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  • Together We Stand – Wear White For Family

    Together We Stand – Wear White For Family

    We.Wear.White | Saturday, June 4 | Sunday, June 5

    Why Wear White? Because it is a pro-Family, pro-Government, pro-Singapore message!

    1. It is a message to our Government that we fully support its pro-Family policies. We reinforce the important role of Family in nation-building. Guó Jiā. Guó means country. Jiā means family. The Family is the basic building block of society. As the Family goes, so goes society, so goes the nation. We pledge to work with our government to build a Family of Nation-Builders and a Nation of Family-Builders.

    2. It is a message to the Church that we must arise and move as one on our convictions regarding personal purity and public morality, Marriage and Family. Howard Hendricks said: “A belief is something you will argue about. A conviction is something you will die for.”

    3. It is a message to the Press and Society at large that the Church’s stance on heterosexual Marriage and the Natural Family is in keeping with the core value of Singapore’s conservative majority. We signal to the younger generation our commitment to preserve the Pioneer Generation’s legacy of Family according to “the mainstream views and values of Singapore society, where the social norm consists of the married heterosexual family unit.”

    4. It is a message to LGBT activists that there is a conservative majority in Singapore who will push back and will not allow them to promote their homosexual lifestyle and liberal ideologies that openly and outrightly contradict our laws, our government’s stated policies, our national core values, and the conservative majority’s views on public morality, Marriage and Family.

    Remember, this is not a protest. This is a message. An important message representing the conservative majority of Singapore. Will you lead by example?

    “I will give them singleness of heart and action, so that they will always fear me and that all will then go well for them and for their children after them.” (Jeremiah 32:39)

    Together We Stand:
    Lawrence Khong
    Chairman, LoveSingapore

     

    Source: LoveSingapore

  • Open Letter To SMRT: Don’t Be Too Quick To Shift Blame To Deceased Staff

    Open Letter To SMRT: Don’t Be Too Quick To Shift Blame To Deceased Staff

    We have heard it all before.

    You say you are sorry. And that you share our sadness.

    But you will return to your families and sleep easy tonight, while we mourn a tragic loss. Tomorrow morning, you will not have to make the dreadful trip to the mortuary to identify the lifeless and mangled body of a loved one. How can you say that you share our sadness? You do not understand our grief.

    Yet you ever-so eloquently say that you are “very saddened by the loss.” But to you, the two young lives lost today are just a statistic; A number that you have to account for in the face of public outrage. Just collateral damage. Soon, you will forget. Your career goes on. Your life goes on.

    To us they were beloved sons, brothers, cousins, nephews, friends. Brilliant human beings who had promising futures ahead of them.

    Honest young men who woke up one morning, had breakfast with their families, and eagerly showed up for work. Brave young men who, a few hours later in the hot midday sun, responded to a train track fault only to be struck by a train. They followed your orders only to be betrayed.

    As Muslims we try to live life right, to be kind to others, and live life knowing that one day we will return to our Maker. We do not fear or resent death.

    What we resent are your attempts to clear yourselves of any fault, insisting that you have observed all the standard operating procedures. If you did everything right, then your standard operating procedures must be flimsy.

    Your carefully maneuvered words make us wonder: are you attempting to shift the blame to the deceased? You know it is easy to blame someone who can no longer speak for himself.

    Instead of being so quick to protect your interests, seek the humanity deep within you to acknowledge your mistakes and learn from them to ensure that this tragedy does not happen to any one else’s son. Will you take responsibility? Or will your public relations team continue to craft words to protect you from blame?

    At this point, the families are grieving at the loss of a beloved. But grief will soon turn into anger.

    The author is a relative of one of the deceased who passed on in the SMRT train tragedy on 22 March 2016 at 11.10 a.m.

     

    Source: http://kentridgecommon.com

  • Primary School Boy: I Wish To Be Smartphone So My Parents Will Love Me More

    Primary School Boy: I Wish To Be Smartphone So My Parents Will Love Me More

    <Credits to Joanne>

    A teacher after the dinner she started checking homework done by the students. Her husband is strolling around with a smart phone playing his favourite game ‘Candy Crush Saga’. When reading the last note, the wife starts crying with silent tears.

    Her husband saw this and asked, ‘Why are you crying dear? What happened?’

    Wife: ‘Yesterday I gave homework to my 1st Standard students, to write something on topic -My Wish-.

    ’Husband: ‘OK, but why are you crying?

    ’Wife: ‘Today while checking the last note, it makes me crying.

    ’Husband curiously: ‘What’s written in the note that makes you crying?

    ’Wife: ‘Listen. My wish is to become a smart phone. My parents love smart phone very much.

    They care smart phone so much that sometimes they forget to care me.When my father comes from office tired, he has time for smart phone but not for me. When my parents are doing some important work and smart phone is ringing, within single ring they attend the phone, but not me even…even if I am crying.

    They play games on their smart phones not with me.When they are talking to someone on their smart phone, they never listen to me even if I am telling something important. So, my wish is to become a smart phone.

    After listening the note husband got emotional and asked the wife, ‘who wrote this?’. Wife: ‘Our son’.

    Gadgets are beneficial, but they are for our ease not to cease the love amongst family and loved ones.

    Children see and feel everything what happens with & around them. Things get imprinted on their mind with an everlasting effect. Let’s take due care, so that they do not grow with any false impressions.

     

    Source: www.allsingaporestuff.com

     

  • Man Charged For Sexually Abusing Niece Who Was Then Only 12 Years Old

    Man Charged For Sexually Abusing Niece Who Was Then Only 12 Years Old

    A construction firm supervisor appeared in the High Court yesterday accused of sexually abusing his young niece, who had looked up to him as a “father figure”.

    The 51-year-old Malaysian faces a total of six charges for sexual acts with the victim on five occasions from 2005 – when she was just 12 years old – to 2008.

    They include one count of rape, two counts of oral sex, one count of sexual exploitation of a child, one count of outrage of modesty and one count of sexual assault of a minor.

    The man, represented by Mr N. Kanagavijayan, has admitted to the charge of sexual assault, committed in 2008 when the girl was 15. However, he is disputing the other five charges, including the most serious one of rape, which carries up to 20 years’ jail and caning or a fine.

    A seven-day trial started in the High Court yesterday.

    The alleged victim is now 23 years old. A probation officer who accompanied her to report the offences is among the six prosecution witnesses.

    Deputy Public Prosecutor Ong Luan Tze said in the prosecution’s opening address that the victim regarded the accused, her maternal aunt’s common law husband, as a “father figure” after her biological father died in 2003.

    The accused abused his position in the victim’s life to sexually groom her and performed sexual acts with her without her consent, the DPP contended.

    On one occasion in 2005, he sexually abused her while helping her to change her clothes to visit her mother in hospital.

    On another occasion, he woke her up and slipped his hand into her shorts.

    The trial continues.

     

    Source: http://news.asiaone.com

  • Parking At Popular Parks No Longer Free

    Parking At Popular Parks No Longer Free

    Parking will no longer be free at selected carparks in 12 popular parks across the island, ruffling the feathers of some park goers.

    The National Parks Board (NParks) is rolling out an automated fee system at 18 carparks in 12 parks starting from this month, including Choa Chu Kang Park, Bishan-Ang Mo Kio Park and Labrador Nature Reserve.

    The move, introduced at parks serving a large number of users, is meant to regulate usage and prevent abuse, said NParks director of parks Chia Seng Jiang in a Forum letter published in The Straits Times yesterday.

    “In recent years, NParks has been receiving complaints on the constant misuse of parking spaces in the above parks, where parking spaces were taken up for extended periods of time by non-park users,” he said.

    The new system is already in place at East Coast Park, where users said they are now charged $1 an hour, at all times of the day.

    The Straits Times understands that the new charges are standard parking rates.

    Some have expressed concern that the new charges could discourage people, especially the elderly and handicapped, from visiting the park regularly.

    Housewife Lim Lih Mei, who is in her 40s, told ST: “I can understand why charges would be imposed because land is scarce, but parks are for general public use.

    “For those with elderly folk and young children, driving a car is a necessity rather than a luxury. So why should they be penalised?”

    Madam Jessy Leow, 70, who visits East Coast Park with her 70-year-old husband at 6am every day, suggested that the authorities could look into giving a grace period during the early morning hours.

    “At night, I agree that the carparks are very packed, but in the morning, there’s hardly anyone there as most of the shops don’t open until around 11am,” she said.

    Madam Leow, who has arthritis and gout, also added that taking public transport to the park is very inconvenient for elderly folk such as herself.

    Others suggested that NParks could have looked into more effective ways to prevent abuse of the parking spaces.

    For instance, it could have tried to find out which timings were more prone to misuse.

    Mr Jason Fu, 26, a regular West Coast Park visitor, said that the new fees could lead to fewer park visitors. But the charges may help to reduce the number of motorists who park at the parks overnight, he added.

    Said the graphic designer, who does not mind having to pay the parking fees: “People will think twice about parking there.”

    In its Forum letter yesterday, NParks said it appreciated feedback on the charges and will monitor the situation at these carparks.

     

    Source: www.straitstimes.com