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The 14 Best-Looking Candidates Of GE2015

Two days after the election results, people are still going on about the “what ifs”.

We serious journalists, too, are asking “what if” – what if we had voted for candidates based on their looks?

These would be our top candidates:

1. Ong Ye Kung (PAP)

Mr Ong Ye Kung is now poised to be parachuted into a ministerial position after Friday’s results.

Well, he has clearly been parachuted into my heart. Charismatic, and with the looks to boot, he is one – I mean, another – reason to look forward to Parliament.

2. Chee Soon Juan (SDP)

Dr Chee’s rousing speeches turned him into a superstar at rallies – his first in 15 years – and this was clear from the long queues for autographs and selfies after.

3. Tharman Shanmugaratnam (PAP)

If numbers turn you on, DPM Tharman is the man for you. He is probably one of the few men around who can excite you with talk of finances and taxation.

4. Amrin Amin (PAP)

Don’t you just want to pinch his cheeks?

5. Daryl David (PAP)

Mr David, you are definitely at the top of my pyramid.

6. Leon Perera (WP)

Perera was a breakout star during the campaign with his rally speeches. Often rousing, yet sensible, he has been praised, with his name even trending on Twitter after rallies. And we are all for that nerdy, scholarly look.

7. Tan Chuan-Jin (PAP)

Mr Tan is a fit, relatable minister who became known, in the last week of hustings, for his “runabouts”. He ran straight into our collective hearts. I am currently under the Holland-Bukit Timah GRC. Any chance my area can be included in Marine Parade GRC next elections? I mean… stranger things have happened right?

8. Lim Tean (NSP)

Mr Lim may not be a conventional choice but he has one of the best voices in local politics, and we’re sad that we won’t hear him at rallies or political debates for a while.

Women

1. Tin Pei Ling (PAP)

A new mother, Ms Tin Pei Ling tops our list because of how classy and sophisticated she has grown over the past four years. After NSP candidate Cheo Chai Chen’s sexist comment against her, she issued a graceful response on Facebook that relayed her conviction effectively. That glow of a new mother doesn’t hurt either.

2. He Ting Ru (WP)

This Cambridge-educated lawyer has the beauty and the brains. What more do you need from one of WP’s more popular candidates?

3. Indranee Rajah (PAP)

Ms Indranee is practically the only person who can pull of that hairstyle for as long as she has. It’s a timeless haircut – and well, it suits her.

4. Josephine Teo (PAP)

Sure, she looks awkward punching the air with her firsts – as was seen during Nomination Day. But Ms Josephine Teo makes some great, edgy fashion choices. And well, who can fault a woman for speaking in Hokkien to “speak directly to the grandmas and grandpas”.

5. Kevryn Lim (NSP)

Most would remember her for that white dress. But in the later part of the campaign period, Ms Lim showed that she is passionate about several issues including advocating for the rights of single parents. And the fact that she is the face of most of NSP’s memorabilia shows just how attractive she is.

Source: www.tnp.sg

September 14, 2015
Ummi Abdullah: Government Should Communicate Concerns On Hijab Issue With The Malay Community

Ckp2 pasal issue tudung ni, I have a feeling the government is scared. These people are not stupid, there have something that worries them.

You see, I think the government is worried about the controlling the situation and afraid things may escalate to another level.. how you control this?.. takut lepas minta hijab, they go a step further minta ruang solat, lepas tu, what if minta tak nak pegang lelaki.. you see where is the line.

If the government are so particular why doctor boleh di kasi hijab pulak? kerana mungkin tak ramai doctor wanita islam, the impact is diff, tapi nurse melayu kita bynk.

I think they are worried when people start asking for more.. from hijab, to waktu solat pulak.. to this and that.. where is the line? How to control. I think they worry about this. Nanti takut minta ruang solat pulak, org agama lain nampak nanti dia minta chapel pulak. Nanti dah ada ruang solat, takut.. org tak kira waktu emergency.. one after another pergi sembayang..I think the government is worried about this.

Kat Australia, ke Britain ke.. mereka kasi pakai hijab mungkin tak bynk org.. dlm satu department mungkin tak satu yg pakai hijab.
I rasa ini yg buat government kita contemplating.

Ok ini bab I rasa, MUIS and our Muslim MP, ustaz dan ustazah nak kena masuk, educate the government. Kita jugak nak kena tunjukkan yg kita tak akan melalut sampai ke next tahap yg eh.. “aku wanita islam, tak boleh pegang lelaki. You all get what I mean. Hospital is a place where emergency happen. I think the gorvenment still afraid of the extremist.. Now we ask for hijab, next prayer. .. how u manage things like this?

I think they worry all these may effect the workflow in the hospital.

Ok everyone, please don’t get me wrong, I’m with all of you that wants a hijab, I’m just relating this to you because I have a feeling that the government is worried. I maybe wrong. We need to know why is the government is not allowing this. we need to counter this back in a pratical way. I am a muslim, and I’m sharing this because of Allah swt.

And dear government, if I am wrong, then come forward and give ur explanation why u don’t allow hijab? Is this the reason what MR Yaacob Ibrahim meant by problematic? Can you communicate with your muslim citizens? Please share with us what is ur concern. Can MUIS also step in and explained to the government how we can make this idea of having a hijab at work more feasible?

Thank you
‪#‎keranaAllahswt‬
‪#‎samasamakitacarijalankeluar‬

Source: Dapur Ummi Abdullah

September 11, 2015
Art Fazil: Really Lah Your Vote Is Secret! Really Really Secret!

Your Vote Is Secret. Is it?

1. In GE 2011 I volunteered to be the counting agent for SDP. I was assigned to Woodgrove Primary School Counting Centre.

2. I did so not because I was an SDP member but I volunteered because they needed people to help to observe the counting.

3. The job to count the votes are done by counting officers. They are mostly civil service people who kena arrow to do the job.

4. The job as counting agent was to observe that each ballot paper was accounted for i.e. that every single ballot paper with the correctly marked space are all accounted for. In this case, it was for the SDP. The PAP counting agent would do the same.

5. I also learned the process of how voting is conducted and to see if it really was a secret as it has always been said.

6. This is what happened to your ballot papers:

7. You come to the registration centre with your IC

8. The polling agent will then check your name/IC number against the ballot paper.

9. Your ballot paper has a serial number BUT not your IC number.

10. Repeat: Your ballot paper has a serial number BUT not your IC number.

11. The serial number is necessary so that the political parties do not go and suka-suka print extra ballot paper for themselves.

12. Even your 4D tickets got serial number.

13. Once it all tallies, the ballot paper is given to you. You then walk to the counter with the partitions to mark X on the political party of your choice. Once completed you fold it in half.

14. You then walk to the ballot box and put the ballot paper into the box.

15. After voting time is over, all the ballot boxes will be brought to the counting centre.

16. The police will escort all ballot boxes from various polling stations to the counting centre.

17. They will then begin to pour all the ballot papers onto the tables for counting.

18. The counting process is like this- they manually sort out which X was marked against which party’s logo. It’s that primitive.

19. Each party gets a pile each on the table. If there are two parties, there will be two piles.

20. We can see the ballot papers and we can check which ballot paper was marked X to which party.

21. So sometimes, if a ballot paper is not clearly marked, each party’s
counting agent can argue if the X was clearly for his party or if it was a spoilt vote.

22. So please do not spoil your vote. Its leceh for the counting agents to argue on a half-fuck scrawl by a zombie kampung pisang.

23. Repeat : Please do not spoil your vote. The politicians, MPs or ministers don’t get to see your scrawl. if you want to protest against the government, please vote the other party, not the picture with the lightning.

24. Ok once the counting is done, and we know who won the election, all the ballot papers, both the pro-PAP and Opposition will be put inside boxes.

25. No one has the time to look through each ballot paper individually to see who voted for who. It would be almost midnight by then and everyone especially the polling agents, counting officers and counting agents would be tired as hell.

26. So please do not imagine that someone is out there to check your ballot papers and to see if you had voted for a monkey or a rat’s ass. You are not that important.

27. Once the ballot papers are put in the boxes, the boxes would in turn be sealed.

28. This whole process is meticulously done and is observed by both party members.

29. The representative of each party will then sign on the seal of the boxes.

30. This ensures that no one can open these boxes at any time, not the PAP, the government, the Opposition, not King Kong, not even Ah Kong LKY. These boxes are then stored for 6 months in a vault where no one can open unless there is a court order. It only happens if a political party is not happy with the results and wants a recount.

31. This, thankfully has never happened in Singapore since elections began.

32. After 6 months, the boxes are then taken out of the safety vault. I said the boxes- not the ballot papers! Faham? Kapisch? Eh Hiao, Bo?

33. Each representative of the political parties will then check each box to ensure no seal on the boxes have been tampered with. That means no one came in the middle of the night to open the sealed boxes to check individual ballot papers of your auntie or my uncle and if they had voted for the Opposition.

34. Once all the representatives are satisfied that there was no tampering of the sealed boxes, they will then destroy the boxes in the furnace. Poof!

35. That is the end of the life of your ballot paper.

36. The moral of the story is no one can check on who you voted for. Your vote is absolutely secret. No shit about that.

37. The only way for people to know who you voted for is if you put it up on your Facebook status.

38. Repeat: Your vote is secret.

39. Now go tell your mother, aunties and grannies about this.

40. I know so cause I was a counting agent in GE2011.

Yours Truly,

Art Fazil

The End.

Source: Rilek Brader

September 11, 2015
Male Flasher Spotted In Punggol

Please help share if you care, for parents with young children, please take note, please be aware, please be vigilant, please take extra precaution.

For the ladies as well.

It was brought to my attention that my cousin’s domestic helper was heading of from the house to pick up my 4yrs old niece after school at the school transport drop of point. She has my 2yrs old nephew along waiting for my niece, it happened during bright daylight, a middle age Indian guy followed the helper to the bus-stop in Punggol, and came seated beside the helper exposing his private part and touching it beside the helper. Bright daylight! You heard it right. Hence the helper move away holding my nephew and the guy was seated there doing his gross actions. When my niece’s school bus came, the guy ran off. The poor Panicking and crying helper seek help from the transport lady which she came forward with the driver and saw the guy running away. During that moment, transport auntie called up my sis and told her about the incident, and that was when the transport auntie usher the helper together with my niece and nephew to the block assuring that the guy ran off.

The helper held my nephew and grab my niece and took the lift home, the scariest thing happened, the Indian man appeared at the lift on level 2, when the lift door opened, he walked into the lift, the panicking helper grab the kids and hide them away from this fellow, he unzipped himself and exposing himself in the lift and asking the helper to touch his private area, poor her was crying and the kids were so scare and started crying as well, the worst has yet to come, he commented to the helper, if she don’t want to touch his private part, get the little girl which is my 4yrs old niece to touch (how sick!!!), being a good helper to the family shield the traumatizing kids away from guy and escaped moment when the lift door opened!

Police report has been made, and investigation is on going, we would like to urge everyone to be extra careful, there’s camera in the lift but we have yet to receive information from the police then which resulted us to have to head down for update.

We all know that it’s The big thing going on now GE2015, but I suppose that this type of crime is every more important, we are now talking about the safety of the general public, traumatizing children, traumatizing helper and worry parents & relatives.

Please help share this post even if you are not staying in Punggol estate, I believe the more people who are aware of this incident, the more voices made, the more efficiency and faster action can be taken. Your every share can help and prevent the future crime and harm to the vulnerable ones especially young children.

To uphold the law, to protect life & property. ‪#‎singaporepoliceforce‬ ‪#‎spf‬

Regards
A very upsetting uncle

Source: Derrick Tan

September 10, 2015
Yaacob Ibrahim: Consider The Progress Made By Malay Community Over Past 50 Years Under PAP

Minister-in-charge of Muslim Affairs Yaacob Ibrahim has urged Malay voters to think wisely and consider the progress the community had made in partnership with the People’s Action Party (PAP) government when they cast their votes on Friday (Sept 11).

“By and large, the Malay community has something good going for them here,” Dr Yaacob said on Wednesday (Sept 9). “I hope they will think wisely and vote wisely (for) their future.”

The improvements in 50 years have been “tremendous” in such areas as education and religious life, and Dr Yaacob said he foresees his community continuing to benefit from the PAP Government’s programmes.

Speaking to reporters after a morning visit to the Beo Crescent market to woo voters, he also addressed the issue of Muslim women not being allowed to wear headscarves in certain jobs. One such case is nurses in government hospitals.

He said the PAP’s Malay MPs, including himself, are sympathetic to those facing such restrictions and have raised the matter with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.

“PM Lee has said the policy is not cast in stone. To me, that is a very good sign,” added Dr Yaacob, who is Minister for Communications and Information.

The issue has been raised on the hustings by some opposition parties who have charged the interests of the Malay-Muslim community have not been sufficiently looked after.

Dr Yaacob noted that generally, there are no restrictions on Muslim women wearing headscarves in the wider community.

But at workplaces with restrictions, he pledged to continue to work with employers to accommodate headscarves “in a flexible way”.

He is confident the change “will come in time”.

He also noted that like others, the Malay community is not problem-free.

“But the important thing is whether we are dealing with them.”

He appealed to Malay voters to be patient as it takes time to solve the problems. “We don’t have a magic wand. The opposition believe they can solve all the problems in five years. I will be very surprised (if they do),” he added.

Looking ahead, he sees government programmes like Fresh Start Housing Scheme improving further his community’s quality of life.

The scheme to help second-timer rental households own a two-room flat was announed by PM Lee at the National Day Rally last month.

Noting it will benefit many Malay families, Dr Yaacob said: “Whenever I come across Malay families, I ask them and they tell me they want to get out of rental housing… and have a permanent home.”

Source: www.straitstimes.com

September 9, 2015