Singaporean These Days

...are damn Guniang.

And this is the proof.
Cut hair call police.
The mollycoddling mother and child team 

Back in the days when I was schooling. Never wanted my parents involved in the shit and stunts I pulled in school. One unfortunate incident when my mom had to register for my sister in primary school and the Vice Principal exclaimed to my mother, " LL is your son?". And of course, I had a earful of questions when my mother came home.

In my time, no one wanted their folks in school. Everyone had a reputation at stake to uphold. These days, all we hear are kids calling for mommies. When I left secondary school for about 5 years, I heard incidents of my junior scouts calling in their parents after they did push ups as punishments. OMFG! We once did 1000 push-ups, non-stop because a fellow scout letting our troop flag touch the ground. I suffered cramps for hours and I was pretty sure the ground had a hole dug out as well.

In my recent gathering of JC classmates at my place, 20 sweet years of memories....a prison officer mentioned a funny incident. That one of those hooligans or gangsters these days who got jailed for gang related fighting, was overheard saying: "If I don't get my milk today, I complain to my mom!" OMFG!

Seriously, Singaporean men these days..I am pretty ashamed of their farking "macho-ism". Is it just the kids in Singapore or has everyone gone soft these days?
Parents - seriously stop your mollycoddling! You don't know the repercussions you have in your kids' lives in the future. They must be strong enough to learn to live on their own. Spare the rod, spoil the child.

Why we must Serve?

This March ICT (In-camp training) has been quite a memorable experience. I went in thinking of the song I've belted out during route marches for my NSF days - " Have you ever wondered, why we must serve?". At 18, looking around you, Singaporeans alike have to do this mandatory duty for 2 years 4 or 6 months, it is easily acceptable, though I have friends who ran away and migrated to other countries.

Educated bastards

I once spend an afternoon advising a friend, who was contemplating in giving up a good opportunity at work versus studying for more qualifications. Despite knowing there isn't much more to learn in that paper chase compared to experience picked up from working. I am now telling myself if I should do the same, fighting against peer pressure, social norms and society's perception.

I would confidently say half the problems we have in this world today came from highly educated bastards.

While those that never graduated, skipped school gave us nice phones, great software etc.

Step Up or F Off

Seriously...just to end this saga which I have blogged a couple of times about. Here and here. I just hope everybody can see, why it is utmost importance our country has accountability and transparency...and fark say no to paying millions to idiots, it is like a double slap to your face (Screwing up and not apologising yet legit looting off millions in salaries). Enough said, since they now steal from you...LTA/PTC screwed up allowing Public Transport operators to rip S$300k off commuters.

Let me focus my rant on this Mas Selamat Saga. We all now know how he escaped, but now will heads roll for the stupidity and mistakes made? You have the biggest manhunt in history and this terrorist is hiding in his brother's home.

We have this damn "intelligent" question asked in Parliament by an NMP.

Nominated Member of Parliament, Viswa Sadasivan asked, was: “On the day of the escape, shouldn’t it have been standard operating procedure for the security forces to actually go down to the homes of the immediate family members?”

This is your..yes YOUR million dollar reply.

Shanmugam’s reply: “[The Member] will remember that I have said taking into account his family members, which numbered more than a hundred, and with contacts they number many more. I don’t want to go into details on what surveillance was done because they are really operational security matters …”

Fark me.

All good things come in pairs..Here's the double slap.

And then Shanmugam added: “[It] is not in the interest of our country for us to disclose these matters. However, Member can be assured that what was done has been reviewed and I’m satisfied that all the necessary steps were taken.”

Seriously...fark me..this new guy is not just going to fill the shoes of the idiot..incumbent. He is just so right for it. As I love to say..my late grandmother can protect Singapore better than you.

Here we go again, more BS to come.

Degeneration

Degeneration is a slow whithering process whereby an entire society soon cease to function to its full capability and capacity, slowly weakening and grow smaller; with the possibility of creating social ills, disorders and possibly moral disillusions and perversion. It is the direct opposite of evolution.

Let Sleeping Dogs Lie

I'm not sure why I am in constant struggle with the apathetic or self-centred people, who love to think/comment about others who care to even speak up, complain about injustice or ridiculous situations deserve to take shit from their idiotic comments. Shouldn't they remain silent since they seem to be pretty good at that?

These group of people somehow think they are above everyone else or everyone should be just like them. How about those who can't help themselves - like the old, feeble and unspoken for? Are they doing something to help them since voicing out seems to wrong? Or it's pretty much only about themselves? I know there are people who are just all talk with no action, but what's worse IMHO, is those with neither a whimper or movement seems to resemble a dead man just being rolled over to get his daily sodomy fix from men you somewhat deem fit and civil with "betterer" decency to do the right thing.

Counting to 50

So like I said I wasn't going out to take pictures in the freak weather..this is what the situation was like outside Thomson Road yesterday. Everything changes...even 50 years is now shorten to months and Ministers are obviously still overpaid without conscience and poor in maths. Thank God, my carpark was not affected, else I be pretty screwed with the current high COEs and inadequate insurance since drain/canal/barrage failures are considered act of Gods and not due to bad management and regulatory government bodies enjoy poking fun at opposition wards with biased Town Council reports. Because obviously mine didn't do a good job and it's ruled by PAP...can't wait for mine to become an opposition ward, heard they pay less fees and are more kampong-liked. In these days of feeling disconnected in our HDBs, I sure would like to be branded "opposites" and have a feeling of a community in adversity denied of sharks-fin soup.

Flood in my area.

And a couple of friends commented on my Facebook -

Friend A - Please. Obviously it is the fault of the Potong Pasir and Hougang Town Councils! Didn't you read the town council report?
Me - lol but no flood there leh...my area is bishan TC and got floods!!
Friend A - Must be cos Potong Pasir drains are choked - then cause nearby areas such as Bishan and Thomson to flood.

Like that also you dunno meh? Our PAP run Town Councils cannot do wrong one...

Friend B - It's an honest mistake.

Who says Singaporean Men are not humourous? Just that you need to be familiar with the gibberish our overpaid Ministers like to spout occasionally.

How things are all related - so wake up!

This is how things really work around here these days. Sorry if you do not understand what I am trying to saying (you can actually google all the terms if you bother) - all I can say is wake up and open your eyes, read more and start to care, because things work in cycles.

Gullibility

What is found these days in the local newspapers, online portals like Asiaone and STOMP, is nothing less than a tabloid reporting trashy, hardly critical articles. A book launch covers more pages than important issues on the ground. My Spiderman/Superman cartoon days often made me wish I did better in my languages and studied journalism instead. Not in hope of peeling of my outer clothing, but to report the truth. And with journalism in Singapore being the way it is today, I am glad I suck in languages and did better in engineering topics.

Perhaps RADM Lui should watch a couple of 2009 movies recommended by an engineer. "State of Play" starring Russel Crowe, that is how journalists or a newspaper should be. If not at least strive to have his team of journalists be like Robert Downey Jr. in "The Soloist" doing some good for those who have fallen through the cracks of society.

Would like to share this interesting article written by our local famed blogger - Yawning Bread: Mainstream media here continues to hold ground, said minister

I shall extract excerpts which I find would make him a better journalist, and by the way in no means of RADM Lui's poor standards.

One can go on and on adding layers to facts, each layer altering one's perception to some degree. Generally, it would never be possible to exhaust all layers of facts. Since that is the case, then one may ask: How many layers have to be unearthed for the Truth to be understood? If perception is so contingent upon the adding of layers of information, how will we ever know when we have grasped the Truth?

Lui said in his speech, Singapore's mainstream media "remains the dominant source of information", a claim he supported by reference to the 2008 Nielsen Media Index survey, saying "75 per cent of those surveyed selected newspapers as their preferred source of news", that's news. Can it be otherwise? How can non-mainstream media contest at being the "preferred source of news" when it is not actually a source of news?

By foolishly remaining complacent about people trusting mainstream media for "news", the government is blindsided to another set of dynamics: It is commentary that more likely shapes political opinion and it is doubtful if the mainstream media play a hegemonic role anymore in the formation of political opinion. Moreover, as elections in Malaysia and other countries have shown, political opinion formed by the net-savvy minority can spread by word of mouth and other means to non-net-savvy sections of the population.

I shall end with his last sentence in that blog entry which left indelible parting questions to my mind as well. "Is our mainstream media considered credible simply because, after 44 years, our people have been made apathetic and credulous?"

Come Come!

Not sure about you but I am already feeling the squeeze in tiny Sillypore, with more immigrants coming into this tiny island strapped for resources such as land, housing, water, transportation, education etc. In 2008, our population grew by 5.5% to 4.84 million, which translate to an additional ~250,000 people. There were 100,000 newly minted PRs and citizens in 2008.

Guess with ads on my blog from Google like this:



It is an open invitation with open arms to welcome everyone here. I hope the gahmen knows what it is doing and hope they are making ample infrastructures and resources such as teachers and doctors (sustaining indicators for developed countries) for this tiny nation. My other blog entries to highlight possible issues - here and here.
Curious note: Who paid Google to have that ad? ICA???

Mascots mask up

Even Singa the Courtesy Lion, our mascot for National Courtesy campaigns, prepares for the inevitable onslaught of H1N1 in Singapore. With his daily interaction with tourists, posing for photos to be taken, I would think he needs the more precautionary N95 mask.

No Self-respect

Wanted to skip this topic but a recent flip through the state propaganda papers for the past couple of days highlighting how we are viewed by foreigners; be it Jackie Chan or some STB-gratified tourists, to each their own. Personally I think I have every right to judge my country because I live on the island for the past 33 years, and I did my 2.5 years of National Servanthood.

Though Jackie has some property here, and also sought to leave some of his old heritage houses in Singapore after initially being rebuffed by Hong Kong; he has no right to criticize my country.

Jackie Chan criticized Singaporean for not having any self-respect, after he apparently made offensive remarks about Hong Kong and Taiwan Chinese needing to be controlled. He basically said ‘Chinese need to be controlled” else society will ended up chaotic like in Hong Kong and Taiwan during the Boao Forum for Asia.

During the forum’s question and answer session, Chan replied to a question from the media saying “When I go to Singapore, I realize that chewing gum is not allowed there. Why is this so? I found out later that if (Singaporeans) chew gum, they will dispose of the used gum on tabletops, on chairs, and (they) have no sense of self-respect.” According to the newspaper report, he also pointed out that unlike the Americans and the Japanese; “they” do not have that sense of self-respect. And when this is lacking, the government will have to step in.”

Not sure about you but his words seem to imply that that Singaporeans are not as orderly as the Americans or the Japanese??? Duh we are the most orderly bunch of fools in the world...no riots, protests at all, besides occasional tee shirt hoo-huhs. I mean besides the point that we have crazy assembly and public order acts meant to curb the citizens and slapped with crazy fines and law suits. How are we not orderly? Maybe we have taken for granted how our Singapore government has time and time controlled us in every way deemed fit, I do not call it without self-respect, but our citizens are merely doing what they expect will be done - our Government's self righteous, all assuming, unopposed laws and rules will set in soon enough for every problem we have.

Chan also criticised Singapore laws saying, “When you reach Singapore, you must obey its laws, if you are caught littering, you will go to jail right away.”

Jackie seems to be poking fun at our laws by exaggerating the severity of the offense and making sweeping statements about the country and its people. Shouldn't he be thankful that his assets appreciation in our country has made him wealthier? No diss to the star whom I have watched almost all his movies since I was a child, but his recent spate with Chinese around the world, seems to make me think he might be trying to pull a "Arnold Schwarzenegger" stunt. Perhaps a politician role in future? So far Jackie Chan has been appointed promotion ambassador for the 2010 Shanghai World Expo.

Anyway liberty in exchange for stability? There has to be a better compromise. My stance on this - in my previous posts of Price to pay and Human Rights.


I felt that to each their own devices as we Singaporeans can handle all adversities despite all the rules and regulations which bound us. Like all humans, we will survive. In the past, I would be one who would readily agree with Jackie Chan on the stupid banning of chewing gum, seriously, I used to chew gum every single day. There is not a day my mouth will not be moving - perhaps explaining why I whine so much! Ha..but all true blue Singaporeans living here know we always can get gum across the causeway or visiting overseas friends always buy in chewing gum as gifts. The government did what they did to prevent MRT stoppage from kids jamming doors with gum, etc. Basically we are a young nation with no culture, no great history of revolutions. But that does not make us unrespectable as Singaporeans.

I think Singaporeans should grow out of this spoon feeding media and also the complete disdain of useless commentaries. We should live our lives as we are Singaporeans and the government should not bother about how people view us and often take cues from these crap. They should do what is right, only because it is right and the way to move for the future, and not do it because of others. Otherwise, we will never grow out of our shell and truely innovate and embrace globalism.

Lastly, as the world gets more interlinked and closer with internet and travel. We are truely mobile, if we do not like our country, we can find alternative homes in other countries. Immigration/Emigration is not a dirty word, so I hope the government stop putting quitters/stayers down until we truely embrace local talents and the hypocritical, pretentious ministers' kids all move home - those observed actions, perhaps I will agree with Jackie - NO SELF-RESPECT

Asshole

Was returning to the car after watching "Bolt" at Vivocity this evening,this totally peeved me off as I don't understand how an inconsiderate person could have just walked off after parking like this.



Has to be an asshole to learn how to park like this. I hope the TT owner open the door "forcefully" in order to get into his ride. And I've decided to be a lazy ass and not bother to black out the ass's car plate number.

Victoria student killed - injustice prevails in Singapore

This is really sad when you see a alma mater junior die and injustice is shown because he was young and the killer was a farking top civil servant who can't drive and has no conscience.

Read this blog and please see how injustice has been served in Singapore.

I rest my case when people say "Justice is blind, and the poor deserves no justice".
Read the blog's comments as well, revealing that the killer graduated from NUS Law School...maybe she has friends in high places. Sigh...

Senseless debating..

Seriously I do not understand how we can spend $ debating on something which is absolutely senseless. At 18, we can watch R(A) shows, go to casinos, carry an M16 and kill but we cannot vote till we are 21. But it is an even more absurd fact that more than half of our population can't vote due to many known reasons...such as smart zonings and many other restrictions/rulings.

So it seriously shouldn't matter, at my age when I should have already fathered 2 children, and attended 5-10 Reservist In Camp Trainings; I have yet to vote. And I seriously do not care if I ever get to vote before age 65 unless I move to some crappy zone where upgrading is unheard of, and lifts still open at some floors. So be it 18 or 21 or even 65..does it really matter?