I'm alive. Some are not so fortunate.

My condolences to Ms Lo's family. A case of being at the wrong place at the wrong time. Just like those stuck in BKK due to the airport closures. As you have already realised, I stopped complaining for quite awhile as I took a step back and viewed these recent events. Life is fragile. The fact that I have time to complain means that life is going well enough to complain. Oh well, people are always looking towards improving the standard of living right? So I guess it's pretty alright to complain. haha. Another time then.

Labour chief slams DBS Bank

I think somebody's been reading my blog. HAHAHAH. I wonder if it was a choke slam or what. :P

"LABOUR chief Lim Swee Say on Friday slammed DBS Bank for failing to consult its staff union on retrenching its workers or exploring other cost-cutting measures first. 'We are disappointed by the sudden decision,' he told The Straits Times when asked for his views on the DBS layoffs. 'There was no prior consultation with the DBS Staff Union. There was no exploration with the union on other cost reduction alternatives,' he said in an email reply on Friday. Mr Lim, an advisor to the DBS staff union, said this lack of communication has weakened the trust between the bank's management and union."

Not mincing his words, he added: 'It is regretable because trust takes a long time to build but a short time to destroy.'

Fewer seats on this MRT train

Fewer seats on this MRT train

MORE trains with about a third of their seats removed will ply the MRT tracks from next week, even as commuters yesterday said they found the trains no less crowded as a result.

An SMRT train with 84 of its 300 seats taken out made its debut 1-1/2 weeks ago.

One such train will be added to the network every week from next week, so that by the end of January, 10 modified trains will be in use along the SMRT's North-South and East-West lines during the morning peak hours.

Are you kidding me? Removing the seats does not mean that there will be less crowded lah goondoos (Stupid)! It just means that more people will be packed into the trains, making it more crowded. The only thing which may have been helped is that they are getting more people to the destinations at any one ride. The problem now is about the frequency of the trains during peak hours. If you have more frequent trains, then you don't need to make more room in the trains. Well, this is coming from a layman lah. They will sure cite some operational constraints or something. haha.

Eugenics In Singapore

WAH KNN! I read this already I feel fucking tulan man. And serious, I've not been this tulan for ages. Worst thing, I only know about it now! You read then tell me how you feel lah. Pui!

Eugenics In Singapore
Sunday, 09 November 2008
Singapore Democrats

Mr Lee Kuan Yew recently said at the Human Capital Summit held last month: "You marry a non-graduate, then you are going to worry if your son or daughter is going to make it to the university."

Don't gasp. The Minister Mentor was just restating his long-held view that smart people (read university graduates) produce smart people. Such a Hitlerian outlook is repulsive. But in Singapore, no one dares to oppose the man.

In his book A Nation Cheated, Dr Chee Soon Juan reproduces some of Mr Lee's comments on the subject and discusses how they have tragically moulded the Singaporean society:

If truth be told, the PAP's neglect of the poor stems directly from Lee Kuan Yew's personal philosophy. In 1967, the Minister Mentor said that every society has approximately 5 percent of the population:

who are more than ordinarily endowed physically and mentally and in whom we must extend our limited and slender resources in order that they will provide that yeast, that ferment, that catalyst in our society which alone will ensure that Singapore shall maintain its pre-eminent place in the societies that exist in South and Southeast Asia.

Lee repeated his ideas in 1969, this time even more forcefully:

Free education and subsidised housing lead to a situation where the less economically productive people in the community are reproducing themselves at rates higher than the rest. This will increase the total population of less productive people. Our problem is how to devise a system of disincentives, so that the irresponsible, the social delinquents, do not believe that all they have to do is to produce their children and the government then owes them and their children sufficient food, medicine, housing, education and jobs...We must encourage those who earn less than $200 per month and cannot afford to nurture and educate many children never to have more than two. We will regret the time lost if we do not now take the first tentative steps towards correcting a trend which can leave our society with a large number of the physically, intellectually and culturally anaemic.

The Minister Mentor, then Senior Minister, made this point again in 1993:

Singaporeans will not become successful and prosperous by talking and concentrating on dividing the pie. Our journalists write about who are the poor. Give them some money. If he can't study because he's too busy helping his father, we must look after his father and him. We are concentrating on our navels!

One of his faithful ministers, the late S Rajaratnam, echoed his sentiment by sneering, "We want to teach people the government is not a rich uncle. You get what you pay for. We are moving in the direction of making people pay for everything."

Cannot be lah. Our beloved LKY wouldn't have said this kind of thing one. Must be opposition make something up as usual right? See and hear it for yourself.



This is fucking prejudice and narrow minded man. He think funny ah? Still can laugh about it. He is right on one front though, HE WILL LOSE VOTES but not just because of this. I believe the people are starting to see for themselves what they have been living under. People want to marry who is their own business. You think what, only graduates who marry graduates can have children who can go to university ah? (I speak from personal experience) FUCK you understand. Academia is not the only thing that matters in life old man. Many people only study for the sake of the paper because you have created a country that values paper more than people. Who makes up the spine of our country? It's the working class ok. The people who are putting money into your super high salary that even the President of USA don't earn. All your super scholar only know how to talk cock. Who actually do all the work? Without the working class, you got all the scholar also no use. Your scholar will end up being the norm and then you will need to breed more super elites. The super elites who don't for a moment know anything about showing grace and humility to others. People who don't know what the common people go through in life everyday. Seriously lah, we're humans, not cows or pigs. If my children can't make it to university for whatever reason, life goes on. I'll still love them all the same. What are they going to do next? Gas all the non-graduates because they are leeching the country's resources? If this is the future of Singapore, I don't want to be a part of it. Thanks for your contributions but no thanks. This is not the kind of philosophy I want my leaders to have. This is a dangerous mentality to have my friends and you know it

Complaining is out of fashion

From 'Complain' to Petition Nation

Sun, Nov 09, 2008
The Straits Times

Singapore is becoming a sign, sign, sign city state - judging by the spike in online and offline petitions. Recent hot-button issues like the 'mis-selling' of financial products and the furore over a dormitory for foreign workers in a private estate had made the news with push from the petition wagon.

But other petitions, raised more quietly, may also have reached policymakers' ears. Analysts felt that, given that outdoor demonstrations were allowed in Hong Lim Park only two months ago, creating an online petition requires just a few mouse clicks, making it a convenient public advocacy tool.

Some, like Singapore Management University law lecturer Eugene Tan, noted that decision-makers here, while not dismissive of them, do not use petitions as a guide to governance.

Wah! Should I change my name and blog to "ThePetitionKing" instead? hahaha. But not to worry, I think complaining is still human nature. Like Eugene Tan said, decision makers do not use petitions as a guide to governance. Thus, complain more! hahaha!

DBS (will do the right thing/to axe 900 staff)?

Sorry so long never update. Today I blog something ok?

I read with amusement today that "DBS will do the right thing".

By Francis Chan

DBS Group Holdings chief executive Richard Stanley has defended the bank's sale of now-worthless products linked to bankrupt Lehman Brothers in his first public comments on the furore.

'DBS would never knowingly do anything that will hurt customers,' Mr Stanley said, speaking at the release of DBS' third-quarter results yesterday. (ED: of course everyone will claim that. Who will say "I knowingly do something that will hurt the customers?" Want to die ah?)

He said that when DBS sold the High Notes 5 product and Constellation Notes in Hong Kong, 'the world was a vastly different place'. (ED: The world changing everyday lah. You take their money then you better make sure you take care of it.)

On the same page, this was the another article "DBS to axe 900 staff". Below is a short excerpt.

Singapore's DBS Group, Southeast Asia's biggest bank by assets, said Friday it was cutting 900 staff to trim costs amid the global credit crisis, and reported a slump in third quarter net profit.

Chief executive Richard Stanley said most of the cuts, to be carried out at the end of the month, will come from its offices in Singapore and Hong Kong and will account for six percent of the workforce.

The job reductions were announced at a townhall-style meeting with staff on Friday.

"To be a streamlined organisation, I believe we must run a tighter ship (ED: sinking ship maybe. hahahaha) ... This is a painful decision for DBS and for me personally," Stanley told a news conference.

"We have been vigilant on costs but as the economy enters a more difficult and uncertain phase, many financial institutions around the world and in Asia have made headcount reductions," he added.

"To be more productive and efficient, we will restructure and streamline the organisation. Regrettably, this has resulted in the need to reduce our workforce by six percent or about 900 people, primarily in Singapore and Hong Kong, by the end of the month."

I can't help but wonder what is their real message. Could it be that the right thing to do was to axe 900 staff? Hahahaha! Don't quote me ok? I just think that it was very funny that both articles were on the same page. I thought that they were related at first. BUT wait ah, this is no laughing matter. 900 people will be losing their jobs man. I feel sorry for them. But then, can take the opportunity to work at the IR mah coz they employing retrenched people. Oh wait, maybe coz no one apply to work there so they collaborate with DBS to free up some manpower. WAH! That is damn jialat I tell you. But speculation only lah. I don't think it's true. Those people kenna retrench got any union to protect them anot? To fight for their rights etc? I think have this union called NTUC. They sell vegetables, groceries, insurance and even provide taxi service last time in collaboration with Comfort Cabs (but seriously, not always very comfortable lah. Give and take abit loh ok. Singapore got world class transportation system leh). I don't really know what else they do. They don't represent me also.

The only other union I can think of is the one below. Picture taken from here. (Thank you. If cannot use, tell me ok? I will take down. But then ah, free publicity for you leh. you should pay me actually. hahaha. ;) j/k)


At least this union is doing a great job. See all the awards they have? My house also use. HAHHAHAHA.

Anyway, if I don't update, just visit the links on my right lah (talkingcock.com, singabloodypore, mrbrown etc) They all tok kong (powerful) one. If you happen to stumble upon my blog, leave comments lah. Don't shy. Anonmynous also can. Just complain. I won't catch you. hahahaha. I not undercover. But I really wonder what happen to rockson. ISD ah?

Obama

Congratulations Obama! We have seen history being made today. It is touted as the victory for young Americans based on voters under 30 years of age (2/3 Obama, 1/3 McCain).

Will young Singaporeans dare follow suit and stand up for change when the time comes? Stop voting for the past. Start voting for your future!