Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Singapore top civil servant boasts luxury culinary course in Paris...then kena back fired!

The Permanent Secretary of Ministry of Environment & Water Resources took 5 weeks off from work and spent more than 40K to attend a French cooking course in Paris for his whole family and himself.

After coming back from the course, he wrote to newspaper to share (or boast) about his experience by disclosing the expenditure.

He then was kena lambasted by public for being insensitive of what he has done, considered he is a public figure and a leader in society. He was even criticised by a minister and fellow MP. Read the source here

What wrong he has done? I think he should not be so high profile in bad time like this. There are many people out there waiting for this opportunity to step on him to get attention and to climb higher. This is a kind of survival skill. Learn well!

Friday, January 16, 2009

Mas Selemat Saga, after 1 year....

After 1 year of futile searching, the Millions-Dollar-salary Home Minister has made a brilliant conclusion:

one, he is in Singapore and hidden by sympathisers unknown to the authorities, or, two, he has fled the country.

This is indeed brilliant!! I am speechless!!!

Read the source here.

Saturday, January 10, 2009

Please don't expose yourself if you don't have a great figure

This is especially true if you are a superstar like Zhang Ziyi, who caught exposing nude in a beach with her boyfriend in US. Very unfortunately, it is not the breach of privacy of personal life that have been criticised by public, but the lousy figure of the superstar that have been widely discussed by the netizens.

Some even said the skinny actor (image above) in Shaolin Soccer of Stephen Chow has a better figure than Zhang Ziyi.

How is a ganster, who was sentenced to death, related to the Chairman of CK Tang?

The most famous gunman in recent Singapore history was hanged death. His kidney was donated to the Chairman of CK Tang, Singapore Tycoon Tang Wee Sung, who was jailed briefly due to a failed attempt to get kidney illegally. Finally, he got his kidney, from a man who committed to illegal acts.

I wonder if the rich fellow has ever imagined that one day he would be related to the ganster in this way?

The source is here.

Friday, January 9, 2009

The Saga Continues....Singapore Flyer filed police report for leaking news on GM resignation

It was bad, then nasty and now messy.

First, the flyer caught fire. 170+ tourists got trapped for 6 hours++.
Next, the GM kena fired (the news said he resigned), citing differences with top management.
Now, the management filed a police report on confidential information leaking on the resignation issue.
I am looking forward to the coming interesting episode. This could be more exciting than the little nyonya!!
Read the source here.

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

GM of Singapore Flyer Kena Fired?

As published on Straits Times:
IN A shock move, Singapore Flyer general manager Steven Yeo - the public face of the attraction since the Dec 23 incident which left 173 people trapped on the giant observation wheel for six hours - has resigned.

He tendered his resignation on Monday, giving six months' notice.

But Flyer management told him to go immediately, and by yesterday afternoon, he had cleared out his desk.


So is it OK that I inteprete this as he was asked to resign? If he resigned, this would mean he got no compensations from the company. Or in other words, he just got fired.

Finally, one right thing is done. Of course somebody has to be responsibility for the incident. The one sitting on the top cannot be immuned of this. There got to be one scapegoat. Somebody's head got to be rolled.

But why there is no head rolled from the top level in the Mas Selamat case?

The source is here.