Anybody interested to be a neighbour of newly elected President Halimah Yacob? Here’s your chance to be in the limelight, and have the chance to meet the President if you’re lucky enough. Good luck bidding for the house!
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Komentar: Hutang Pada Anak-Anak, Merekalah Penawar Duka Dan Lara Di Hati
I have to 100% agreed with someone who post about ‘hutang pada anak-anak.’
Bukan jarang, tetapi selalu kita memarahi mereka saat kita berasa penat. Kita memarahi mereka padahal mereka belum benar-benar mengerti kesalahan yang telah mereka lakukan.
Tetapi, seteruk mana pun kita perlakukan pada mereka, segarang mana pun kita pada mereka, sekuat mana pun kita memarahi mereka, mereka akan tetap mendatangi kita dengan senyum kecilnya. Menghiburkan kita dengan tawa kecilnya, seseolah semuanya baik-baik saja, seseolah tidak pernah terjadi apa-apa sebelumnya.
Anak-anak kita sering menyayangi kita meskipun kita tidak memberikan kasih sayang dan perhatian yang cukup kepada mereka disebabkan oleh kesibukan kita bekerja keras demi kebahagian mereka. Tetapi sebenarnya, anak-anak inilah yang membahagiakan kita ketika ketika penat dan merekalah penawar duka dan lara di hati kita.
Kita selalu merasakan kita dapat menghiburan dan menghilangkan kesedihan mereka atau menghapus air mata dari pipi-pipi kecil mereka, tetapi, sebenarnya kitalah yang selalu mereka bahagiakan. Merekalah yang selalu berhasil membuang kesedihan kita, melapangkan kepenatan kita, menghapus air mata kita.
Kita berhutang banyak pada anak-anak kita.
Dalam 24 jam, berapa lama waktu yang kita miliki untuk berbicara, mendengarkan, memeluk, mendekap dan bermain dengan mereka?Dari waktu hidup kita bersama mereka, seberapa keras kita bekerja untuk menghadirkan kebahagiaan sesungguhnya di hari-hari mereka, melukis senyum sejati di wajah comel mereka?
Tentang anak-anak, sesungguhnya merekalah yang selalu “lebih dewasa” dan “bijaksana” daripada kita. Merekalah yang selalu mengajari dan membimbing kita menjadi manusia yang lebih baik dari hari-hari sebelumnya.
Seteruk mana pun kita sebagai orang tua, mereka tetap mencuba untuk menjadi anak-anak terbaik yang pernah kita punya.
Kita selalu berhutang kepada anak-anak kita. Anak-anak yang menjadi mangsa setiap hari akibat dari cara buruk kita mengawal emosi. Anak-anak yang menanggung akibat dari tindakan dan keputusan buruk yang dibuat oleh ibu bapa mereka.
Anak-anak kita mungkin terpaksa mengorbankan masa depan dan peluang mereka akibat kecuaian kita sendiri. Tetapi mereka tetap tersenyum, mereka tetap memberi kita kasih sayang, kita masih menjadi hero di mata mereka dan mereka selalu mencuba membuatkan kita bahagia.
Maka peluklah anak-anak kamu, tataplah mata mereka dengan kasih sayang dan penyesalan, katakan kepada mereka:
“Maafkan untuk hutang-hutang yang belum terbayarkan”
Maafkan jika semua hutang ini telah membuat Allah SWT tidak berkati usaha kita. Maafkan karena hanya pemaafan dan kebahagiaan merekalah yang boleh membuat hidup ayah dan ibu lebih baik dari sebelumnya. Selamat memeluk anak-anak kita.
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Source: Facebook
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Non-Chinese Students Not Accepted To Hwa Chong Art Elective Programme
Dear President Halimah Yacob,
Please help me and the Non – Chinese Singaporeans understand why this injustice is still happening? I hope it will not be for the next 6 years only the faces of you and your spouse be the only Malay faces seen via frames on the wall in the Racist SAP school system.
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Conversation between a MOE teacher and an express science stream + higher art student from an all girls school:-
Teacher: I am surprised you did not DSA (Direct School Admission) into any school.
Student: I did but did not receive a response.
Teacher: Where did you apply?
Student: I applied to DSA at Hwa Chong Art Elective Programme.
Teacher: Why did you apply to Hwa Chong in the first place? You’re not Chinese.
Student: Ya but the programme is not conducted in Chinese.
Teacher: Ya but you’re not even Chinese.
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Source: R.
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Commentary: No Other Possible Way Of Calling A Spade A Spade, Similarly A Kelong President
PAP’s Kelong Presidency
Some people, especially my Malay FB friends, are not happy that I use the hashtag #MadamKelongPresident against Halimah. They seem to think that I am disrespectful to her just because she is Malay President?!
That is utter nonsense. Just like many Singaporeans, I am totally disgusted with PAP’s rigging of the Presidential Elections. Unfortunately, Halimah has CHOSEN to be part of this disgusting ploy.
As explained, she could have just WALKED away from submitting her nomination papers so to trigger an Open PE after the other two contenders were disqualified. She would have shown that she is truly INDEPENDENT of PAP’s ploy and we would applause her true spirit of democracy. But no. She has CHOSEN to play along with PAP’s script. The rest is history.
I do not know Halimah personally and do not have any ill feelings, neither good feelings about her. She is just a plain White PAP people to me.
However, no matter what you say about her being a “Nice Lady”, the truth is, she has become the President under such Wayangism and Kelongism. There is really no other possible way of calling a spade a spade, a Kelong President so she must be.
I am confident that she will not be the ONLY Kelong President in Singapore history. There will be Future Kelong Presidents, REGARDLESS of Race, Language or Religion or Sexuality, as long as PAP is in Total Monopoly of Power. There will be Chinese Kelong President, Indian Kelong President, Eurasian Kelong President etc. There will be Madam Kelong President and Mr Kelong President. All in all, they will be ALL the same, the product of Kelongism and Wayangism by PAP government.
As long as there is Kelong President, I will call he or she as so; thus, mistake me not, it is NOT about Halimah but it is the Kelong Presidency of hers which will deserve such appropriate calling.
As long as there are people who are wiling to play along with PAP’s Kelongism and Wayangism, there will always be Kelong Presidents born out of the process. I shall not be moved by any SOB story of why these people have to accept or forced into the ploy or scheme of things. As long as you made that conscious choice, you are hardly innocent of being the accomplice of such Kelongism.
Kelong President of PAP you shall be.
Source: Goh Meng Seng
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Of TCB And Salleh Marican: Both Directly Associated With The Establishment, Both Blocked From Potentially Contesting The Presidency
I am one of those who have highlighted the hypocrisy on both sides upon observing both sides and my views are from my personal perspective.
Categorically, I am against the manipulation of the constitution particularly the reserved election on basis of race by the government of the day to maintain grip of power bases. This however does not automatically mean I am supportive of any claim of an alternative voice challenging the primary power base.
There are inconsistencies in what have been said, what have been allowed to be said, what have been silence and what have been forced to be silenced.
The example of double standard begins with the hashtag campaign of #notmypresident pointing to the legitimacy of the presidency rather than #notmygovernment or #notmydemocracy that would point to the mechanism and ideology used to manipulate the constitution. The campaign of #notmypresident must be nuanced with an alternative person for presidency. This is perhaps presented in the person of Dr Tan Cheng Bock, the best loser for PE2011. This is with the assumption that an open election by the revised criteria, he would qualify for candidacy. However, the little has been said about the Dr Tan’s capacity to meet the $500m company criteria that saw Mr Salleh and Mr Farid disqualified.
The #notmypresident campaign was preceded with a spoil your vote campaign which in sum was intended as a protest against the reserved election (almost without mention of the manipulation of the eligibility criteria) simultaneously denouncing the nomination of Mr Salleh and Mr Farid as potential candidates who have stepped forward in full awareness of the changes of the eligibility criteria.
What makes the movement inconsistent and precursor to double standard is the treatment and opinion accorded to Dr Tan, a former PAP MP who was blocked from contesting primarily on the grounds of a racially reserved election and the treatment and opinion accorded to Mr Salleh, a voluntary director at Temasek Foundation Cares on the grounds of not meeting the $500m criteria.
Dr Tan was hailed as being robbed of the presidency while Mr Salleh was portrayed as a crony despite both are directly associated with the establishment and both were blocked from potentially contesting the presidency.
The above inconsistency prompted me to ask if the anger was due to violated principles or violated opportunity of an individual.
Unreservedly, I am supportive of Dr Tan’s challenge to the presidency. This does not mean that should a more qualified candidate be available, I should ignore.
For example it has been widely publicised that Mdm Halimah has no financial background to be a custodian of the reserves. However, would Mr Salleh Marican be less qualified than Dr Tan C B in this aspect. What would the principle of meritocracy suggest?
It is also known that Mdm Halimah is an immediate alumni of the establishment, however between Mr Salleh and Dr Tan, the association to the establishment of Dr Tan is as a former card carrying allowanced PAP MP who has refrained from joining a different political party since stepping down, while Mr Salleh was a volunteer director at a nonprofit community service arm of Temasek. What would the principle of independence suggest?
Categorically I qualify that I am here not to pit Dr Tan against Mr Salleh but to highlight the tenor and treatment put forth by the alternative movement on two violated candidates, both with sound financial acumen, both with ties with the establishment and both non partisan to any political party at the time of planned candidacy.
Thus I have to undertake a personal reflection and question aspects of privilege, rights and principles. With that, I need to caution myself against getting caught in a cult of personality because Democracy is not simply the propelling the voice of the majority (in the widest sense) or the rule of majority, democracy stands in symbiotic coupling to ensuring minority (in the widest sense) rights (in a sense just as wide).
Without the latter, a discourse on Civil Liberties and Civil Rights that ensues will sit on an oppressive high ground as demand for justice on aspects where the majority feels shortchanged are heard loud while privileges that propels benefits to the same majority are retained in silence.
Source: Rafiz Hapipi