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These days, I received many calls from credit card and insurance companies, I believed I did not receive much of these calls until recently. DBS Bank and Income are obvious because my bank account is with DBS and all of us are forced to be with Income due to CPF. The agents would call and beat around the bush and I kept pressing just be straight forward after few attempts. They said, “I am here to help you review your policy or need！” The next moment, the line went dead. LOL My suspicions is that all our banking and personal information were given or sold to agencies or internally for their agents to go after. So Singapore keeps bullshixxing us about data privacy. Why is it now becoming so obvious? Then I also had tonnes of scam calls from PRC operated MOH and Indians SPF so regularly, a few times a week. Where did these people get their information from? Our country is in a mess honestly, we are not in safe environment anymore, we also have become a scam haven. And we are always told how safe is this country blah blah and our laws are so freaking strict. Do you agree?   Stanford Tan      Read More →

Click to enlarge Hand-crafted ‘lo bak go’ brimming with wholesome goodness and a taste of tradition. A well-loved proprietary recipe that often stole the limelight at celebratory occasions such as Lunar New Year, Amelia’s Homemade Carrot Cake is made with care, heart, quality ingredients, and no nasty additives. Crafted with carefully-sourced ingredients such as lup cheong, or Chinese sausage, dried shiitake mushrooms and dried shrimp, each carrot cake comprises a generous amount of daikon or Chinese radish; grated slightly coarser than usual, which adds bite and provides textural contrast to the otherwise smooth cake. Seasoned with a light hand – no MSG is added, Amelia’s Homemade Carrot Cake showcases the innate sweetness of daikon, which is matched perfectly with the savoury notes imparted by the Chinese sausage and dried shrimp. Extremely versatile, this moreish snack is excellent steamed and paired with some chilli oil, or fried with XO sauce, eggs and beansprouts a la dim sum restaurant style, and owner Amelia Teh also recommends cutting 2-cm thick slices and pan-frying with just a dab of oil till golden brown and the edges crisp. A home-based business, owner Amelia Teh only prepares a limited quantity a day to ensure consistency and quality, and the cakes are delivered the day it is made so customers can be assured of optimal freshness. Each 700g rectangular box is priced at $12. Customers who order five boxes and more will receive free delivery while a $8 delivery charge applies for orders of 4 boxes and less. An advance order of 2 days is recommended. Orders can be made via Whatsapp at +6594519040.   For more information or assistance, please contact: Amelia Teh: 9637 7874 Elger Kua: 9451 9040 Official facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/ameliacarrotcake      Read More →

Mr S.W. Yoong Is Singapore a democratic and egalitarian society? The answer may be an intriguing one especially with government tongue-in-cheek. I come from a very humble beginning and could only manage to receive basic education. Tertiary education was only meant for scholarship holders and scions of affluent families. I joined the Singapore Police Force because it was a good career option for one with basic education. I joined with an open mind and conviction. Singapore was under the Emergency Regulation to combat communist armed struggle to seize power. The situation was extremely turbulent. I was posted to the Special Branch amd was in the front line fighting the communists and we were prme targets for assassination by the communist killer square. Lee Kuan Yew had already returned to Singapore as a Cambridge-trained lawyer and was an up-and- coming barrister who was also a very ambitious politician. He was handicapped in his mission in that he lacked a mass base. So when Lim Chin Siong emerged out of nowhere to become the undisputed leader of the Communist United Front end of 1953/54 Lee Kuan Yew saw him as a godsend to provide a mass base for his political ambition.But he was later jolted out of his fantasy when he realised that Lim Chin Siong was an insurmountable obstacle to his ambition. He formed the PAP in1954 to advance his political standing and ambition but the mass base was really with Lim Chin Siong.Lee Kuan Yew and his sturdy fellow combatants were simply no match to the communists with Lim Chin Siong showing his prowess of his leadership. It was Special Branch with the imprimatur of Chief Minister Lim Yew Hock who rescued Lee Kuan Yew and his fellow combatants from being devoured by the communists and paved the way for Lee Kuan Yew to capture power with a land-slide victory in the 1959 general election and propelled him to the post of Prime Minister. In 1961 the US Central intelligence Agency (CIA) tried to recruit me to be their agent to supply them with sensitive security intelligence. I played along in an ambivalent role which resulted in a crackdown on the CIA and the arrest of four CIA top officers. This had an earth-shattering effect which reverberated right up to the White House and rattled the American President John Kennedy and his coterie of ministers. Lee Kuan Yew exploited the situation and raised his world political standing to such a dizzying height that he overawed the Americans which was his intention. There was a demand for USD 30 millions but John Kennedy was no pushover and offered Lee Kuan Yew USD one million which LKY considered an insult to accept. Will PM Lee Hsien Loong or any of his gutsy ministers be able to emulate this patriotic performance? I think it must have been Divine blessing that George Bogaars became the Director Special Branch. He was such a consummate outstanding Director in the maintenance of national security that it mesmerised Lee Kuan Yew who relied heavily on Bogaars for his survival and existence. When Lee Hsien Loong took over from the seat-warmer PM Goh Chok Thong, he was quite oblivious to the sacrifices made by civil servants like us to make it possible for him and his cabinet stooges to sit on their fat asses to enrich themselves with millions of people's money to wallow in the luxuries of their high office. When the president and vice-president of the Pensioners' Association approached them for a raise of the pensioners' poverty-level pensions they were peremptorily dismissed with a most inhuman admonition :You have served your purpose. What you get is enough. We are waiting for you to die. No one who is a human being will say such inhuman utterence. Lee Kuan Yew for no reason at all defamed me with a blatant lie which he delivered in the august Parliament House and telecast to Singapore and the world. No Singapore judge had the courage to convict him if he was sued. I requested PM Lee Hsien Loong to make a public apology for his father's sin abd he simply remained dumb like a dummy. The paradox of this comic opera is while PM Lee Hsien Loong treats me with animosity I am making a modest contribution to ISD. How valuable is my contribution Lee Hsien Loong can easily get ISD to apprise him, if this had not already been done. I am doing this because I think that God wants me to do and not to take it with me to my grave. I am living on borrowed time at 95 and would like to keep a low key while waiting to be called home to be with the Lord.   Yoong Siew Wah   * The author was the Director of Singapore’s Internal Security Department (ISD) from 1971 to 1974. He was Director of the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB) in the 1960s, and had a distinguished career in the Singapore Special Branch in the 1950s.      Read More →