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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

Don't not ever sit and close your eyes in MRT. You will be on camera!!

A popular website in Singapore, Stomper Scene, is obviously a menace to all MRT passengers who sit and sleep. The above photo was taken and put up in the website with a story telling the girl fell asleep while there was a pregnant woman standing next to her.

This is ridiculous!! Where is the proof? Who is the witness? Where is the pregnant woman?? The story teller is abviously naive and insensitive. If this is morally right to put a photo of a person without his/her consent and attach an untrackable story on it?

If this is OK, I will just snap a photo of any young passenger sitting with the eyes closed in MRT and put the photo on internet, telling this fellow immediately fell asleep once noticing an old man or pregnant woman standing in front. Isn't this easy???

Why run the Singapore Flyer when there is no expert here?

Foreign International experts are needed to investigate the fire accident of Singapore flyer which trapped 173 people for more than 6 hours on December 23.

This is to say there is no expert in Singapore to manage or to understand the A to Z of the world largest observation wheel here, yet we still let it handle hundreds of tourists everyday?

Obviously, money comes first, reputation is second.

The news is here.

Shameful Singapore Flyer trapped 173 tourists for 6 hours!!

Singapore obviously cannot stand the focus now is all on the new JB CIQ, and decided to setup a more dramatic story to snatch the attention.

Now we have, the icon of Singapore, Singapore Flyer, experienced a power outage and trapped over 100 tourists in the cabins for more than 6 hours. Most of them were only rescued after the power was only restored at 11:15pm.

"It is a very peculiar incident," the general manager of the attraction, Steven Yeo said of the latest case, which is under investigation.

He said some trapped passengers were "a bit disturbed" by the experience.

Yeah, Singapore Boleh!

It is more than chaotic to enter Singapore now!

The new Johor new CIQ has totally defeated the purpose by spending $1.3 billions to build a white elephant to cause suffering to its people.

This is by far the lousiest project by Malaysia government and it has become a laughing stock in Singapore. PM Abdullah Badawi said this is a landmark building of Johor. I call it the shame of Johor.

Malaysia has Singapore's Power now!

After selling off the iconic Raffles Hotel to foreign company, Singapore again wowed the public by selling the Power Generator, Singapore Power Seraya, to YLT of Malaysia for $3.8 billions.

From now onwards, Malaysia will have Singapore power. Good work, government!

Read the news here.

Beautiful woman, a lawyer, first Singaporean killed in Terrorist Attack

Finally, the flame of terrorism has claimed a life of Singaporeans. The just married, beautiful lawyer was killed at the terrorist attack in Mumbai. It is already not a matter of how safe Singapore is. As world is moving to globalisation, people are connected to all places and all people. We are all not immuned from the threat of terrorism.

Read the news here.

Namewee downgrades himself by making low class movie

He thought he is cool? No, he just showed the world how unmatured and low class he is. Somebody just can't wait to disgrace himself?

Michael Jackson will become a Singaporean soon

After Gong Li, Singapore is set to have another superstar become the new citizen. He is Machael Jackson!

Under the influence of Barrack Obama, whose motto is "Change", Michael Jackson has changed from Black to White, pop star to contract singer, multi-millionaire to bankrupt, now a Amen to Allah. Soon he will change from a American to Singaporean. Hooray!

Read the news here.

Mem have less chance winning argument from women, proven statistically

Women are problems, proven scientifically

Sleep walk if you want to rape. You are not guilty!

A woman accused a man of raping her but UK court let the man walk free because the judge believed his defend that he was actually sleep-walking and unaware of what he was doing.

I think 'Ripley's believe it or not' has a new source of stories

Good job, gentlemen.

Read the news here.

The mistake is made...and ignored.

In the end of September, Singapore government raised the tariff of electricity for 21% based on the projection that oil price would reach USD150 in 3 months. Now 1 1/2 month has passed. The petrol price dropped from then USD100 to today's USD57.

Singapore is always acting fast, even so fast that it acts for something has not yet happened. But for something has already happened (petrol price has dropped), nothing is done.

Good job!

Economy is bad. All clowns coming to town!

This uncle is most likely one of the 900 staff retrenched by DBS recently. Out of desperation, he tried to disguise himself as a Malay woman and to rob a UOB bank with a remote bomb, as he claimed.

I think he must learn from the real robbers in Malaysia, where heavy firearms are used. If he really wants to rob the bank, rob like a man lar! How come disgused himself as a woman??? Shame on you!!

Read the news here.

New trend coming!! Exposing your breast!!

After the beauty contestant, Adeline Yeo, set an example to lead the young generation for the new trend, we see some amatuers are following her footsteps to bring us more entertainment.

Singaporeans are really kiasu. Everything also wants to be number 1.

Read the news here.

Singapore will get an Oscar winner soon!

With the addition of ready-made superstar Gong Li becoming a citizen, Singapore will soon get onto another world-class stage to seize the Oscar award in near future. After the success investment in China squad to get Singapore an Olympic medal, this is expected to be another short-cut to bring Singapore another glory.

Read the news here.

Pregnant woman wants $1,600 2 months job?

Just watched a documentary from mediaCorp about a young Singaporean couple who are facing financial problem. They bought a 4-rooms flat, a car and hired a maid. Before the woman was pregnant and out of job, the combined income of the couple was 3k+.



The woman cried in front of TV, saying that no one wanted to hire her because of her pregnancy. Then it is very miserable that they have to hire the maid while they are now only depending on her husband's 2K+ (before CPF deduction) salary to maintain the car (1K+ a month) and the maid.

Then the TV host arranged a job interview for the woman in a travel agency. Knowing that she is to deliver in 2 months time, the employer offers $800 a month job to the woman. But the woman rejected the job because she wanted a $1,600 pay-check.

Is this really a reality documentary or a comedy? Couldn't stop laughing when watching this show. Thanks for the good work, MediaCorp!

Singapore Table Tennis Saga continues...It is still all about money

The national coach of Singapore Table Tennis team, which brought home the first ever silver medal in recent Olympic game, rejected an insulting offer of SGD6,300 a month salary.

Singapore has spent millions of dollar on these Foreign talents to bring glory home, up our status as a 'sport mighty house'. I am not sure how many commoners are really proud of this. But a sure reality is that cost of living is raising, bus fare, electricity bills, housing rents and food costs are getting harder to pay.

Yet, our national hero is still not satisfying with the insulting salary.
Read the news here.

Price hike is not arbitrary, people deserved to pay and pay

Read the news here.

So what the justification is estimation is way off? Government in end of Sept that the petrol price will hit USF150 in the coming 3 month. One month later, petrol price drops to 1-year low and below USD70.

So what? Yet our minister still proudly said that the price hike is not arbitrar. The minister even said that if not because of this price hike solution, people could even pay up more!! Simply impressive. You win liao lar and I am speechless.

Let's just listen to government and pay and pay, and then say "Thank you!"

Singapore's Projection of oil price:USD155 in 3 months, and charge you 21% more on Electricity bill!!

But the oil price has since dropped below USD90. I dunno which scholar came up such a brilliant projection and made all the commoners like suffering.

If such projection can be trusted, why not Temasek rushs to store the oil now and then sell off to make profit when it really reaches USD155??

Read the news here.

After F1 race, YOUR electricity bills up 21%

One day after the Singapore first ever historic F1 race, the government annouced the biggest ever electricity bills adjustment: 21% up!!

The tourists oriented event has finally finished. It left the visitors an unforgettable experience. OK, now, someone foot the bill? Who? Read the answer here.

Saying Sorry is not enough. Please resign. This is Singapore, you know?

Just 2 months into the position of the president of Singapore Table Tennis Association, Ms Lee Bee Wah made herself famous for the wrong reason.

Singapore grabbed its first Olympic Medal in 48 years but the whole nation is not in mood to celebrate. Kudos to Ms Lee! She made a big fuss out of a medal-unrelated match and spoilt the jubilant mood at a timing cannot be more wrong.

When she was back to Singapore on the first day, where she still insisted she has done no wrong. However, there is when Sports Minister Dr Vivan B stepped in to steer the direction and then finally Ms Lee back down and apologised.

But why is she still holding the position? Isn't that blatanly obvious that she is NOT FIT for the job? Why we need a President to demoralize and create bad news to everybody? If she is not competent, why isn't she replaced? Is she too free from her constituency and find nothing better to do?

Come on, this is Singapore. We have high standard and we always strive for excellent. This lady is definitely incapable. Since she has admitted mistake. Then just bow, and go, please!

Choose your greatest moment of Olympic 2008, Singapore version

The Olympic 2008 is finally over. Let's reminisce the best moments happened during these days... 1. Singapore won the first medal in 48 years by the 'China Squad' in Table Tennis. China Team A Vs China Team B (from Singapore) were in the Women Team final. Eventually, the real China team won the gold medal. But to Singapore, it cannot be more thrilled to win the Silver medal by the foreign talents.

2. Jade Seah admitted saying Fvck on TV!! But no head rolls. We regret it happens but let's close rank and move on. Is it because babe got privileges?

3. In another incident, someone is not so lucky. The manager of Singapore Table Tennis team, Anthony Lee, kena sacked! Apparently is because of no coach was arranged for the Singapore Men Table Tennis player Gao Ning in a sure-loss match. If Anthony Lee is a hot babe like Jade Seah, I am sure we got to close rank and move on again. Too bad, Anthony Lee.

4. Singapore Flag Bearer, Li Jia Wei swept the floor with Singapore flag in the Opening Ceremony. In other countries, this is a serious insult to the national pride and considered a crime. However, for the sake of the medal, we forgave Li Jia Wei. Our medal drought for 48 years has been saved because of the brilliant investment on these FTs. National pride isn't that important on this matter.

Singapore now has a world class actress: Gong Li!!

Not only that Singapore has world class table tennis players, now Singapore even has a world class actress: Gong Li (巩俐).

The winner of several international movies awards such as two-time Golden Rooster, two-time Hundred Flowers Award, Berlinale Camera, Cannes Festival Trophy, National Board of Review, New York Film Critics Circle Award, and Volpi Cup winning Chinese film actress, is now a Singapore citizen.

This is a new purchased item of ready-made foreign talent to boost Singapore to the world class stage is various area. Soon, Singapore will have an Oscar Winner. Congratulations!

Read the news here.

No Good English is allowed in Kopitiam.

Other than No pets, No Smoking and No Outside Food, our local food courts should put on one more 'No': No Good English.

A coffeeshop helper jokingly mocked an elderly man for speaking polite proper English when ordering a cup of coffee. Too bad, an Indian man withnessed this incident and blew it up and brought it to newspaper.

Read the news here.

The coffeeshop helper was blamed for being low-class and impolite. Hey, come on! Isn't this just a normal-than-usual thing happens everyday in our life? Being friendly and having some fun to people while working. What is the issue with that???

Life is already very tough for these low-income people. Yet, some people still want to make a mountain out of this molepile to score points. This might be how these people survive: step on other people and tell how bad other person is in order to show how good you are!

Majulah, Singapura!

Jade Seah really said the F* word on Channel 5 live show!

So what she is a beauty queen, a babe next-door and looks innocent to many? She DID utter the F-word! It has been confirmed by the MediaCorp.

I really wonder what kind of personality or life these beautiful characters have behind the camera.

What do you think?

Finally, Singapore bought a medal in Olympic!

After 48 years of a dry medal spell, Singapore has come out triumphant at this year's Beijing Olympics. Many thanks the generous investment in the Chinese squad, we made it.

By the way, Malaysia's badminton player Lee Chong Wei also stormed into the final on the same day. He is not a purchased item, but a home-grown player. On this issue, Malaysia is a better investor than Singapore.

Another lousy investment from Temasek

This time, it brought disgrace to the country.

Li Jiawei, the 27 year-old China-trained table tennis player, who became Singapore citizen at the age of 18, voluteered to be the flag bearer for Singapore in the opening ceremony of Beijing Olympic 2008.

She got her wish granted. With billions of eyes watching from worldwide, the Singapore flag she held had become a floor sweeper instead. The flag was dragged along the floor for most of the time during the team marching in the stadium. No one from the marching team noticed or came forward to rectify the disaster. It was a dsgraceful night!

The money has definitely brought talents to Singapore, but maybe not patriotism.

Power outage at Singapore Power Building, and caused power failure to others

With the recent rate hike of electricity, Singapore Power should enjoy more fund to beef up its facilities.

But instead, the world class organization brought more suffering to others with its 'power'.

Read the news here.

Escape from Singapore 2008

27 February 2008, Singapore's most-wanted terrorist, Mas Selamat escaped from detention center.

Gone case. This fellow is already married and bearing kids in somewhere else.







12 June 2008, a detainee tried to escape from court. Police was able to get back from outside the court.




22 June 2008, father used his son's passport to board a plane from Changi Airport.

He passed through immigration and security checkpoints and even a face-to-face inspection.

Of all the incidents above, heads were rolled, staff were reprimanded but our millionaire minister secured his post.

This is Singapore.

Singapore's rape case gone in a day from Newspaper

Usually, Singapore's media would publish Malaysia's crime stories, particularly rape cases, on the newspaper for consecutive days.

However, the recent rape case in Singapore, happened on a NUS student some more, appeared only on the paper for 1 day.

What does this imply? Rape case in Singapore is too common to publish?

Read the full story on Straits Times here.

Singapore expands its size, lawfully this time

By simple measuring with Google Earth, Pedra Branca is 38.6km away from Singapore but 14.1km from Johor. Yet, Singapore successfully claimed Pedra Branca to be its land.

I am not sure how this land will benefit the fellow Singaporeans and fight with inflations, but I hope this is not another wayang show with tons of money spent just to get a morale victory.

Congratulations to Singapore! Next we want to claim Johor to be ours!

Toads gave early warning before the deadly earthquake

Hundred thousands of toads swarmed to cross the road before the deadly earthquake hit the central China. The earthquake killed more than 8,500 people in the Sichuan province of China.

This reminds me the incident at Phuket in December 2004, where the elephant ran up to a hill while tourists were still riding on it. Shortly after that, the faithful tsunami which killed hundred thousands of people took place.

A mistake that won't bother to change

At morning 7:53am, the mistake was spotted. No big deal. Who doesn't make mistake.





Anyway, the world class newspaper should quickly spot this error and make correction accordingly.


£50 and £50 billions are big different!!


But, surprisingly, at 4:45pm when I looked again. The mistake is still there.

Anyway, I guess this is only a peanut amount to some people. My dear readers, take it or leave. Not happy don't read lah!

Garang women wow wow wow...

After the court awarded her 'only' £25million divorce settlement with Sir Paul McCartney, Heather Mills threw water over her former husband's lawyer and then laughingly announced that she had been "baptised in court."

Read the news here.

The local version of garang woman is obviously outmatched. The wife of Singapore richest man, the CEO of Venture Corp, 'only' managed to slap a SIA's air stewardess in the business class to make the news.

The victim upgraded the case from civil suit to criminal charge against the tai-tai. That means jail term is possible.



The local saga is here and here.

After Mas Selemat, another world class mistake

Singapore revises January manufacturing output growth to 11.7 pct from 6.9 pct

2008-3-11 09:00:00 a.m. HKT, XFNA SINGAPORE (Thomson Financial) -

The Economic Development Board said Tuesday Singapore's manufacturing output grew at an annual pace of 11.7 percent in January instead of 6.9 percent as it previously reported.

The board said it made a mistake in the computation of the data when it published the January manufacturing performance on Feb 26.

After recomputing the data, the board said it found that electronics output grew by 8.7 percent in January instead of contracting by 6.7 percent. Semiconductor output rose 6.8 percent instead of dropping 10.1 percent as reported earlier and data storage output grew by 14.4 percent instead of contracting 6.3 percent. The board also made minor revisions to the output of the chemical, precision engineering, transport engineering and general manufacturing industries for the month.

""We have strengthened our processes to avoid such errors from occurring again in future. We sincerely apologise for any inconvenience caused,"" the board said.

Let's close rank. It should not have happened, but it did. I am sorry about that. Let's move on. We are not infallible. We will find out what is wrong with the toilet.....and we will continue to get the multi-milions salary...good bye!!

Got big mansion but got no life to enjoy??

Infamous Malaysia Politician Zakaria Deros, who built a jaw-dropping mansion (or private istana) illegally in Klang, has died in a heart attack.

Somehow I just feel that it is like watching a drama. All the good guys win in the end. All the bad guys served them right eventually with punishments.

Now the question: Who will take over the mansion??

Where the hell is Mat Selamat?

Our million dollar minister apologised for the incident which causes a massive man hunt of the terrorist. It also resulted a massive long queue in the causeway which the lorry can move 500m in 3 hours! Massive manpower of policemen and army have been deployed for the search and massive MMS messages will be sent out by telco to subscribers to ask for help.

I wonder what the economic loss has resulted because of this incident. If a multi-million dollar CEO of a company causes this damage to the country, he will definitely be severely punished. Our ministers, who linked their salary to the CEO of private sector, have not yet addressed what accoutability or responsiblity they will shoulder. But we have all been asked not 'speculate'.

KLIA is a better airport than Changi Airport?

The fact says 'Yes'.
Read here.

I think the Malaysia Government must have bribed the committee. Singapore is the best one!!

The old men gathering - See what will happen to me later?

Mr Lee Kuan Yew, 84, and Dr Mahathir, 82, visited the ailing Suharto, 86 in the hospital, Jakarta.

The once most powerful trio in the region have evitably moved into the fading age. Other than showing their concerns to the old friend, I believe Mr Lee and Dr M also wanted to get a glimpse of their fate in the near future.