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Due to lack of public support for the Youth Olympic Games (YOG), the PAP regime has resorted to forcing Singapore students to "volunteer" for the event to generate fake grassroots support to save its own "face." According to netizens, students from schools in Ang Mo Kio were "asked" to line the streets last Saturday to "welcome" the YOG torch before it arrived at Nanyang Polytechnic. One irate teacher, who wished to remain anonymous, wrote: "My school students are going to be made to stand around, under the 3pm-hot sun, to pretend that we support YOG. How is that fair? It is like as if we are a communist state – forcing the children to do something that is not only agaisnt their will, but it is also something that would not affect our lives greatly. If the students want to watch and support the YOG torch, they can watch it on their own! Why force the other students to fake support under the sun? 90% of the students in Singapore don’t even care about the YOG, and yet we are forced to pretend that we do." Another student complained: "I am from Temasek Poly and I am forced to take part in YOG. It is made so compulsory that in the event that i do not take part, I will not get a testimony at the end of my graduation. That is the most irritating thing right now." Not only are the YOG "volunteers" required to spend long hours doing "sai kang" (hokkien for shit work), they are also served "dog food". One obviously peeved YOG "volunteer" sent us a photo of the food the volunteers were given: "This is what I am eating everyday. Even my dog is fed better food!" she wrote. In the meantime, public anger over the YOG continues to boil over with nearly a thousand Singaporeans joining the "I hate YOG" Facebook to express their disgust and disdain for the PAP's "vanity fair". Have you been "volunteered" for the YOG? Please share with us your unpleasant experience here.   Related articles: >> 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 →

Flash floods have occurred again (in less than fifty years) in Novena and Thomson ironically 2 days after PUB Chairman Tan Gee Paw was given the National Day award of the Distinguished Service Order by the PAP regime ostensibly for solving Singapore’s perennial flood problems which sparked a massive outcry among Singaporeans still feeling peeved by the recent spate of flooding. The National Environment Agency had issued a heavy rain warning on its website while PUB said in the same statement that "flash floods may occur in low-lying areas in the event of heavy rain." A netizen has taken some photos of the alleged flooding in Novena along Thomson Road and uploaded it to Hardwarezone here According to unconfirmed reports from some netizens, there is flooding in MacPherson Road near the Mazda showroom, Bukit Timah Road and parts of Yishun as well. PAP Environment Minister Yaacob Ibrahim said last year that such floods occur only "once in fifty years", but Singapore has been hit by at least five flash floods in the last two months alone with Orchard Road being flooded twice, resulting in millions of dollars of losses and damages. Instead of apologizing for the failure of his ministry to control the flooding, Mr Yaacob heaped generous praises on PUB for doing the "right" thing and accepted its findings that the floods were caused by "intense storms." Despite rising disgruntlement and anger among Singaporeans at the inability of the PAP regime to control the rampant flooding, PAP leaders have blatantly refused to accept any responsibility for it though they are paid the world's highest salaries. PAP strongman Lee Kuan Yew even chided Singaporeans for wanting "everything to be perfect" and claimed that the flooding is an "act of God" which "no amount of engineering can prevent." At 87 years of age, Lee is paid more than $3 million dollars a year for doing "nothing much except forecasting" as he admitted himself. Unfortunately, Lee's "forecasting skills" don't seem to include predicting which parts of Singapore will be hit by flash floods next. EDITORS' NOTE: Is your place flooded? Please take a snapshot of the flood and email to us or upload it directly to our Facebook. We are also looking for the elusive photo of a YOG bus being stranded in a flood and is willing to pay $20 for it. 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 →

Singapore's civil servants will be getting a "growth bonus" which is pegged to the country's GDP performance. Though PAP ministers will be expecting a hefty 10 percent or more bonus at the end of the year, civil servants are given at most 0.8 month in their "growth bonus". PAP MP Halimah Yacob who is currently involved in working out the exact quantum, said she hopes the bonus would be a "reasonable" amount. "I hope that they will not be disappointed and that there will be a growth bonus given to our public sector employees who have also worked together with employees in the private sector to contribute to help us out of the recession," she was quoted as saying in Channel News Asia. The miserly bonus is unlikely to be of much use to public sector employees who have to cope with rampant inflation brought forth by Singapore's economic rebound. While Singapore's economy has performed strongly this year due largely to the global recovery, the median wages of the average Singapore worker remains stagnant at $2,400 monthly. In the meantime, the over-paid PAP ministers will be laughing their way to the bank when they receive their bonus for 2010. 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 →