athletes and be commensurate with their world standings.
 
Our masters just returned from an Asian Meet with 4 golds, 5 silvers and 9 bronzes without a cent coming from the govt. This is the kind of support the govt is giving to these senior athletes. Old and forgotten, not to be seen, not to be heard?
 
Why did I say Soh Rui Yong saga was all for nothing? In the first place, what is $10,000 to the govt? And what is $2,000 to SA? These are not even peanuts, insignificant, paltry sum for the beggars. But it means a lot to a struggling athlete trying to make ends meet and with financial responsibilities to the families.
 
There is an easier way out to this petty issue. It is all bad administration, bad policies and execution. There would be no problem by changing the rules and procedures. Just give the $10,000 to the runners and $2,000 to the SA. Problem solved. QED. Or if someone is so mean and think the runner is deserving of only $8,000, then give the runner $8,000 and SA the $2,000 without having to irritate the runners by saying 20% will be deducted from his awards for SA. This is pure administrative foul up that is designed to create unhappiness.
 
See, all for nothing with a stroke of the pen. And these buggers are still scratching their heads, still bitching and not knowing how to solve this little irritation due to bad administrative policies and procedures, all because of $2,000! Unbelieveable!
 
Stupidity has no cure.

Condolence and prayers to those killed and wounded in Las Vegas

It is another sad and horrifying night when the innocence were killed or wounded for no good reasons. They were just ordinary people living their lives but one mad man turned their lives to hell.

Hope that Trump and all his mad men in the White House understand why such senseless carnage should not happen to the Americans or to anyone else. Hope they would be kept busy and have no time to start another war and go on a killing spree. Trump has threatened to destroy the whole of North Korea and 50m North Koreans. For what fucking reasons? The North Koreans have their nuclear bombs and he and his mad men claimed that the North Koreans are threatening to lob them into American cities? Just because these mad men claimed this to be so and 50m innocent North Koreans are going to perish under a series of nuclear bombs all over North Korea?

We are crying foul when 60 or so Americans and a few hundred innocent lives were killed and wounded. But the mad men in the White House are talking about millions of innocent lives in North Korea and wanted to nuke them out of existence.

Watch this video clip on what the mad men in the White House wanted to do to the North Koreans. They think such tragedies would only happen to the North Koreans and nothing would happen to the Americans in homeland. So it is ok to go out and kill and destroy the North Koreans?

Just don't be too sure. A handful of nuclear bombs landing in homeland America would have the same disastrous effects. And if the mad men in the White House think it is fun, a one way fun, they can be very sure what they did to North Korea and its people will be repeated in Japan, South Korea and in Guam and perhaps a few American cities.

Pray that God will deal with these mad men before they unleash their madness on North Korea and the whole of human civilisation.

Here, watch this and be grateful that you are still alive before you are cooked by the mad men in the White House of the USA. By then no one would be praying or sending condolences. A nuclear war will destroy life on earth, including Americans and the mad men and their families.

 https://youtu.be/6tKzBB2dJ94

Singapore China relations on the mend?

After Hsien Loong led a high level team of ministers to China and meeting every who's who in China, including Xi Jinping, to mend relations that had gone to an all time low, he and his ministers have been praising how good is Singapore's relations with China. Everything is back to normal, it seems. I also wrote about how China is putting everything aside to start a new relationship with Singapore. It is a rare honour for a head of state, especially from a small little red dot to be allowed to meet so many top Chinese leaders in one trip and when the Chinese leaders were so busy with the Party Congress and the 68th celebration of new China under the CCP rule.

The Chinese have indeed made an exceptionally big effort to accommodate Singapore and wanted relations to improve and move to a higher level. Otherwise Hsien Loong would not be allowed to meet so many of them at such a critical moment. They may not even want to have the visit. The sincerity on the part of China was all there for Hsien Loong to see. If anything that can go wrong after such great effort it is likely to be on the Singapore side. The Singapore media were saying all the good stuff about China and Sino Singapore relations.

Now, could the relations be otherwise, that things did not go that well rather? Here is a post in the statestimesreview quoting a Chinese source that indeed Sino Singapore relations is not what the Singapore side has been saying. It is still NG.

'China’s Defence Ministry today (Sep 2 has issued a press statement reiterating their stand that China opposed Singapore conducting joint military operations with Taiwan:

“China is willing to work with Singapore to create favourable conditions to develop an even more mature military relationship. I also want to stress here that Taiwan is an inseparable part of China. We resolutely oppose any country having any form of official exchanges with Taiwan or military links.”

The media statement debunks the fake news by Singapore Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen, who called his recent trip to Beijing “successful” suggesting that China has given Singapore the leeway to continue military operations in Taiwan. In an official trip to China last week, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong was unable to negotiate an entry into China’s One Belt One Road initiative.'

When a Chinese ministry made such a statement, it means things are not going well. China watchers understood what the Chinese meant when it is an official statement. How could this be when Hsien Loong and his team were also very sincere in wanting to mend relations?

On hindsight, it was clear that Singapore is still adopting an antique strategy of the past, whack first then talk to show that we are tough and not pushovers. At times this would work but doing this to China when it is no longer inferior to the Americans and stating its claim to be the world's number one super power, this kind of strategy is childish at best and stupidity at worst.

How so? Remember the high profile sacking of Professor Huang Jing before the visit to China? Though the ministries still refused to identify who Huang Jing is working for, it is becoming clearer that he is working for China. It would be different if he was working for the Americans. To whack him first and then to visit China to want to mend relations is the stupidest thing to do. How could Singapore think it could get away with such outdated strategy in foreign relations? Punching above your weight, punching China and expecting China to look the other way?

Then there is the training in Taiwan issue. The Chinese had made their stand very clear during the Terrex incident. This is not acceptable. Though the media did not mention anything about this issue being discussed, I bet it was discussed behind closed door. And from this latest statement from the Chinese Defence Ministry, it is quite obvious that Singapore stood firm and want the cake and eat it as well.

The Chinese have deliberated on their discussions with Singapore and is making it public that relations with Singapore are far from being on the mend. It is only the Singapore side that is saying so and thinking it is so. And if this is the case, the doors will be closing on Singapore very fast unless Singapore is able to pull out a miracle in these last hours to make things right.

My reading, Singapore is a principled country and would not bow to pressure and would let its relations with China go down to its ebb. There is always the mighty American Empire to depend on. In the first page of the Sunday Times, 1 Oct, there was a picture of Singapore flag flying with the flags of the US, UK, Australia and New Zealand and with a caption 'Majulah Singapura in Iraq'. Singapore is a core member of the American Empire fighting ISIS. The rest of the European powers have fled this coalition in the Middle East. Singapore remains a staunch supporter and member of the coalition, something to be very proud of, a great honour, to fly the Singapore flag with the Americans, British, Australia and New Zealand side by side, as one of them.

With or without China may not be a real bother. Singapore is now so thick with the Americans that there is nothing to fear, nothing to lose even if relations with China is not doing well.