“This is not a partisan exercise….every Singaporean is welcome to provide their views, including members of the Opposition, and the committee will be happy to receive their feedback and ideas.”
It just happens that some are more welcomed than others. (Thanks, Anonymous @9/15/2012 11:10 AM )
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| Hougang by-election, circa May 2012 |
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| CNA forum "A Conversation with PM Lee", Friday 14 Sep 2012 |
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Tattler:
ReplyDeleteit is oni fair to have the Alternative Parties and Bloggers excluded despite the Conversation being a National Forum. How can anyone expect our high and mighty to be seeking opinion and help from the Opposition? Would it not cause them to lose lot of face(credibility). Hence, shooting at their own feet.
As for bloggers, those like You; how many of the People In White will be up to the challenges?
Me had watched and read some of the sessions; they were so careful. Worse, they were filled with deference, diplomacy and wordy delicacy. Where are the candidness, cross examination and concern??? There was no spontaneity.
patriot
As usual these bunch of PAP stooges are just talking to themselves albeit costing us millions of dollars. For how long Singaporeans are going to tolerate this wayang at expense of tax-payer's money ?
ReplyDeleteA National CONversation turns out to be nothing but National Lecture and National CONversion.
Are we still kidding ourselves that PAP can change ?
Besides,
Deletewhere is the change on political freedom , isa removal, issue of gerrymandering, and electorate department and cpib tied to political will, loss of investment of TH/GIC and putting them into more accountability and transparency, moral corruption of PAP and where is the sacred cows ?
Treating Singaporeans as moron again. Typical of PAP.
Opposition Parties represent 40% of Singaporeans.
ReplyDeleteIf Opposition Parties are excluded, then this is not a National CONversation.
It is a PAP CONversation.
And PAP should pay for the cost.
Not the Singapore tax payers.
Hahaha.. this is wayang conversation! PAP is good at wayang only. Taichi at 345pm. Ultimate wayang. LOL
ReplyDeleteI am sure a few of the spectators may be real, but how many of the rest are "exhibits" like the tai chi uncle & school children during the royal visit huh?
ReplyDeletePA is non-partisan.
ReplyDeleteNatCON is a non-partisan exercise.
Ya, sure.
Even my uneducated mother knows they are lying.
Change? This is gonna drag on for more than a year. Then they will write a big report, before they start talking about Change. But all the major Changes needed are their Sacred Cows. Changing these will go against their ideological grain. I don't expect any major changes any time soon.
ReplyDeleteHappy 89th Birthday lau Lee. My one wish on your birthday: Call It A Day.
Maybe then we will see some changes, because junior don't have to always look over his shoulder.
I voted an Opposition Party to represent me in Parliament.
ReplyDeleteSo my Opposition Party represents me.
I will not undercut their authority by speaking directly with the Pro Alien Party in this CONversation.
When Singaporeans were being bullied by the Pro Alien Party,
Who stood up for us at GE 2011?
Our Opposition Parties that's who.
So now the Pro Alien Party wants to bully our Opposition Parties by excluding them?
I say let's stand up for our Opposition Parties.
Just like they stood up for us in GE 2011.
BOYCOTT NATIONAL CONVERSATION.
The Oppositions have their privilege to speak at Parliament House, did they speak for us much ?
ReplyDeleteThe Taichi Uncle had his right not to taichi under the Sun, but, he might had been happy to show off,
who knows?
Singaporeans refuse to speak when it is their duties to do so. Singaporeans show off and got shamed by their fellow countrymen. And all these going go to show how sick the average Singaporean have become.
Afraid that the reasons for our sad state of affairs, can be be traced to the various questions posted.
DeleteThen again, if no Alternative Parties were invited to be part of the Conversation Committee, we can quite rightly coinclude that it will be a futile attempt to have a "national" and "real conversation ".
More of a one-party national vision educational talk.
Conversation means you talk, I listen only. You don't agree with me, I don't need to do anything. It is stupid to waste your time talking to PAP. All the information and unhappiness is available everywhere but they pretend to be blind, dumb and deaf to the alternative opinions.
DeleteHence the whole National Conversation is a WAYANG as it is held to prove that they are right all along. It would have been better to have a National debate on the foreigner employment policy.
@9.10pm dude
DeleteHow much allotted time is really allowed to the Opp Party?
If PM knows he needs to take 1 freaking year to cover all the conversations he wants, how much do you expect Opp party are given in parliament?!! And even then, with 12 months to go, PAP don't even want to get into the crux of the real issues!! I am sure there are many are happy to taichi and show off their textbook skills. But this is not a show for foreign guest or international audience. The people are the legitimate citizens of this country whose lives and welfare are in the dominance of this party. If they refuse to engage openly and directly, they can go and serve on the united nations for all I can, but don't waste our time and taxpayers money for a futile exercise just to produce a fancy marketing site/report to add to archives.
In short, don't turn stones for the sake of turning stones.
wah lao eh, 1st season 1st episode oredi kena caught kelong liao, how to continue? with this kind of credibility index and negative integrity, how to believe? let us call upon all singaporeans to expose those organisers who are in cahoots with participants to hoodwink us into believing that they honestly want a conversation with singaporeans. scrutinse all participants like what tatler had done. expose them and their lies one by one. as for the committee, it was started on a wrong footing. just look at the genetic makeup of that bunch of cartoons. can you believe it? for me, you can throw the whole committee into the rubbish bin and i'm not even bothered. really feel so sorry for all the players involved. either their bossess are stupid or they are stupid or they thought that all singaporeans are stupid.
ReplyDeleteHahaa.. This is not a national conversation.
ReplyDeleteThis is a NATIONAL JOKE!!!
Why do we need a National Conversation?
ReplyDeleteIsn't that what the Parliament is for?
Ok. I understand it. It is not a partisan exercise but a PAPtisan exercise after all in this wayang CONversion.
ReplyDeleteSo Moral of the story is,
Just because you don't wear WHITE does not make mean you are not WHITE.
I like this new word "PAPtism".
DeleteLike baptism.
Interesting word. So anyone who join PAP is said to be paptised .
DeleteAs long as there is money and benefit for these stooges to join the party, they will have PAPtism of Fire.
The guy in top right also is a PAP activist lah...
ReplyDeletehttps://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=13025205&l=508aef4157&id=14440041382
Can we assume they all are? Birds of a feather flock together, that kind of thing?
DeleteAnd many more ...including that BS sushi boss who was also part of the audience. This entire exercise should be renamed National Convention of PAP. Or is this what LSS call the 'silent majority' ?!
Deletehttp://forums.hardwarezone.com.sg/eat-drink-man-woman-16/cna-forum-staged-audiences-been-selected-one-them-pap-activist-supporter-3895699-18.html
I am a fan of Sakae Sushi.
DeleteAfter this.
I'll stick to hamburgers.
I intend to swear of sushi until I see a much higher Opposition presence in parliament.
PAP always score their own goal post, don't they ? Can't even wayang properly and still have audacity to preach us nonsense.
ReplyDeleteBut then some genes just can never be changed. PAP has proved to us that once a clown, always a clown.
It sure looks like a conversation among the 60%.
ReplyDeleteleading to mass masturbation and fake orgasm... wtf!
DeleteHow can they exclude Opposition Parties from the National CONversation?
ReplyDeleteThe CONversation is paid for using taxpayers money right?
And Opposition Parties are taxpayers.
Of course, if PAP is paying for the National CONversation using PAP money.
Then they can invite whoever they want.
Did anything change after the "conversation"? Things had been slow since his famous apology and I have a feeling it is going to drag till the next GE. It has been a lot of hot air since, other than housing which saw some changes, which is not too difficult considering the previous inept minister. But the loss of 1 GRC did see some change in accountability on the part of the government. True democracy is wonderful.
ReplyDeleteLet a thousand flowers bloom.
ReplyDeleteLord knows, the weeds have been flourishing for the last 47 years.
Singapore Conversation In a Nutshell
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Millionaires-In-White: "Singapore does not owe you a living."
Sinkies: "Yes. We know. We die it's our business. So what else is there to talk?"
Somebody should offer a contest.
ReplyDeletemaybe prize money of $1,000.
If anybody can identify 25 people from NatCON as PAP members.
Very disappointed. I spent 3hrs researching and this is what I found..most of the speakers are all CCC/PA or GLC-related individuals, who are there to help PAP stage this entire wayang. They are the enablers who give the leaders a platform to "influence" and "shape" our views. CNA should come clean with their selection criterion.
DeleteLink to the show & see speakers at pause
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqoBDpgilpA
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Chaly Ma @5:18 SLA Chairman
http://news.xin.msn.com/en/singapore/article.aspx?cp-documentid=4175939
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Han Hwee Chin @6:40, ex-JTC, ex-MTI, current GIC Real Estate
http://www.rst.nus.edu.sg/newsreal/newsreal_final_201110.pdf
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Marc Lim Kah Leong @10.50, Kampong Glam Club Youth
http://projectsday.hci.edu.sg/2010/15-FinalsWeb/Cat-08/8-51/endorsement.html
Hamidah Aidillah Mustafa @16:29, YP member & Mendaki
http://www.mendakiclub.org.sg/about-mclub/our-exco-members/hamidah-aidillah-mustafa/
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Gopalan Krishnan @22.40, Fengshan CCC
Devi Haridas seated in show, Telok Blangah CCC
http://www.pa.gov.sg/volunteers-speak.html
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Daniel Ho, Student @32:00 Boon Lay CC YEC
http://sg.linkedin.com/in/danielhosheng
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Rolf Gerber @32:55 Chairman of LGT Leichentstein Bank.
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Trina Liang, MD @40:54 , one of speaker/supporter of TonyTan PE 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tUQWzBPNf8--
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Enough said..not a shred of authenticity.
15 or more audiences/speakers have already been identified in the show. That is 30% of the participants. Why bother to go on? Just have your own convention and save our money and time.
Re: Real SNAP-SHOTS9/16/2012 5:26 PM
DeleteGood job. Extending your list, all from Hardwarezone CSI:
Lawyer Devi Vasantha Haridas
Member Publicity Publication Committee of Petir
Telok Blangah Citizens’ Consultative Committee
Dover Community Centre Management Committee
Dover Road Residents’ Committee
Malminder Singh
PAP Member, Kebun Baru Branch
Tay Xiong Sheng
Activist, Woodlands PAP Branch
Michael Rebaczonoc-Padulo
The Ang Moh at Hougang By-election
Budiman B Mohd Salleh
YP Executive Member, Kaki Bukit Branch
Jasmine Chua (the one wearing green)
PAP connection: photo had lunch with George Yeoh
14 seems to have been identified thus far;
Deletehttp://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17473688&postID=5629542248726329690&page=1&token=1347805363156
Update: 15 identified.
DeleteMr Foo Peow Yong, Douglas,
PBM, CEO of Sakae Sushi.
PAP connection: Patron of Siglap CCC 2011-2013.
http://singaporedesk.blogspot.sg/2012/09/of-hate-and-prejudice.html?showComment=1347169697501
ReplyDeleteI'm ok with whatever conversations they want but just do us a favour, do it at your own time own target after office hours. Stop squandering and abusing taxpayers money doing all these during office hours. And never say I didn't warn you, don't let us catch you incurring consultancy fees like the ministerial salary review and the COI for SMRT/LTA.
Thank you
Xie Xie
Kam Siah
Now when I think of Sushi, I no longer think of Sakae Sushi but Sakar Sushi due to the boot- licking stunt of their boss. So disgusting, embarrassing and shameful of him. Even if he want to sakar publicly, do it with fact, and not lies and half-truth like PAP. Now we finally find out why PAP is the way it is because that they can only solicit with people that sakar.
ReplyDeleteNeedless to say, I will never patron "Sakar Sushi" again.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singlish_vocabulary
Sakar - To flatter, to lick one's boots. Derived from Malay meaning 'sugar', which may have been derived from Hindi 'sakar' or 'Sakkar' meaning 'sugar' and 'sweet words', and ultimately from Persian 'shakar' meaning 'sugar', 'sweet'.
PAP-MIW Joke
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New sushi restaurant.
Serves only Millionaires-In-White.
Called Sosumi.
NatCON seems to have a lot of PAPies in the audience.
ReplyDeleteAt least 10(?) have been identified thus far.
NatCON = PAP Mental Masturbation ?
This is all a charade and I want no part of it.
ReplyDeleteThis "national conversation" is nothing more than a thinly veiled propaganda exercise to spread the pap narrative.
After being exposed of a big wayang, then they try to salvage their face by saying they are there for exhibition only.
ReplyDeleteBut in the first place why they need to exhibit such wayang to showcase to the Prince & his wife and what is the significance to the Prince to let him know that we Singaporeans are engaged in such activities ... no other species in this world other than Singaporeans are engaged in such activities ?
Come on PAP leaders, don't be such a smart arse even if you want to bluff other people!
This is becoming a PR disaster for the PAP.
ReplyDeleteThe fact that the audience includes so many PAP activists shows their insincerity about the NatCon. Haven't they heard enough from their OWN people with or without the NatCon?
The last-minute disinvite to people with diverse and different opinions shows that they are uninterested in alternate views.
What a Nation Con job!
Haha....
ReplyDeleteThe cynicism in Cyberspace
is likely to cause some leaders
to retire in foreign lands soon.
And Sinkies do not just lose them,
they will oso lose the fortunes
these folks will take with them.
Michael Rebaczonok-Padulo is lecturer in Ngee Ann,he was from USA,guess he is now a loyal citizen.
ReplyDeleteHis most renowned works include the essay on 'Multi-Racialism and the Singaporean Identity', which won 3rd Prize in the PAP Youth Wing National Essay Writing Competition in 1988
Such insincerity, but hardly surprising coming from PAP, esp LHL, who's responsible for the extent of this overcrowding mess we're in now. To show some sincerity, PAP government should start by dismantling ISA first.
ReplyDeleteI say vote more opposition into parliament, then we'll have a real conversation, in parliament, not a stage-managed one PAP is attempting to do now. Pay attention to what they do, not what they say.
Good thing I checked the blogosphere before wasting anytime watching the National CON.
ReplyDeleteThis spectacular own goal by the pappies is getting better by the day... LOL
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