The Joker

(pic from SDP's website)

Despite his age, Lee Kuan Yew is a joker; He can tell very good jokes:

He said a country needed 3 elements to succeed.

First, a govt that people have confidence in and will trust when tough decisions need to be taken.

Second, leaders who are above board, who make decisions based on necessity, not how they will personally benefit. He said Singaporeans know they have such leaders because, over the years, "We have not got richer, Singapore has".

Third and most importantly, a country needs able men in charge...

That's from our 154th ranked Straits Times reporting on what our great joker said at the 1st World Cities Summit and International Water Week forum,

I hope he will live longer, so that we can hear more good jokes from him. Such jokes help reduce our daily stress, arising from living in one of the world's most densely populated cities. governed by a Prime Minister who earns about the same amount as Britain's PM and United States' President and France's President and Germany's Chancellor and Italy's PM COMBINED!

That's right! C O M B I N E D ! ! !

Is our living standard - especially in the way we treat the elderlies and poor - up to the standard of any ONE of these 5 countries, never mind the COMBINATION of all five?

Obviously, that is a constant headache that we in Young Pay-And-Pay have to endure - how to twist and turn logic when comparing with these countries. Usually, we take the easy way out; we compare our living standards with 3rd world countries, not these 5 countries. Haha!

A local trilingual elite who wants to be a Japanese

A local trilingual elite who wants to be a Japanese
Recently, I went to Japan for a tour. On the return trip, I met a young man on the plane. After talking to him, my mind became unsettled, for a long long time.

This young man conversed with the Japan Airlines' stewardess in Japanese. When my daughter and I stood up to let him pass through to the window seat, he thanked us in Mandarin. When he saw me reading the inflight shopping catalog, he politely asked me in a friendly voice if I needed any help, and if so, he could help be my translator. Such a trilingual young "Japanese" is quite a rare sight, so I took the opportunity to chat with him.


He is a patriotic Japanese?
I asked him in Mandarin for the purpose of his journey to Singapore. He said he was going back to study. I couldn't help but prais the local Japanese School, for its ability to train trilingual students. But, surprisingly, he told me he was a second year Junior College student from a famous local institution. From his grandparents to him, he was already a third generation immigrant. Looking at how pleased he was with himself, I felt very glad for our education system, because this number one institution had also trained many of our country's outstanding political leaders.

I asked him: since he was a JC2 student, and the A-levels was coming soon, at the end of the year, why did he still insist on going back to Japan to visit his relatives? He confidently replied: "Based on my results, I would have no problem at all getting into any famous British or American university. But the A-levels is of no meaning to me, because my ideal is to get into Tokyo University, so that I can stay in my 'native country' and contribute to my 'native country'!"

Looking at the patriotic expression on his face, I could not help but quietly admire the patriotism of these Japanese.

He even said that though this was the first time he step foot on the Japan that he had dreamt and thought of every day, but once he step foot on it, he felt an overwhelming sense of familiarity, a sense of having returned home.


He is a Singaporean who love Japan!
I then asked him where his grandparents resided. He replied: "Actually, my grandfather was an immigrant who travelled south from China". "Travelled south from China? Then aren't you a native-born, native-raised Singaporean?" To quote a familiar western idiom, at that time, I "nearly fell off the chair"!

Looking at the self-indulging expression of this young man, I knew that, giving him a noble-sounding "national education" right then was pointless. So I simply asked him, why he so loved Japan. The gifted student kept quiet for some time, and appeared unable to come up with an answer. "Isn't Singapore good?" I asked next.

"Singapore? The Singapore government has no regards for Human Rights. Forces us to serve National Service! Singapore's prosperity was built upon its exploitation of citizens! Even with scholarships, there are strings attached, unlike the Japanese government. So long as I can get into Japan's public university, they will not only pay for my tuition, but also give me a monthly allowance. Therefore, even without any strings attached, I will remain in Japan for the rest of my life, and do my utmost to serve the Japanese Government"


He apologised on behalf of the Japanese!?
I told him I have been to numerous countries, such as Australia, New Zealand, and even Japan, and can feel their discrimination against the Chinese. Just taking this trip as an example, on the way to a temple, a shop-keeper, upon seeing my family speaking in Mandarin and walking into her shop, deliberately put some samples away.

The gifted student listened to my narration and told me: "Very sorry. I apologised, on their behalf, to you". I angrily replied: "You do not need to apologise for them. You are not a Japanese. You are just like me. We are Singaporeans!"

"But, I have already made my decision. After my two years of 'slavery'. i mean after my national service, I will proceed to Japan to study, and thereafter I will stay there, get married and have children. So my next generation and my next-next generation will be Japanese."

"Young man, do not forget that there is Chinese flowing in your blood. This is a fact that cannot be eradicated. Moreover, your surname is also a fact that cannot be changed"

"That doesn't matter. Some people go to Japan to work and for convenience, they changed to Japanese names".

Looking at this trilingual, but culturally-anaemic gifted student, my heart was filled with sadness, worries, and disappointment. However, I still hold a ray of hope. I asked this gifted student: In your Junior College, are there many schoolmates with such "special ambition" as you do?

He replied: "There aren't many schoolmates who love Japan the way I do, That's because most of them have already decided to emigrate to Europe and the United States!"

Who was the one who created our "culturally-anaemic" education system?

Who was the one who said on public record that all mother tongues should be taught in school without any cultural component i.e. all ancient stories and culture associated with the language must be removed from the syllabus which used to have them?

Just teach the vocabulary, the grammar, but the passages should be devoid of any cultural knowledge - who was the one who ordered his staff to revamp the syllabus thus?

(Note: The English language has always been taught without any English cultural component in it, but that's not how the mother tongues used to be taught previously. Hence the word "removed" and "revamp").

And who was the one who came up with a curriculum where top students study triple sciences and double mathematics, and only 1 humanities (i.e. cultural component)?

I believe it was Goh Keng Swee, Singapore's first Minister of Education. His speeches are all archived in the National Library.

And who was the one who voted for such culturally-anaemic education policy?

And who was the one who voted for our "outstanding leaders" (to quote the writer) - "outstanding leaders" who ordered such "outstanding" culturally-anaemic curriculum?

You, Mr. 梁秉亮, the writer of the above article!

Y O U !

Oh, and I haven't even touched on the "human rights" and "exploitation" part that YOU voted for. But I guess, you have already received an earful from that boy, haven't you?

"The Singapore government has no regards for Human Rights."
"Singapore's prosperity was built upon its exploitation of citizens!"

Giving up such rights (and culture) was ok for you, in exchange for prosperity.

你，梁秉亮 ，卖（民）主求荣， 卖文化求荣！

你，急功近利，但求个人/国家之荣华富贵，不顾其他一切，犹如东方不败，自宫当太监，甘心出卖民主，出卖文化，通过选票，造就了这个没民主，没文化底蕴的怪胎岛！

You thought there was not going to be any consequence. No karma.

Wrong!

Now, 40 years later, the new generation has grown up under the politics and education system that you voted for.

And they are leaving!

So, Mr. 梁秉亮, be prepared to wash toilet and clean plates for the foreigners imported by our "outstanding leaders". Imported to replace the local talents chased away by YOU.

This Young Pay-And-Pay member is not trilingual. But he is effectively bilingual, as can be seen from this near perfect Chinese-English translation of the LianHe ZaoBao's 26-06-08 article. Ahem.

And so, no, Japan is not my cup of tea. But, Europe and United States sure are.

Not surprising. After all, this Young Pay-And-Pay member is also culturally-anaemic, having too, received his education from that "number one institution" which has "trained many of our country's outstanding political leaders"!

But, not now lah! Now, I am still getting big bucks as a member of Young Pay-And-Pay. But a few years later, if they still don't put me up for election so that I can accumulate even more wealth, then things may become different. LOL

An orchestra conductor

The old fart stood in the middle.
He released a loud fart,
and took out his famous red hatchet.
He pointed it menacingly at everyone.

The men-in-white started trembling.
They started singing the same tune
- his tune.

They started blowing his trumpet.
They started blowing his horn.
They even beat his drum.

"Louder",
he waved his hatchet threateningly to the left.
They obliged.

"Harder",
he signaled silently to the right with his hatchet.
They complied.

But they were not in sync!

He jumped up and down in desperation,
and they all panicked.
They trumpeted and horned and drummed
even harder and louder.

Finally, he heard enough and
with a quick wave,
he told them to shut up.
And they did.
All at the same time.
and none a moment slower.

Now, the old fart was pleased.
Very pleased.
Turning around,
he let out another loud fart,
hid his legendary hatchet,
and bowed in false modesty.

He fully anticipate to hear your applause next!

Won't you clap for him?

I love NS

我要当兵了。
(Song from Jack Neo's Army series CD)
(Loose translation and interpretation:
I am going to be an NS slave soon)


6月23是坏日子。
(23rd June was a lousy day)

也是小弟的“进兵”时，
(That's the day I became an NS slave)

起早八早来坐taxi，
(Took a taxi early in the morning)

到尾来到 CMPB。
(To Central Manpower Base I went)

哎哟，哎哟，哎哎哟，
(Aiyo, aiyo, Jobs for Foreigners)
哎哟，哎哟，哎哎哟。
(Aiyo aiyo, NS for Singaporeans)


当我来到 CMPB，
(At Central Manpower Base)

兵头收起红登记，
(My red IC was confiscated,
for I was a citizen no more)

叫我进去check body，
(I was ordered to have my body checked,
to ensure I can be a healthy slave to foreigners)

然后送我去ITD。
(Then, I was sent to begin
my foreigner-protection training
at Infantry Training Depot)

哎哟，哎哟，哎哎哟，
(Aiyo, aiyo, Jobs for Foreigners)
哎哟，哎哟，哎哎哟。
(Aiyo aiyo, NS for Singaporeans)


ITD是三楼屋，
(Infantry Training Depot was a 3 storey building)

也是小弟的吃风屋。
(That's where I ate wind and trained to protect foreigners)

有椅子，床铺和铁橱，
(There were bare chairs, bare beds, and bare iron chests).

兵衫兵裤“隆重”有。
(A slave uniform for me too)

哎哟，哎哟，哎哎哟，
(Aiyo, aiyo, Jobs for Foreigners)
哎哟，哎哟，哎哎哟。
(Aiyo aiyo, NS for Singaporeans)


黑黑两条叫 Corporal,
(Two stripes = corporal)

黑黑三条叫 Sergeant
(Three stripes = sergeant)

黑黑三条加一只蟹，
(Three stripes and a crab)

那个叫做 CSM。
(That's Company Sergeant Major)

哎哟，哎哟，哎哎哟，
(Aiyo, aiyo, Jobs for Foreigners)
哎哟，哎哟，哎哎哟。
(Aiyo aiyo, NS for Singaporeans)


Sergeant要是发脾气，
(If the slave master aka Sergeant was in a foul mood)

楼上楼下跑给你死
(Upstairs, downstairs, you shall run till you drop dead!)

Number 3 和 Number 4，
(No. 3 and No. 4)

“没待没机”换来换去。
(Changed back and forth for fuck?)

哎哟，哎哟，哎哎哟，
(Aiyo, aiyo, Jobs for Foreigners)
哎哟，哎哟，哎哎哟。
(Aiyo aiyo, NS for Singaporeans)


天光就training到暗晚，
(From dawn to dusk, we trained to protect foreigners)

钻洞插草 SOC,
(Dug trenches and did Standard Obstacle Courses)

最为吃力是跑5公里，
(Most taxing were the 5 km run)

有时还得扛casualty
(Sometimes, we even have to carry the poor casualties
who had been hurt by the invading Foreign Trash)

哎哟，哎哟，哎哎哟，
(Aiyo, aiyo, country for Foreigners)
哎哟，哎哟，哎哎哟。
(Aiyo aiyo, NS for Singaporeans)


做兵一天赚3块，
(NS one day, my slave allowance was $3,
while foreigners were earning $3000)

做兵两天赚6块，
(NS two days, my slave allowance was $6,
while foreigners were enjoying air-con in office)

做兵三天赚9块，
(NS three days, my slave allowance was $9,
while foreigners had already flirted with and stolen my girfriend)

想要叫鸡还欠1块。
(I can only resort to calling a chicken,
but that's $1 too much for my miserly slave allowance!)

哎哟，哎哟，哎哎哟，
(Aiyo, aiyo, girlfriends for Foreigners)
哎哟，哎哟，哎哎哟。
(Aiyo aiyo, NS for Singaporeans)


I love NS.
My job for Foreigners;
My girlfriend for Foreigners;
My country for Foreigners;
NS for Singaporeans!

How many people died in SAF since 2001?

I got the following data from here:

2001(from theonlinecitizen)
April 06: MR Loke Ming (1WO navy) (2.4km)
Oct 29: MR Kwok Wei Ming (CPL Commandos) (Training?)

2002(from theonlinecitizen)
Feb 25: MR Tan Kim Keng (Officer cadet OCS) (Navigation training)
May 15: MR Mohd Shalan bin Abdul Rahim (LCP Reservist) (IPPT)
OCT 10: MR Ivan Oh Yong Hua (REC BMTC) (Training?)

2003(from theonlinecitizen, wikipedia)
Jan 3: Miss Goh Hui Ling (CPL Navy) (RSS Courageous collision, death: "lodged in between bunks")
Jan 3: Miss Heng Sock Ling (1SG Navy) (RSS Courageous collision, death: "mutilated bodies washed up in Bintan")
Jan 3: Miss Seah Ai Leng (1SG Navy) (RSS Courageous collision, death: "mutilated bodies washed up in Bintan")
Jan 3: Miss Chua Bee Lin (2SG Navy) (RSS Courageous collision, assumed death: "body never found")
July 21: MR Hu En Huai (2SG Commandos) (Combat Survival Training: Forced water treatment by trainers)
Sept 03: MR Rajagopal Thirukumaran (2SG Commandos) (Ranger Selection Test, 5km Run, assumed irregular heartbeat)
Sept 23: MR Andrew Chew Heng Huat (REC BMTC) (IPPT, assumed irregular heartbeat)

2005(from theonlinecitizen)
June 22: MR Tek Kok Lian (2WO, ?) (Routine run, heart attack)
June 29: MR Ivan Ong Peng Ghee (3SG BMTC) (Routine run)
July 14: MR Shiva s/o Mohan (1SG Commandos) (Rappelling Instructor Course, fell 20m from heli)

2006
Feb 1: MR Mohd Sufian Jamil (REC BMTC) (Organs failure after injection of anti-malaria)
June 21: MR Lionel Lin Shi Guan (LTA Commandos) (Training at pool)
Sept 18: MR Ambrose Yeo Chang Wen (PTE HQ supply and transport) (death:???)
Nov 17: MR Tan Boon Toon (2WO Senior Tech at ???) (death:???)

2007(from sgforum)
May 11: MR Fan Yao Jin (PTE storeman) (Taiwan Plane Crash into Store)
May 11: MR Isz Sazli Bin Sapari (3SG storeman) (Taiwan Plane Crash into Store)
May 28: MR Calvin Chow Han Min (LCP storeman) (Taiwan Plane Crash into Store)
Aug 26: MR Ho Si Qiu (OCS, died at AHM)
Sep 16: MR Cheok Beng Teck (MINDEF CIO)
Nov 15: MR Ricky Liu Jun Hong (CPL RSAF) (2.4km, though we're not close but he was my ex-poly classmate)
June 15: MR Quek Meng Chua (Senior DXO, Treadmill) (death:???)

2008(from theonlinecitizen, channelnewsasia)
Feb 02: MR Tan Yit Guan (MAJ, Logistics) (Routine run, death: sudden collapse)
June 10: MR Andrew Cheah Wei Siong (REC, BMTC Mild-Obese) (2km route march, death: sudden collapse)
June 12: MR Lam Jia Hao (Officer Cadet/pilot trainee, Airforce) (death: sudden collapse)

The Chinese say:

好男不当兵，
好铁不打钉！

（Great men would not want to become soldiers,
just as great iron would not want to become nails)

I think the ancient Chinese said that, because at that time, they were living in a dynastic political environment where power passed from father to son, Emperor to crown prince. When they had no say in how the country was run, why would they want to become soldiers just to help the Emperor passed on his ill-gotten power and wealth to his crown prince?

However, such words of wisdom do not apply to truly democratic countries like Singapore. In Singapore, power does not pass from father to son. Our leaders do not have any ill-gotten wealth to be protected from war. And so, when we do NS, it is for our own sake, so as to achieve happiness, prosperity and progress for Singapore - a democratic country, for which we are the Master, and for which we have lots of say on how it is to be run.

Without NS, we would be overrun by enemies and would end up washing toilets and clearing plates at hawker centres for these enemies even when we are 80 years old. Our CPF money would be robbed by these invaders, and we won't get to see our money even at 80 years old. It is only with NS, that we can defend our way of life - to retire and enjoy our golden years with our CPF, upon reaching 55 years old.

Therefore, in the final analysis, our Singapore, our esteemed leaders, our democracy, our cpf money, our retirement etc etc are all worth defending.

For this reason, I support NS!

Only in Malaysia

Report says Malaysian judges sent to 'boot camp' for indoctrination
Channelnewsasia, 11 June 2008
KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysian judges were sent to an indoctrination "boot camp" and threatened with dismissal to pressure them into making pro-government decisions, a senior judge said according to reports Wednesday.

In explosive allegations made in open court, Justice Ian Chin also said he was threatened by former premier Mahathir Mohamad over high-profile cases, one involving a close associate of the then-leader.

"Now, though he is no longer the prime minister and so no longer able to carry out his threat to remove judges, the coalition party that he led is still around," he said, according to the Borneo Post.

Chin made the allegations, which were picked up by the national press Wednesday, before hearing a dispute over results of March general elections in Sarawak state on Borneo island.

He said he was targeted by Mahathir after refusing to award "astronomical" payouts in two libel cases in 1997, while a judge who agreed with the then-premier's views was promoted to the Federal Court.

Afterwards, Chin reportedly said he was packed off to a five-day boot camp with selected judges and judicial officers.

It was without any doubt "an attempt to indoctrinate those attending the boot camp to hold the view that the government interest as being more important than all else when we are considering our judgement," he said.

Cabinet minister Zaid Ibrahim, who is in charge of legal affairs, indicated he believed the allegations, and that they would harm the reputation of the nation's justice system.

"I can't say I'm surprised by the revelations. There have been many stories in the past," he told reporters.

"It is regrettable that it has happened, it is a bad reflection on our country. We have to make sure it does not happen again," he said. "You should not tell judges what they can or cannot do."

However, he dismissed calls from the Bar Council for an official probe into the allegations.

"An investigation will not reveal anything more than what we know. What we need to do is restore judicial independence and make sure such incidents do not happen," he said.

Bar Council president Ambiga Sreenavasan said the allegations were "both startling and damning."

"Judges, both present and past, must be encouraged to come forward and provide information on any such instances of interference so that further action may be taken," she said according to the New Straits Times.

Mahathir stood down in 2003 and his successor Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has been criticised for failing to carry out his promises to tackle corruption, which is deeply entrenched in politics and business.

Chin's allegations add to the pall cast over the country's judiciary by a recent royal commission into a sensational Mahathir-era video clip that showed a top lawyer brokering judicial appointments with the help of politicians.

The commission found in May that there was evidence of an "insidious" conspiracy to influence the appointment of judges, and the government promised to investigate those implicated.

Mahathir, who has fallen out with his successor and accused him of corruption and nepotism, has previously challenged the authorities to charge him.

His spokesman told AFP the former premier would respond to Chin's comments "in due course." - AFP

Singapore and Malaysia had almost identical political climate during the era of Lee Kuan Yew and Mahathir Mohamad; For example, the refusal to abolish the Internal security Act, the continual use of it on political opponents etc. That's not surprising, since the two of them grew up in the same political environment, studied in almost identical education system, and so on.

However, I want to emphasise that while many other things may be similar, the above newspaper report applies to Malaysia and only Malaysia. It obviously and clearly and surely does not apply to Singapore. In Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew has never ever subjected our most honourable judges to any boot camp, nor has he ever exerted even the slightest pressure on them to side with the government on political cases.

How do I know?

Well, I just know!

I do not have any evidence to refute any speculation that the same may have occurred, and is still occurring in Singapore. And I do not need to provide any evidence! Please understand that I am from a most trust-worthy organisation - Young Pay-And-Pay.

So, trust me!

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!

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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!

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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!