No matter how much wealth one can amass and pass on, the only legacies that survive are those which originated from true passions.

A happy and blissful man dies knowing he had loved.

We follow our hearts and do what it says is right. And then, we just let things ride.

would it be useful to have a Top 10
list by way of polling?

with all due respect, TOC have not listed the following memorable quotes of 2008 , quoted from FeedMeToTheFish:

1. “Every month, when I receive my CPF statement, I feel so rich and the best part is, I know the CPF money won’t run away. CPF will still be around for a long, long time to come. Not only is it earning good interest, my capital is protected.” (Lim Swee Say)

2. “That is the way the world is. I have explained this. I think I lost votes after I explained the awful truth. Nobody believed it, but slowly it dawned on them – especially the graduates – that yes, you marry a non-graduate, then you worry about whether or not your son or daughter is going to make it to the university!”(Lee Kuan Yew)

3. B C mee.

4. Mr fix it.

5. Touching : “GST hike is to help the poor.”

regrads
Mee Siam

As a matter of facts, residents of those TCs managed by those papees should be reminded time and again to conduct constant lookouts for any misuse of public funds since already so many $millions has already been lost behind the peoples back on illegal investments.

bluntly,
my hum.

By saying this present A Team will “Think” how to make more money from the people of Singapore.
ERP
GST from 7% to 8.5%
Transports MRT, BUS, TAXI, SCHOOL BUS
INCOME TAX

Recession already hurt us, on the way 2009 more worse.
Retrencment news everydays on the newspaper.
The present A Team must help the people of singapore or they just act blur…
If they act blur…….
We have to decide next General Election.
Vote them out.
Vote for more caring party.
Vote for two party system.
Vote for democracy.

Of course, the situation can change, who doesn’t know? even an idiot will also know. But, the point is change to what? and when? did he tell you that? no answer still?

makes it very interesting and memorable statement.

kudos to TOC for Ginko Biloba’ing the singaporean readers.

Keep those Ginko coming!

Oh… he is trying to say that he’ll find a way to have more (PAP) voices inside the assembly, anything outside of PAP is not allowed lah! talk here talk there so long winded still LP=PL mah!

Is he referring to something or is he saying that corruption is still acceptable as long as there are real growth and progress in a country?

“We are in a Golden Era”

Old Fart

Imagine this…how many asian parenats teach their kids on skills on survival, or ways to make a successful individual?? Morally, Physically, Financially and Intellectually?? I doubt so….base on percentage in asia.

Asia is booming now, 2008. And, most of the time, you see a father driving a Rolls Royce, the son driving a pickup, a typical asian value of treating offsprings as slaves! When the old man dies, his KIDS will be around 60’s, time for retirement, and money needed for their illness. That’s when fights for inheritance begins…….and families fall apart. Morons always create impacts, of great influences to their offsprings, and the judges won.

you can always suggest. =)

regards
Mee Siam digital age

TOC comment posters
I urge you to be juz 1 atom more sensitive towards
non-believers or other believers of other religions or no religions (atheists).

For intellectual discussion to thrive, the blog should stick to being neutral when it comes to religion.
While I Respect fully all religions, and the good role religious believers give to the community, we must remind ourselves that in Life, there are many shades of colors as wide ranging as the Rainbow.

Moreover, sgp is multi-cultural and racial and religious.
Lets not post too much religious exclamations for fairness to everyone, to encompass everyone.

Tiredsingaporeans…you are a FUNNY person…lol…

I do agreed with you a little on your statement.

Our PM was ok until after the election 2006. He seemed to have make a 180% turn and appeared a totally different man. Perhaps he may be trying to stand up for himself as it is never easy to be a PM when your father is still around in Parliament. He may be trying to be powerful to remove any doubts about his leadership. I don’t admire his position now.

Just after 2006 GE, three months later, he announced a slew of price increases that have never seem to relent. Year after year, there were some increases in facilities here and there. This not only impacted the poor but also the middle income earners. Our pay also stagnanted making the sitatuion worser than post GE 2006. The wage gap seems to widen and many frankly now earns below the $2000 salary mark. We also have to build more smaller flats now confirming the notion all along that though our GDP imrpoves yearly it does not mean a direct proportional improvement in our wages.

A government is only good if it helps to improve the livelihood of our general population. I could not see this happening post GE 2006.

He also allowed the IRs to be constructed knowing that this will have serious moral implications on society. I remembered that he said he will be solely responsible for the decision. LKY also backed up the situation by saying that though there was a split in Parliament, someone needs to make a decision. I felt that LSL at that time was forced to decide for the IRs as it may signal a sign of weakness if he backs down from the IR decision. This is just my personal opinion.

I felt troubled as right now, the decision making operation mow lies with one man only and probably at best restricted to three or four key people at the top. I felt that they should draw in more people so that they will not have groupthink mentality which always happen when a few men decide on a course of action for too long.

Singapore needs a change desperately as perhaps we are being governed by a single party for too long. A staleness seems to have crept in our country. We move abeit slowly and in this time of uncertainty fresh ideas need to be injected into our governance so that we can move on steadily. Unless our top men are very open to new ideas and daring enough to implement them, I foresee the next decade to be a period of suffering for our people. That is why many who can migrate will left the country as there is nothing much that will hold them back.