Singapore's first woman full minister and former minister in the Prime Minister's Office, Lim Hwee Hua's third posting since leaving politics was independent non-executive director with Ernst & Young's Global Advisory Council. She also joined private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts as adviser (October 2011) and Jardine Cycle & Carriage as non-executive director (July 2011).
Phua and Lim were part of the team that was turfed out of Aljunied in the May 2011 General Elections. Phua and Lim were also partners of a shameful episode in May 2009.
The 17-year-old boy may have been intellectually challenged, but even with his low IQ he could sense his mother was shabbily treated when she approached the MP for an appeal to the HDB which was in the process of repossessing her flat. Phua was standing in for Lim, then travelling abroad on some junket. The low EQ MP added injury to injury (he suffers from thalassemia, a blood disorder that renders him weak and sickly) when she addressed him aggressively: "Who are you? What are you doing? Why aren't you working?"
He expressed his frustration on the way out by slamming a folding chair against an inanimate glass door, but not sufficiently violent to break it or cost expensive damage. That night the police arrested him.
A week later, mother brought a hand written apology from his son to Lim, back from her overseas trip, begging for mercy. Lim, alien to the milk of human kindness, was not moved: "'I made it very clear to (the mother) that this is unacceptable behaviour. It is not justifiable in any circumstance. There's no excuse to be violent."
If there was a follow up to The New Paper report , it can't be well distributed. Lim and Phua may have moved on, but the fate of the youth, and her mother struggling to survive on her cleaner salary of $400 a month, probably did not warrant a mention in the mainstream media.
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Why is every mother fucker government link company going into property business? NTUC, SPH, SMRT, F&N, etc. This country has gone to the dogs. No wonder our HDB flat is priced out of reach from the younger generation. In short, there is no future for Singaporeans.
ReplyDeleteYes, even NLB, CC and RC are riding onto the property bubble by renting out spaces for businesses. Would Istana be rented out next? So much space wasted to house unproductive KFC and pinkie.
DeleteIstana is reserved for the Lee regime and their over paid Minsters w/o portfolio.
DeleteThe EC, by virtue of the land being auctioned to the highest bidder, is already a profiteering scheme by itself.
DeleteSo when that Cow Minister expressed his shock at the profits made by those EC owners, is he not trying to pretend to act blur as if profiteering is not the uppermost motive in marketting of such housing schemes ?
Those bitches walking around downtown with power suits scare the shit out of me.
ReplyDeleteEspecially those who look down on others less fortunate than them.
Why scared of them? Should just give them cold shoulders when encounter takes place. Maybe add in a cold stare to make the message clearer.
DeleteAnyway, their doings and deeds may not be approved by their own families. If they go beyond the respectability and acceptances of their spouses and children, no amount of income or title in appointment is going to make up for heartaches.
Walk? They are drove around with their mercedes S class series. THis world is full of lies.
DeleteWell, we have 7 elected Opposition Mps, and what are they doing about it...
ReplyDeleteSo does it mean that the PAP MPs can absolve themselves from their responsibilities of looking after the unfortunate ones ?
DeleteSo those welfare cases that are being reported in the Shit Times are only for publicity show only to con the people that they still care while in their hypocrite roles ?
Correction: we have only 7 opposition members in parliament, and that's not enough for them to do anything effective.
DeleteThat's how Speaker of Parliament Halimah Yacob can rule that an adjournment motion on the town council review filed by Workers' Party chairman Sylvia Lim is inadmissible, preventing the subject of the motion from being fully debated in parliament. Instead, Minister Khaw Boon Wan will be delivering another wayang ministerial statement on the MND review.
How many non opposition members? It is ten times more not ten % more. The constitution law is also mean to opposition members.
DeleteThey might have tried to sentence that intellectually challenged guy to jail for such a mere misdemeanor, which can be easily understood as frustration with the system expressed in a less-than-tactful manner owing to his intellect. But I am sure that the reason why they lost such major votes was simply the way in which such news like these get out on social media. One day, they will be judged by the Divine One for such acts as theirs, by presuming to arrogate such power to themselves to try hurting the downtrodden with the arm of the law.
ReplyDeleteThat blur sotong who tasted 'hum in his mee siam' still didn't get it to his mind. He thought by saying sorry once, he could have conned the people and get away with it in a short while. But he forgot that this sort of blunders will continue to haunt him from time to time.
ReplyDeleteAn ordinary citizen once answered me this :"If there was a day where I have no money, starving and standing out in the rain, It would be the Opposition that will open their doors and shelter me. Not the PAP."
ReplyDeleteWhen the PAPigs become the opposition which is not very far fetched judging by the sentiments on the ground, it will be their turn to open their doors to shelter you.
DeleteAll politicians are scumbags. They are in this profession which is no better than prostitution to benefit themselves.
The Victor is King. The loser is serf.
So true, exactly what my father would have said.
DeleteIf the world can get rid of all scumbag politians who enrich themselves first, a lot of the problems facing mankind today can be solved overnight.
DeleteIf our country can get rid of those politians who asked to be paid world class salaries and yet can't perform, would be be we better off without them ? Or to put it in another way, has your standard of living been any much better with them still around us ?
Since all politicians are evil, people must learn to vote for the lesser of two evils.
Deletethis bitch .... may be suffer the karma in this life time,
ReplyDeleteokay retribution ... if it sound better
Actually, Phua and Lim can easily redeem themselves and score points with the people by pretending to let go and render the mother and son some help and getting pap propaganda manager to broadcast it widely in various media. If that has been done, PAP would have made a very good and deep impression with the voters and won with great results in GE2011. Ah Long no need to 'sorry' even. Unfortunately, they are too self centered and unkind. Heaven has been good to them that they can even find good jobs after causing severe damages to party name. Where is the party whip? Looks like the party itself is falling apart.
ReplyDelete"Feathering your own bed" is the motto, put in more bluntly its open corruption. In US, politicians accept low pay while in office, then switch to the same private sector they used to oversee when they were in garmen to earn big pay. You guys pay sky high to garmen for them to feather their nests while in garmen, then they leave to join the nests they feathered. Temasek is of course the big investor in KKR's recent funds, and a nice sucker to co-invest in all of kkr's hairy deals across asia. Your good junket leader ex-minister was the second in command after madam in temasek when they took a multi hundred million dollar stake in kkr. Same modus operandi with that ex top civil servant now the new CEO of the gambling den, who when "serving" in the garmen, aggressively pushed for the casinos. See how "loyalty" works in you garmen? Sadly, the malaysians and indons are correct: in their country, they have a choice whether to pay for "kkn" to garmen officials to get things done, they also have some flexibility on how much to pay. You guys just turn around and bend down (some even ask for more)!!
ReplyDeletewonder many more are on the propety bandwagon that we dont know
ReplyDeleteITs shameful these ppl even get job offers .. shame on the companies!
Dream of becoming a fat cat , property is a suree way
Yeahhh!!!
If only WP have won Aljunied GRC in GE2006, five years earlier, the mother & boy predicament wouldn't have taken a toll under the two discgusting wowmen (Lim & Phua). I wonder, how does this women with family became so cruel and void of human feelings towards the poor family? PAP must be a very conducive ground to breed such characters.
ReplyDeletewhen one has money, oe is considered good in this cuntry
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