Clap Clap Clap! You win oreadi lor!

Another page from the thick book titled : "Failed policies in Singapore: How we fucked things up"

This is so tragically funny:

"Right now, PRs enjoy the same subsidies as Singaporeans for education and healthcare, and in fact in healthcare, foreign workers also receive subsidised treatment. I think we should make a clear difference – PRs should pay more than Singaporeans but less than other foreigners, there is a distinction. " [link]

Duh! Isn't this what Singaporeans has been complaining about since god-knows when? Now then they realise? WTF?

Halimah Yacob, Chairman of the GPC for Health : "We got feedback from many Singaporeans and even from my own constituents that since everything's equal for Singaporeans, foreigners and PRs, what's so special about being Singaporean? To some extent, short of being nationalistic, PM's message of 'citizens first' is well overdue."

Long overdue? Still got the cheek to say. Clap Clap Clap! Ms Halimah , You win oreadi lor !

I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

Papering over the cracks

Citizens, look at this big, shiny statue we built to distract you people from the
real problems we are facing in our country!

".....The leaders did not believe in glorifying their place in history. They did not name streets, MRT stations, buildings, stadiums and parks after their colleagues who have died.

I think we should do so from now on so that Singaporeans can remember .... who had made a difference to the lives of Singaporeans. " [link]

If streets are renamed, wouldn't road signs, maps, official documents need to be amended? Would that be a waste of money?

You know a country has jumped the shark , run out of idea , if monuments are erected ; streets and buildings are named to glorify its leaders.

ie:

Saigon ---- during communist rule ----> Ho Chi Minh City
Saint Petersburg ---- during communist rule ----> Leningrad

could this happen.....

Singapore -----> PAPLand?

I somehow think that Mr Wee Kim Wee have a higher chance of getting a *insert street/building/stadium* named after him, than Mr Ong Teng Cheong.

Despite the fact that the latter has (argubly) had more contribution to Singapore.... I'll wait and see.