Your women are my women

NS for Singaporeans.
Jobs for Foreigners.
Free admission for Foreigners.
Your women folks for foreigners,

for free!

my paper, Wed, Jun 04, 2008, Debbie Yong
Club mad

He had planned a night of revelry with friends at St James Power Station last Saturday, but when National University of Singapore student Matthew Rao flashed his identity card (IC) at the door of the popular nightclub, he was requested to pay the $20 cover charge.

His four friends - from England, Germany, France and Finland - filed in for free.

The reason: They were foreign students on exchange in Singapore, while he was local.

"I thought the IC was for age verification, but the bouncers said I had to pay because it was proof I was Singaporean," Mr Rao, 25, recalled. He was upset because the policy seemed unfair and discriminatory.

"Why should foreign students get different treatment? If they live here, why shouldn't they pay as well?" he added.

Ms Cheryl Khong, marketing manager at St James, confirmed its policy of giving foreign guests free entry any day of the week if they produce a valid foreign student pass. The little-publicised policy has existed since St James opened in 2006, but it only applies to Powerhouse, the nightspot's main dance room.

Ms Khong said the policy aimed to "encourage a cosmopolitan party atmosphere for our young partygoers" and added that St James regularly hosts parties thrown by local tertiary institutions and students.

Still, Mr Rao said that the incident has changed his mind about frequenting theclub.

"I like rules that are fair and open. If the club can at least publicise those rules on the door, then I'll respect them."

Why was Mr. Matthew Rao surprised?

Hasn't he, or his parents, or his relatives voted precisely for such things?

Look, if the government had implemented a Singaporean-first law - and then among Singaporeans, an anti-age discrimination law and anti-gender discrimination law - in the civil service, in the statutory boards and in the work place, all private establishments would have also emulated and toed the line even when it has nothing to do with employment.

That's because the culture of Singaporean-first and anti-discrimination would have taken roots across all spectrum of society, even in matters of admission to night spots. No night spot would dare to discriminate - even if there is no anti-discrimination law to govern club admission - lest it incurs the wrath of the whole society, which is already used to the anti-discrimination mentality.

So, this is clearly a case of 上梁不正下梁歪。You allowed (or shall we say, support?) the government to discriminate against Singaporeans and against the old, openly in the matter of employment. This foreigner-is-big, ok-to-discriminate mentality trickles down to all areas of society and now, even in matters of club admission!

Who is to blame? You, the voters!

So, Mr. Matthew Rao, you and/or your family and/or your relatives voted for that. Why complain?

You,and/or your family, and/or your relatives, asked for it!

活该！ Serve you right!

Gopalan Nair's supporters

My name is See Zou Gou aka 死走狗。

I am staying at a kennel on the Istana ground.

I am deliberately stating my name and location so that any of Mr. Gopalan Nair's supporters can seek me out, and sue me if they want to take revenge for what my bosses did to Mr. Gopalan Nair.

Now come find me!

Primary School Math

If you have done primary school math, you would know that in order to calculate percentage, you have to multiply by 100.

For example, 1 out of 100 is 1%.

How did you get that? You do this: 1/100*100 = 1%.

Without multiplying by 100, you would get 1/100=0.01% and that would be wrong.

Another example: 8 out of 10 is 80% and we get that by 8/10*100=80%.

You always need to multiply by 100!

There is nothing wrong with a ordinary Singaporean not knowing her math, especially when she was doing calculations while suffering from a swollen face due to dental problem and while being bullied in court. Besides, she has never boasted year after year about having a first class honours in math.

There is however something very wrong when that someone was, for many yearse, the Minister of Finance!

But, the greatest wrong is when sycophants and boot-lickers are ever ready to praise him for his mistake:

Maths sum posed to PM Lee: Divide 5,000 by 4.6m
Straits Times 28 May 2008, by Jeremy Au Yong

HOW much is 5,000 divided by 4.6 million?

That was the maths question Ms Chee Siok Chin challenged Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong to work out on the spot as she tried to prove her party's newsletter, The New Democrat, had limited reach.

The 5,000 figure represents the number of copies sold of the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) newsletter which contained defamatory statements against the Government.

The other number refers to the population of Singapore.

Ms Chee posed the question and asked PM Lee if he had a calculator.

When he said he did not, she retorted: 'I'm sure your mind is astute enough to do a very simple mathematical calculation... and work it out.'

PM Lee worked out the calculation - around one in 1,000 - and then pointed out that the answer did not accurately reflect the article's reach.

This stretched beyond the number of newsletters sold, he said, when responding later to a question from his counsel Davinder Singh during re-examination.

There was also the 'word of mouth after the article has been read, circulating on the grapevine and in the coffee shops' - 'poisonously distorted, loaded, more and more damaging, impossible to trace, except in court, where the truth will come out', he said.

Of the 5,000 copies sold, 'each copy could have been circulated to many readers', he added.

In addition, 'Dr Chee, Ms Chee and several others (from the SDP) were going around' repeating the defamatory allegations in the newsletter, 'as broadly as possible, as loudly as possible', 'to achieve as much impact as possible', said Mr Lee.

Finally there was the Internet, where there were many more eyeballs reading the allegations.

During the earlier exchange with Ms Chee over the calculation she set for him, those in the public gallery were amused when she got her sums mixed up.

After Mr Lee worked out the one in 1,000 figure, Ms Chee said that was '0.0001' per cent of the population.

PM Lee had to correct her maths: 'I think you have one zero too many.'

And I have to correct your math too, you fool!

It is 1/1000*100 = 0.1%. That's 3 zeros too many, you first class honours in math!

Maybe that's why you thought your wife had lost only a very small percentage of our national reserves in failed Temasek investment!

Go learn percentage and realise the magnitude of your wife's error!

不得好死

So, I read the following from here:

Yahoo News
by Charles Whelan. Sun May 18
"On Friday, China's state media reported that Zhuo Lin, 92-year-old widow of China's late leader Deng, had emptied her life savings totalling 100,000 yuan to give to earthquake victims. It said she found it hard to sleep and eat after hearing of the tragedy."

And on Monday, it was reported that some yet-to-be widow of some country's leader, having pocketed more than just a few millions of citizen's money each year via monopolised mandatory legal transaction for public housing, found it hard to sleep and eat too, but for totally different reasons altogether!

Zhuo Lin, is indeed a generous and kind old lady. In addition to not having pocketed any citizens' hard-earned money over the years, she is willing to empty her very modest life savings to help the unfortunate.

No wonder she lives to a ripe old age， AND is still healthy and well right now!

I wish her many more years of good health and when she passes along one day - many years later from now - I have no doubt it will be a peaceful, quick and painless process.

People like her - generous AND who did not scheme to devise underhanded ways to milk citizens of their money - such people will have good karma and blessings and everybody, friends and strangers alike, will wish them a good life.

I wish her well.

As for those who dig up age old car discount receipt from yeares ago, in order to justify their politician husbands' huge property-buying discount, I do not need to say anything, because karma is the law of nature:

你剥削人民的血汗钱。
老天自会叫你
寝食难安,不得好死！
你的报应来了！

steered clear of the issue

Mandatory for new small school buses to be fitted with seat belts
By Asha Popatlal, Channel NewsAsia | 17 May 2008
...One other issue is cost.

Industry players have said that retrofitting such vehicles will then mean they can accommodate fewer students.

This means lesser revenue for them and they will then have to pass on the increased costs to parents in terms of higher fees.

Asked whether the government could consider helping out parents, [Transport Minister Raymond] Lim steered clear of the issue, saying such across-the-board help, especially when some parents could well afford any extra charges, was not effective.

In almost all developed countries, providing FREE school buses is the job of the Ministry of Education. It's part of the deal that comes with education - free education, free school bus, 1:10 teacher to student ratio etc - and is provided when you pay tax.

Here, you pay tax too, lots of it, and sometimes, you don't even know it because it's not even known as tax - eg. high HDB price, high maid levy, high parking fines, low CPF interest etc - but you get nothing back.

And when you demand - no, beg - for some, this is what you get from your Minister:

"steered clear of the issue"

Haha!


Note to self: Tomorrow, must shoot an email to the 154th ranked local media and demand that this news report be edited, and Asha Popatlal be fired!

The government will take care of you.

中国温家宝总理："你们的痛苦, 就是我的痛苦"
(China's PM Wen: "Your suffering is my suffering")

某国某总理："你們的钱，就是我的钱"
(Some other countries' PM: "Your money is my money")

Watch this youtube:

温家宝总理:
“你放心。政府会管你们的。
政府管你们生活，管你们学习。
你们一定会能象在自己家里一样。。。
有什么困难，将来政府都会帮你们。好吗？”
(China's PM Wen:
"Don't worry.
The government will take care of you.
The government will take care of your living, your studies.
You will certainly be able to live like in your own home.
If you have any problem in future,
the government will help you.
How about that?")

When I watched this video, I cried.

I cried because in China, a communist country where election is not needed, its Prime Minister made the effort to do and say such things.

But in a supposedly democratic country where the government supposedly has to work hard to win the mandate of its voting citizens, our PM can't even be bothered to say anything nice to his electorate!

For example, Nicoll Highway collapsed. Did you hear our PM tell the orphans: "Don't worry. The government will take care of you. "?

When was the last time you heard your PM talk to poor, the aged, the sick, in such a caring tone?

I tell you: never!

Instead, what we have are:

Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong:
"Retrenchment is good for singapore.
If there is no retrenchments, then I worry."

Health Minister Lim Hng Kiang:
"I regret making the decision
[to direct our hospital to save a baby's life] because,
in the end, the baby continued to be in intensive care,
and KKH now runs up a total bill of more than $300,000"

Minister Lim Boon Heng:
"We talk about re-employment.
We'd encourage, make it easier for people to work longer,
and when we've successfully gone through this transition,
then the term 'retirement' will be history"

I cried, because at the very minimum - i.e. not even talking about truly caring for us from the bottom of their heart - our ministers can't even be bothered to put on a show! Instead, they have decided that scolding us is the right way to go.

"STOP BEING COMPLACENT" --
The latest scolding you received,
for allowing Mas Selamat to escape!

---

The Chinese are not stupid. You think they will want to settle down in Singapore? In China, senior citizens exercise in the parks, talk cock, sing song, dance cha cha, and practise Tai Ji, and get a pension from the government! Oh, and they also get a PM who will say: "The government will take care of your living, your studies". Even if it's just for show, it still feels nice!

The elite thinking Chinese will NOT give up their Chinese citizenship in exchange for Singapore citizenship and get scolded everyday for being complacent, lazy, inflexible, unadaptable, uneducated....

But yeah，sure, our government can get the unthinking, ordinary Chinese to become Singaporeans. And that's the kind of 2nd grade replacement it will get, after chasing out its own elite!

---

And finally, I cried, because I know PAP is coming to an end soon, just by contrasting its behaviour with that youtube video. I am crying for the money and power that I will be losing soon, as a member of Young Pay-And-Pay!

SDP!!!

SDP!

This party is giving me lots of headaches right now!

Lately, this party has decided to start quoting the words of wise men on their new website. These are words of wisdom passed down for generations!

Take this:

“The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.” - Frederick Douglass

You tell me lah: how am I supposed to refute such statement of truth?

Or this:

“I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.” - Bishop Desmond Tutu

How do I argue against that?

“If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.” - Dalai Lama

So now, even if I call him a "mosquito", he has the Dalai Lama on his side!

They even quoted Lao tzu:

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step

Who are we to argue with this thousand-years old sage?

And for those who prefer Indian wisdom, they quoted Mahatma Gandhi:

“You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.”

And for those who eat more potato than rice, they quoted Theodore Roosevelt:

It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat. - Theodore Roosevelt

From ancient to modern, from Indian to Chinese to Western, across time, across continent, across all boundaries - all wise men agree with SDP's action! And SDP's action are in accordance to the teachings of these wise men!!!

SDP, we in Young Pay and Pay are very afraid of you!

What to do? I could lose my job if I couldn't come up with a way to "fix" SDP!

OK, I got an idea: we shall bankrupt you and defame you (and then accuse you of defaming us instead!) and the best of the best: we will even promote another opposition party in our indirect attempt to discredit you!

These are the only things we can do, because we cannot refute you and the tons of wise men whose words you follow!

Yes, we in Young Pay-And-Pay are despicable.

But what to do? Money! Power! Remember?

How to give more jobs to Singaporeans

Straits Times. May 9, 2008.
Jobless in Canada - and Singapore

MUCH has been written about foreign workers and how they compete with Singaporeans for jobs. It has been argued that if foreigners leave, jobs for Singaporeans will be affected. I believe this problem is unique to Singapore only.

Let me relate my experience as a foreigner trying to secure a job in Canada. I spent almost six futile months trying to get a suitable job in Calgary and Toronto.

Canadian employers must get approval from the government before any foreigner can gain employment; a task they were either unaware of or unwilling to undertake.

In Calgary, jobs were plentiful but restricted to Canadians only. Whenever I went for an interview, I was told politely that although I was suitable I could not be hired for obvious reasons. I took a bus back from Calgary to Toronto, a journey of 52 hours.

During the trip I was able to marvel at the vastness of Canada with its open spaces and lack of people. Everywhere there were signs 'for hire'. But not for me.

After six months of frustration I left Canada, arriving in Singapore to see foreigners getting jobs and me jobless in my own country.

Revi Anthony Fernandez

This morning, at our weekly Young Pay-And-Pay meeting, yours truly proposed a two solutions to "fix" Mr. Fernandez's problem:

• One, we shall give out more citizenship - any foreigner who wants it shall get it!
• Two, we shall give out more permanent residence status, AND then consider PR as resident workers, indistinguishable from citizens in official statistics.

That way, most job will go to locals - defined as citizens and PR - and foreigners will get fewer jobs, which is exactly as Mr. Fernandez has wished for.

Haha! I am so brilliant! They should promote me to become the Minister of Manpower!

World's number 2

Elderly aches that hide deeper pain?
By Tan Hui Leng, TODAY | 10 May 2008
...
The elderly suicide rate peaked in 1995, at 52 per 100,000 males and 33 per 100,000 females. This was the world's second highest rate after Hungary. But in recent times, with intervention and support from government and community, the rate has been steadily decreasing over the years to 27 per 100,000 males and 11 per 100,000 females in 2005.
...
While attempted suicides among the elderly have declined over the years, the proportion of young people attempting suicide seems to be on the rise, from 3.1 per cent in 1991 to 15.6 per cent in 2000. Peaks occur in May and October, which are often the exam months.

The olds should die, because being unproductive, they are an economic burden to Singapore.

The youngs should die too, because being academic losers, they are also an economic burden to Singapore.

In Singapore, only the economy matters. Everything else must support it or be exterminated!

Now, of course we cannot directly encourage them to die. But, we can indirectly encourage them, by making it easier for them to decide. Haha!

For example:
We can make sure there is no welfare for the olds.
We can make sure our school exam system is very unforgiving.
We can make sure there are no glass screens on our elevated MRT stations!

We, in Young Pay-And-Pay, brainstormed very hard to come up with brilliant ways to encourage such things. All in a day's work!

By the way, do you know why when one figure goes down, the other goes up?

Well, up till now, we in Pay-And-Pay are still kind enough to endure the presence of one group of unproductive citizens at any one time.

So,
Either the olds die, or the youngs die.
If the olds die, we can let off the youngs.
If the youngs die, we can let off the olds.
But no matter what, at any one time, one group should die!

But, that's a thing of the past. Now that our "Foreign Import" program are working fine, we are not prepare to endure any unproductive old folks or academic failures any more!

Bet your last dollar that in the next 5 to 10 years, there will be a rise in both set of suicide figures!

We in Young Pay-And-Pay will make sure that happens.

天打雷劈

大多数的新加坡人，长年累月，日以继夜，不间断地助纣为虐：

• 支持把无罪之人打入天牢，坐冤枉狱：短的一两年，长的甚至达数十年！
• 为一些小恩小惠，而自甘“卖（民）主求荣”！
• 眼看老弱病残流落街头，而无动于衷 - 不，说错了，不是无动于衷，而是主动地以选票，明确地表明支持如此惨绝人寰的局面！
  

你们的行为， 令人不齿，令人发指，人神共愤！

只要是稍有丁点人性的，看到你们如此欺凌弱小，都会气愤填膺，何况是老天！

你们的手，沾满了这人间地狱的血。

你们不是身不由己。你们是有意识地做出抉择！

所以。。。

你们根本脱不了干系！

你们不是旁观者！你们是共犯！

是刽子手持着的那把刀！

成语“天打雷劈”，指的，大概就是这种局面吧：

(pic from UncleYap's blog)

天理难容！

嘿嘿，你们就快遭天谴了！

注：还好本走狗，多年来合法贪污，已累积了不少不义之财。有够笨的新加坡奴才们，你们的钱，我已榨干了！看来，是时候 abandon ship, 远走高飞，把你们这群傻蛋一脚踢开，逃到国外享清福了！时辰到！本走狗先告辞了！闪人咯！ 哈哈！

You are treated worse than a foreign maid

Murder charge against Indonesian maid reduced to manslaughter
By Lee Khai Yan, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 18 April 2008
An Indonesian maid charged with the murder of her employer had the charge reduced to one of manslaughter instead.

The charge against Tri Lestari, 24, was amended by the prosecution in a preliminary inquiry on Thursday.

Lestari was arrested in August last year after her 70-year-old employer Choy Ah Moy was found dead in bed at her Jalan Membina flat.

Lestari allegedly suffocated Madam Choy to death with a pillow.

The case will be brought to court again on April 29 for a pre-trial conference.

What do you think the charge and the verdict would have been, if the accused had been a Singaporean whose hanging would not incur the wrath of any foreign embassy and would not lead to any diplomatic spat?

Anyone here doubt the charge would have been murder, and the verdict would have been death by hanging?

I spit on you, my fellow Sinkies. And here's why:

I treat you worse than a foreigner in your own country!

To be precise, I treat you worse than a maid, a foreign maid!

What are you going to do about it?

Nothing, obviously.

You are going to continue to vote for my Masters.

And that's why you deserved to be spit on.

Ptui!


(It is good to have a blog where I can spit on my fellow sinkies anonymously. Increasingly I find myself suffering from split personality after having to pretend to treat my fellow sinkies with care, concern and respect, at those grassroots events and meet-the-sinkies sessions! Please lah, we people in Young Pay-And-Pay - how can we care about you? We care only about money and power, you fools! This blog, thus, is a therapeutic outlet for me to vent my disgust at my fellow sinkies. Sinkies deserve no respect - they enjoy being treated worse than a foreign maid in their own country! Do such people deserve any respect?)

Substantial pay raise

'While he has raised a variety of issues in Parliament, Mr Shanmugam has been vocal on the need to pay top dollar for ministers, since the White Paper was tabled in Parliament in 1994 to benchmark ministerial salaries to the private sector.

Last year, Mr Shanmugam spoke up for the policy for the third time in Parliament. “It’s not as if I was speaking for myself … I’ve been willing to take a very substantial pay cut. I’m not sure others will do so,” said Mr Shanmugam.' --- Channel NewsAsia. Reported by Loh Chee Kong, 16 April 2008.

What substantial pay cut?

Pension is a few millions per year for as long as he lives!

So assuming he lives till 85, then after reaching 55 years old, over the next 30 years, he will be paid a total of $x,000,000 *30 = $yz,000,000 in total.

That means he is made a multi-millionaire even after his retirement.

You call that a pay cut? Fine! Find me another job that continues to pay you a few million per year after you have left the job for more than 20 years?

Not only is it not a substantial pay cut, it isn't even a pay cut to begin with. It is a pay raise!

A subtantial pay raise!

And best of all, it is all legal and continuous. It's not like in some other countries, where in some years, they get to keep more corrupt money, and in other years, they get much less. And when they retire and fall out of power, they get nothing. And all these while, they have to worry about being discovered and end up in prison.

Nope. Such illegal, unsteady ministerial income does not exist in Singapore. In Singapore, it's a continuous steady source of income for 30 years after leaving office, and best of all, it's all legal! That's because in Singapore, corruption has been legalised for those in high offices!

Did I also tell you that if he choose not to retire at 55, but to continue working, he will receive both a pension and a salary? i.e. $x,000,000 + $y,000,000! That's what our dear SM and MM and DPM are receiving nowadays - double income!

By the way, why kind of logic is it that if we don't pay top dollar, we cannot attract the best people? Those who are willing to serve without having to be paid top dollar are already, by definition, much better politicians than those who tell you that they will quit their ministerial appointment immediately if their pay are not raised by a million by the end of last year and then again by another million latest by the end of this year and then yet again a milion the next year!

Oh, and by the way again, medical benefits which include 100% free treatment and 100% free stay in first class ward - till death - is a very substantial benefit too, given that as one gets older, one gets to fall sick more. Would Shanmugam receive such substantial benefits, if he were to remain a lawyer instead?

Plus:
free luxurious car,
free driver,
free body guards,
free first class air travel,
"respect" and bootlicking from everyone in the country,
red carpet treatment everywhere all around the world.
free VIP tour of other countries' tourist spots (next time, when there is a report of MM or SM overseas, go read carefully about the tourist spots they visited eg. camel ride in the desert, tour of yellow mountain in China. Haha!).

The list goes on and on...

Pay cut?

Go cut off your lan ciao lah, Shanmugam!


Yours faithfully,
An unhappy Young Pay-and-Pay member, who is paid only peanuts despite having to lick ass everyday! You had better start paying me more, lest I expose more of your dirty tricks! I can por your larm pa, I can also cut off your balls! So pay us more. Top boot-lickers deserve top salary!

Eunuch

I got this pic from here.

And I am not ashamed (as usual, I am shameless) to admit that I, along with all my comrades in Young Pay-and-Pay, are the eunuchs!

For the sake of money and power, we report only the good news to our Emperor. The bad news, we either censor or play down their significance.

We in Young Pay-and-Pay are ball-less eunuchs. This, I admit.

But, the castration is well worth the money and power we get in return!

So what to do?

Please stop eating rice

Ever since the price of rice soared, we, in Young Pay-And-Pay, have been cracking our heads trying to find a way to help needy Singaporeans. But I was not worried. I told my fellow members that we could just sit back and relax, because our $3,000,000 multi-million dollar Ministers are elites and would definitely be able to come up with a better solution than we ever could. Even my fellow members could not stand me and called me a "super boot licker"!

But, today, I have the last laugh. Today, Channel News Asia has this screaming headline: "Ministers say needy will receive help to cope with soaring rice prices" (By Chew Wui Lynn, 05 April 2008 2055 hrs). I hurriedly read the details. Our elite minister has indeed provided the best solution to rising rice price:

Trade and Industry Minister Lim Hng Kiang said: "...Singaporeans now eat a wide variety of foodstuff – rice, noodle, bread, so there are always other substitutes."

What a brilliant solution! In a few days time, Young Pay-And-Pay will mobilise itself to promote the consumption of noodles and bread (non-branded).

We will be urging the kopitiams to come up with new combination: 3 meat/vegetable on your selection of noodles or bread.

So in future, when you visit your favourite hawker, he will be asking you whether you want pork, fish or brocolli spread on top of your bread. You may even get to choose white bread or wheat bread. But sorry, we have to keep it non-branded!

For sure, it will take some time getting used to eating meat/vegetables with bread. But that's no big deal; Sinkies are good at getting used to things. We have gotten Sinkies to get used to GRC, $3,000,000 salary, no retirement etc etc. i don't foresee any problem loading one more thing onto these lowly peasants.

So, my lowly peasants, dear fellow comrades, let's all support the "eat bread instead of rice" campaign!

Welcome to Singapore!

As a loyal pappy dog, I read 7 government-controlled newspapers everyday: Straits Times, New Paper, Business Times, Zaobao, Wanbao, Sinmin, Berita Harian.

This helps me understand the peasants' thinking, and more importantly, the thinking of my Pay-And-Pay Masters.

Most days, there is nothing surprising. But this morning, I nearly choked on my breakfast when I read the following in Zaobao:

载誉归来冷清清

　　尽管取得世界女团亚军的历史性佳绩，但我国国家乒乓球女队昨天下午返回国门时，却未获得热烈欢迎。

　　由李佳薇、王越古、冯天薇、孙蓓蓓和于梦雨组成的新加坡女队，上个星期六在中国广州举行的第49届世界团体锦标赛上，虽然以1比3败给卫冕冠军中国，屈居亚军，但还是取得历来最佳成绩。

　　然而，昨天到樟宜机场第三搭客大厦接机的，除了一名学生球员的家人外，就只有两名新加坡乒乓球总会职员，场面极为冷清。

　　据了解，新加坡团队原本有意接机，但临时无法凑集众多支持者，最后没有成行。

My Chinese is not very good. But I think I can still make out what the report is saying:

When China's women table tennis team - comprising Li Jiawei etc - came over yesterday from Guangzhou (where they had just been placed 2nd in the 49th World Tournament) for a visit, not a single Singaporean - save for 2 employees of the Singapore Table Tennis Federation and a student-player's parent (Singaporean?) - was at Changi Airport to welcome them!

What were Singaporeans thinking?

Hello! It is not everyday that an all-star women table tennis team from China visits our country!

We, Singaporeans, should be there to extend our "Uniquely Singapore" hospitality to these overseas guests: ex-Chinese citizen Li Jiawei, ex-Chinese citizen... etc etc.

For goodness sake, it's their best result ever!

The last paragraph even reported that at the very last minute, the Singapore table tennis team tried to round up some supporters to go down to the airport, but nobody give them face!

I really wanted to find a hole to hide my face when I read that. We Singaporeans are really uncultured. Confucius said:

有朋自远方来，不亦乐乎？
When friends come from afar,
doesn't that fill us with great joy?

Of course, it does!

Aren't Li Jiawei and her team-mates our foreign friends from afar? You mean China is not far enough?

Today, I am so embarrassed to call myself a Singaporean.

If I had known of this news earlier, I would have bought some satay and Orchid flowers and gone to Terminal 3.

I would have presented our local delicacies and flower to these charming ladies from China, and introduce these foreign visitors to our beautiful homeland! I would have said:

“亲爱的中国朋友们，
欢迎你们来我们的国家观光。
祝大家旅游愉快！”
"Welcome to my country,
our dear friends from China.
I hope you all enjoy your tour here!"

Being foreigners in a foreign land, they would have appreciated my gesture to make them feel at home.

And the next time, when I visit China, they would reciprocate, and show me around their country too!

That's how we make friends!

Sigh, Singaporeans really don't know how to make friends with foreigners.

Sad.

Next time, the Singapore Table Tennis Federation should try to contact me and my colleagues. We are good at getting fake supporters to show up at events (e.g. at election rallies). We sure won't end up like them - last minute cannot get enough people to show up!

The last time, we even got Lim Swee Say to welcome the badminton(?) team from China and Indonesia, at the airport. We in Young Pay-And-Pay are very efficient one.

有我们当走狗，你们放心！

I clean up Minister's shit

"We expected you to be shocked by it.
"We wanted you to be shocked by it.
"We had never intended to implement it! "
"It's our way to get you to accept
the real plan we had in mind"

Don't say I anyhow put words into his mouth, ok?

You read it for yourself and tell me if I have paraphrased him correctly:

Today, 14 February 2008 .
The Government's initial floating of a non-refundable annuity scheme offering payouts from age 85 had met with strong public resistance. Dr Ng said this was expected. "We wanted people to be shocked that they would be living for so long � and then just gently reinforce the messages," he said, adding that the refundable option "was always on the table".

In other words, the government had - right from the very beginning - one and only one plan: refundable premium.

But, it had pretended that it wanted to impose a non-refundable version - a version that does not exist at all! It had fully expected that this lie would not go down well with the people, and it had schemed - right from day 1 - to release the real plan, after people objected to the phantom non-existent plan!

It's like shopping:

Auntie: "this one - how much"?

Shop owner (to himself : "$50"):
Shop owner: "$100"

Auntie: "What? You taking me for a ride? Good bye"!

Shop owner: "Ok lah, Auntie, don't angry lah. Give you 50% discount, ok? $50. Cannot go lower - already selling you at cost price"!

Auntie: "Deal!"

Auntie to her daughter: "See? Mummy is so good at bargaining. Be like me - assertive, stand up for yourself. Don't be a push-over. This shop not bad. Next time, must vote for it in those shopping-experience contest".

Shop owner to his son (the future shop owner): "her initial outrage was expected. We wanted her to be shocked. $50 was always on the table - actually, the only thing on the table".

Way to go!, man!

That's the way to run a country - play tricks on your citizens, devise schemes to con them, lie to them....

...and then tell them boldly you have tricked them and conned them and lied to them!


Well done, Minister Ng Eng Hen!

You are indeed of ministerial material! Only Ministers of calibre are that bold.

And now, it's up to us in Young Pay-And-Pay to do the damage control for you!

!@#$%.

You vomit shit, and we gotta cover your back-side for you!

YOU GOT GIVE US HALF OF YOUR SALARY OR NOT?

Every time like that!

KNN, next time you can learn to keep your big mouth shut or not?

Why must boast? Just laugh quietly at those peasants' stupidity, cannot is it?

恭祝全岛屁鸦屁走狗：

新的一年，财源广进！

金银财宝
滚滚而来，源源不断！

恭喜发财！
Money! Money! Money!

Regards,
Your fellow ass licker cum apple polisher

Monkey Business

President S R Nathan, speaking to reporters at the Istana Open House on 8 Feb 08:

"Ah Meng has been so much of a symbol of the Zoo. A lot of people – locals and foreigners – have enjoyed her company. I'm sure the patrons of the Zoo will miss her a great deal. But that's life."

We pay the President of the Republic of Singapore more than $4,000,000 a year to talk about how much he misses a monkey?


I counted - 40 words altogether. That's more than $100,000 per word.

Wah, really golden words!

Why doesn't he talk about how much he misses the many human Singaporeans who have "fallen" onto the MRT tracks? （He is the people's president, not a monkey president, right?)

Or tell us how many tonnes of $50/kg bak kwa he bought with his 7 figure salary - more than 8 times that of US president - to share with the visitors to his Istana who cannot afford such delicacies? (Erm, he did treat his visitors, right?)

Or explain why he is charging citizens who visit certain buildings in the Istana (built using his salary??) a fee, in the name of "charity"?

Yes, Mr. President. we, in Young Pay-And-Pay, miss that monkey too...

...for we now have one less thing to remind us of the monkey business that is going on everyday on this Island!

Malaysian Government unwisely cares for its citizens

Malaysia will ban hotels from hiring foreigners in frontline positions, bringing them into line with airports which are also subject to the order aimed at reducing migrant labour, an official said today.

Victor Wee, secretary general for the tourism ministry, defended the directive on positions that involve direct contact with customers, saying hotels should not rely on cheap foreign labour.

"We want more Malaysians working as frontliners in hotels instead of foreigners. There are many Malaysians unemployed and employers should be prepared to pay more," Wee said.

"We'd like to implement policies to the benefit of Malaysians," he said.

Why is the Malaysian government doing such foolish things that will raise the cost of doing business? Doesn't the Malaysian government know that money should be the only bottom line?

The Malaysian government would do well to learn from PAP. Here in Singapore, we import lots of cheap foreign labour to suppress wage. Then we brainwash our citizens that such import is unavoidable, because locals refuse to do such jobs. Then we censor the fact that locals refuse to do such jobs because employers are suppressing wages. Haha!

We, in Young Pay-And-Pay, used to be able to do such brain-washing easily. Nowadays, with the existence of so many online news paper - for example, this news report can be found online at theage.com.au - our job has been made much more difficult. Luckily, most peasants do not get their news from the internet and our controlled newspapers banned such news. But still, I think we in Young Pay-And-Pay deserve a pay raise for having to do a more difficult job!

OK to have corruption

MM Lee says Indonesia's Suharto not getting the recognition he deserves
By Channel NewsAsia's Indonesia Bureau Chief Sujadi Siswo
Posted: 13 January 2008

As Mr Suharto has been widely criticised for corruption and human rights abuses during his 32-year rule, Mr Lee said he is sad that the former leader is not getting the recognition he deserves.

Mr Lee is the first foreign leader to visit Mr Suharto after he was admitted to the hospital more than a week ago...

He said: "I feel sad to see a very old friend with whom I had worked closely over the last 30 years, not really getting the honours that he deserves. He deserves recognition for what he did. And the younger generations – both in Indonesia and in the world – do not remember where Indonesia started. I do. That's why I came here to visit him."...

Despite the growth and prosperity that Mr Suharto brought, the former military general has come under heavy criticism for abusing his power.

Mr Lee said: "Yes, there was corruption. Yes, he gave favours to his family and his friends. But there was real growth and real progress. I think the people of Indonesia are lucky...

"I'm very sad to see his life come to an end without the full glory that he deserves. There're very few people of his age and my age who can remember the past. And if they can remember the past, they will know that in the 1960s..."

Sigh! The poor old man is still talking about "the 1960s". He doesn't seem to understand that more than 40 years have passed and it is now 2008, and people are questioning what he has been doing for them in the past 5 years, 10 years or even,15 years - not what he supposedly did (single-handedly?) 40+ years ago!

The poor old man is afraid he will be suffering the same fate as Suharto - coming to an end "without the full glory that he deserves"

The poor man doesn't seem to understand that no amount of economic progress can successfully bribe citizens to turn a blind eye to their leader's corruption and human rights abuse.

Or rather, he must have understood by now, seeing how his "very old friend" is being treated by Indonesians. So perhaps, the more accurate phrase would be "disappointed" and "shocked":

The man is (extremely) disappointed and shocked that no amount of economic progress can successfully bribe citizens to turn a blind eye to their leader's corruption and human rights abuse, and that it is by the latter 2 criteria that leaders will go down in the history book!

In Suharto, the man sees his own future fate - how his own citizens would be writing about him in their school's history books for generations to read!

Anyway, at least Suharto is lucky to have this "very old friend" to come support him. But when it is this "very old friend" 's turn, I wonder who will be coming to support him? Well, maybe some general from Myanmar or North Korea?


P.S. Some of you may be wondering why I am talking like this about my big boss. Shouldn't I be singing his praise instead? Well, please remember that we, in Young Pay-And-Pay, do not have any morals or guiding principles in our lives. We pick who to lick ass and apple polish, depending on who can give us the most money and power. And as I see it, the days when this poor old man can continue to reward us - his lackeys - with such goodies, is pretty numbered. And going by how Suharto is being treated from his countrymen, I think it is about time for us all in Young Pay-And-Pay to find new masters to serve, be they from SDP, WP, or Jeya's Reform Party, if we want to continue to receive money and power. So, new masters, please treat this blog post as our first unsolicited CV to you - an indication as to how we can serve your interest in the post-lee era, if you will!