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  • Chee Soon Juan – The Chiam Issue: Why This, Why Now?

    Chee Soon Juan – The Chiam Issue: Why This, Why Now?

    Below are some frequently asked questions about Mr Chiam See Tong’s departure from the SDP and why we are raising the issue now. I answer them here:

    Why rehash the past over the split with Chiam See Tong? Aren’t there more important issues to discuss?

    Many of you are sick of this matter and you don’t want to hear any more of it. I agree. There is nothing that I would love more than to leave this episode behind and get on with the issues that really matter to our nation. This is exactly what we did during the general elections (GE) in 2015 and again at the by-election (BE) in Bukit Batok – campaigning on the issues that voters care about.

    It is the PAP that keeps dredging up the issue to attack me and the SDP. Take a look at the following:

    • Mr Chan Chun Sing: “Dr Chee then proceeded to betray Mr Chiam, isolate him and force him out of the SDP.” (January 2015)
    • Vivian Balakrishnan: “I have just one message to send to the SDP: In the PAP, we do not have a tradition of backstabbing our mentors.” (GE 2015)
    • Sim Ann: “Singaporeans of a certain age will know…how he ousted his mentor Mr Chiam See Tong from the party Mr Chiam had built.” (GE 2015)
    • The Straits Times: “[Grace Fu] added that it would ‘be very interesting’ to see if there would b referral letter from Mr Chiam See Tong, who had recruited Dr Chee into SDP years ago. Last week, Mrs Lina Chiam had said in a Facebook post that her husband had not given his endorsement to any candidate in the by-election.” (BE 2016)
    • Mr Heng Swee Keat: “This means a person can lie, cheat or betray someone with impunity…How are voters to believe what such politicians say or hold them accountable for their actions if they were running a town council?” (BE 2016)


    Any fair-minded person will conclude that it is not SDP who is rehashing the saga. The PAP will not let the matter rest because it is to its advantage if it can continue to use this falsehood to attack me.

    But as long as the PAP continues to resurrect the matter, the SDP will rebut the lies. We hope opposition supporters will help us disseminate this information and, in so doing, make it counter-productive for the PAP to rehash the issue.

    But didn’t the episode take place nearly 25 years ago? Is it still relevant to voters?

    A few residents in Bukit Batok raised the subject with me and my party colleagues during our recent campaign. A couple of them indicated that they would not have voted for me had I not personally explained the situation to them. How many more voters are out there who still don’t know the truth?

    As much as some people think that the SDP-Chiam episode is no longer an issue, there are many who – with the help of the PAP and the media – still think it is.

    As a political party fighting for every vote, clearing up the issue to ensure that we don’t allow our opponent to capitalise on a falsehood to sabotage our effort is the smart and right thing to do.

    But why now?

    As I mentioned, we did not counter the PAP when it raised the Chiam issue in GE 2015 and BE 2016 because we did not want the PAP to distract the voters from the real issues. But not doing so may have hurt our campaigns because there are voters who still believe that I had betrayed Mr Chiam and, because of this, would not vote for the SDP.

    This must change. We cannot wait until elections to counter the lies, we must start now. To prevent these untruths from being reinforced and spread further in future elections, the SDP will counter them whenever they are raised.

    Why not just bury the hatchet with Mr Chaim?

    We tried – repeatedly. The SDP has invited Mr Chiam on numerous occasions to our functions in the hopes that we can bury the past and move on (see here).

    A recent example was our invitation to him to attend our 35th anniversary dinner in August last year. We even approached him to be our guest at our rally during the BE in Bukit Batok. The Chiams turned down our invitations.

    We also published an article in our party newspaper written by Dr Wong Wee Nam about how Mr Chiam and the SDP nearly came together in 2015. But Mrs Lina Chiam interpreted that as the SDP trying to use the piece as an endorsement by Mr Chiam of me. We had no such intention, we only wanted to bury the proverbial hatchet and to move on.

    For the record, Dr Wong’s article was published in The New Democrat in June 2015. An online version of the piece was published on 2 April 2015 (see here). Why did Mrs Chiam raise it only nine months later during the BE – and on two occasions, one of which was published in the Straits Times during the cooling-off period?

    Are you attacking Mr Chiam?

    No, not at all. In fact, it has been quite the reverse. Mr Chiam declared in 1993: “He has not been thrust into my position. He has usurped my position!” More recently, the Straits Times reported that “Mrs Lina Chiam accused Dr Chee of ousting her husband from the party he founded in 1980.”

    Nothing could be further from the truth. When Mr Chiam resigned as the party’s secretary-general, I, together with other CEC members, tried to persuade him to remain. Even when he went to the Singapore Press Club to criticise us and left us little choice but to expel him, we still tried – right up till the very end – to see if we could effect some form of reconciliation.

    But rather than go on a he-said-she-said type of argument, it is best to cite what High Court Judge Warren Khoo wrote in his decision when he presided over the lawsuit which Mr Chiam took against the SDP:

    “There were allegations in the pleadings of bad faith and of the defendants (SDP) acting maliciously in order to injure the plaintiff (Chiam See Tong). There were suggestions in plaintiff’s counsel’s questions put to the witnesses for the defendants that the object of the disciplinary proceedings was to make the plaintiff lose his seat in Parliament, that being the consequence of the plaintiff being expelled from the party. I do not think there is very much in these suggestions, having regard to the fact that the CEC even when they had decided to expel him were making efforts to seek a reconciliation with him.”

    The truth is that I have always tried to effect a reconciliation with Mr Chiam. I tried it more than 20 years ago and I have tried it in recent times.

    The falsehood that I ousted Mr Chiam and usurped his position in the SDP has gone on for too long. It must stop. Remember, a lie, if repeated often enough, becomes truth.

     

    Source: www.cheesoonjuan.com

  • This Void-Deck Malay Wedding Just Gave New Reasons For You To Attend Malay Weddings

    This Void-Deck Malay Wedding Just Gave New Reasons For You To Attend Malay Weddings

    Weddings held at void decks have sometimes come under unfair scrutiny from some unreasonable people.

    These complaints typically gloss over the cultural and traditional factors that account for the Malay community holding weddings at void decks.

    But if anyone ever needed an idea for what would constitute an epic wedding held in the vicinity of your neighbourhood, check this out:

    If you can’t see the tweet, here are the pictures of the wedding in question.

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    That is an actual nacho fondue and what appears to be a chocolate fondue, with a sinfully varied choice of what looks like premium Gelato and a legit Kebab stand.

    Nothing will ever be this beautiful again.

    H/T: Twitter user/ comedian mdzulkar9

     

    Source: http://mothership.sg

  • Para Games Gold Medalist, Firdaus Nordin, Jailed 5 Years For Drug Trafficking And Consumption

    Para Games Gold Medalist, Firdaus Nordin, Jailed 5 Years For Drug Trafficking And Consumption

    The man known to be the fastest wheelchair sprinter in Singapore was on Friday (May 20) found guilty of trafficking methamphetamine and jailed the minimum five years after a five-day trial.

    Muhammad Firdaus Nordin, 28, a former Asean Para Games gold medalist, who is listed in the Singapore Book of Records, also pleaded guilty to a charge of taking the same drug on Jan 31 in 2015, saying it was to help him get in shape in time for the 8th Asean Para Games, held in Singapore in December 2015.

    He was jailed for 10 months on the drug consumption charge, but his two jail terms will run concurrently.

    The five-year prison sentence will bring to a halt the disabled athlete’s remarkable sporting achievements.

    When he was 13, Firdaus, who was born with spina bifida, raced in the National Junior Disabled Games in Australia in 2001, clinching one gold and two silver medals, and also breaking a Games record.

    Four years later in 2005, he won two golds, one of which was for the men’s 100m race, and one silver medal at the third Asean Para Games in Manila in 2005. He became famous overnight by claiming the top spot in the world for that century sprint event. The then underdog also smashed the Games record for the 100m and 200m events.

    Just a year later in 2006, he set a new Games record for the 200m event at the prestigious IPC Athletics World Championships in the Netherlands, winning a silver medal and earning the Republic its first entry into the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, although Firdaus later had to pull out due to injury.

    In 2010, he won gold medals in the 100m, 200m and 400m in the International German Open Championships for Track and Field.

    In December 2015, during the Asean Para Games held in Singapore, Firdaus also competed in the 100m, 200m and 400m events.

    But in the early hours of Feb 2, 2015, policemen stopped a car driven by Firdaus’ cousin Hamza Jubir near Block 510 Bedok North Street 3. There had been a fight in the area, and the police had information that some suspects had fled in a car.

    Firdaus was in the back seat of the car, while Hamza’s girlfriend was in the front passenger seat.

    A policeman found three packets of crystalline substance weighing 4.03g tucked between Firdaus’ jeans and boxer shorts in the area between his groin and his right thigh.

    Firdaus said the packets belonged to him. He was arrested at about 5am and taken to the Bedok Police Division Headquarters.

    His urine later tested positive for methamphetamine, while the packets were found to contain 2.65g of the same drug.

    At Bedok Police Division Headquarters, Firdaus again told a Central Narcotics Bureau officer the drugs were his and further said they were for sale.

    He also repeated this in three statements recorded on the same day of his arrest and the next day.

    But during his trial, from April 4 to 8, Firdaus claimed the drugs were found on the car’s back passenger seat. During a short chase of the car by the police, Firdaus said, Hamza’s girlfriend had taken a pouch containing the drugs from the glove compartment, passed it to Firdaus and told him to put it on the rear passenger seat.

    Firdaus’ admissions of guilt to the authorities, meanwhile, had been made because of threats from Hamza, Firdaus claimed.

    Hamza and his girlfriend took the stand to deny Firdaus’ allegations.

    However, Firdaus agreed during the trial with his admission made in his statements to the police that he took methamphetamine to get in shape for the Asean Para Games at the end of that year.

    The case was prosecuted by Deputy Public Prosecutor Tan Yanying before District Judge Lee Poh Choo.

    In his mitigation, defence lawyer Peter Fernando said: “Firdaus has clearly learnt a very serious lesson and there is absolutely no reason for him to reoffend. He is a young man who was unfortunately born with serious medical conditions.

    “He has by sheer determination proven to be a man capable of achieving great heights in wheelchair racing. He pleads to be shown leniency in view of his ill-health.”

    In sentencing him to five years’ jail and five strokes of the cane, Judge Lee noted Firdaus’ age, medical conditions and achievements.

    She told Firdaus the law mandates a minimum five strokes of the cane for his trafficking charge and that it is for the prison service to certify him to be unfit for caning.

    Firdaus showed little expression as his sentence was passed, but relatives, including his mother and an aunt, wept in court. The judge allowed Firdaus’ mother and aunt to speak with him for 10 minutes before he was led away in his wheelchair and handcuffed with his hands in front of him.

    The penalty for trafficking methamphetamine, a Class A controlled drug, is between five and 20 years’ jail, with between five and 15 strokes of the cane. The penalty for consuming the drug is jail of up to 10 years and/or a $20,000 fine.

     

    Source: www.straitstimes.com

  • Sufie Rashid: Arif Dollah Tidak Pernah Jadi Bapa Tiri Saya

    Sufie Rashid: Arif Dollah Tidak Pernah Jadi Bapa Tiri Saya

    Assalamualaikum semua. Firstly thanks for your concern about my case with Ariff Dollah. Yes its really really tiring.. Penat sangat bila semua media call, msg, pm nak tanya pasal dia. Harap post ni kali terakhir saya menjelaskan pasal hal ni.

    1) Ariff Dollah bukan dan tak pernah menjadi bapa tiri saya. My mum’s current husband is her 2nd marriage yang sah. So Ariff kalau nak besar besarkan dirinya sebagai bapa tiri, minta dia buktikan.

    2) Saya berdamai dengan Ariff? Answer is no. Saya diajak oleh Doktor Kereta untuk bersalaman dengan Ariff sambil saya diucapkan tahniah. Saya “salam” semua termasuk Ariff as a form of my “professionalism” . Orang hulur, kita salam.

    3) Police case against Ariff is still ONGOING. Jangan memandai ckp dah tutup.

    4) Saya mencari rezeki yang halal.

    Sekian terima kasih, Salam Jumaat yang mulia ini.

     

    Source: Mohammad Sufie

  • Anak Derma Ginjal Pada Bapa

    Anak Derma Ginjal Pada Bapa

    ENCIK Abdul Hadi Ahmad bak sudah jatuh ditimpa tangga.

    Kesemuanya bermula apabila isterinya, Cik Noraini Arjob, 50 tahun, disahkan menghidap penyakit barah buah dada lebih lima tahun lalu.

    Penyakit yang dihidapi isterinya sudah tentu menjejas kesejahteraan keluarga lima beranak itu.

    Namun, dalam kesibukan memberi perhatian kepada kesihatan dan rawatan isterinya itu, beliau pula disahkan menghidap penyakit ginjal yang berfungsi hanya lima peratus sekitar dua tahun lalu.

    Tubuh yang lemah dan hilang fokus menyebabkan beliau bak layang-layang putus tali.

    Encik Hadi, 49 tahun, ayah tiga anak, adalah pemilik Offshore Entertainment Production, sebuah syarikat penganjur konsert artis dan kumpulan popular antarabangsa seperti Janet Jackson, Maher Zain, Kenny Loggins, serta kumpulan Michael Learns to Rock dan Earth, Wind and Fire.

    Rawatan dialisis yang menjenuhkan, memaksa beliau membatalkan kesemua tugas yang dijalankan bersama isterinya di luar negara.

    Namun, bak awan mendung berarak pergi, beliau lega apabila doktor mengesahkan ginjal anak tirinya, Cik Nurain Sudin, 26 tahun, sepadan dan serasi dipindahkan kepadanya.

    Anak kandungnya, Cik Nursyahira, 19 tahun, seorang pramugari, didapati tidak layak menjadi penderma kerana usia bawah 21 tahun.

    “Alhamdulillah, Allah yang mengaturkan ini semua. Sebenarnya saya tak sampai hati kerana Nurain punya kehidupan sendiri. Tetapi dia sendiri yang mahu dermakan ginjalnya lebih-lebih lagi doktor jamin dia tak akan hadapi apa-apa masalah selepas pemindahan.

    “Ayah mana yang tak bersyukur dan tersentuh jika anaknya sendiri sanggup derma ginjalnya kepada saya!” tambahnya yang kelihatan sebak seketika.

    Namun, Encik Hadi dan Cik Nurain terpaksa menjalani pelbagai ujian dan pemeriksaan sekitar setahun sebelum pemindahan akhirnya dijalankan di Hospital Mount Elizabeth 10 Mei lalu.

    Beberapa bulan sebelum itu, Encik Hadi telah menjalani pembedahan bagi memastikan jantungnya mantap sebelum pemindahan ginjal.

    Pembedahan tanpa sebarang masalah itu dijalankan sekumpulan doktor bedah yang diketuai Konsultan Nefrologi atau pakar ginjal, Dr Stephen Chew Tec Huan.

    Cik Nurin, seorang kakitangan pentadbiran di Wisma Teroka Singapura (SDC), berkata: “Saya tak teragak-agak berikan ginjal kepada ayah apabila doktor kata ayah perlukannya. Saya serahkan segala-galanya kepada Allah.

    “Ayah adalah payung dan segala-galanya bagi kami sekeluarga.”

    Menurut Encik Hadi, kos pemindahan tersebut dan pembedahan jantung yang dijalani menelan sekitar $140,000.

    “Alhamdulillah rezeki yang Allah beri dapat saya bayar kesemuanya. Ini berkat doa dan menjaga ibu saya dan ibu mentua saya,” tambahnya sambil mengucapkan terima kasih kepada Dr Chew dan pasukannya serta para jururawat berdedikasi dan melayannya dengan baik.

     

    Source: www.beritaharian.sg