Are you ready for 7 million people on tiny Singapore?

[sunflower]

Dora1:

carilyn:

https://www.facebook.com/kbinderjit/posts/598891680137569


Good speech..

Agree with him whole heartedly.He has many years of private experience that's why he is in touch with the ground. Why is he not made a minister instead?
Anyway when it's time to vote I'll be interested to know if he will vote for or against the white paper

Hee hee…how to be minister if you’re AGAINST the flow of the majority of MIW?

[sinoboy]

sunflower:

Harlequin:

Haha, li mai hai yee hor lang tuar hor :heresmyfish: yee bo kong shi IS lar... Wa dak 3 pai pun dak bei qu yee wu kong tio IS. :spank:

Soli hor, me no language expert, can talk English or not har? :please: Singlish also can. Dialect hor, I need to read one word at a time, very the cham….Jap ah, liat boh giu. Chinese no problem, but hor, some non-Chinese here may not understand. Similarly for Malay language. Oh! Scali come out French, German etc… :faint: Please don’t hor, by that time, I may think I’m suddenly transported to other countries already! :slapshead:

Wonder if this is the identity dilution or identity crisis that they talk about. : :scratchhead: 希望各位鸟人们不要再讲鸟话了.

[sunflower]

All things being equal, priorities must be set. In this case, priorities of gahmen obviously are different from common people. Let me give an analogy…


An average child is doing pretty well with some tuitions but showing signs of fatigue in P5. Parent says by P6, must score 270 in order to go top school. So in the child’s interest, pump in lots of tuition and enrichment, believing that by doing so, child sure can achieve the target score. Whether child is agreeable is beside the point.

One possible scenario is child gets burn out and scores badly, much lower than expected, so unable to get into top school, or child may score as expected. BUT, during those two years, the child slog and slog, life is filled with studying and running from one tuition to another enrichment. The child has sacrificed his/her childhood for top schools.

OR

Parent feels that having a childhood life is more important than getting into top schools and may decide that a score of 240 is good enough. So parent decides to maintain the number of tuitions or even cut down. The child has free time to play and engage in other activities, other than schoolwork and tuition.

Come PSLE, the child may score lower than 240, but still able to get into a good enough school, or as the child may be free from pressure and stress, child may perform beyond expectations and score much much higher than 240, and ends up in a top school. Whichever the case, the child’s one and only treasured childhood life has not been lost.

Whatever it is, people need to reach a consensus and decide what is most important. However, we must be prepared for any consequences, be able to bear with sacrifices along the way and deal with unforeseeable outcomes.

[Harlequin]

sunflower:

Harlequin:

Haha, li mai hai yee hor lang tuar hor :heresmyfish: yee bo kong shi IS lar... Wa dak 3 pai pun dak bei qu yee wu kong tio IS. :spank:

Soli hor, me no language expert, can talk English or not har? :please: Singlish also can. Dialect hor, I need to read one word at a time, very the cham….Jap ah, liat boh giu. Chinese no problem, but hor, some non-Chinese here may not understand. Similarly for Malay language. Oh! Scali come out French, German etc… :faint: Please don’t hor, by that time, I may think I’m suddenly transported to other countries already! :slapshead:

Lang tak ang moh chek, wa tak jip poon chek. Wa kong ang moh wei ma ciam pei kee landing, ti ti loh. Lang kong ang moh wei ma ciam helicopter landing, ser lai ser kee 3, 40 kuan bah lu che jik eh tight spot lai landing....
Gu poon si, mai kong shi wa! :faint:

Heng chai wa lao pei teochew lao bu hokkien, wa eh teochew hokkien koh eh sai pa kei.

So li, so li, kong liam buoy jit pai. :imsorry:

[ammonite]

wah, reading this is tougher than PSLE papers. My Hokkien - fail ah! :oops:

[ammonite]

crony.in.ksp:

Evidently and obviously many many of you still refuse to recognize the dwindling Singaporean people and its attendant dire consequences.


Such a bunch of ostriches burying theirs heads in the sand imported from foreign lands and pretend nothing is going to happen. Hey it is warm and cosy under the sand yeah

The release of the White Paper is at its best, a classic case study of what NOT to do in PR and corporate communications.

At the worst, it shows a lack of political will to take a more imaginative creative and courageous route to handle long standing issues in population planning, competitiveness and nation building. in a way, it is the lazy way out, shifting potential problems that will arise from this to the next generation of citizens and government. We don't have to shoulder the consequences. Our children and grandchildren will. Current PAP members will not need to handle integration issues, the pieces will be for future government to pick up. The current slate will be remembered for the economic powerhouse they transform Singapore, the negatives will be just a footnote.

Singapore Inc has overtaken Singapore dream. Figures have overtaken actual human experiences. Do you want to suck it up? There is no right or wrong, just a choice for you and your future generations.

[sunflower]

ammonite:

crony.in.ksp:

Evidently and obviously many many of you still refuse to recognize the dwindling Singaporean people and its attendant dire consequences.


Such a bunch of ostriches burying theirs heads in the sand imported from foreign lands and pretend nothing is going to happen. Hey it is warm and cosy under the sand yeah

The release of the White Paper is at its best, a classic case study of what NOT to do in PR and corporate communications.

At the worst, it shows a lack of political will to take a more imaginative creative and courageous route to handle long standing issues in population planning, competitiveness and nation building. in a way, it is the lazy way out, shifting potential problems that will arise from this to the next generation of citizens and government. We don't have to shoulder the consequences. Our children and grandchildren will. Current PAP members will not need to handle integration issues, the pieces will be for future government to pick up. The current slate will be remembered for the economic powerhouse they transform Singapore, the negatives will be just a footnote.

Singapore Inc has overtaken Singapore dream. Figures have overtaken actual human experiences. Do you want to suck it up? There is no right or wrong, just a choice for you and your future generations.

This reminds me when Barack Obama got elected as US president the 1st time. He got to deal with all the broken pieces left over by the previous administration.

[imwithchild]

maybe our children will never see Singapore as home… just a thought

[sleepy]

imwithchild:

maybe our children will never see Singapore as home... just a thought

No la, won't happen. Remember they have social studies in school?

My kids said they LOVE Singapore.

Social studies is a huge success :evil:

[limlim]

ammonite:

wah, reading this is tougher than PSLE papers. My Hokkien - fail ah! :oops:

it's not Hokkien.. or majority is not..