Lee and Lee or Lee versus Lee
Singaporeans have grown up with the familiar Lee and Lee combination.
Other sub sets are Lee and Kua or Lee and Ho. Today a new combination is
in the making, Lee versus Lee. Even with the family dispute coming into
the open, no Singaporean could envisage the possibility of a Lee versus
Lee in the political arena.
Over the weekend this Lee versus Lee combination is looking like a
possibility. It was all over the social media that Cheng Bok had a
breakfast meeting, or having breakfast with Hsien Yang in West Coast
hawker centre. Wasn’t Hsien Yang in self exiled in HongKong? Not really.
I have seen him the MBFC area a couple of times. Hsien Yang is free to
move in and out of Singapore though his residence could be in HongKong
for the time being.
The breakfast with Cheng Bock is stirring a lot of speculation that
Hsien Yang, the reluctant political candidate, may be having second
thought, that he has to enter the ring for many reasons, personal or
otherwise. It is no sheer coincidence or unplanned for Cheng Bock to be
seen together with Hsien Yang. And this meeting was meant to be made
public, to give notice that things are happening, maybe to gauge the
response from the public of such a possibility.
Yes, it is like sending out a test balloon, no offence right? So far the
reaction from the social media has been quite encouraging. A Singapore
Harapan needs strong personalities to carry it. Cheng Bock alone may not
be enough. Hsien Yang could lend some weight though he has not been a
political entity before. If he does get into the ring, at least it would
cause a mini tsunami. People would definitely feel uneasy. For one
thing, it is tough to sue such a Lee in court or calling him liar or
demeaning terms freely like attacking other opposition candidates. He is
no push over and has the finances to take on what comes may. He is a
political pedigree. Hitting him is like taking a punch at Lee Kuan Yew.
Would the people welcome a Lee versus Lee in the next GE? Would the
people be comfortable with another Lee potential PM in the making albeit
coming from another corner, to challenge the sitting Lee in another
corner, maybe to be the disruptive force of change that is sorely needed
in a moribund and out of touch political machinery that has taken the
people for granted and doing what it chose to do, ignoring the concerns
and plight of the people. This is a Lee that is also a chip off the old
block but with a totally different perspective of what is good for the
people and country. This is a Lee that is not PAP, never a PAP (I think)
and now may be taking on the PAP. OK, OK, there is PAP blood running
through his veins.
When the time comes for change, the change agents would appear on the
scene in the most awkward and unthinkable form, from unexpected
quarters. GE 2019/20 is looking quite interesting from this development.
The reluctant candidate has appeared. Think more unforeseen events can
be expected before the GE. Would more able and brave men and women stand
up and cross over to the Singapore Harapan? When this happens,
Singaporeans would see a formidable and credible opposition front to
take over the govt.
Today is Deepavali, festival of light. Singapore needs more light to lit
up the darkness. Happy Deepavali to everyone and a brighter Singapore.
11/05/2018
Go Jek going to operate in Singapore’s tiny market
The Singapore market, be it taxi driving or mobile phone, is really a
very small market. Once you have two or 3 players, it would be saturated
with the market share split by the few players. Why would Go Jek be so
keen to enter the market after Uber and Grab, that have already been
acquired? The answer is in the mobile phone business model. There was
once only one operator with 100 percent market share. Then they opened
up the market under the so called open leg policy, liberalization, to
allow Uber and Grab to come in, in the mobile phone market they allowed
M1 and Starhub to come in. And as expected, the market share was split.
The once only one operator then strangely realized that its market share was diluted by the new operators. This was bad and it needed to regain its market share, the whole market share. So what should it do? Buy up the new operators offering them a Singapore Premium to divest their investment in Singapore. And lo behold, the only one operator now had regained all its market share again, albeit after coughing out hundreds of millions of OPM. And the new operators took their prize money, pat their backsides, and laughed all the way to the bank.
Go Jek is jumping in, likely to follow this same successful formula. All it needs is to gain market share, even if at a loss. It would only need to hold on for a few years for the one and only operator to wake up to realize that its market share has been diluted again. And in panic mode it would decide to buy up Go Jek at a premium. And Go Jek would happily give up everything to exit the market, with a huge Singapore Premium. The only and only operator would again have the whole market share.
Why is this possible? Very simple. When one is holding a lot of OPM and needs to invest to be seen to do something, and if one has no idea on how to start a business, the easiest and most convenient way to show some results is to buy up another apparently successful company with a tested business model. The Singapore entrepreneurial story is about buying businesses without having to start one. It is not easy to start a new business and to be profitable when one has no idea how to start a business, without any business experience except some text book knowledge or knowledge from irrelevant industries or occupation.
After Uber and Grab, here comes Go Jek. And soon Go Jek will come to pass. And Go Jek will not be the last corporate raider in this sense. Many will come, to set up companies waiting to be bought over. Any company will do, no need high tech or high thinking. Kopitiam also can. The next target will be the share bike business. Some clever business entrepreneurs without entrepreneurial experience are eagerly waiting on the sideline, waiting for the right moment to buy up the bike sharing business, and pay the standard Singapore Premium to go with it. And the bike sharing companies could happily exit the market and laugh all the way to the bank, pocketing the OPM that has no owners.
This is Singapore’s entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial business model to buy and run a business.
Why invite outsiders to come in to steal a market share and then to buy it back?
The once only one operator then strangely realized that its market share was diluted by the new operators. This was bad and it needed to regain its market share, the whole market share. So what should it do? Buy up the new operators offering them a Singapore Premium to divest their investment in Singapore. And lo behold, the only one operator now had regained all its market share again, albeit after coughing out hundreds of millions of OPM. And the new operators took their prize money, pat their backsides, and laughed all the way to the bank.
Go Jek is jumping in, likely to follow this same successful formula. All it needs is to gain market share, even if at a loss. It would only need to hold on for a few years for the one and only operator to wake up to realize that its market share has been diluted again. And in panic mode it would decide to buy up Go Jek at a premium. And Go Jek would happily give up everything to exit the market, with a huge Singapore Premium. The only and only operator would again have the whole market share.
Why is this possible? Very simple. When one is holding a lot of OPM and needs to invest to be seen to do something, and if one has no idea on how to start a business, the easiest and most convenient way to show some results is to buy up another apparently successful company with a tested business model. The Singapore entrepreneurial story is about buying businesses without having to start one. It is not easy to start a new business and to be profitable when one has no idea how to start a business, without any business experience except some text book knowledge or knowledge from irrelevant industries or occupation.
After Uber and Grab, here comes Go Jek. And soon Go Jek will come to pass. And Go Jek will not be the last corporate raider in this sense. Many will come, to set up companies waiting to be bought over. Any company will do, no need high tech or high thinking. Kopitiam also can. The next target will be the share bike business. Some clever business entrepreneurs without entrepreneurial experience are eagerly waiting on the sideline, waiting for the right moment to buy up the bike sharing business, and pay the standard Singapore Premium to go with it. And the bike sharing companies could happily exit the market and laugh all the way to the bank, pocketing the OPM that has no owners.
This is Singapore’s entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial business model to buy and run a business.
Why invite outsiders to come in to steal a market share and then to buy it back?
11/04/2018
North Korean officials preyed on women with impunity
This is headline news reported by AFP quoting a righteous Human Rights
Watch executive director Kenneth Roth. Is this guy an American? Did he
read the news about American officials, including the President and a
Supreme Court judge and several top officials in the White House groping
and attacking women, raping, and getting away with impunity? Compare
their acts with the North Koreans, what is the difference and which is
more newsworthy or disgusting?
Kenneth Roth also accused the North Koreans of treating their women like ‘sex toys’. Mmmm, is this Roth a descendant of slave American slave owners? Did he know that treating women like sex toys in the good old days of black African slavery was par on course? Did he know that a white guest to a white slave owner’s home would be invited to have his pick of the slave girls in the chicken farm in the backyard?
He added with details, ‘Every night, a prison guard would open the cell. I stood still quietly, acting like I didn’t notice, hoping it wouldn’t be me.’ Wow, so dramatic. What would he think a slave girl would say in the dark days of American slavery? Let me try to remember, how about, ‘Every night, the master would open the cell. I stood still quietly, acting like I didn’t notice, hoping it wouldn’t be me.’ Is this familiar, or he has conveniently forgotten? These are words that this Kenneth Roth have quoted from the movie 'Roots'.
The evilest creatures on earth, capturing Afrikaans as slaves, treated them like animals country wide, continent wide, massacring millions of native Americans to near extinction, today walking around in white robes to condemn others as the evil ones, and they are the angels of Gods. Everyone is evil and bad, the Americans are the good guys.
Kenneth Roth also quoted this with glee. ‘North Korean women would probably say “Me Too” if they thought there was any way to obtain justice, but their voices are silenced in Kim Jong Un’s dictatorship.’ How many American women that stood up to expose the sexual attacks by American top officials would also say “Me too”?
How many black women, many long dead and gone, would also say “Me Too” if they thought there was any way to obtain justice, but their voices were silenced in the American white conspiracy or dictatorship, the land of the free only for the whites?
It is a lie, it never happen in America, the land of the free, liberty and the land of human rights abuses. Oops, no human rights abuses, definitely no abuses of the white Americans. What about black Americans? Latinos, Spaniards and Asians?
This is the kind of smear campaign the West has been indulging for centuries against Asians and the rest of the world, attacking them, badmouthing them, to divert attention from their evilness and wicked deeds. The millions of people they have killed in the Middle East and other parts of the world would not be spoken. No crimes against humanity, but any small things happening in other countries, they would accuse them of crimes against humanity.
Kenneth Roth also accused the North Koreans of treating their women like ‘sex toys’. Mmmm, is this Roth a descendant of slave American slave owners? Did he know that treating women like sex toys in the good old days of black African slavery was par on course? Did he know that a white guest to a white slave owner’s home would be invited to have his pick of the slave girls in the chicken farm in the backyard?
He added with details, ‘Every night, a prison guard would open the cell. I stood still quietly, acting like I didn’t notice, hoping it wouldn’t be me.’ Wow, so dramatic. What would he think a slave girl would say in the dark days of American slavery? Let me try to remember, how about, ‘Every night, the master would open the cell. I stood still quietly, acting like I didn’t notice, hoping it wouldn’t be me.’ Is this familiar, or he has conveniently forgotten? These are words that this Kenneth Roth have quoted from the movie 'Roots'.
The evilest creatures on earth, capturing Afrikaans as slaves, treated them like animals country wide, continent wide, massacring millions of native Americans to near extinction, today walking around in white robes to condemn others as the evil ones, and they are the angels of Gods. Everyone is evil and bad, the Americans are the good guys.
Kenneth Roth also quoted this with glee. ‘North Korean women would probably say “Me Too” if they thought there was any way to obtain justice, but their voices are silenced in Kim Jong Un’s dictatorship.’ How many American women that stood up to expose the sexual attacks by American top officials would also say “Me too”?
How many black women, many long dead and gone, would also say “Me Too” if they thought there was any way to obtain justice, but their voices were silenced in the American white conspiracy or dictatorship, the land of the free only for the whites?
It is a lie, it never happen in America, the land of the free, liberty and the land of human rights abuses. Oops, no human rights abuses, definitely no abuses of the white Americans. What about black Americans? Latinos, Spaniards and Asians?
This is the kind of smear campaign the West has been indulging for centuries against Asians and the rest of the world, attacking them, badmouthing them, to divert attention from their evilness and wicked deeds. The millions of people they have killed in the Middle East and other parts of the world would not be spoken. No crimes against humanity, but any small things happening in other countries, they would accuse them of crimes against humanity.
11/03/2018
National Games 2018 - Masters 4x100m 65-74
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel – World’s tallest statue
India has outdone everyone in building the world’s largest statue of its
leaders, twice the height of the Statue of Liberty in the US. And it
costs only $560m. This is small change for the next super power in the
making. This Sardar was also known as the Iron Man for united a feuding
India of many states, something akin to what Mao Zedong had done for
China. For such a great feat he rightly deserved to be so highly
honoured, a very tall order.
Asians have traditionally been associated with glorifying their dead leaders and for building huge monuments to show their love and affection for their leaders. India is no exception and little Singapore is also following this trend. Though Singapore is more seen as a western country with western thinking, this Asian trait is still deeply rooted in the psychic of its western educated natural Aristocrats.
Singapore is going to build a monument for its founding leaders. 560 hectares of prime land, the most expensive land in the island, has been carved out for this purpose. How much would this land cost, plus the buildings it could build on it? Priceless!
Before this Sardar statue, Singapore has no good western role models to fall back on to build gigantic monuments. To imitate what the North Koreans did would definitely attract criticism that Singapore is becoming a small replica of North Korea. This $560m statue in India is a welcome news. India is Singapore’s role model,Indian fever, the biggest democracy. Singapore aspires to be like India and is importing millions of Indians here to transform the culture and DNA to be more Indian like and to benefit future generations of Indian’s super talent gene pool. An ideal Singapore family is an Indian husband and a Chinese wife as in many advertisement. Use to be an European man and a local girl.
Now Singapore can say India is doing it, and spent $560m on it. Singapore can definitely do better if not at least equal what India spent for its monument to honour its dear leader. Just wondering if Singapore would put up a statue as big and tall as India to be the tallest in the world, all for a good cause of course. It would be money well spent, every cent of it.
What do you think?
Asians have traditionally been associated with glorifying their dead leaders and for building huge monuments to show their love and affection for their leaders. India is no exception and little Singapore is also following this trend. Though Singapore is more seen as a western country with western thinking, this Asian trait is still deeply rooted in the psychic of its western educated natural Aristocrats.
Singapore is going to build a monument for its founding leaders. 560 hectares of prime land, the most expensive land in the island, has been carved out for this purpose. How much would this land cost, plus the buildings it could build on it? Priceless!
Before this Sardar statue, Singapore has no good western role models to fall back on to build gigantic monuments. To imitate what the North Koreans did would definitely attract criticism that Singapore is becoming a small replica of North Korea. This $560m statue in India is a welcome news. India is Singapore’s role model,Indian fever, the biggest democracy. Singapore aspires to be like India and is importing millions of Indians here to transform the culture and DNA to be more Indian like and to benefit future generations of Indian’s super talent gene pool. An ideal Singapore family is an Indian husband and a Chinese wife as in many advertisement. Use to be an European man and a local girl.
Now Singapore can say India is doing it, and spent $560m on it. Singapore can definitely do better if not at least equal what India spent for its monument to honour its dear leader. Just wondering if Singapore would put up a statue as big and tall as India to be the tallest in the world, all for a good cause of course. It would be money well spent, every cent of it.
What do you think?
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