Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Singapore warns the USA over TPP


I  have been somewhat anxious about this. I have been wondering given how high the stakes are and seeing how it has been defeated in Congress what is our government doing to warn the Americans how stupid they acting on this one. Shanmugam spoke the right words to them. This is one of those times I wished we still have LKY to give some lawmakers an education only he had the gravitas to deliver but Shanmugam has done as good a job as possible.

In many words Shanmugam is asking the Americans: Are you stupid?

I hope not.

Update: June 17 6:15 am

America quickly telling Asia, "We are not that stupid"

It is incredible just by using the S word, how much less you need to write!
































Update: June 17 2:10pm

Reported in the ST front page this morning. Tiny Singapore lecturing superpower USA. What audacity and chutzpah.


































Update: June 18 9:40am

That is the beauty of dealing with the Yankees. Try doing that with China? Let China dominate our part of the world you will be taking orders without them being issued. You will have to learn from reading cues. They are masters at it but it is a horrible waste of time and stupid face saving. We would have lost what little freedom with have.



AWOL for medical studies


Unless ST did a lousy job telling this story well, this is really stupid as stupid does. I am hardly alone feeling this way. For once I even agree with Calvin Cheng.


Tomorrow's Water: Making Malaysia look bad


What I am about to write will not see the light in our main newspaper. I don't say if but when this water storage project is completed, it will make Malaysia look terrible. She with her abundant but careless stewardship of water resources will run into water shortages and might even have to endure water rationing even as we are self sufficient in water.

We didn't mean to but our success makes Malaysia looks bad.

PM sympathetic to the Pink agenda


Twenty hours ago the PM changed his profile picture to one wearing pink. He had not turned up at Hong Lim on Saturday when Pink Dot invited him. I believe he is on leave holidaying in Hokkaido.

How should we read this? Very simple. He is sympathetic to giving LGBT more civic space and freedom but the conservative public is not yet supportive. Therefore he wants Pink Dot to slow down and bide their time.

Except for economic under performers e.g, Russia, the developed economies are leaning toward Pink. As usual the government reasons are driven by the needs to have a high performing economy. The data seems to point out that gay friendly cities are economic dynamos.

The situation in SG is different and Pink Dotters should not imitate their western cousins to advance their interests here. Similarly Lawrence Khong and Noor Deros ought to do likewise. Everyone is free to push their interest but it must be done the Singapore way.



Monday, June 15, 2015

Sabah Quake: Good to be richer

I just plucked this off the daily email from ST.

Even before I read the details, I thought to myself, "Isn't good to be a richer society?" If you are greedy, it is bad but otherwise how are able to afford something like this?

I am always happy that as a wealthy city we have often been able to open our wallets to help others.


Khong the inane troublemaker


Oh my, oh my this Lawrence Khong is a trouble maker. Excerpted by Mothership what Khong preached on Sunday.

If you want to wear white be white also but you are not by a long shot. Since you are not white why don't you wear any color including pink?

Three quarters of SG population wearing white? I wished to make a bet with him. This one I will win. There is not enough hypocrisy in this town to make the numbers, and if are really wearing white because we are living such good lives, I am happy to lose the wager. Never bet when heads I win, tails you lose. Because I lose this wager, I make it back many times elsewhere! Khong is stupid. I just explained how.

Calling other Christians cowardly? What a bigoted man of God you are! You can't accept that there are other points of views? Assuming you are right which I don't think so, what about other Christians still exploring this issue? You are an irresponsible preacher to sermonize this way.

Ideology needs bodies you idiot (I just explain why he is an idiot from his own speech). He has forgotten he was never able to separate the ideology from the people. You are not Christ who knew how to release a person from his demons and sent those spirits into swines. You only know how to crush the ideology by destroying the human vessels. No wonder they lash back at you. If not for the government restraining them I fear what might come of you.

Finally I realize this man doesn't understand very much about love and sex. If you only truly understood you would have something to teach the LGBT. You mistook what remains after Adam and Eve were driven out of Eden with what was before. Why do you think sex is so private? Exactly!

But a spiritual war is being fought which sex is becoming increasingly public because nobody learns its abuse and perversion when it is private. Typically God loves to win by at first losing. I am not completely sure, perhaps one day pornography could turn out to be a Trojan horse for good over evil but I am only trying to describe things which at the moment I could only see vaguely. Meanwhile if you indulge in porn, you shortchange yourself often without even knowing what you have lost. For the spirits of darkness will do everything to expel love from sex.

Christians by and large do not have exemplary marriage or family lives. When they wear white they pass themselves off to be better than they really are. By all means wear white but not on the next Pink Dot Day.

The PAP were admired for their white clothes but by 2012 they were scoffed at by so many they had their worst support ever. They had the last few years to repent without publicly admitting so. Sure wear white, but you better live up to the color. In time to come Khong's followers will be getting all the negative publicity than the Pink Dotters. Because people act on relativity. If we dislike your group more, we will deal with you first. Why? Because you make social trouble, upsets the peace. If the Pink Dotters exceed their OB markers the silent majority will deal with them later without you. And who will be doing the hatchet job? The government of course. Haven't they already warn you all in private?

Update: 2:30pm

Khong if he really wants to show the exemplary husband and wife relationship should have used Mother Teresa relationship with Jesus Christ as her husband which was quite public.

Update: 3:55pm

Found this at Barry's blog.


Barry must know a half white and half pink society isn't going to happen. It is just rhetoric which I found unhelpful. If you submit that to the practical test these two groups will be attacking each other and create so much chaos before they get a change to wear their preferred colors.

First they imagine lynching the other side on social media. Given enough time they will do it for real. All this will happen way before we get to 50/50. Right now we have less than a percent pink and white. Already the government feels uncomfortable enough to restrain both sides.


Tech unicorns in Europe


This just came in and I made the wrong knee jerk response, "Good luck, it is just a bubble".

The right response is to learn the risk and profit from it but that is not easy.