Would Boon Wan be twitting like Trump?

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.

Well done North Korea, now safe from the evil Empire

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.

Miss Singapore Universe Imported

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.

A Singaporean to head NUS

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.

The myth of Bhutan’s happiness

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

Time to defang the evil Empire

The UN has started a move, led by the small nations of the world to ban nuclear weapons. But knowing how powerful is the evil Empire, this move is at best dreaming and chest thumping. The evil Empire will not give up its arsenal of nuclear weapons. Without the nuclear weapons it would not be able to bully every country that it chose to demonise by threatening to conduct preemptive nuclear strike on them.
 
The evil Empire is sending its nuclear forces of aircraft carriers and bombers to the east of the Mediterranean Sea poised to attack Syria. It is also sending its nuclear fleet and nuclear bombers to threaten the North Koreans as well as Russia and China.
The North Koreans have warned that the evil Empire is flirting too close to ignite a nuclear war. Many people still did not know how destructive is this coming war? It would escalate beyond control and half the world would be wiped out and become inhospitable for centuries to come, becoming nuclear wasteland. And to the Americans, please, the American continent would not be spared either as the top target in a nuclear war. You will be wiped out while your soldiers are out there wiping out other countries.
Is this what you want? No, you do not think you too would be victims of a nuclear holocaust? You think your so called nuclear shield, the stupid Thaad system, could protect you from a nuclear war? The trial shooting of pre planned inert targets is proof that it would be able to shoot down real targets that are designed to evade the Thaad missiles?
 
For the rest of the world, pray hard that your leaders did not get involved and be spared from becoming collaterals in this war. The bad news is that even if they did the right thing, not to get involved, the nuclear clouds would be all over the world and there is no escape.
 
When would the American masses put a stop to the evil men and women in charge and stop this menace from destroying human civilization? There will be no Sunday morning cuppa of hot coffee or football games to watch, no more Saturday night fever or basketball or baseball games, no more hamburgers or hotdogs to tuck in. The devastation would be horrendous. You want your good life to be destroyed by your irresponsible and reckless monsters in the White House, in the Pentagon, in Washington?
 
You still have a chance to stop them before it is too late. The mad men and women and their madness will drag you into the sea of fire. You have to take charge now and throw out all the mad men and mad women wanting to go to war, to provoke a nuclear war with North Korea or in Syria and surrender the peace and good life you are having today.
 
God save the poor Americans, they are inviting disasters onto themselves thinking that they would be spared. They could destroy others and others could not destroy them. The monsters in Washington do not care a shit how many million people would be annihilated when this war starts. Not to worry, the North Koreans may not hit you, but don’t count on China and Russia not hitting you. It is World War 3, damn it! Keep on threatening others, keep on provoking others. Just keep trying.
 
The time to remove all the nuclear weapons on mother earth is here. Get rid of them or they will rid you from mother earth. Small nations must stand up, especially the principled ones, to blow their trumpets loud and clear, that nuclear weapons are harmful not only to small nations but to the whole world.

Malay is Muslim, Muslim not necessarily Malay

This controversy over what is a Malay and what is a Muslim has precipitated finally, thanks to the Constitution on the definition of what is a Malay or who can represent the Malay community as a minority President. According to Article 19B of the Singapore Constitution, "any person, whether of the Malay race or otherwise, who considers himself to be a member of the Malay community and who is generally accepted as a member of the Malay community by that community" is qualified to run as a candidate for the reserved EP for Malays.
 
The dichotomy between a Malay and a Muslim has never been in question or was a non issue before. It was not important enough or there was reason to want a clearer definition of a Malay and a Muslim. It is common knowledge that all or nearly all Malays are Muslim, with a few exceptions. For those Malays that are non Muslim, I am not sure if the Malay community still regards them as Malays or ex communicado.
 
On the other hand, all Muslims are not necessarily Malay. One can be a Muslim from any race or nationality. A Muslim can be European, Caucasian, Arabs, Pakstani, Indian, African or Chinese and living totally different ways of life. Ok the Singapore Constitution understood this and further clarified that a Malay is not only a Muslim but practises Malay way of life. The ‘otherwise’ in the Constitution is very extensive and inclusive to the extent that anyone not of the Malay race can be considered as a Malay if the Malay community, reads as the Committee set up by the govt, accepts the person as a Malay.
 
The big issue, what is this reserved EP all about? Isn’t it about the election of a Malay rather than anyone not of Malay ethnicity? A Malay is a Malay by ethnicity. Period. Though this is further complicated by mixed marriages, a person that has no Malay ethnicity in him despite him practising the Malay way of life and being a Muslim, is not a Malay by any means except by a round about way of interpreting what is written in the Constitution.
 
Coming to this big question of a Malay that is not a Muslim. Does the Malay community regard a Malay that is a non Muslim a Malay or no longer a Malay? What about the legal interpretation of a Malay? Is it by ethnicity or by religion? Legally, I would presume that Malay parents or mixed Malay parents that are not Muslims but chose to register their children as Malay at birth have the right to do so and no one can deny that they are Malays when registered. Things get more complicated should non Malay Muslim parents decide to register their children as Malay at birth. What would be the status of such persons legally? Malay or non Malay? Going forward, with the EP pie beckoning, would Pakistanis, Indians and Pinoys choose to register their children as Malay to take advantage of this loophole? Would the babas also do likewise?
 
How would this debate continue and would it lead to a better definition of what constitute a person being accepted as a Malay or would the definition in the Constitution be final and the end of the story? Is this mess necessary or can be avoided? There is no such problem before this minority EP thing.