TR EMERITUS – The Voice Of The Lunatic Fringe – 淡马锡评论 – formerly Temasek Review

Trusting the PAP so much

To All My Dear Singaporeans who Trusted PAP so much. I know all of you trusted PAP very much, but you must also Trust PAP to do the right thing in leadership. Let PAP show you the way to vaccination and you must trust PAP to take the lead. Ask ALL PAP Ministers and MPs to declare under oath that they have kept their vaccine status UP TO DATE. PAP should lead by example to set Vaccine Mandate to all their members: 1) No Jab No PAP Ministerial Post 2) No Jab No PAP MPship 3) No Jab No PAP membership Trust must be based on deeds and actions. PAP is afterall called PEOPLE'S ACTION PARTY. If it only pays lip service without having any action to provide Leadership and assure that these vaccines are really "Safe and Effective", then it might as well change its name to People's Acting Party! So hold your trust here. Please wait for PAP to lead by example in making each and everyone of themselves to take the latest vaccine. Else, you may just misplace your trust afterall. Goh Meng Seng Read More →

Suckers who will hinder Singapore from realising a new political dawn

I had about half an hour of conversation with a young senior taxi driver early this morning and I complimented him for being hard working. After I have reached my destination, I said to myself that this is the typical representation of suckers who will hinder Singapore from realising a new political dawn. I asked him among other things and he told me that he has been driving taxi for <1 year and before that, he worked as a senior supervisor in some logistic company for about 25 years and was subsequently retrenched. I asked if his children are grown up, if he was fairly compensated and did he approach his union or MOM for help etc. His silence and his expression revealed much. I went on to comment that today's pap government is a far cry from the very outstanding, much loved, much respected and remembered old guard pap ministers. I am old enough to know and healthy enough to remember. To me, today we have a mediocre, greedy and often incompetent pap political leadership. The giving of CDC vouchers will earn appreciation, votes and praises initially from our citizens but over time, such a practice must breed a soft, expecting to get something for nothing mentality and even a demanding people. So many of our young people are decently educated but so sadly, so many of them are unable to find decently paid jobs that the government has failed to create and ended up driving private hire vehicles with absolutely no employment protection or future whatsoever. I spoke to him about employment, unemployment and underemployment matters but I am unsure if he understood underemployment enough . I further said that it is seriously time to vote in more opposition MPs and the fear of the pap being replaced is overblown. I believe that I say it on behalf of many fellow citizens that people seriously yearn for more opposition voices in Parliament but they do not want to see the pap go. At least not yet. Thinking citizens just want to see this sub-standard pap leadership weaken to drive home their message. He argued that what if we vote in people worse than the current pap lot? I used a crude example that came to my mind to drive my point and I asked him what if his daughter has been abused, assaulted and kicked by her husband? Will he encourage her to leave him or will he not do that simply because he is afraid that after leaving her abusive and violent husband, his daughter might not be able to find a better man to remarry? He just kept quiet. I do not expect much courage or intellect from suckers. Think. Simon Lim Read More →

Chinese villagers living on cliffs

In the Liangshan Mountains of Sichuan Province in China, there is a small isolated village on a cliff 1,400 meters above sea level. This is the village of Atuler, known as the Cliff Village with 72 families who has been living there for almost 200 years. All travel is by a ladder that leads to the sky at almost right angles. The 2,556 steps of the rickety steel ladder on the steep cliffs are the only way for the villagers to get out of the village. It is the only way for the villagers to get out of the village and one trip is the equivalent of climbing more than 200 floors. A one-way trip takes about 3 hours even for an able-bodied villager. Read More →