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HDB Flat Buyers Still Living In Denial – HDB Still Owner Of Most Expensive Concrete Pigeon Holes
Ah Kow: I heard from kopi tiam talking about our HDB not really belong to us. How come like that?

Ahmad: Not possible leh. Must belong to me because every month my CPF OA become kosong to pay for my 3-room bird cage.

Arumugam: I don’t believe you guys also same as the 70% PAP supporters still believe in our home ownership crap. Let me tell you – this is a SCAM! But it’s the people who voted for this scam.

Ah Kow: Wa lau eh, say until so serious wait you get letter from PAP Aunty Sue then you know.

Arumugam: Aiyah, when I state facts, why should I be afraid? There is more evidence but before I show you this, let me show you some proof I saw on the internet a few months ago. (Turning on his laptop) he pointed to a legal document.

Ah Kow and Ahmad almost fell off their chairs in disbelief.

Ah Kow: But if everyone think we are the real owner, that means it must be true.

Arumugam: Long time ago before policemen wore shorts, people believed the world was flat. Not everyone like you so ignorant but I don’t blame you. PAP’s propaganda machine damn powerful, can turn black into white, night into day. Look at another document here – the ‘owner’ is just the lessee.

Ahmad: I think Arumugam is right, see this document here (below), also state the word lessees. Sia, I think we all kena con big time.

Arumugam: Singaporeans really living in denial but they cannot admit the truth because it would mean they have been blur like sotongs. Few adults will admit they have been fooled by their government.

Ah Kow: I also don’t want to believe this, sia.

Arumugam: When I rented out a room last year, guess what? I must inform the real landlord, HDB ,and submit all the particulars of my tenant. If you really own a property, such as a condo, there’s no need to inform anyone because you are not a fake landlord, like HDB ‘owners’.

Ah Kow: Hmm… ya hor, I feel dam sian but I understand better now. No wonder because HDB is the real landlord it can decide to suka suka change HDB rules. Knn I better sell my HDB tomorrow, don’t want to kena scam.

Ahmad: Bro, after selling, where you stay? Set up tent at the beach or sleep at void decks?

More images @ link

Arumugam: Seriously, PAP has been screwing up citizens and profiting from us because that is the only way it can make money – in Singapore. At the stroke of a pen, “lessees” = “owners” just like CPF belongs to us but the rules are rewritten by PAP almost every year..

Ahmad: But isit big deal if lessee is not owner?

Arumugam: It is a very big deal because if all HDB ‘owners’ are correctly classified as ‘lessees’, then our home ownership rate will fall from 90.3 % to the lowest in the world.

Arumugam: Actually today I want to tell you guys that HDB already confirmed Singaporeans are not the owners on its website which it stated “Your can sublet your whole flat” or “You can sublet your spare bedroom(s)”.link

Ah Kow: Sublet and rent not the same meh?

Arumugam: HDB did not use “sublet” without knowing the definition. Merriam-Webster dictionary defines “sublet” as:
- : to allow someone to use (an apartment, house, etc., that you are renting) for a period of time in return for payment
- : to use (an apartment, house, etc., that is rented by someone) in return for payment
Ahmad: That mean for 50 years everyone kena con by PAP?

Arumugam: People want to believe they are owners, especially when prices keep going up and they feel richer on paper. So they keep voting for PAP. People want to con themselves with the help of PAP. This own self con own self game has been played for too long and PAP will lose face big time if foreign media discover what has been going on. Now you look at the next page to confirm we are HDB’s tenants and our tenants are correctly classified as “subtenants” by HDB. If we are really “owners” as stated, HDB should not have stated our “tenants” as “subtenants”.

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Ah Kow: Sia, I think Aru is right. HDB say our tenants are “subtenants” mean we are “tenants” of HDB. Knn I want to go Hong Lim Green and hold protest rally like Roy.

Ahmad: Bro, be careful OK. Roy HLP protest rally kena shut down by civil servants who play politics. You don’t forget you only got ITE cert, who want to listen to you. Ha ha.

Arumugam: Singapore is so unique to have scored another first in the world: property ‘owners’ are not allowed to mortgage their property. But we can’t always blame PAP for scamming us because we have the most educated morons voting for this own-government-scam-own-citizens system. Just have to live with HDB being the real owner of the most expensive concrete pigeon hole in the sky. (sigh)

Source: https://likedatosocanmeh.wordpress.com
January 11, 2016
Event On Malaysian TV Was Islamic, Not Arabic

In the commentary “Malaysia, truly Arab?” (Jan 7), the writer referred to an event held on Dec 31 at Dataran Merdeka in Malaysia to question whether the country has become Arab.

Prophet Muhammad was born in the month of Rabiul Awal in the Islamic calendar. This fell on Dec 13 this time. Some Muslims celebrate it for the whole of Rabiul Awal. The event referred to was one such event, called Mahallul Qiyaam Selawat. The organisers could have chosen that time because the next day was a public holiday. The event coincided with New Year’s Eve in the Gregorian calendar, hence the article.

But it should be looked at in the context of an Islamic event televised by a Malaysian television channel.

Editor’s Note: The views of Haj Mohamed was published in Voices, Today, on 16 Jan 2015.

Source: www.todayonline.com

January 11, 2016
Former WP Member: Pritam Singh A Clown For Suggesting That MINDEF Also Charge For Parking

Another clown from the WP side. Made such comparison without thinking.

By making NSMen to pay for parking space in camps is totally a bad idea. Firstly, most camps do have parking lots reserved for NSMen to park their vehicles during their call-ups. Do Mr Pritam Singh or WP do their call-ups before? Army camps are mostly situated away from any sights of residential or industrial areas. If many NSMen have to park their vehicles hundreds of metres away from the camps, they may jammed up the nearby parking spaces.

Secondly, have he or WP made a comparison of the number of vehicle parked in camps and schools?
In schools, the staffs that parked their vehicles are just a small fraction of estimated 20 vehicles. However in camps provided when thereare call-ups the number of vehicles parked could be more than 50 to 100 vehicles. MOST of the NSMen pooled their vehicles to reach to the camps.

Now more and more clowns are talking points without having considerations to the People. Mr Pritam Singh and WP is now showing that they are just incapable in having “debates” for the People. Next GE, WP Aljunied may fall completely with such clowns voted in.

Mohamed Fazli bin Talip

Source: www.allsingaporestuff.com

January 11, 2016
Zaid Ibrahim: The Rise Of The “Neo-Malays”

The neo-Malays are the “new Malays”. They are younger than me and the members of G25, and some are seriously wealthy, although we don’t know how they earned their money or whether it was inherited. They also have a serious mission in mind, which is to change the world and to do it as Muslim warriors. But to do that, they first have to take power.

This past New Year’s Eve some 50,000 of them gathered at Dataran Merdeka. Led by Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi and other well-known personalities such as Federal Territories Minister Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor, they held what I believe was a prayer session and sang praises to God Almighty and the Prophet Muhammad.

My liberal (and religious) Malay friend Datuk A sent me a photograph of the event. The men were dressed in robes, serban and skull caps, and they were all doing a salute with their clenched fists, not unlike how the Nazis used to salute their Fuhrer.

Now that was something else, and it worries me. Is this a new brand of Malay power? It certainly is different from Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s brand. Najib loves to celebrate New Year , just like you and me , except that he does it in his inimitable style ( he is after all seriously wealthy).

I guess the Dataran celebration by Zahid marks a new path for the country. It shows that when he comes to power, most probably our politics and our New Year celebrations will drastically change as well. The very idea of it should send a chill through all our spines.

Why were the neo-Malays celebrating a Gregorian New Year in the first place? Why did they gather at Dataran Merdeka for an event that had no Islamic element or historical significance?

My guess is that these Malays wanted to celebrate the New Year like everyone else, but because of their image and their brand of politics, they had to be different.

They probably wanted to enjoy the new year but were worried they would be accused of mimicking the West. Enjoying themselves, they thought, would make them unislamic. They had to be different because that is the new world they wanted to create. They wanted to send a new message.

As “good Muslims”, they believed they could not allow themselves to enjoy or celebrate the New Year; even if in their hearts they would have much rather preferred watching Siti Nurhaliza, Zainal Abidin or the Blues Gang perform and let loose some fireworks – but politics had to come first.

I hope the Chinese, American and European ambassadors living comfortably in the Ampang precinct take a more serious view of our politics. Stop being naive. Enough of the nice brand of diplomacy.

Just because our leaders wear Brioni suits does not mean they are the usual types found in the world’s capitals. If you care enough about freedom and democracy, you must take the time to understand their thinking.

The Chinese (and by that I mean those from Beijing and not the DAP Chinese) are taking a strong hold of the economy by making huge investments in our country.

They must therefore be careful that our burgeoning fascist ideas—does not destabilise the other communities or the country’s stability.

The Americans and the Europeans must also stop taking things at face value. Many of the neo-Malays here are different from those in Indonesia and Iran.

They are closer to the Taliban and Isis in their values and outlook. Make some effort to understand this new Muslim mindset. Countering these dangerous ideas now will be less costly and better for world peace and stability. – zaid.my, January 5, 2016.

* Datuk Zaid Ibrahim is a lawyer turned politician and a former minister in the Prime Minister’s Department in charge of legal affairs and judicial reform.

* This is the personal opinion of the writer, organisation or publication and does not necessarily represent the views of The Malaysian Insider.

Source: www.themalaysianinsider.com

January 8, 2016
Zulfikar Shariff: What Is A Melayu?

What is a Melayu? A common mistake is to view Malayness by ancestry.

I have discussed this issue several times. A Melayu is not based on genetics. It is a nation.

This nation is defined by language, culture and Islam.

In his book “Kerajaan”, Anthony Milner provided some characteristics of the Melayu. He argued that unlike some other nations, the Malays never belonged to a single empire.

The Malays did not “consider themselves members of a race which owed its origins to a single ancestor or homeland.” But as Raffles noted, the Melayu nation is “one people, speaking one language, though spread over so wide a space, and preserving their character and customs.”

For Milner, even though the Malays did not belong to one race or empire, there is unity to the nation “that permits us to talk of a ‘Malay world’”.

Zainal Abidin Ahmad (also known as Za’ba), in 1917, stated that, any person “may be considered to be of the one Malay bloodline in the Malay World as long as they originate from the Indo-Malay archipelago, profess Islam as their religion, and adopt the Malay language, worldview, temperament, and customs” (Chong).

Milner provided similar assessments. He provided 3 conditions for Malayness: Malay culture, language and Islam.

Insha Allah in the next post, I will elaborate on the three conditions that Milner wrote about.

But we can here understand the concept of “masuk Melayu”.

The Malays is a welcoming and hospitable nation. They welcome others into their society. The Chinese traders, Indian merchants, Arab businessmen. They are all accepted into our society and accorded respect and welcome as is known of the Malays.

And if they are Muslims, speak the Malay language and follow our customs, they are accepted as a Malay.

Very few, if any, society has such openness and acceptance.

References:
Chong, Jinn Winn. “” Mine, Yours or Ours?”: The Indonesia-Malaysia Disputes over Shared Cultural Heritage.” Sojourn: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia 27.1 (2012): 1-53.

Milner, Anthony Crothers. Kerajaan: Malay political culture on the eve of colonial rule. No. 40. University of Arizona Press, 1982.

Source: Zulfikar Shariff

January 8, 2016