February 19, 2009 at 8:43 am · Filed under General
Yup, it is finally happening. The DORM is gonna come up.
While I was keeping my fingers crossed that the shitty economic conditions will convince the powers that be to scrap this whole stupid idea, I guess it is a little too late to back track now ya?
I mean everyday, we are being greeted with news of layoffs so where to find people to stay?
Maybe it will be completed in time for jobless Singaporeans who can’t afford to rent a room.
Or perhaps this will be the low end version of the Singapore Flyer. Next thing you’ll probably see are advertisements asking you to SMS to a particular number and you might get a free stay in the newly commissioned and infamous Serangoon Dormitory.
Budget time is always interesting time. It is even more interesting in times of economic uncertainty. People start to say stupid and sometimes dangerous things in parliament.
Here’s a dangerous term: Our goose that lays golden eggs.
“Lim Wee Kiak, MP for Sembawang GRC, said: “Our reserves and investments must have also taken a hit and decreased just like all asset classes in the global market. How much of our reserves is left after the spending on these two programmes? Can the Finance Minister assure the House that our goose that lays golden eggs year after year will continue to do so after this withdrawal and after this financial shock?”
- Channel News Asia
It is very dangerous for a member of parliament (or anybody else) to see our reserves and investments as a goose that lays golden eggs.
Unless your name is Jack, and you have a pouch of magic beans, such geese do not exist. It implies that he thinks our reserves accumulated over the years without any effort required and are easy money.
We keep a very strong team of people (I hope lah) to manage our wealth. Pay them shit loads of money to maximise returns. If it was a goose, we only need poultry feed to maintain our reserves. If our reserves are equated to a goose, then there is no need for the GIC or Temasek Holdings and in maintaining their head counts. We just need ol’Macdonald and his farm.
It is dangerous when people in parliament think our reserves, accumlated over a generation can be equated to a goose.
Okay, this sign has been bugging me for a while. I took this picture off Geylang in December 2008 and have been wondering since then. How can the visually handicapped locate this sign leh?
December 30, 2008 at 11:22 am · Filed under General
This is one dude that takes the cake in Year 2008 lor! Kena cane extra three more by gahmen, then sue gahmen. Guess what? He actually got some money out of the gahmen lor! How many Singaporeans can actually make that claim?
Guess what? He had to get caught for the same criminal activity.
Either loansharking damn ho2 tang3 or the gahmen’s undisclosed sum of money is really peanuts.
I guess if he kena sentence to the cane again, can try to ask the gahmen to contra lah… then pay back the undisclosed sum of moolah that he got.
Whatever the case, I think nobody in the near future is going to top his achievement. Quick! Go get his autograph!
This is one dude that takes the cake in Year 2008 lor! Kena cane extra three more by gahmen, then sue gahmen. Guess what? He actually got some money out of the gahmen lor! How many Singaporeans can actually make that claim?