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Mar 15, 2008

Reasons Singaporeans hate PAP
SammyBoy forum
From TracyTan866
The PAP (Singapore’s kong-time ruling People’s Action Party) is competent. SG is efficient and is a good place to live in. Many foreigners think the PAP has done well and don’t understand why Singaporeans hate the PAP.
A mother maybe competent. A mother maybe beautiful. A mother maybe a good provider for the child's material needs. But her child may hate her. Her child wants her love, her care and for her to be around when he in is pain.
A child doesn’t want his mother to be just competent, doesn’t want her to be just beautiful, doesn’t want her to be just efficient. A child wants a relationship with his mother.
Likewise, Singaporeans want a government that is caring and looks after the people. Singaporeans don’t want the PAP to strive to look good, strives to make money.
The Singapore Government has billions of dollars but the Singapore government doesn’t have a soul and lacks compassion.
Singaporeans hate the PAP!

Lose a terrorist, get promoted!
SammyBoy Forum
From johntanahkow
Amazing! Despite letting Mas Selamat crawl out a toilet window to freedom, the top men in the Ministry of Home Affairs will be promoted.
Police Commissioner, Khoo Boon Hui, and Ministry of Home Affiars Permanent Secretary, Benny Lim, will both see a significant jump to their already large paychecks on 1 April 2008.
Lim will be promoted to Superscale Admin Officer (SAO) Grade 4 while Khoo will be promoted to SAO Grade 5. Both will make about a million bucks a year, if not more.
Is this evidence of Wong Kan Seng (Minister for Home Affairs) shoring up his support within the Ministry - I'll pay you to shut up?
Is this a reflection that our civil servants cannot be held accountable?
No wonder the men in uniform are in no hurry to find Mas Selamat.

Ridiculous Youngsters making a scene in the train
Channel News Asia Forum
cindyluv01
Date: 10th March 2008
A group of irresponsible tennagers were making a scene in the MRT train during Peak hours. (6pm, East-West Line, heading to Jurong East Interchange.)
One of them turns on loud speaker to play their music using their mobile phone. Most of the people were annoyed, but everyone kept quiet.
After a while, a china man speaks out. He confronted the boys, asking them to switch off their loud speaker. They refused! Instead of keeping their mouth shut, they started mocking and critising him. The boys were not shameful at all.
I am sure that every Singaporean who was in the train cabin were embarrassed to see such incident.

Rupert
Such behavour is unfortunately not unusual. The relentless pursuit of material wealth and money in order to keep up with ever increasing cost of living resulting in both parents having very little or no time for home education at all.
Basic manners and courtesy are sorely missing in our younger generations today. Our education system does not help as the main focus is on results, excellent results that is and nothing else.
We may have achieved the status of a first world country in the economic sense, but sad to say the behavour of many is even worst then those in third world countries.

Close ranks to catch Mas Selamat
redbean
Paul Jacob in today's Straits Times talked about all the noises in cyberspace and the call for heads to roll. Then he concluded by saying that all must close ranks to capture Mas Selamat.
He failed to understand why there are so much noise in the first place. And many also failed to understand or refused to understand why people are angry.
It all boils down to the two opposing principles and the polarisation of the super talents on one side and the general masses on the other.
I think people are really pissed off by all the harping of how great super talents were and how much money they must get for them to work and be committed to serve the country. And many are just saying quietly, prove me your worth, that they deserve the money paid. And any fiasco will be waved around as a mockery of the super talent and super pay ideology.
The more people praised the great super talents, and the bigger is their insatiable appetite to be paid more, the more intolerant will be of their mistakes. And outrageous mistakes will naturally receive the full attention of the disgrunted. The cyberspace will bury them with all their mockeries and innuendoes.
http://mysingaporenews.blogspot.com/

SG Guys Are Eunuchs
From TracyTan866
Look at Anwar. Look at Lim Kit Siang. Look at Karpal Singh. Look at Lim Guan Eng.
They are all professionals in Malaysia who were brave enough to stand up to the Malaysian government.
The Malaysian government attempted to intimidate them by throwing them in jail. They got b..ls. They fought. They persevered. They are heroes of Malaysia.
In contrast look at Singapore guys. They only know how to spout vulgarities here. They got no b..ls.
They do not dare to stand up against the Singapore govt. They are eunuchs.
Look at Melanie Lee (Reuters correspondent in Singapore). She dared to retort Lee Kuan Yew and that was a good one...
.. It took a Singapore gal to bring Nokia to its knees. The gals seem to have more b..ls than Singapore guys.
Our hope for Singapore is for Singapore gals to be change agents and change the political landscape.
Lately the chinks in the PAP armour are showing. They have made many mistakes recently. They are not as fearsome and infallible as thought by many singaporeans. The are equally vulnerable, just like Malaysia's BN (ruling Barisan Nasional) and UMNO (dominant Malay party).
Change is within sight!
Compiled by Littlespeck.com