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  • Nicholas Lee: PAP Deserve Credit For Almost Sabotaging Joseph Schooling, Singaporeans Need To Reflect

    Nicholas Lee: PAP Deserve Credit For Almost Sabotaging Joseph Schooling, Singaporeans Need To Reflect

    Long Re-post, but enlightening:

    Some Facts about Joseph Schooling, you decide for yourself

    Joseph Issac Schooling, born in SIngapore. Father is a 3rd generation Singaporean of mixed English and Eurasian Portuguese heritage. Mother is a Malaysian Chinese who is a singapore PR. She has been living in Singapore for decades but has not taken up Singapore citizenship.

    Went to ACS Primary school. After PSLE, his swimming potential was identified by the parents, and they decided to send him to the Jacksonville, Florida to attend the Bolles School, which is a school specializing in training atheletes, in particular swimmers. Bolles has had a swimmer alumnus or student competing in every Olympic games since 1972. Their swimming program was set up by Gregg Troy who was the US Olympic Swim coach for the 2012 Olympic games. Imagine your secondary school swimming coach is a former Olympic swimmer and coached Michael Phelps in the 2012 Olympics!! What a powerhouse your school would be in the pool. because he is an international student, Bolles has a boarding program for its foreign students. The cost of one year of school fees and room and board is USD $47,000. Guess how much the PAP and SNOC contributed to this amount. Zero would be a fair guess.

    After he graduated from Bolles, he was offered a swim scholarship at University of Texas, one of the top 5 swimming programs amongst US universities. The Head Coach for the U of T swimming program is Eddie Reese, former head coach of the US Olympics swim team in the 2004 and 2008 Olympics. If you know anything about the swim program, you know that nothing is left to chance. Professional full-time dieticians, sports psychologist, strenght and conditioning coaches, multi million weight rooms, etc are all part and parcel of what atheletes get when they go there. But even on a scholarship, its not cheap, with frequent travel to Singapore to compete in the SEA and Asian games and other social visits. Also, out of pocket costs and other costs in USD is also not cheap.

    It was at this point when the big hooha between Schooling’s mother MINDEF took place over his deferment. After a protracted and public fight, where she used the news media to put pressure on the PAP, you know who won the fight. Unfortunately, in earlier times, without the aid of modern day internet and social media, many other atheletes were lost to NS and a short sighted govt. policy. The race driver Andrew Tang is an example of a failed request for NS deferment. Ang Peng Siong in an earlier time was another case.

    So to sum it up……………..
    The Schoolings and not the govt paid huge money to send Joseph to Bolles for his swim coaching and studies
    The Schoolings and not the govt got the U of T scholarship for Joseph, even though it seems the PAP is giving full scholarships to every tom dick and harry FT
    The PAP wanted to sabotage the whole thing by making him do NS at such a critical junction in his swim career, and it would have happened if not for his mother’s intervention.

    The other Republic swimmer Quah Zheng Wen was not so fortunate that his family can send him to Bolles and hence is stuck with no name national coach carlos lopez, a bronze medallist in the Olympics and with the pathetic facilities in singapore. If Quah had the same opportunities, maybe we have 2 medals or more.

    U decide how much credit the PAP should get. Then see how many of these assholes jump on the bandwagon until it breaks.

    Some more Facts about Joseph Schooling, you decide for yourself Part 2

    “I think it has to be said that as a nation, a people, a country, a govt., and as individuals, we did almost nothing to help Schooling get to the gold medal. We did not finance him, did not support him, the PAP chose not to groom and encourage this guy. Very little of our money went to training him, and providing him the necessary support, compared to the millions we lavish on 3rd class ungrateful atheletes from China and elsewhere. Not only did we not support him, we almost killed his career by making him do NS. When I say we, I mean the 70% of the morons that supported and elected the PAP. If his mother May did not fight MINDEF to get his deferment, he might still be in the SAF now doing NS. There was no mass petition from singaporeans calling for his deferment. there was no mass calling of the MPs to support him. There was no media support for him, and certainly no support from the Singapore National Olympics Committeefor his deferment. Instead, 2 angmos (one was his swim coach in U of T, Gregg Troy) and the other a technical director, Bill Swetenham of SSC, wrote in their support to ask for his deferment. Not one PAP asshole or Notable sinkie stood up for this boy.

    But now that he won the Gold, everyone wants to jump on the bandwagon and be proud of him. I say that you don’t have that right. Singaporeans have not earned the right to claim the limelight with him. Where were they when he needed them? Sinkies are really pathetic hypocrites. Although I am born and raised in singapore, I am ashamed of our treatment of this boy, and I certainly cannot rejoice without a hint of embarassment that we as a people almost kill this great moment.”

     

    Source: Nicholas Lee

  • Lee Bee Wah: Glad I Convinced MINDEF To Defer NS For Joseph Schooling

    Lee Bee Wah: Glad I Convinced MINDEF To Defer NS For Joseph Schooling

    Congrats Joseph Isaac Schooling! Everyone in Singapore is so excited and proud right now! I watched it at Singapore Swimming Association and everyone is cheering like crazy!

    I’m glad I asked MINDEF to let elite male athletes defer their NS. Both you and Quah Zheng Wen have used the deferment wisely and done us proud.

    Team Singapore ‪#‎oneteamsg‬ ‪#‎Rio2016‬

     

    Source: Lee Bee Wah

  • Ustaz Noor Deros: Mengapa Tiada Palestine Dalam Google Maps?

    Ustaz Noor Deros: Mengapa Tiada Palestine Dalam Google Maps?

    Sedang kita sibuk cari pokemon, Google telah hilangkan nama Palestine dari Mapsnya dan menggantikannya dengan nama Israel.

    Sila cari di Google maps.

    Ini pengumuman mereka bahawa tak lama lagi bermulalah pembinaan Haikal.

    Geopolitics tak boleh dipisahkan daripada eschatology.

    Dan cuba fikir, kenapa banyak sangat cerita tentang Yahudi dalam Al-Quran?

     

    Source: Noor Deros

  • DPM Teo Sokong Penubuhan Kolej Islam Bagi Bangun Keupayaan Asatizah

    DPM Teo Sokong Penubuhan Kolej Islam Bagi Bangun Keupayaan Asatizah

    Sekarang ini menjadi lebih penting bagi warga Singapura mengambil langkah-langkah menggalak keharmonian antara agama dan menangkis ideologi radikal.

    Ini lebih-lebih lagi dengan beberapa penangkapan dan serangan pengganas di rantau ini dan merata dunia.

    Ia termasuk penangkapan enam orang di Batam yang dipercayai merancang melakukan serangan roket ke Marina Bay Sands.

    Timbalan Perdana Menteri Teo Chee Hean berkata demikian di majlis jamuan Hari Kebangsaan di Pasir Ris-Punggol, malam semalam (7 Ogos).

    Berucap di majlis jamuan Hari Kebangsaan ini, DPM Teo berkata masyarakat Islam Singapura sedang mengambil langkah melindungi diri mereka daripada pengaruh radikal dan keganasan pelampau.

    DPM Teo turut memberi jaminan kepada warga Islam Singapura, mereka akan dilayan dengan adil dan saksama.

    “Pemerintah menghargai usaha-usaha masyarakat Melayu-Islam untuk menentang idea-idea pelampau. Sebagai contoh, pemimpin agama Islam dan asatizah melangkah ke hadapan untuk memulakan Kumpulan Pemulihan Keagamaan (RRG) pada tahun 2003. Pada Mei lalu, mereka melancarkan aplikasi untuk memerangi radikalisasi.

    “RRG juga mempunyai telefon hotline dan laman web untuk menentang ajaran salah yang disebarkan oleh kumpulan pelampau. Kita mesti membina daya tahan sosial kita, supaya kita dapat bangkit semula sebagai sebuah masyarakat yang bersatu padu sekiranya serangan berlaku,” menurut DPM Teo.

    DPM Teo juga berkata beliau menyokong aspirasi masyarakat Melayu/Islam untuk menubuhkan sebuah kolej Islam di negara ini.

    “Saya menyokong cadangan-cadangan ini demi membangunkan kepupayaan asatizah dan para pemimpin kita. Dengan memahami dan menghargai konteks pelbagai bangsa dan agama di negara kita, mereka boleh membantu mengekalkan keharmonian sosial yang kita nikmati hari ini,” tambah beliau.

    Beralih ke isu-isu lain, DPM Teo menarik perhatian ekonomi sejagat sedang mengalami kesulitan.

    Pemerintah, katanya, akan memainkan peranan membantu syarikat-syarikat dan warga Singapura.

    Di peringkat akar umbi, DPM Teo berkata pasukannya sedang berusaha menjadikan Paris Ris-Punggol sebuah kediaman lebih baik dengan kemudahan baru dan peningkatan sistem pengangkutannya.

    Encik Teo menambah banyak kemajuan dicapai sejak pilihan raya yang lalu tetapi masa depan seterusnya adalah mencabar.

    Singapura, kata beliau, bernasib baik dapat menghadapi cabaran-cabaran itu sebagai sebuah negara yang bersatu dengan pemerintah yang kukuh.

    Beliau menyeru warga Singapura agar terus bekerjasama.

    Source: Berita MediaCorp

  • China Asks Singapore To “Respect” Its Position On South China Sea Ruling

    China Asks Singapore To “Respect” Its Position On South China Sea Ruling

    The Chinese government has asked Singapore to “respect” China’s position on the outcome of a recent ruling by an international tribunal and the consensus it has reached with Asean.

    In a statement on Friday (Aug 5), the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Hua Chunying said China had made its position on the issue “very clearly”.

    “The related ruling is illegal, invalid and has no binding force,” she said.

    “China hopes that Singapore…can maintain an objective and fair position as the coordinator of China and Asean dialogue relations, so as to advance Sino-Singapore relations and healthy and stable China-Asean ties.”

    Ms Hua was responding to queries from Chinese media regarding Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s comments at a reception hosted by the United States Chamber of Commerce and US-Asean Business Council in Washington on Tuesday, Singapore time. The Chinese media had reported PM Lee’s comments.

    PM Lee had said that he did not think China has changed its policy on its claims in the South China Sea after the ruling on July 12 by an international tribunal.

    He said very few countries would “walk back” from the positions that they have taken to say “well, it’s not quite so absolute and it wasn’t so clearly mine after all”.

    But PM Lee said he did not think that any of the claimants , which include China, the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan, would want to “push it to the brink.”

    “They have interests, they have claims, they would want to maintain them, but nobody wants to go to war,” he had told US officials and business leaders.

    A recent international tribunal has ruled that China’s claims to a number of reefs and features in the Spratly island chain in the South China Sea has no legal basis, in a case brought by the Philippines.

    The 10-member Asean put out a joint communique that referred to maritime disputes after a meeting of its foreign ministers in Vientiane, Laos last month.

    The communique did not specifically mention the tribunal’s ruling. But it stated, in its second paragraph, that the ministers reaffirm their commitment to maintaining regional peace and stability “as well as to the peaceful resolution of disputes, including full respect for legal and diplomatic processes… in accordance with the universally recognised principles of international law, including the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS)”. The tribunal was held under the auspices of Unclos.

    Ms Hua on Friday said Asean had also clearly stated its position saying that it, as a collective entity, did not hold a position on the tribunal ruling in the recently concluded Asean foreign minister’s meeting.

    The ministers’ joint communique, however, did not state explicitly that Asean did not hold a position on the ruling.

    Asean and China had separately in Vientiane issued a joint statement on the “full and effective” implementation of the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea signed in 2002.

     

    Source: The Straits Times

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