Presidential Elections 2017

[Zeit]

mum_sugoku:

janet88:

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With LTK, Sylvia and gang gonna to be \"sue until pants drop\", doubt there will be any heavyweight opposition left for next GE.

Yes. It gonna be a walkover

that's the problem we are facing. we want opposition in the parliament but they really 不争气.
MIW sure laugh until pants drop since no heavyweight opponents.

To be fair, if you've been following Parliamentary sessions, you would know that Opposition MPs have been doing their jobs conscientiously raising numerous valid issues in Parliament.

However, no matter how hard-working they are, it's still very hard for them to be deemed 争气 when there are just 6 of them.. vs 82 from the ruling party..[/quote]There are some more NCMPs like Leon and Daniel who should quickly reorganise themselves. They've also posed many decent parliamentary questions.

The quality of the questions is there. Just that many are more legislators than town councillors, so they need to work harder in that department of spring cleaning etc. Hope the successors and young WP can quickly learn a thing or two from the 3 seniors before they are declared bankrupt.

[Zeit]

dasalo:

Who is MIW?

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[Zeit]

pirate:

Zappy:

Plus our elected President has a chance to prove she's a good President in the ensuing 2-3 yrs.

That will be really easy to do. A good President just needs to be seen and not heard. All I want from our President is a handshake and a photo op that I can hang up on my wall.

No, a President will be heard, good or bad. Because the President must send condolences alongside the PM each time there's a natural disaster, terror attack, demise of another head of state; or happy messages to her people on NDP, etc.

I'd already shaken Mdm Halimah's hand before. You can go queue up on Deepavali outside the Istana for that photo opportunity

Speaking of the wall photo, may I know if the photos of Dr TT and wifey have been taken down since 1 Sept? Anyone working in or near public/govt buildings here?

I wonder how Mdm President is going to look like in the scouts uniform? It's unprecedented for a lady president with tudung to don the scout uniform.




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[Zeit]

phtthp:

last time, many years ago, was there any election, before Yusof Ishak formally became President ?

Or was it another .... walkover ?

What do you mean? There were only 2 PEs in Singapore after independence. OTC and TT batches.

Yang di pertuan Negara was created to replace the last British Governor appointed by QE2 in 1959 to prepare us for self-governance. Then came SG independence, so the title of Yang di pertuan Negara was changed to President. Yusof Ishak was Yang di pertuan Negara from 59-65, then renamed President from 65-70.

[pirate]

Zeit:

No, a President will be heard, good or bad. Because the President must send condolences alongside the PM each time there's a natural disaster, terror attack, demise of another head of state; or happy messages to her people on NDP, etc.

That one not counted as \"heard\" lah. It is just like kids saying \"Gong Xi Fa Cai\", \"Merry Christmas\" or \"Selamat Hari Raya\" to relatives.

[Zeit]

pirate:

Zeit:

No, a President will be heard, good or bad. Because the President must send condolences alongside the PM each time there's a natural disaster, terror attack, demise of another head of state; or happy messages to her people on NDP, etc.

That one not counted as \"heard\" lah. It is just like kids saying \"Gong Xi Fa Cai\", \"Merry Christmas\" or \"Selamat Hari Raya\" to relatives.

This is because PM is the boss, hence editors cannot give President's speeches too big a column or too long an airtime. Notwithstanding, I did hear the President's messages as one or two liners sometimes on my car radio or read snippets of them on STonline or CNAonline.

http://www.istana.gov.sg/the-president/former-presidents/dr-tony-tan-keng-yam/speeches/2014

If you take time to read the President's speeches, they are as insightful as some Minister's. Just that no one bothers what the President says in Singapore.

I suppose Halimah's voice will sooner or later fade into the background too, because if she becames a Feminist cult personality like Mother Theresa or Diana, Princess of Wales with over a million FB followers, PM Lee may not like it. HAHAHA...

In one particular year's NDP, a lot of participants and performers unexpectedly swarmed towards TT and tried to shake his hand, refusing to let him board his vehicle. Then the CNA camera quickly cut over to PM Lee on the grand stand to show he also had several participants and spectators wanting to shake his hand. It's liddat one lah... 当总统就不要当‘出头鸟’，‘出头鸟’第一只被打下！ 好像刚刚才一只被打下。

[MyPillow]

Un un believable, that's wat u are .... :rotflmao:


Or the whole block residents need to move just to house One & Only One .

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[janet88]

HY continuing to stay in her Yishun ‘jumbo flat’…that’s the best joke of the day.

can you imagine her poor neighbours having to face the security officers? the corridor will have to be free of slippers, shoe boxes, potted plants lined outside, so that there will be easy access.

[phtthp]

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[limlim]

树不要皮，必死无疑。

人不要脸，天下无敌。