Post GE 2011 Discussion

[limlim]

pandan:

This is scary. I also just read an article published at 8 March 1988 on The Straits Times that Mr Chan Chun Sing's mother is a machine-operator.

It is sad to know that rumours might be spread in this forum.

And did they publish the name?

[concern2]

pandan:

MummyThreeStreams:

[quote=\"hypergatak\"]Not sure if you already know or whether it's true, I just got to know that Chan Chun Sing is a nephew of LKY. If that's true, it's really disappointing to think that the whole cabinet/PAP is but a web of relationships in which someone who is on the fast-track always trace back to you-know-who. Is that what you call \"cronyism\"?

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There is talk Chan Chun Sing (ki chiu) is nephew of LKY, based on his standing position at funeral of LKY's wife.

Chan Chun Sing's mother is Monica Lee Kim Mon, who is also Lee Kuan Yew's sister. So that confirms the talk that Chan Chun Sing is indeed Lee Kuan Yew's nephew. Now this explains why Chan Chun Sing is often seen around Lee Kuan Yew.

Chan Chun Sing's parents (mother Lee Kim Mon and father Chan Chee Chiu) bought a Scott 28 Unit #18-02 condo on the same date as Lee's family on 06 November 1995. The caveats lodged can be viewed : http://www. http://i56.tinypic.com/2m4znyq.jpg\"> tangtalk.com/hplchart2.html

I would take such stories with a big pinch of salt. What proof does this anonymous letter have, except for a photo ( which doesn't actually prove anything except that CCS had a higher degree of involvement at the funeral than you or me), and the name of two people who have the surname 'Chan'. According to CCS' bio http://ge.pap.org.sg/candidate/chanchunsing, his parents were divorced. He lived with his mum and maternal grandparents in a circuit road HDB flat. I read somewhere his mum was a machine-operator. Doesn't sound like he is related to LKY as described above.

Of course, one could argue that CCS's official bio is made up...But that would require a degree of cynicism that I do not have.

This is scary. I also just read an article published at 8 March 1988 on The Straits Times that Mr Chan Chun Sing's mother is a machine-operator.

It is sad to know that rumours might be spread in this forum.[/quote]Before \"Kee Chiu\" stood for election, I thot he's MM's personal body guard :oops:

[verykiasu2010]

so that is why he is behind LKY in the photo ?


and can someone post the photo of WP members posing with Mr LKY in Istana after the swearing in of the cabinet last saturday ?

[Funx3]

concern2:

hquek:

wonder what'll come next...new education minister try out PSLE paper?

:rotflmao: :rotflmao:

If Score < Avg, Lao-Kwei le!

[verykiasu2010]

Funx3:

concern2:

[quote=\"hquek\"]wonder what'll come next...new education minister try out PSLE paper?

:rotflmao: :rotflmao:

If Score < Avg, Lao-Kwei le!
[/quote]eh, he was scorer and scholar leh

if below average, :stompfeet: :stompfeet:

[pandan]

limlim:

pandan:

This is scary. I also just read an article published at 8 March 1988 on The Straits Times that Mr Chan Chun Sing's mother is a machine-operator.

It is sad to know that rumours might be spread in this forum.

And did they publish the name?

You mean publish the mother's name ? Sorry, it is not in the newspaper cut out that I read.

But I seriously don't think that as a 19 year-old and a president's scholar he would lie about his background in the paper.

He was thanking his mother in the paper.

[Funx3]

verykiasu2010:

Funx3:

[quote=\"hquek\"]wonder what'll come next...new education minister try out PSLE paper?

If Score < Avg, Lao-Kwei le!

eh, he was scorer and scholar leh

if below average, :stompfeet: :stompfeet:[/quote]But Scholar Might have Lost touch with PSLE Exam Std Already ....

Like in Sc ....
Wording must be Precise, Keyword must be present then can get Marks -le!
:evil: :evil:

[wapobs]

pinky:

hquek:

wonder what'll come next...new education minister try out PSLE paper?

skali fail how??? :rahrah: :oops:

go ITE learn new skills to earn a living la, standard procedure.

[verykiasu2010]

now after the election, a few things have happened :


1. a few of them are (hopefully) repenting from what they said during campaigning

2. MP drinking water from the water tank of Blk 686B Woodland

3. MP standing at bus stops counting buses and noting their arrival frequencies

4. Minister taking bus to work

5. ministerial pay must reflect public service and element of sacrifice, and no longer a career but a calling, no longer must be pegged to the top of the range of the top paying profession because Whichever Party has proven that public service does not require multi-million salary

I think we might have been sleeping passengers with sleeping driver and sleeping bus conductor…like those on north south highway ?

[hquek]

verykiasu2010:

now after the election, a few things have happened :


1. a few of them are (hopefully) repenting from what they said during campaigning

2. MP drinking water from the water tank of Blk 686B Woodland

3. MP standing at bus stops counting buses and noting their arrival frequencies

4. Minister taking bus to work
5. ministerial pay must reflect public service and element of sacrifice, and no longer a career but a calling, no longer must be pegged to the top of the range of the top paying profession because Whichever Party has proven that public service does not require multi-million salary

I think we might have been sleeping passengers with sleeping driver and sleeping bus conductor.....like those on north south highway ?

actually, the picture shows him reading Today papers (advertising?) on the bus. So it can't be that crowded...I don't think he took bus to work. Sorry if I offend, but he really should try the bus service near some army camp during evening peak hours....and see if aircon buses are really the way to go. was thinking little india during weekends...but I fear I'm treading on thin ice.

For me, I'm simple. If ministers really go to the ground to understand what SGeans are experiencing (sans entourage to clear and pretty the way), and take action to make it better, by all means, pay them well. Just don't talk from ivory tower can already.