tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6092311610759487605.post8039594699404866704..comments2023-10-30T22:07:56.600+08:00Comments on SG Budget Babe: "I Voted For The Opposition in the 2011 General Elections. I Believed Blindly in The Picturesque Image The Opposition Painted"Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger171125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6092311610759487605.post-1612817978348162015-09-14T08:21:06.630+08:002015-09-14T08:21:06.630+08:00Election is over. Let us see how they fare and wha...Election is over. Let us see how they fare and what they will do in the next 5 years. Cheer on Singaporean.juzmehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08436193278399201900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6092311610759487605.post-16747402637645406242015-09-13T20:13:12.473+08:002015-09-13T20:13:12.473+08:00You echo my thoughts :)You echo my thoughts :)illublueythttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07737136235694951954noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6092311610759487605.post-23212429559989589312015-09-12T23:09:16.477+08:002015-09-12T23:09:16.477+08:00Really? Is it too much? You are running a country,...Really? Is it too much? You are running a country, and you get paid 2.2million. MNCs CEOs run a company and get paid more than that. If 4000 SGD per month is offered for you to be the PM of Singapore, with tonnes of complaining and whining Singaporeans who are never satisfied, subjected to internet scrutiny and mockery, will you be ok?<br /><br />Singapore is now a first world status, you are taking it for granted. Without strong government, excellent leadership, you think we will be where we are right now? If you disagree, stop complaining, be the change. Set up crowdfunding or take your own money and run an election as an opposition. Convince the people to vote for you, BE THE DIFFERENCE, BE THE CHANGE, NOT THE COMPLAINER.<br /><br />Take a look at the countries you listed, how can you compare them to Singapore? Come on. See the geographic properties, the demographics of the region, the dynamics of their history. You think they are successful? It is through brilliance government we have what we have now. Do not take this for granted. If you can do it better, reveal your real name here, as I have revealed mine. And I wish to see you competing in elections. Make a difference.<br /><br />To your questions:<br /><br />1) See above.<br />2) What do you mean healthcare and housing is the first priority to solve? Do you know of anyone who cannot afford healthcare and housing? Please be the difference, bring them to see their MP. If MP cannot help, take it up to higher authorities. Quote names of people who cannot afford any of these. So many grants and subsidies are available and you are just making a general opposition rally statement. Be original. Do your own research. Quote people who have fallen through cracks. Help them yourself first. Be the changer, not the whiner.<br />3) Just because opposition doesn't win, people start to blame on several stuff. I had heard enough of those noise:<br />- this year SG 50, of course PAP will win<br />- this year our founding father died, of course PAP will win<br />- not enough time to prepare, of course PAP will win<br />- blah blah blah anymore excuses?<br /><br />PAP won because of its assurance of its policies to the public, to the majority of Singaporeans. Imagine PAP's manifesto is as shortsighted as oppositions, its candidates without track records, tell me who is likely to win?<br /><br />Being loyal is not good. I reiterate. IT IS NOT GOOD. Being smart is. Making the intelligent vote, instead of believing every word that comes from rallies. Cool your head, be the difference, and if you think you are good enough, then present your case. Else, stop all these nonsensical whining. Cedric Yanghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05100258556789664581noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6092311610759487605.post-22640612861993755032015-09-12T18:42:22.805+08:002015-09-12T18:42:22.805+08:00THISCEDRIC even so, the salaries of the PM & h...THISCEDRIC even so, the salaries of the PM & his ministries is still too much in my opinion. <br /><br />In this article, http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/singapore-pm-lee-hsien-loong-remains-highest-paid-country-leader-1-7m-annual-salary-1493952, PM LHL has the highest annual pay of S$2.2m as of 2015, even after a reduction of 28% due to public unrest. A MR4 ministerial grade earns S$1.1 M, and due to the fact that the ruling party being PAP, all the ministers in the Cabinet comes from PAP party. PM LHL pay is large enough to pay for the leader’s salary of India, Brazil, Italy, Russia, France, Turkey, Japan, United Kingdom, South Africa, and Germany. (10 countries, all major countries)<br /><br /><br />3 qns to ponder, <br /><br />First, why is the Singapore PM's & Ministers salary so high? <br /><br />Secondly, Healthcare & Housing needs to be the first priority to solve, but has the Government done anything? And is it enough?<br /><br />Thirdly, Should the Election rules be changed? Is having a 10 day election rally enough for voters to read about, hear about, walk about the importance of his/her vote? Is being loyal to the government aka PAP, good or bad?<br /><br /><br />Elson81https://www.blogger.com/profile/05516457994127842113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6092311610759487605.post-34734195314278543672015-09-12T12:46:05.899+08:002015-09-12T12:46:05.899+08:00Thank you, apologies for the misunderstanding at t...Thank you, apologies for the misunderstanding at the bracket portion. =)Cedric Yanghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05100258556789664581noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6092311610759487605.post-78376692457075305232015-09-12T12:07:34.894+08:002015-09-12T12:07:34.894+08:00Hi, the statement is not directed at the writer, b...Hi, the statement is not directed at the writer, but at people who have done so in the comments. I have acknowledged your views right from the beginning. Justalittlemorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16778956998227311881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6092311610759487605.post-40013433311340293182015-09-12T02:13:35.982+08:002015-09-12T02:13:35.982+08:001) Based on my experience. See my breakdown of fin...1) Based on my experience. See my breakdown of finance below.<br /><br />2) You should have the freedom. Tell me an instance the freedom is taken away from you. You should report it instead of complaining, am I right? Be the change, not the complainer.Cedric Yanghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05100258556789664581noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6092311610759487605.post-43684936318097770032015-09-12T02:12:03.993+08:002015-09-12T02:12:03.993+08:00Thanks for your objective view of me. It dawned on...Thanks for your objective view of me. It dawned onto me that there is absolutely no way of opening the minds of people like you to logic and constructive debates. All there exist are name-callings and quotes from rallies.Cedric Yanghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05100258556789664581noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6092311610759487605.post-69839528608920127152015-09-12T02:10:22.618+08:002015-09-12T02:10:22.618+08:00Please quote some examples, instead of copying and...Please quote some examples, instead of copying and pasting what the opposition rallies have been talking about. Thanks!Cedric Yanghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05100258556789664581noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6092311610759487605.post-83020944873510722562015-09-12T02:09:14.244+08:002015-09-12T02:09:14.244+08:00Hello,
Let me know which sentences of mine is an ...Hello,<br /><br />Let me know which sentences of mine is an "attack" as you claim it is. Thanks!Cedric Yanghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05100258556789664581noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6092311610759487605.post-41696530725731126092015-09-12T02:07:44.440+08:002015-09-12T02:07:44.440+08:00Hi Fezqu,
This is just a typical example of how m...Hi Fezqu,<br /><br />This is just a typical example of how much brainwashing you are exposed to.<br /><br />I had passed my nephew your mathematics question. He solved it better than you.<br /><br />Please see below:<br /><br />You claimed: "PM is getting around SGD10k per hour"<br /><br />How true is this? I heard it in opposition rallies before. Let me count it for you. (Oh, you can't use your fingers for that, Fyi)<br /><br />10,000 x 24 x 365 = 87.6 Million a year. (Aw... Did you skip your primary school math class?)<br /><br />Ok, let's assume it is not 365 a year. Let's calculate working hours and working days.<br /><br />Please see below:<br /><br />$10,000 x 9 x 5 x 52 = $23.4 Million.<br /><br />Come on, my nephew aged 10 solved it. Surely you can do better?<br /><br />If you need some money to re-attend your primary school, let me know. Oh, clear your mind and stop being so easily brainwashed. Do your own research, press in your calculators, and believe in facts than rallies. All the best! :) <br /><br />PS: If you need money for calculator, let me know. Of course, I am pretty sure it will not cost me a few million bucks.Cedric Yanghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05100258556789664581noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6092311610759487605.post-11614703079933996972015-09-12T02:01:43.431+08:002015-09-12T02:01:43.431+08:00While I appreciate your use of colorful assumption...While I appreciate your use of colorful assumptions and doubts, let me do the finance for you.<br /><br />1) I have to compare both in SGD, why? It is the basis of comparison. It is the spending power of SGD compared to overseas. Get it? No? Be a graduate. :)<br /><br />2) I once stayed in a rental room, it was $550 per month. $150 for transport and the rest food. I did not eat outside, nor my mum's cooking. I had to do budget grocery shopping and cook it myself. It accounts for less than a thousand. You require more explanation?<br /><br />3) Have you been to Europe? I do not generally select hostels or bunks as I have to share the room with a total stranger. There was once they took drugs while inside the same room as me. Therefore, I'd rather get a one person room. Thus it is in fact comparing a one-person room I stayed in Singapore.<br /><br />4) I am not your bro, and I don't intend to sink myself to your unnecessary insults.<br /><br />5) Please, do not transfer such values to your children if you have any. If you have no children, protection is the way to go until you truly grow up.<br /><br />Thanks :)Cedric Yanghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05100258556789664581noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6092311610759487605.post-3460428084568612042015-09-12T01:46:33.990+08:002015-09-12T01:46:33.990+08:00I cannot accept the Millions dollars Salary that o...I cannot accept the Millions dollars Salary that our Ministers and PM is getting. <br /><br />If you do the math, PM is getting around SGD10k per hour and the ministers from SGD5K per hour. <br /><br />WOW! That is a lot of money! I can accept about 1m MAX! But not anything above that.<br /><br />LKY said we should pay our ministers according to what the public sector CEOs are getting.<br /><br />Let me ask PAP's supporter, Is George Yeo and the other ministers that lost in GE2011 earning millions now?Fezquhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02272323224966137845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6092311610759487605.post-53719696906241133182015-09-12T01:42:49.192+08:002015-09-12T01:42:49.192+08:00"My budget in Europe for a month was $3000 SG..."My budget in Europe for a month was $3000 SGD. I had to sleep in airports and train stations at night to save up so I would not run into deficit. Comparatively, I do not even require more than S$1000 in Singapore for a month!"<br /><br />Is he really a graduate? Totally no brains? All books and no sense!<br /><br />In Singapore, you stay in your parent's home, sometimes your mum probably buy food for you and you save a meal.<br /><br />Now, he is travelling to Europe! IN EUROS! NOT SGD! Of course the expense will go up. Simple financial knowledge, FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES BRO!<br /><br />Euro have lots of hostel that cost less than SGD30 per night. OMFG! Is he a special kind of stupid? It's like comparing Apple and Orange!Fezquhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02272323224966137845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6092311610759487605.post-43762422221444184032015-09-12T00:38:35.421+08:002015-09-12T00:38:35.421+08:00You only met 2 colonels, one of whom is a dud whil...You only met 2 colonels, one of whom is a dud while the other is only good at "productivity and supplier value" AKA meeting KPIs. On my side, I seen talented people leave A*Star to join private manufacturing sector because of disagreements with management who generally tend to be ex colonels or generals.<br /><br />Why are colonels even put there to manage researchers and how everyone incl. you accepts that as the norm is beyond me,<br /><br />Singaporeans don't own their homes either. We are glorified tenants on 99, 50, soon 30 year leasehold(1-2 room flats if i am not wrong). Even freehold land can be and has been seized by the government, so please don't try to hoodwink me with that home ownership crap.<br /><br />Hongkongers are not particularly tolerant, but they have 1 thing that most Singaporeans don't have- Pride in themselves & in their country. They know when they are being screwed, and they will take to the streets if need be.<br /><br />Necessity is the mother of all inventions, and guess what? Japan & Korea is now one of the leaders in Automation & Artificial intelligence. Japan & Korea are leading in home automation race(reducing the need for human caretakers, maids), and they even have dabbled with robots that serve in the service industry<br /><br />http://www.zdnet.com/article/robot-staff-at-japanese-hotel-spell-doom-for-service-sector-jobs/<br /><br /> Meanwhile our friends at A*Star & DSTA are still fumbling with driverless golfcarts<br /><br />Realistically, how is a human(Singaporean or even a 3rd world FT) going to get any cheaperer fasterer & betterer than a robot? Are we going to import Refugees from Africa once the Chinese and Indians get too expensive?<br /><br />Is aging/low birthrate a problem that can only be solved by importing 3rd world foreign talents? Japan/Korea proves otherwise.<br /><br />-I may be out of date regarding sea tonnages, but for Air cargo tonnages, HK is still tops Changi by more than half<br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_world's_busiest_airports_by_cargo_traffic<br /><br />Most of our industry(biomed included) is centered around our port & geographic location. The moment that port is gone, everything else follows. <br /><br /><br />There are loads of really smart people in Singapore capable of solving our future problems, but they are not the decision makers in the PAP. Instead an ex army general & his army buddies are being championed as Singapore's future prime minister....<br /><br />Remember, PAP was once the opposition and while Lee Kuan Yew lacked the technical know-how, he knew to enlist the help of GKS and other advisors to help & challenge him. I don't see that kind of organization in today's PAP.<br /><br />Maybe the opposition has solutions, maybe they don't but like what LKY said about people getting comfortable? This also applies to the leaders. ATM the leaders are too comfortable.<br /><br />& FYI "The suzhou china-singapore deal is for an internationally recognized skills and capabilities transfer" - that is just PR tag line, the reality is, while Singapore was pumping tax payer's money into the project, the Chinese were watching and copying everything we were doing. Eventually they started a competing industrial estate and forcibly ousted us<br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%E2%80%93Singapore_Suzhou_Industrial_Park#Suzhou_New_DistrictSlushpuppyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16231528194062563089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6092311610759487605.post-68822855936830286052015-09-12T00:19:41.890+08:002015-09-12T00:19:41.890+08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Slushpuppyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16231528194062563089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6092311610759487605.post-86288219072919077582015-09-11T23:54:27.366+08:002015-09-11T23:54:27.366+08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Slushpuppyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16231528194062563089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6092311610759487605.post-32817257603650887182015-09-11T23:20:05.510+08:002015-09-11T23:20:05.510+08:00You are right in casting the vote to the party in ...You are right in casting the vote to the party in exchange of what you want out of the government. You want a good standard of living, safe and harmonious society. Affordable homes. Secure jobs. These are reflected from the specific points you highlighted from your overseas experience. ( even though some are not fair comparison, for e.g. If you made a living in Switzerland, you wouldn't complain it's expensive. Its exactly because you are Singaporean that you it works out for you in Singapore. You cab stay in your parents house, save the rent etc. ) everyone has the right to cast the vote to a party who is trusted by the voter to give what he/she wants.just like the writer did four years ago, and four years later. Its wrong to attack someone's opinions just because they want different things from you Justalittlemorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16778956998227311881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6092311610759487605.post-41399645904743260332015-09-11T16:54:01.583+08:002015-09-11T16:54:01.583+08:00that is what happen when people fail to distinguis...that is what happen when people fail to distinguish the work of our forefathers from PAP did and the current PAP. You need to be able to recognise that the current team is not as capable as in the past, they don't have the integrity to do what they say. Media controlled, gutter politics, no accountability when mistakes made. The person who wrote the article need to wake up.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09413009600342937025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6092311610759487605.post-17347515764124125942015-09-11T16:51:47.255+08:002015-09-11T16:51:47.255+08:00that is what happen when people fail to distinguis...that is what happen when people fail to distinguish the work of our forefathers from PAP did and the current PAP. You need to be able to recognise that the current team is not as capable as in the past, they don't have the integrity to do what they say. Media controlled, gutter politics, no accountability when mistakes made. The person who wrote the article need to wake up.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09413009600342937025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6092311610759487605.post-43856137146370330572015-09-11T15:31:16.010+08:002015-09-11T15:31:16.010+08:00Thanks for putting efforts. Singapore needs people...Thanks for putting efforts. Singapore needs people like you!<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03576915621085494894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6092311610759487605.post-11853303793217241012015-09-11T14:24:56.891+08:002015-09-11T14:24:56.891+08:00Hey! Good to hear from you. Eh my previous url was...Hey! Good to hear from you. Eh my previous url was worklivesingapore - I write on SG issues, with finance being my pet topic, but PR, politics and other stuff could come up occasionally as side topics too :p Budget Babehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05940384920609566419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6092311610759487605.post-77872285606466662332015-09-11T13:44:32.219+08:002015-09-11T13:44:32.219+08:00The point is that most people will view clearing t...The point is that most people will view clearing their trays as something very insignificant. Most people won't even be bordered by it, let alone write it in a blog for 'comparisons'. Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13642162605227615028noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6092311610759487605.post-61032693853911182552015-09-11T13:26:20.771+08:002015-09-11T13:26:20.771+08:00Elson i couldnt agreed more with you,,.. thecedric...Elson i couldnt agreed more with you,,.. thecedric, u once vote for oppostiin, stay in that believe, it take s time, im am one a PRo PAP supporter right up till 2013, theres thingsthat needs to change and having a 2nd voice in the parliament is the.main reason opposition exist. To say no to policoes that is baseless and ridicule. Have faith and patience.. Even a tree takes time to growFaisal Isahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17432790879481066048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6092311610759487605.post-79423109786576606052015-09-11T13:25:06.608+08:002015-09-11T13:25:06.608+08:00Elson i couldnt agreed more with you,,.. thecedric...Elson i couldnt agreed more with you,,.. thecedric, u once vote for oppostiin, stay in that believe, it take s time, im am one a PRo PAP supporter right up till 2013, theres thingsthat needs to change and having a 2nd voice in the parliament is the.main reason opposition exist. To say no to policoes that is baseless and ridicule. Have faith and patience.. Even a tree takes time to growFaisal Isahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17432790879481066048noreply@blogger.com