Why can’t MOE be more transparent? I am sure they have the answers for questions such as “this” regardless of what school the student is in.

It will be interesting to find out how many Government people have residences overseas, children studying and & remaining to work overseas ( & we are made to listen to shit from ivory tower based NUS professor making light of things) and finally who will be taking the first flights out of Singapore when war breaks out.

watch out man, now they play soft ball, hard ball is no longer the name of the game, be very vey alert, unwritten rules have changed. is it coincidence – csj was called psycho, nair was sent to imh, whats next??

looks like now soft ball and psychology is a deadly concoction on the menu.

also it reminds me stories of crying wolf and laughing tiger !!!

Yes, every 7 moon of the lunar year, we need to feed the hungry ghosts. In the same month, the son of the father also needs to feed his bloody hungry ego and paint himself a 10/10 report card for the world to see!

While most are sick and tired of his annual “mee siam mai hum”, he still triesvery hard to be a comedian. The one on “I (Govt) Not Stupid” was really stupid! The one on “Stop At 2″ really takes the cake! One up on his dad?

Then again, for $3.1million per annum (or is it $3.7M), he needs to show that that he is working harder and better than Bob Hope, Jerry Seinfeld, The 3 Stooges and George Bush put together.

With the ‘arrogance, greed and fear breeding” of the leaders followed by the veneered “msm knows best’ & “carry boss’s bollocks and looking down on you peasants” reporting, we have created a culture and “to each is own, dog eat dog, don’t mess with, but support PAP (even if you hate them)” mentality for most. A gracious society in Singapore? Tan Gu Gu (Wait Long Long)!

Look at the smile of PM and the the way the ministers talk down to the people (Eg. Bargain Hen’s insult of 55′s not being able to handle their own money with “a fling here and there” and Lim Sway Says “increase pay of workers increases inflation” crap) and you’ll know what I mean.

Where money talks all the time with this greedy bunch, we need to ‘Tan Gu Gu’ for a Gracious and Polite S’porean Singapore.

Good effort on the rally speech? Lau Hokkien would say, ” Chui kong, lumpar song!”. For the benefit of those not into Hokien dialect, it means ” Mouth speaks, testicles (bollocks) feel good!”

More Substance? We are being drugged again!

Cheers,

feedmetothefish

Ah Kow, some politicians are very good talkers and will make you feel very very good for you just to make a decision at the right & most important moment for them to be business (in our case five years till the next election).

It works on basic human psychology and it works almost all the time. Humans have this feel good short term memory sometimes to the dangerous extent of masochistic extreme (e.g drugs, etc) on rewards / punishment.

Let us give our hats to them also. They have applied this technique very well on us by combining carrot & stick just at the right time.

Honestly, it is never easy to be in the govt these days with the complexities of the global environment and more literate and well-travelled population having access to up-to-min info. There will always be cynical and people who take issues with anything and everything. But is there such a perfect place? Maybe. I always look at bigger picture; having travelled much in my course of work. ///

vincesgp – good on you for being such a globe-trotting person with a macro perspective. Pray, tell me then, in all your gallivanting to the various corners of this planet, have you seen such obscene millions paid to ministers running a postage-stamp sized country?

“swan lah” for the past days of GCK’s speeches, NKF, complacencies, salaries- let them have it (they probably deserve it from now on if there are no more Mas Selamats) , etc, and watch PM – encourage him, engage him – email him, and pray for his health.

I am hopely this time around, otherwise there will be still “Money No enough 3″ to enjoy. I have a good feeling – to get back the 100% trusting and admiring feeling I had long time ago.

Which means that Dr Chee and his accomplices have been doing something right by bringing international awareness of government oppression. For 4 decades, the PAP has been controlling to their advantages until the internet comes along. So will the strategy of the other opp party change accordingly to times or are they just want to play the same losing game to the ruling party ?

No one ever win a game who rules are set and design to be advantagous to a particular player, even more so if it is the player who make them.

It remains to be seen whether Lee Jr can effect change, not when the oldman is pulling the strings.
I would not go so far as to give Lee Jr a ‘A’ for his effort and I agree that there is no substance. Well, I will only be impressed if Lee Jr can engage the international media and accept phone-in questions from citizens on neutral ground. The internet has opened up a new world and the PAP’s old methods of propaganda is becoming less effective. Being the kiasu, kiasi, kiasuay and kiamsiap characters that they are, they have no choice but to change tack.
Lee Jr should know better that action speaks louder than words.