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作者:费言 对于突然喊停，紧急中止赌场免费巴士服务的笑话，对新加坡人可说是大开眼界，难得一见。 尽管社会发展部辩解说，他们是如何如何按部就班，有条不紊，处变不惊地来处理这件小事，街上却不可能找到一个相信这种鬼话的人，人们只能惊讶地发现，我们的精英，什么时候越来越经常显得自乱阵脚，无能和颟顸。 咱们要找些眼前事实例子给他们泼屎，有时真的越来越不费力，眼前就来了。 就在维文部长辩解说，他们部门如何神武英勇远见地洞察先机，终于勇敢地废掉了到组屋区载送我们无辜无知人民去赌场输钱的诡计，对于哪些赌场老板派出来贻害百姓民众的免费赌巴，维文部长自己先前主打的，已经收尾的青奥运，竟然又无端端凭空出了乱子。 发给全世界来参与青奥运的义工们那45000张表扬奖状上的签名，包括国际奥委主席罗格，组委主席黄思绵的签名，竟然全是假的。 我猜呀，事故真相，估计应该是设计奖状版面的那个印刷馆老板女儿随手乱涂的假设签名样，只是要发给组委会负责人查看的样本稿件，组委会哪些人可能真的是忙昏 了头，就这样蒙查查审查过关开印，再下来，组委会哪些昏了头的人，在还没有察觉这是假冒堂堂奥委会主席罗格大人签名的奖状，竟然又全部寄出了45000张 到全球各地，唉。。。青奥运要搞出个世界名堂，这回不就真是出名到底了吗？ 人们看到这样的笑话，第一个思路就是，哇，这些家伙，实在是粗心大意得惊人噢，问题是，这么大的事，就怎么能粗心到如此地步呢？ 陆交局发出免费赌巴的许可证让巴士公司载人去赌场，在行政上，这一点错都没有，错就错在，有人需要在选民面前做出“政治正确秀”的时候，这么单纯的行政决 策，就硬硬被逼着去吃死猫了。人们也许还有下一个伪善笑话可以看，本地的赌巴是废了，那么，跨国到大马各地免费载人到两个赌场博杀的赌巴，为何就能够横行 无阻呢？咱们还得耐心等着维文医生，下一个更精彩的表演啰！ 这也证明，我们的许多政府部门，其实各忙各的，根本不谈协调，出事的时候，才来互相推卸责任，让对方吃死猫，自己反而出风头。 精英们总把自己说得好像老神在在，运筹帷幄，其实经常是自乱阵脚，朝令夕改。 人们说，真心，要发自心底，如果一切都在为了出风头，讨好民心，建功立业，难免好大喜功，急功近利，心术不正，投机取巧，许多乱子自然而然就出现了。 更糟糕的，人们还从出现的现实中看到真相，在这些潜意识里，除了急于表现自己功劳，炒作GDP政积，里面就是少了真心为民的一片真心。 在我看来，这个青奥运呀，根本不该“打肿脸皮”去搞，至于这两个赌场，如果你真的认为，新加坡的经济发展，已经走到了非搞赌场无法生存的境地，那么，就应该向人民说老实话，就告诉人民，都是我PAP政府的无能，我们经济发展到眼前已经陷入瓶颈绝境，不搞赌场来刺激经济，新加坡的经济将会崩溃，我们的日子会非常非常难过。。。尽管也失了道德颜面，但至少你要讲真话，人民也没有理由不支持你呀？赌巴到不到组屋载客，这种芝麻绿豆的小节需要这样来耍弄吗？ 我们厌恶的，是把开赌场自吹自擂说成什么绝世的远见，英明的政绩。 既要当娼，又要到处叫人给你立贞洁坊，世界上那有这么便宜的事呀？ 大马论坛  Read More →

According to reliable sources, PAP Senior Minister of State Foreign Affairs Balaji Sadasivan died this morning. Dr Balaji was rumored to be ill for quite some time already. Residents of Ang Mo Kio said they seldom see Dr Balaji in their ward or meet-the-people sessions for the last few months and he was frequently in and out of hospital. Channel News Asia reported that Dr Balaji had a cancerous tumor removed from his colon in 2008. Dr Balaji took part in the 2001 general election under the PAP banner and became a MP of Ang Mo Kio GRC. He was a neurosurgeon in Gleneagles Hospital before he entered politics. He was appointed a Senior Minister of State for Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2006. With the demise of Dr Balaji, Yio Chu Kang SMC may now be assimilated into Ang Mo Kio GRC in the next general election.   MORE UPDATES TO COME LATER  Read More →

Dear Ukraine Ministry of Foreign Affairs,   I refer to the 24 Sept 2010 Straits Times report of the statements made by Mr Alexander Gorin during the visit of Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew to Ukraine.   Mr Gorin reportedly said that MM Lee is a thinker, philosopher and practitioner who created a state and guided it from Third World to First.  There are many misconceptions in his statement that needs clarification.  Mr Gorin needs to understand that:   1.  Singapore wasn't created by MM Lee in 1965.  It was founded in 1819 by Sir Stamford Raffles.  It was Raffles who saw the potential of our strategic maritime location.  Raffles proved to be correct and Singapore quickly became an important international port of call which led to a thriving entrepot trade.   2.  Singapore has been thriving for nearly 150 years before MM Lee took over in 1959.  Even at independence in 1965, our per capita GDP was already the fourth highest in Asia behind Japan, Hong Kong and Brunei.   3.  Singapore joined Malaysia in 1963 and was booted out in 1965.  If there was anyone who created the state of Singapore, it was Malaysia's prime minister Tungku Abdul Rahman since he was the one who booted Singapore out and thereby 'created' the state of Singapore.   4.  The supposed Singapore success formula of foreign investment led export industrialisation wasn't the brainchild of MM Lee.  It was the brainchild of Dr Albert Winsemius, a Dutch economist sent by the United Nations to Singapore in 1960 to help Singapore industrialise.  Singapore went from Third World to First following Dr Winsemius' plan rather than MM Lee's.   5.  Between 1961 and 1965, Singapore did not pursue export industrialisation but pursued import substitution instead.  Only with our separation from Malaysia in 1965 which rendered import substitution untenable did Singapore finally embark on Dr Winsemius' formula.  Thus, MM Lee didn't act on Dr Winsemius' recommendations immediately and only adopted it when faced with no other choice.  It seems therefore that our split from Malaysia in 1965 was the key factor that led Singapore to adopt export industrialisation rather than some conscious decision by MM Lee.   6.  Singapore is not the only success story but is just one of four East Asian economic miracles alongside Hong Kong, Taiwan and South Korea.  You will not find a similar statesman extraordinaire responsible for the other three economic miracles.  This shows that you don't need a statesman extraordinaire for a country to succeed.  If we were to ask ourselves what is so special about these four economies, there is only one obvious answer, they are all East Asian societies.  Not only that, China too has been rising rapidly over the last twenty years.  The Singapore success is very much an East Asian success rather than the success of any one man.     Thank you     Ng Kok Lim  Read More →