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Since our publication of an article on the “DOG” food which YOG “volunteers are being fed with in contrast to the buffet spread the YOG athletes and officials are enjoying, a massive outcry has erupted in cyberspace forcing the caterer for YOG Singapore Food Industries (*SFI) to improve the food for the volunteers. Replying to media enquiries, a spokesperson for the YOG committee said: “We are aware of the feedback (on the meal) and have taken immediate action. We will work with the caterers to continually improve the meal standards,”. Accordingly, volunteers for the YOG can expect a reasonable improvement in the quantity and quality of food served to them as promised by the YOG committee but that was not to be. One of our readers who is a volunteer at ECP for YOG emailed this photo to us (which was taken yesterday) of the 'improved' food.  He has this to say about the 'improved' food: Imagine after working one whole tiring morning and you just need a simple, tasty meal to perk you up. And we get this crap? It did not taste good to start with. HOWEVER, THE MOST LAUGHABLE PART WAS WHEN I ASKED FOR A LARGER PORTION OF THE CHICKEN AT THE COUNTER. Guess what they told me "Sorry... this is standard sized" Apparently from the photo, the quantity of food have improved with the addition of 3 small pieces of what looked like 'fish cakes' or 'toufu' but the quality of the food leaves little to be desired.     John Doe *Singapore Food Industries (SFI), a subsidiary of the Singapore Airport Terminal Services (Sats) had been awarded a $5.5 million catering services contract by the YOG organising committee. Its contract covers meals for up to 7,000 athletes, officials and volunteers at the Youth Olympic Village.     EDITORS’ NOTE: Has your life been turned upside down by the YOG? Please share your views with us. We assure you that your identity will be kept strictly CONFIDENTIAL. We will be your UNCENSORED VOICE. We will publish your letter in FULL with ZERO editing, moderating or censoring. You do not have to suffer in silence! You have the RIGHT to speak up as a citizen of this country. Remember: you are a CITIZEN of Singapore, not a SLAVE of the PAP regime. Our mailbox has been swarmed by letters from YOG volunteers for the last few days. Unless you specifically want us to publish your REAL NAME, we will use a pseudonym instead. Please understand that due to manpower constraints, we may not be able to publish your letters immediately and we will have to stagger them a few hours apart to ensure that they get maximum exposure. Please keep your feedback coming! Singapore for SINGAPOREANS! Your interests always come FIRST.     Related articles: >> Dr Vivian: I am confident that Singaporeans are proud of YOG >> PM Lee: YOG has struck a “chord” with our people >> Dr Vivian: YOG venues will not become “white elephants” >> Online pressure forced SFI to provide better food for YOG volunteers >> Civil Service Club offering free YOG tickets >> Journey of YOG flame costs Singaporeans $7 million dollars >> Corny YOG propaganda in Straits Times >> Tharman: YOG enthusiasm is real >> Polytechnic student: I don’t care about YOG >> JC students being “volunteered” for YOG >> YOG: What the HELL is that? >> PAP provides YOG athletes and officials three daily buffets >> YOG students being given “dog food” >> Singapore students forced to volunteer for YOG >> Poor ticket sales forced closure of YOG gallery section >> PM Lee calls on Singaporeans to support YOG >> Young Singaporeans hurl vulgarities at YOG >> Dr Vivian wants Singaporeans to celebrate YOG >> NTU students complain about YOG >> Dr Vivian: Sports is not about “petty politics” >> More than 300 Singaporeans joined “I hate YOG” Facebook >> CNA poll: 90 percent of Singaporeans “not interested” in YOG >> Slovak YOG Ambassador slams YOG venues of “school standard” only >> Two Facebook groups calling for boycott of YOG >> Free condoms for YOG officials and athletes >> Singapore helping to repair Jamaica’s stadium in return for YOG marketing >> Former stripper to choreograph opening ceremony of YOG >> Desperate PAP wants Singaporeans to get “passionate” about YOG >> PAP to Singaporeans: Give way to YOG vehicles or get fined $130 >> PM Lee wants Singaporeans to do their part for YOG >> Only six teams in YOG soccer tournament Please join our Facebook page here and invite your friends to do so to create awareness of the current affairs affecting Singaporeans. Please use our online web form to contact us.        Read More →

I am a NSF been called by my unit to go and help out for the YOG.. Initally I was quite happy, as I feel I can do something for our nation. However does our country treat us the same way we treat them? I seriously Doubt so! Because from the food that have been served to us, it says alot of thing about them. They have been serving us that kind of foodbox that you guys have seen in the previous post for one month plus and they never do anything to improve it. They even threaten us that if we dear to waste any of the food, they will not indent food anymore for us which I think is bullshit..we are all putting in our effort to try to make this Yog a success, and the minimum they can do for us is to keep our stomach full, but with the standard of food that they are giving to us, its really very hard for us to put in our best. Previously when the NDP people was also there at the F1 pit, we always saw them eating Pizza Hut, KFC etc etc..and we were thinking maybe the fastfood resturant wasnt able to provide so many in a day, however even after the NDP was over, we are still been served the same kind of food which is tasteless, dry and horrible to us everyday and yes, we end up throwing most of the food away. I seriously hope that they can do something to improve on the food and attuide towards all the Fellow NSF that are helping out at the YOG, as we are all HUMAN, so please treat us like one, by providing us with some decent food. Thanks.     Yong Han    Read More →

Amidst the rising chorus of disapproval, unhappiness and anger among ordinary Singaporeans at the Youth Olympic Games (YOG), the minister in charge of bringing the PAP's mega "vanity fair" to Singapore Dr Vivian Balakrishnan continues to ignore the genuine sentiments on the ground and put up a brave front to pretend that all is well. The embattled Dr Vivian has come under increasing fire from Singaporeans for bursting the YOG budget by more than three times to an obscene $387 million dollars and the dire conditions that Singapore "volunteers" are being forced to work under including being given "DOG" food while the foreign delegates are being served three buffet meals daily. Despite the extensive media coverage on the YOG and intense "astroturfing" efforts by various government agencies such as MOE, grassroots organizations and government-linked companies to generate fake support for it, most Singaporeans are simply not bothered by the event at all, prompting IOC President Jacques Rogges to express his concerns that the prevailing "infectious apathy" among Singaporeans may diminish the YOG's "prestige" if there is any to speak of in the first place. When asked by the Brunei Times about the criticisms hurled at the YOG from opposition leader Dr Chee Soon Juan, Dr Vivian asked Dr Chee to see the "response from the ground" as the torch is being passed around: "The answer lies on the ground, what people do and how they feel. At this point of time, I am quite confident that Singaporeans are proud of this and want to show our best to the world," he boasted rather unashamedly. Dr Vivian should first view the video clip below on the YOG Torch Relay at Simei Green before embarrassing himself further: [Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdtGHSKyCTs&feature=player_embedded#!] As we can see from the above, the number of participants in the YOG torch rally far outnumbered the "supporters" who were being ferried to the scene to "cheer". The passer-bys ignored the rally completely and one poor boy appeared to be so traumatized by the noise emanating from the rally that he fell down from his bicycle when cycling on the pavement. (towards the end of the clip) Dr Vivian doesn't seem to understand or appreciate the basic fact that genuine passion must come from the heart and not orchestrated from above as the PAP regime is wont to do. Instead of showing our "best" to the world, we have ended up being an international "laughing stock" for taking the art of "astroturfing" to another new level altogether which would have put Communist China and North Korea to shame.   EDITORS’ NOTE: Has your life been turned upside down by the YOG? Please share your views with us. We assure you that your identity will be kept strictly CONFIDENTIAL. We will be your UNCENSORED VOICE. We will publish your letter in FULL with ZERO editing, moderating or censoring. You do not have to suffer in silence! You have the RIGHT to speak up as a citizen of this country. Remember: you are a CITIZEN of Singapore, not a SLAVE of the PAP regime. Our mailbox has been swarmed by letters from YOG volunteers for the last few days. Unless you specifically want us to publish your REAL NAME, we will use a pseudonym instead. Please understand that due to manpower constraints, we may not be able to publish your letters immediately and we will have to stagger them a few hours apart to ensure that they get maximum exposure. Please keep your feedback coming! Singapore for SINGAPOREANS! Your interests always come FIRST. Related articles: >> PM Lee: YOG has struck a "chord" with our people >> Dr Vivian: YOG venues will not become “white elephants” >> Online pressure forced SFI to provide better food for YOG volunteers >> Civil Service Club offering free YOG tickets >> Journey of YOG flame costs Singaporeans $7 million dollars >> Corny YOG propaganda in Straits Times >> Tharman: YOG enthusiasm is real >> Polytechnic student: I don’t care about YOG >> JC students being “volunteered” for YOG >> YOG: What the HELL is that? >> PAP provides YOG athletes and officials three daily buffets >> YOG students being given “dog food” >> Singapore students forced to volunteer for YOG >> Poor ticket sales forced closure of YOG gallery section >> PM Lee calls on Singaporeans to support YOG >> Young Singaporeans hurl vulgarities at YOG >> Dr Vivian wants Singaporeans to celebrate YOG >> NTU students complain about YOG >> Dr Vivian: Sports is not about “petty politics” >> More than 300 Singaporeans joined “I hate YOG” Facebook >> CNA poll: 90 percent of Singaporeans “not interested” in YOG >> Slovak YOG Ambassador slams YOG venues of “school standard” only >> Two Facebook groups calling for boycott of YOG >> Free condoms for YOG officials and athletes >> Singapore helping to repair Jamaica’s stadium in return for YOG marketing >> Former stripper to choreograph opening ceremony of YOG >> Desperate PAP wants Singaporeans to get “passionate” about YOG >> PAP to Singaporeans: Give way to YOG vehicles or get fined $130 >> PM Lee wants Singaporeans to do their part for YOG >> Only six teams in YOG soccer tournament Please join our Facebook page here and invite your friends to do so to create awareness of the current affairs affecting Singaporeans. 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