This year, 425 service stars were awarded to front line staff and drivers from the public transport companies and associations to honour their exemplary service for offering commuters a more pleasant travelling experience.
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At another public place, security guard Mak exercised his initiative to shoo away a man peddling key chains at The Cathay's Open Plaza. When the peddler turned aggressive and attacked the guard, the latter's black belt in taekwondo came in handy. Unfortunately, in the eyes of officialdom, it was the wrong call. His employer said what he should have done instead was to contact the control room. The police apparently subscribes to similar protocol, encouraging "anyone with information to lodge a report so that they can look at the facts and circumstances of the case before taking any appropriate actions." In other words, follow the example of the long suffering lady, just take the torrential rain of saliva in good stride until the boys in blue finally show up. If they bother to show up at all.
The law intervened more weightily in the case of the dog who was put down because it turned aggressive and bit his owner. The law minister himself, no less, called for interested parties to lawyer up. Sun Xu, if you are reading this, we owe you an apology. Indeed, there may be more dogs than people in Singapore.
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Call the police for help?
ReplyDeleteHa Ha Ha Ha!
Might as well ask your PAP MP for help.
Or write letter to the Straits Times.
Just wondering whether the mad dog at Woodlands would like to spit at our brave security guard with the black belt in Taekwondo.
ReplyDeleteThe employer of this hero doesn't know a good man when he sees one.
For going beyond the call of duty, he should be promoted to Chief of Security. Maybe he can even lead the security team at the Woodlands Bus Interchange and take over from that dud keeping a safe distance from the salivating rabid dog.
Our rulers do not want brave or patriotic Singaporeans.
DeleteThey want obedient and compliant Singaporeans.
Now do you finally get it?
I get it. This country is going to the dogs.
ReplyDeleteNot surprise when we have 77 lapdogs in parliament all from LKY's obedience school.
DeleteDog men dog women increase so inorder to get their votes ministers n mp place more importance on animals
ReplyDeleteI like ur sense of humour. Indeed there are more dogs than humans in Singapore. 60.1%, to be precise.
ReplyDeleteYes, good hum our and we all sure need to apologies to that Sun chap . He was spot-on and we were too daft to realize the sad Hard Truth.
DeleteSomeone shud video tape and post online some of those scdf servicemen trotting around with service revolvers, enjoying a good surf on their handphones while patrolling the smrt trains. With vigilance like this, no wonder derange madmen have the chance to hone their cobra stinging throws.
ReplyDeleteWe are so aware of sensitivities of our surrounding neighbours and the world at large that we have an army that prides itself as a 'deterrence' . This philosophy trickles down to all other aspects of our being.
ReplyDeleteNever the aggressor. Always defending... wait for the first blow.. such as spitting.. even then... its.. "see how".
We do not know how to retort. We only complain & grumble.
More spittle cometh.
Singaporeans themselves got to learn from their earlier generations in the 50s and 60s. Those days, taxi drivers, vice workers and hawkers when bullied by drunk foreigners, especially the seamen and soldiers, would help each other to protect each other. Depending on law enforcers more often than not, would be too late. The Angmos were usually of much bigger built and soldiers were trained fighters. A one to one fight with the Aggressor inevitably worked against the Locals.
ReplyDeleteIf Singaporeans are to face mounting and rising antagonism from aliens, it is time to learn from the brotherhoods in the past.
Angmos who bully the locals in Thailand can expect to be severely beaten. The Thais are known to defend their own kind fighting in shere numbers and resorting to weapons. However big the Angmos are, they will be cut down to size very quickly by the Thais while the local police will wayang with their investigation....
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