8/04/2020

A very clever way to create more high paying jobs with big titles

When I just arrived in China donkey years ago, a Chinese policeman told me a joke about how a government department has staff that are from one big happy family and close friends and relatives from the same village.

It appears that a friend of his just got promoted to a quite senior position in a government agency.

What happened was that hypothetically, this new senior official created a new post of Manager for his brother to be in charge of all the toilets in the building, there were 8 toilets.

This manager brother then went on to create 8 more posts for his wife, sons, close friends, and relatives to assist him as assistant managers of toilets, each assistant in charge of 1 toilet.

Then these assistant managers went on to employ deputy assistant managers, team leaders, senior toilet cleaners, assistant senior toilet cleaners, toilet cleaners, and assistant toilet cleaners.

When it comes to doing the real work, only 16 assistant toilet cleaners were cleaning the toilets daily while the rest of the “management staff” were either at home, on holiday, sexing with their mistress or playing mahjong.

In the end, that government department was practically feeding the entire village.

You say funny or not this joke?


The above comments were posted in the TRE.  I think this is a brilliant idea to create high value jobs with big titles so that more people can be paid highly and be very happy. There is no need to worry about money as the money comes from Ah Kong. Can use Ah Kong's money to buy loyalty also.

Singapore can really learn from the above and use the clever ideas to create more jobs for Singaporeans and make more Singaporeans very happy, getting big titles, getting big fat pay, and doing nothing.

What do you think? The policeman clever or not?

8/03/2020

China questions White Australian's claim to the subcontinent of Australia

Diplomats from Australia and China have clashed on Twitter after Canberra sided with the US in dismissing Beijing’s wide-reaching territorial claims in the South China Sea.

In a filing to the United Nations last week, Australia described the claims as “without legal basis”.

On Friday, Sun Weidong, China’s ambassador to India, hit back at a comment made by his Australian counterpart, high commissioner Barry O’Farrell, in a statement to India a day earlier.  SCMP

In a tit for tat response to the challenge by the white Australian govt, China condemned the white Australian govt's claim to the subcontinent of Australia as illegal. The land belongs to the native Australians and was seized by force by the Europeans to claim as theirs. This is daylight robbery and has no legal basis in international law.

The white Australians must return the land to the native Australians and compensate them for stealing their land, abuses and human rights violations against the natives of Australia.  China is supporting the native Australians to bring their case to the UN and the International Court of Justice to evict the white Australians from their land.

The invasion and conquest of land of natives have no legal basis in international law and must be returned to the natives of the land.

When history repeats itself, but a role reversal

In the late 19th Century, the Europeans crashed into the world stage after the great Industrial Revolution.  They were ahead of the rest of the world in new technology and industrialisation. They were the new advanced countries. China and Japan were the waning Asian countries that have lacked far behind the Europeans. Japan took a bold move to learn from the Europeans, to industrialise and followed the path of the Europeans to become successful industrialised nation.

China on the other hand chose to turn its back from the rest of the world. Instead of learning from the new industrialised countries, learning new technologies, China turned isolationist and refused to learn, and fell further behind and eventually was crushed by the more industrialised and power countries of Europe and Japan.

The moral of the story, refusal to learn new things and move forward, turns inward, isolation and stagnation and got left behind.  By the time China realised what was happening, it was history.

Today we are seeing history repeating itself in almost the exact mould. This time the players role were reversed. The losers and the winners have switched sides.  China in a way is assuming the role of the industrial West of the 19th Century while the USA and UK, plus the Anglo Saxon countries are now the backward countries in the area of 5G and AI. Though these two fields may be too narrow to described who is more advance and who more backward, 5G and AI is about everything in the future. And in both areas China is way ahead of the USA and the Anglo Saxon countries and running ahead at blinding speed.  China is striding ahead in many areas that are leaving these new backward countries huffing and puffing but without any idea of how to catch up.

Then came Trump and his moribund policies of isolation, a replica clown replacing the Dowager of the Qing Dynasty with a brain of likely equal size of a pea. Instead of welcoming the new technology and plod along with China, Trump is turning inwards, not wanting to embrace the new technology. And Trump is dragging the Anglo Saxon countries with him into their own little backward world.  Trump is putting all the stops on Huawei's 5G technology and chose to live with the outdated 4G and backward limited 5G which is as good as a 4G in new clothes. No 5G at all cost and forcing the USA to go along with Nokia and Ericsson with their premature 5G models.

And the UK, having tried very hard to convince themselves that Huawei's 5G was the way to go, is now being pressurised to drop all the 5G installation to be content to have none of it. All Huawei's 5G equipment would have to be taken down by 2027. This means in the next 7 years, the UK would be tearing itself apart, not to have the most advanced 5G available but to live with whatever 4G that it has and remain backward until the next 5G comes along, if it comes along.

In desperation, knowing how important 5G is, and knowing that Nokia and Ericsson did not have the 5G to match, the UK is turning to Japan for help to build its 5G network. The big question is what did Japan have as far as 5G is concerned? Nothing.  Japan's 5G development is no better than Nokia and Ericsson.  Japan is no longer the technological powerhouse of the 1970s. But the UK is running out of ideas and options and grasping for straws is better than none.

When China is offering the USA and UK and the other Anglo Saxon countries the most advanced 5G technology of the future, they chose not have it and opted to try their luck with countries/companies that did not have 5G technologies. Nokia. Ericsson and Japan's NEC and Fijitsu are at least 2 to 3 years behind Huawei, could be longer. By the time they caught up with Huawei's 5G in 3 or 4 years time, Huawei would be flying with 6G.  In this field of high tech, 2 or 3 years behind is between modernity and stone age.

This turning away from new technology also applies to electric cars. Tesla is not making headways in the US but finding a big open market in China.  China is moving away from petrol engines to fully electric in the next one or two decades when all vehicles will be electric, incorporating 5G technology.

This is what is happening today. History is repeating itself with the US and UK and company choosing to close their doors to advanced technology, just like what Qing China did. And what happened to Qing China would be the fate of the US and UK and company in the not too distant future, backward countries and would never catch up for a thousand years.

People who do not understand history would repeat the mistakes of history. In this case it is not that they don't understand, their ego and pride, just like Qing China, would bury them alive. Instead of welcoming 5G from China and move forward, they chose to shun it, closed their doors and hoping for the best, just like Qing China did. China will be the modern Europe after the 4th Industrial Revolution, and the US and UK and company would be the Qing China in the 21st Century.

Time changes, fortune changes, and countries will rise and fall. It is time for a new China to rise, and for the old Empires to fade away into history. The Evil American Empire will not last for long.

The clown is now banning Tik Tok on the silly and pretentious excuse that it is spying for China and thinking that he could hit China and China cannot hit the Americans.  Wait for China to stop buying beef, soya beans and produce from the American farmers, stop buying planes from Boeing, stop buying chips from American companies and see how the farmers and workers cry for mercy. It is never a one way traffic. Every tit would be returned with a tat.

8/02/2020

Face of modern day Frankenstein - Pompee


LKY's ideal Singapore population is about 5.5m according to Hsien Yang

Below article appeared in TOC.

On Tuesday (28 July), Mr Lee Hsien Yang (LHY), younger son of Singapore’s founding Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew (LKY), took to his Facebook to share an article published by The Straits Times (ST) in 2008, in which Mr LKY clearly voiced his reservations on having a population of 6.5 million for Singapore....

“MINISTER Mentor Lee Kuan Yew ‘has not quite been sold’ on the idea of a 6.5 million population size in Singapore. Instead, he projects for Singapore an optimum size of five to 5.5 million for Singapore,” the article read.

In 2007, the Government announced that it was planning to increase the country’s population to 6.5 million in 40 to 50 years down the road, which is an up from the current 4.5 million in 2008. This then sparked concerns about overcrowding, the article said.

It was reported in the ST article that Mr LKY said this while speaking at think-tank Institute of Policy Studies’ conference in 2008 which discussed what Singapore will look like in 2030. Some of the other issues spoken at the conference include “how the economy should evolve, cultural trends, and the Singapore identity”.

The article also highlighted that the moderator at the conference, Tommy Koh, asked if Singapore is guilty of overbuilding.

To this, Mr LKY said that Singapore should not follow the footsteps of Hong Kong where it is “just solid buildings, one blocking the sunlight of the other”.

“We are building on freehold and we are owners, we are sovereign. Therefore, my projection would be for somewhere around five to 5.5 million,” Mr LKY was quoted saying in the ST article.

It added, “Coupled with further reclamation, Singapore can then retain its space, the greenery, and ‘the sense of not being crammed, our parks, our connectors, our park connectors, birds, trees, water, canals into streams and so on’.”

Mr LKY also stressed then that having all the above-mentioned elements is how Singapore can be unique.


Now who is pushing for Singapore to have more than 5.5m against the vision of LKY? Who is trying to clear our greenery to be replaced with concrete like Hong Kong?