Transportation blues in an overcrowded island

 Some areas in Punggol are served by only one bus. They tried to force commuters to use the LRT. However, if you live between LRT stations, the walk is quite tiring, and the trains are overcrowded during peak hours. My two kids live in Punggol, and I know the situation.

The thinking seems to be that by building many MRT lines and stations, the crowds will be dispersed island-wide and underground, and the situation will appear less critical. But for most, what is important is just the MRT line that gets them to work and back being less crowded, not meandering around the island switching trains.

The LTA will be releasing 20,000 more COEs in February 2025. Is this good news or bad? Good news for the Government undoubtedly, but bad news for those driving as more congestions and jams will be the result.

Ten million population they were gloating. Now at about six million and already we are finding it hard to breathe. I live in the North-East and I honestly hate travelling on the overcrowded MRT trains. I think the situation is the same with the North-South line that I have also used. And that must be the norm with all the other lines.

Anonymous

Progress does not come easy for China. US playing catch up

 To be great again needs hard work and dedication, not mere shouting of slogans. That is just for winning votes, which is a blatant waste of time and energy. And politicians can promise the moon and the stars before an election but conveniently forgets about those promises afterwards.

And that is one reason for the failure of democracy attempting to provide freedom of choice by giving voters a choice. The irony is being given a Hobson's Choice that fooled the voters for decades.

Progress does not come easy for China. There was much planning, good insight about which are the potential growth sectors and having done that, procure the resources, educate and train the workers for the specific sector being prioritized. It is not a game of trying one's luck or quick picking of winners.

China already won the game of dominating by picking the right sectors and choices and the USA is just trying to play catchup from scratch. There will be lots of catching up to do for the USA, even if it tried, and even if it drags all its allies and doggies to help with all hands to the pump.

Trying to accuse China of copying when China is already ahead in various sectors does not hold water. Is there a necessity to copy outdated systems and technology when one is already ahead? China had been cut off from progress in many sectors by the West, but China perseveres and rose from the ashes.

China's rise also did not come about by just trying to push others down so it can go on top. This is unlike the USA that had to push down the rise of Germany and Japan. Now the USA is sacrificing the whole of Europe to satisfy its greed, by using NATO to decimate Russia as well. It is killing two birds with one stone. The USA has over-rated itself by biting off more than it can chew.

Anonymous

Lee Kuan Yew - Stop being a westernised Asian!

 

Stop being a westernised Asian! In other words, stop being a banana! This is the message Lee Kuan Yew wanted to pass on, that Asians should not be too westernised and forgot who they were and their roots and became westernised into a world that they did not belong, would not be accepted except superficially by a small minority in the West.

15 min clip on Lee Kuan Yew's view on the importance of the mother tongue and his cultural root as a Chinese, and how his stay in England made him more Chinese, more aware that he was Chinese and the western culture was a different world that he did not belong. 

From the start he said that though he spoke English better than Chinese, it could not change him from being a Chinese and thinking like a Chinese...that he would never be an Englishmen for a thousand generations. His thinking and value system would be Chinese, not western.

Lee Kuan Yew was born a Baba, brought up in a Baba family. But in his late years he took extra pride in donning Chinese style mandarin shirt in public. He did not forget his roots, he did not forget that he was of ethnic Chinese stock, though a Singaporean. Lee Kuan Yew's personal journey was a transformation from a Baba to a Chinaman.

PS. Happy New Year!

Xinjiang invites the world to visit to hunt for concentration camps and genocide

 Now, after all the great promotion about Xinjiang over racial mistreatment and human rights abuses, foreign visitors are flocking to visit the region to have a look at how the Uyghurs are doing under such bad treatment. They are also searching high and low for those concentration camps. All they found were the beautiful and well-kept mosques, well developed infrastructures, friendly people of all races living together harmoniously.

Some even compared the Uyghur Muslims with the Muslims in the Middle East. Who is having a better life without conflict? Have the Uyghurs been forced to migrate due to wars created by the Whites and treated as unwelcomed aliens by the Whites like in Europe. In fact, the Muslims and minority races in China have better benefits than the majority Han people. They can have more kids, more educational benefits and subsidies. But this has never aroused jealousy among the Hans. The cultural heritage of live and let live have never been a problem in China, only hyped up by the lies of the West to instigate animosity and promote chaos. That it existed in the West does not mean it is existing in China, which they are trying very hard to portray as the norm. It failed miserably!

But amidst all the lies, the truth is being discovered by Westerners travelling to the region and seeing for themselves the reality. They realized they had been lied to by Western propaganda machine. Oh, please do not say that all vloggers are paid to say those good things about China and Xinjiang. China is not the USA, where paying to spread propaganda is in its DNA, since time immemorial.

Anonymous

China does not abandon countries that it helped before

 China does not abandon countries that it helped before. China had given help to Africa for decades, since the visit of Chou En Lai in 1963, even when it was dirt poor itself, and Chou made a promise that had been kept to this day of helping Africa. Did China push North Korea under the bus after the Korean War? The West had attempted to split the good relations between China and North Korea with veiled fabrication of disagreements. Did China abandon Vietnam after helping it to fight the USA? China is still Vietnam's biggest trading partner and a great investment destination for Chinese investors. That is how Vietnam grew so fast over the last decade or two. It made the USA nervous and paranoid.

Now China is even helping Afghanistan to rebuild its economy and infrastructure. In fact, China has no roots in Afghanistan before and yet is willing to help in its reconstruction. One thing though, China should not help in Ukraine with its reconstruction when things go back to normal. After all, Ukraine is not in a position to pay for any reconstruction. Let the USA and the Europeans do the rebuilding and set their own debt traps for Ukraine under the IMF or World Bank.

Anonymous