Apparently, the old father and new father of Singapore are both counting on this: Core Competency. I have no personal grudge against SDP, but bluntly put… I laugh at SDP’s core competency as illustrated in the previous chat here. With this they wanna rule Singapore… Hahahahahahahahahaha…
Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha…
I must laugh lah, they telling joke so you laugh. What MM thinks is very right as the smaller the boat the bigger the storm and the more the need for core competency… except that he probably forgets that the many rich party seniors are walking reserves themselves. And once the people were to remove PAP, it’d be already somehow a judgement made on the party’s core competency. In Elfredian political understanding, party names are just… names. By that time the oppositions got kicked out by the people, probably a new group of PAP people will be behind PAP banner, and alot of ‘grassroots’ of opposition incumbent will switch sides again if PAP were to be indeed returned to power. But what would have happened to Lee’s family would be hardly a guess.
What? You really expect Dr Chee and such will be very nice the moment they are in power or are part of what joint government? So I don’t suggest and will never suggest MM to think that way. Too dangerous.
However, it is precisely so that even if MM doesn’t wanna see the fall of the party, by tomorrow he might have received emails with people honestly telling him two are voting for PAP and three for oppositions… Core competency surfaces in this argument, and it belongs to Elfredinario’s argument, and the precise reason why he prefers to currently stay out. The PM has tried to address the people’s desire for change by stating that ‘if change must be, change must be made within PAP’. Nonetheless, this option is only available if a change within PAP can answer to the need of the people, which is back to square one: Unless you can change core competency, you can change whatever but nothing in real does change. I know that all too well… you’d need to get political human resource proper. With years of fat pay and best of the best selection efforts, to further best such pay and selection efforts already in place with influx of powerless NMPs won’t likely to change core competency with highfalutin ideas by NMPs. And smartly, the rest shut their mouths…
But Elfred is watching expectantly for the NMPs to open their mouths… Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha…
While there is no apparent need to, I have chosen the time after NMP selection to take a break from party membership and become a retired PAP member, and for the current situation, I’d nose around and see if there is a need to be involved in grassroot activities. I am way too righteous, way too vocal and way too intolerant to nosense to be a member. Actually, the official reason quoted is pretty solid, and I doubt PMO will blame me or what. Of course, it is not really inspired by Mr Danabalan’s quitting of government, but his move out was deemed respectable but unnecessary. Though, this points out the reality of PAP politics, that people do hold different views and there is no need to fight or slap over such differences. Becoming a PAP retiree since 2010 is actually quite behind schedule, though it apparently doesn’t make a difference. Unlike Tan Kin Lian, Gomez or Ti Lik, I have no intention to protest at Hong Lim or join opposition parties or what… unless necessary. If a leader is already found, I would have advised him/her to drink copi and relax on the fence for the precious moment. I have neither the intention to be perceived as desperately wanting to enter parliament by becoming an NMP.
The only thing I won’t say to future historians now is what solid reason I have offered to be a retiree. And to layman, political retiree from parties are pretty common; still, as and when necessary, we’d still be raising issues to the party as grassroot concerns in retiree stance. The good thing about being a party retiree is that you won’t be involved direct in politics so there is no concern of being a lapdog whatever, but you are not exactly outside the system and you can still raised issues deemed of interests to the state. As the MM had mentioned: Singaporeans should voice out about Singapore matters. This stems from a MM statement that: Singaporeans should be making decisions for themselves (and not the colonial masters). Actually… if you don’t talk rubbish and you hold no evil intention, your voice will be well received… I suppose.
This is in line with my current personal policy to fade away… perhaps to take care of my baby boy, to evacuate and for some personal travelling.
In real, this current period of time is a marvelous time to take a break after the record of being a YP. Historians might have been puzzled why the New Father of Singapore has no wish to meddle things in parliament either via NMP route or PAP or oppositions, or even to start his own party.
Despite MM’s praise towards Low Thia Khiang against Dr Chee for leading WP into a de facto leading opposition, Low Thia Khiang’s pressence in parliament will never make him a Father of Singapore nor will he be able to break out of the deadlock alone. His party is seriously lacking in people of such calibre; as I have mentioned, my old classmate may be a leader-type, but he won’t be able to handle a ministry by himself. Sylvia may be a lawyer, but so is Low; even with both of them in parliament, it’d be useless. Not to mention… with no intention to offend, I have been watching WP’s policy inclinations and… pretty laughable. It probably explains why over a few decades Singaporeans are jumping to their deaths even if they were to have approached their MPs. Nothing can be changed for the moment, and even as I forwarded issues to the leaders I have never really expected much to be changed. MM spoke his mind, that youngsters should have realised that it is not easy to change governments… but it doesn’t mean youngsters won’t stop whining for a change. But real change requires action, if you count on others to change and you whine, you can whine forever. But action requires the basic understanding of change and the time necessary for it. And for Singaporeans… Elfred has this remark for you: You may not really like what you are whining for…
The current fight is focusing on taking out any of the 14 GRCs. The fight after the coming one, if the party doesn’t show much surprises, has a near 100% chance that GRC/s would be lost. I can’t teach you people how to calculate vote counts… Hahahahahahahaha… I haven’t met one worthwhile for the lecture. The oppositions must be very excited with this long awaited chance. Me too, because I am hoping to watch a more exciting show. Not to mention that the next PM will be introduced in the coming fight. Some people thought SM Goh is being arrogant for talking about succession… Nosense. In reality, before MM has departed for some years, an influx of elements into oppositions cannot be expected; the current political elements on table is not even half of what we potentially could harbor. In this, SM Goh is not arrogant. In Singapore’s political situation, an all out tide against the party will most likely happen with pre-requisite that the party have lost about 4 GRCs. People don’t understand, PAP is not just powerful in Singapore for nothing, it is well-connected and MM is sure of his system, and the party is confident in face of the rotting state of the oppositions, plus those irrational mobsters who just condemn anyohow.
I am well aware of the people’s looking down on the government’s governance, but what is the fuck use of scribbling Pay And Pay and Bloodsuckers and scold Ministers on toilet doors, including those of hotels? What is the use of cursing Mdm Lee and laughing at PM Lee’s cancer? Funny people… Congratulations, you have become ignorant maggots. Compare this to a shopkeeper I came across before. He is unhappy, he is quietly working honestly without cheating and he wanted to save up money to enter politics, to have his own party. I laughed at him, but not the same type of laugh as on SDP’s policies… Who says youngsters are politically apathetic? This is the type of guys or gals who would eventually make it, who would eventually realise that a change is not one starting a havoc like an invincible rich cock in theonlinecitizen or Sgforums. They are saving money for deposits, quietly observing the mess and to encounter one and another and pool their talents together for election after MM has departed. Among these youngsters could be my future employer. Hahahahahahahaha…
Put it this way, I know only too well to table anything in parliament. Take the very obvious issues that if I were to even mention about the need to be concerned about those happenings at the banks, in the private education sector and the charity sector… Look, it was raining gold! The moment I were to open my mouth in parliament, somebody would start laughing and mocking like that Panter92 telling me all those big feel-good stories and MM would likely say I ‘Highfalutin’. Hahahahahahaha… This is the essence that if I were to argue with Josephine about her labor thoughts before the Golden Era, I’d be shut down almost too soon… What is the point? MM probably realised by now that I was and always have been the one holding the legacy and waiting for the right person to hand over. I have hinted before that that Golden Era was the perfect chance to gain a legacy… hadn’t I? What is the point of inviting Elfred out of MOE?
People have to understand one thing in politics… saying this is because I have known too many Ti Liks in and outside the party… ambitious, smartalec, and out to win and win and win but… Sometimes the ladders are all there, we all can see, but there are not yours to take. Some ladders lead directly to hell, and some lead to shit, and just because the ladders are there doesn’t mean anything. Elfred has the political capability many would be jealous of, but the reason why he doesn’t move out already explains why oppositions should just hang on tight. I can be a minister, because just by dealing with the loss-making crisis would already justify my million-dollars salary. But why have I been lackluster? Let’s just say that God has a divine and natural matching mechanism. Dr Chee was presented a ladder before, the ladder to the helm of SDP… the then de facto leading opposition party. Together with that clown Ling How Doong, Dr Chee ousted Chiam See Tong making Chiam to subsequently becoming irrationally paranoid of people, and after Dr Chee climbed the ladder he saw SDP crushed, and gone his dream to enter parliament as the helm of a leading opposition party… Ling was also voted out, Dr Chee never moved into parliament proper with his doctorate but once, and his leadership saw direct confrontation with the PAP in PAP’s most powerful era. Pardon my frankness, Dr Chee is an idiot… and to me, he is just an opportunist, or a super idealistic opportunist. And by now, he must be trying to wiggle very hard at this chance Elfred has mentioned to grab a GRC.
The quality of political elements cannot escape Elfred’s eyes. Chiam is picky, but not well-trained in political human resource management. And I can’t help him. I am watching Kenneth of Reform Party. Basically, a top class political element will always read the other elements like a book so that in real, very few top elements wanna join force with rotten eggs. You can present one or one thousand ladders in front of Elfred that he might just sit there unmoved while the whole bunch of opportunists charge at them. Put it this way, if I were to be Dr Chee, I honestly won’t fight with Chiam for the leadership of the party. The reason is very simple, SDP was only beginning to emerge, taking over would only mean a break up of the party unity and undermining the influence. Chiam was obviously the deciding card. There makes little sense to destroy a rising platform. But people are classified into layman and great element. Most laymen are victims of their own greed, of their own immorality, of their own selfishness… once they see the sweets in the jar, they will try to grab as many as possible, and got trapped. But if I were to be there, Chiam’s own ignorance will make him favor a doctorate holder from NUS teaching than a nobody like myself.
Which explains why I’d never join Chiam’s party, and why Chiam will never go anywhere.
Chiam never really learns his lesson on the importance of political human resource thereafter… a big regret. SPP has been pretty small, not hard to understand. And SDP is becoming numerous but are mostly useless. The pressence of maggots has the same effect of a useless leader, they won’t draw element of great calibre such as Zhuge, Han Xin and so on and they serve to keep them out. Across histories, oppositions are aplenty. I have never come across a dynasty or empire without any oppositions or court fightings. Before a great leader is born into history, there usually will be such oppositions I conveniently label as yellow turbans. These are the opportunists who have no idea on how to govern, who can’t even tell what’s wrong with policies and are laughing at their great policies like retards… they fought by enticing the equally ignorant crowd by marketing their funny policies so as to gather steam. If you ever read the Romance of Three Kingdoms properly, those Yellow Leaders were literally selling policies which were ridiculous… because they were based on magic or just… religion. And the desperate people bought into those stories. Which is, at the same time I am laughing at SDP’s policies, I have never ruled out SDP’s rise. In fact, they are still eligible to be among the first party to score a GRC from PAP.
Numbers is what SDP currently has over SPP. However, Chiam’s personal reputation together with Kenneth would be something interesting as well.
The basic point here before we drag too far is that from decades back, during my time as a kid, I know very well that all those ladders were not for me. Ong Teng Cheong provided a hopeful ladder… but God claimed him, denying me an earlier acess into politics. God obviously doesn’t want me to stop anything, to change history, to catch any knife… I was there, staring at Durai as he happily made plenty of monies, as he happily sued people sued friends, as my relative rotted into the newspaper because of his kidney failure… and as he happily been kicked to India with a $20,000 a month job ever after… … I was there, staring at Ming Yi… and many many many others. I knew about Ming Yi before the case even started. I was one of those who raised my concerns to MM of Ming Yi’s car and such luxuries which a monk is craving. Just the mere thought about those sickos makes me feel so sick. Of course, I left out Mr Ong Seh Hong’s involvement because… who do you think I am? Besides, I have seen Ming Yi before… naive and apparently more idiotic than Durai. This is the type of people who after got associated with big names would suppose they can do whatever they want in a small small pond, if the trial goes on… I wonder how many more people this silly monk will start pulling out.
Actually, Durai is much better in this area than that hollow botak head… Am I suppose to reveal anything? No no no… I am only certain that MM is still in the blind of many things. In consideration of his age, it is better for him to live happily without too much worrying. Without the legacy, the current PM will be placed in very risky position to do anything. So we wait for the scandals to be dug out by those brainless heroes out.
The essence of politics is as much as such long long pieces of articles but you always touch on minuscule things. You can give a hint, point to a direction, throw in a sample to test water, if problems can be fixed, fine… if not, never mind. I may be very blunt, I may sound very blunt and frank, but in real… I calculate everything. Once they wanna open the floodgate, I happily blog and I didn’t raise any concerns. You have done your part, it’s ok. I have also warned about the crisis, Panter92 wanna point a finger at myself… you think I even bother?
This is the current settings for the current era.
Till the time that I become a minister, I shan’t even lift a finger to instruct. Cleaning up a massive and deeply rooted mess in such a tiny island is not exactly so simple, and you’d need all the power and support of a great leader. It’s not as that kid mentioned, you’d immediately jump in and try to stop the car… Go ahead and try that on expressway. Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha… Damn, I miss that silly kid. Hahahahahahahahaha…
Will PAP Fall?
MM has obviously been preparing for this scenario… reportedly for 15 years. There is no need to read MM’s words always on the plain plane. Before PAP falls, MM’s not giving out till his very last breath. With his legacy, he’d probably get his way. The problem, of course, emerges when a PM without legacy tries the game in the rising tide in favor of the oppositions. Like I have said, or warned, those ridiculous people online… things can get pretty ugly if PAP enters a struggling phase… It’s definitely much more uglier than what GRC or changing electoral boundaries. The huge stakes placed on their tables justify such expectation.
Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) is not really that liberal and… huge wealth were staked up high as well as scandals, all these done behind their secretive veil and power system for a long long time. Many Japanese folks I came across a few years back yielded that the MPs were not prepared to lose power with all those mistresses and corruptions (including abusing powers). Pretty normal, as in Taiwan. Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ)’s rise is however not going to be exactly the same as the rise of oppositions in Singapore’s scenario. No no no, something else will happen. But before that, many people will always assume status quo. Of course, I am not here indicating that PAP or those associated are womanizing or corrupted. Hahahahahahahaha…
This question has been the talk of the town for some years already, and only recently that the push for change is becoming rather… too noisy. That is especially after some strange non-political court judgements and the death of a resident who had obviously decided to go hell instead of more approaches to MPS for aid. I empathize with comrade Seng for his mishap, but I have already warned in the forum that things are going violent and MPs should have been more prepared. As for how much more violent will this rugged society become… It obviously doesn’t really matter. As another batch of MPs are coming in the coming election, I hope they will be more prepared. Of course, when the violence escalated, the heat will inevitably be directed to the PM as with almost every local issue. And if you people really think that the party is ignorant, the top leaders are not as ignorant on such boilings as you happily assume.
The party structure in a time when parliament is about 90% within the hands of PAP is that it allows the sec-gen to influence the future of any politicians within the system. The PM can, by right, appoint or remove anyone to or from office, but if the PM wants to remove anyone from MP-ship, he would have to terminate his or her membership or that person must be voted out by the public. Usually, the PM will not terminate an MP’s membership out of political consideration. After all, an MP has his own grassroots and so on, and would be an embarassment to do so unless there is such a dire need to. And usually, most MPs upon being removed from offices won’t necessarily just volunteer to exit politics. In a way, with 90% of seats in PAP’s hand, NMPs or MPs are all under Sec-Gen’s favor.
Which is why the talk about Party split is most ridiculous. Once a modern day Barisan Socialis happens, the constitution will flush them all out of Parliament… and they will start politics the way Dr Chee is doing… and if you expect this is the Party split… Just look at SDP’s fate for trying to bang against MM’s machinery. Hahahahahahahahaha… In Japan, PMs are also secretively chosen after plenty of internal arrangement, and if any bunch of ministers revolt, the premier has the authority to remove them from office and to force them out of parliament. Which is… hilariously speaking, if there were to be another Lee Kuan Yew trying to happen in Japan, he’d have to be very lucky as well. In short, as and when the parliament is 70% occupied by the PAP, there will be no risk of party split and everyone comes under the PM. Of course, MM’s in charge in a way with his council and the top positions tightly in his control.
While the people mock the elected President, this President does have a very powerful yet subtle role. People only know that Singapore President is useless and only for show purposes… No no no, politically speaking, this guy is the next most powerful under the Prime Minister. The President may not be running everyday workings of the state, but the President can pardon Lin Chin Xiong, can deny appointments to offices and he can be expected to stand in for the PM position if (say) the PM is kidnapped. Of course, the President holds the bloody key to the reserves that many many many out to make money would be lusting after. So imagine if a rogue Prime Minister has a rogue friend elected President… he’d immediately be a very threatening rich team.
So presuming there is such an election, many youngsters may think… ‘Oh my shit, it’s like the US president election that anyone can take the place of President, including an inexperienced black– Mr Obama!’.
Just image MM’s face if a commoner or layman tried to go for this looking-lobo position. When the idea of elected President was tabled, I already half-guessed what would be coming next. Let me explain to you people what MM has in his mind, and MM can scold me if I were to be wrong. As I have mentioned, PAP is very well connected. In real, the perception of PAP leaders to Presidency is unlike that of you commoners. For instance, Tan Kin Lian… If Tan Kin Lian were to be contesting for Presidency, and he is not accepted beforehand by (say) the MM, he’d have to face the machinery… and to the MM, commoners of no social status and political understandings have no chance in election against the successful and connected candidate. In the unlikely case that a layman manages to get elected through all those machinery workings, you’d either get ousted or you can just lobo there with almost no real powers. Why? Because how would a layman know what to do with the system? And how would ministries be bothered with a layman? Not to mention that the President is advised by a council of people, and where do you think these people come from. But the salary of a President is over $3m, you can try. MM, am I not right…? Hahahahahahahahahaha…
I have never really studied the PAP’s system. Why is the need to study something that can be easily expected?
However, all systems are built upon assumptions.
Just like a door… you have a metalic door and you want to be very secured and you have all those best of the best locks in places and all those passwords done and this bloody… OMG is so secured that only you can gain acess into the room.
The problem is, to get into the room, you don’t exactly need the passwords or to open all those locks or to bang the thick metalic safedoors. You go directly to the hinges… The hinges connect to the bricks… and the bricks are connected to the mortar, and the mortar must allow for temperature changes, hence… they can’t be that strong. This part is about physics… But the idea is the same. A room without any openings and very very much locked by heavy doors, if the outside changes you still can feel very secured until you discover that this room seems to be getting stuffy… and you are getting giddy, and you will have to start a hole somewhere, or to open the door… Or to death shall you not touch the system. In Elfredian politics, there is hence never such things as reliance on doors or locks or whatever, which is why I am very open with my wife’s issues and such. I do carry safeboxes around but… they are not meant to contain myself.
People asked, will PAP fall?
Many years back when I was studying the political situations in Singapore, I knew very well that MM would probably construct a safe-room and locked the entire power supply in. He is a lawyer, and he has been seeking a system for his party with his earliest catch from those in Vatican. The more successful he has been inside such a safe-house, the more locks he has, the more apparent is my position… I will just wait outside the house, eventually either oxygen will be depleted or holes will invite the small creatures in. There is no even a need to bang at the mortar, I am too big for such puny holes anyway. Which is completely understandable of why if MM never invites me, I’d happily wait outside the box. Because in order to invite me, he’d have to remember all the passwords on those locks and he’d have to still have the strength to pull open the heavy doors with the hinges perhaps rusted over so many years. If he can’t even do that, what’s the point of entering the house or politics? Out in the open air, it’s fresh air and exciting shows of Yellow Turbans banging on the house and got banged back, and out in the open sitting on the fence, you can see the horizon much better, you can admire the sun and the moon and count the stars not just by imagination.
It takes all the courage of a leader to open the doors and to venture out to the fence with all those zombies banging all around the house, whine and whine about their stomache, whine and whine about the food in the house, and whine and whine and whine all days all nights about Elfred… I also whine, but I am not interested in what those zombies are whining. I whine, ‘Why is there a need for such a house… when it’s fresh air here on the fence?’ Why disturb the party happening in the locked house? The more the dancing with the more the gold splashing around and beautiful lights swirling, the faster the oxygen is consumed…
Once one understands this philosophy, you’d understand why I am so bo-chap.
This question of PAP falling is a very strange one. The only person who can clean up the mess is myself, not those people asking when PAP is falling. The only person who knew how to fend off the crisis was myself, you could send scholars to USA but… so what, you are just killing Obama? So what if I tell you when PAP will fall. What can you do? So what if I have already mentioned about this election’s wonderful chance many many years back, do you think the oppositions would have even be prepared? Do you think Elfred expects them to be prepared or to thank me… Hahahahahahahaha… I have been most honest because I know who are the audiences… These people are hopeless. Their only use is to keep the house banged non-stop, partly also for entertainment’s sake. It’s a pretty long wait, you see…
And they thought I was trying to insult them by wanting to be entertained… How strange.
I won’t tell you when the party will fall, I can only confirm that I am losing interests in cleaning the mess… Actually the party falls or not, there will be always another party. It’s just a reshuffling among the 4m people. Singapore falls or not also doesn’t really matter. Singapore had a very tough time during the occupation and the stuggling years, still it bounced back and resumes to be the jewel of Southeast Asia. My son is most fortunate, assuming he is… not that stupid. He has a father who is a walking library of volumes he’d never be able to find elsewhere, abilities that he can obtain to clean up the mess… which is, I am thinking about imparting whatever I have to him, and let him do the job… if he is interested. He is my son, I want him to make a name for himself. Perhaps he should be the New Father of Singapore, a most celebrated minister in the future modern history of Singapore. It is apparent that MM is also thinking the same way… So what if there is a fall? Without core competency, Singapore will go nowhere. MM and I have actually many things in common… especially when it comes to politics. Which is exactly why I can’t join his constituency because of what are similar which comprises basic differences. By right, he is a great leader, I am a marvelous advisor who has no intention on PM-ship. Seemingly wonderful pair up. By left, I am too blunt, he is very confident in his judgement. This is hence a dangerous match. Because I’d insist on going east, he’d also insist that west is right… Hahahahahaha…
If Singapore is lucky, it doesn’t have to fall that drastically and be picked up.
Parties are simply platforms to perform wonders, nothing more. The struggles for power always result in casualties and destructions. Just look at our friends there in North Korea. And the leader’s paranoidal inclination towards USA’s invasion of two states… or one, if UN doesn’t recognise Taliban regime, that is not knowing USA is on the brink of bankruptcy and won’t likely to have the cash to wage more wars, coupled with their political issues for the wars. We can have any type of leaders from any party… God knows what or who will come for Singapore.
Just as the PM is busy find his way among the scandals, my advice to those asking if MM were to send in troops or when PAP will fall or what, the least you can do is to upgrade yourselves and try to find a place on the fence. If the house is really breaking down, it’s likely the bricks and locks and doors will come crushing at those zombies just before the house’s gone… And you don’t wanna be the crushed nor those to be exposed to the zombies’ onslaught.
Probably when the next PM-intented appears, we’d have a clearer picture.
This is a small boat, even without it being infested with termites, don’t tell me that there is a short cut or anyone can float it. The storms are big, the waves are huge, if you are any lesser… here goes the bath-tup… So don’t ask such strange questions, you are just making Elfred laughs harder.
I’d be overseas soon, God blesses Singapore… and most importantly, me. Hahahahahahahahahaha…
