Ada orang cakap jangan support artis Anugerah, artis realiti TV. Tapi suruh support local artis.
Apa cakap ni? Budak Anugerah tu tak local ke? Apa orang daripada realiti TV bukan real artis ke?
Ni tak marah, ni tanya… sebab aku pun daripada Anugerah.
Berbual masih cara lepak KGC ok.
Source: Aqmal Namasaya
To this driver Mr Md Zailani…THANK U FOR UR GREAT SERVICE!!!
My wifey actually book Grab service from my house to Jurong Point for our 2 kids to take feeder bus to their individual school but was informed by my kids that he actually send both kids to their individual school.
May u be blessed with more wealth.
If anyone happens to know him or his family pls extend my thanks to him and let his family know how kind hearted he is
Ps: Sorry gotta say that my kids dun need a child or booster seat coz some sore losers wanna talk abt this thingy 
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Source: Asri Abdullah
So much nonsense is being spouted about the Presidency that you have to wonder Ā if Singaporeans have lost all of their critical faculties or are they just too busy virtue signalling.
There was widespread righteous indignation in our so-called āalternativeā media over a Minister in the Prime Ministerās Office Chan Chun Singās alleged Freudian slip when he addressed Halimah Yaacob as āMadam Presidentā rather than āMadam Speakerā in Parliament on Monday. I see that. Yes. ItĀ was a slip that gave away an early indication that our next President is going to be Madam Yaacob. Shock horror! But frankly my dear, I donāt give a damn and hereās why.
How many of these indignant scribblers are Ā even minority race, obliged by law to carry an National Identity card identifying them as minority race? Ā Ā Whatever race you are, why bother getting worked up over the PAPās moves to ensure that they have even more control over who gets elected President?
All checks and balances on executive power in Singapore disappeared a long time ago. How did they disappear? Historically through the usual power plays, deceit and conniving by Colonial rulers and vested outside interests. Ā More recently because we the people, who still have the vote, did not resist. In fact most people welcomed the chance to give up their individual power Ā to a draconian nanny state.
Get over yourselves. The PAP have unfettered power. Every branch of government and every institution has been brought firmly under the PAPās control. Ā There are no checks on that power and control. ( actually in recent years there was one. A man called M Ravi and he stopped the PMās power over when to call a by-election- but heās been fixed now)
Despite all the manufactured outrage by alternative media and keyboard warriors over the changes to the Elected Presidency, the EP was never an institution that was intended to keepĀ Lee Kuan Yew and his son and later generations of the Lee family from power. The Elected Presidency Ā was introduced solely to put a potential pebble in the machinery of government if an Opposition party was ever to take power in Singapore and produce a constitutional crisis to allow the PAP to take back power.
To understand what the Elected Presidency was about, everyone should watch this video of JBJ and Chiam See Tong debating with Lee Hsien Loong:
if you watch it and educate yourself as to how the role changed you will understand my view point. I simply cannot Ā get excited over some of our brave so-called ācivil society activistsā slamming the Ā recent changes to the Elected Presidency. These people are not prepared to agitate about any issues of real importance, merely where they feel the PAP have permitted them a safe space for a controlled and calibrated amount of dissent.
If Singaporeans want to see real democracy in action they can look no further than the huge protests have erupted all over the US against Trump and his executive orders. A judge, appointed by a Republican President, is prepared to stand up and place a temporary hold on Trumpās ban on Muslim immigration.
What does it matter who our President is? It is always going to be a PAP choice. Even before the new rules it was always pre -selection according to a PAP agenda and never was a free and open election.
I also cannot be bothered with the fools who get worked up about a Ā not-so-much PAP candidate- i.e. retired long term PAP MP or civil servant. If one of these candidates were to be elected then again it would notĀ matter. Why? The EP has no power because the EP must follow the advice of the Council of Presidential Advisors, which has recently been expanded and given more power. Should the EP ever go against that PAP group ās advice then he or she can be overruled by Ā a 2/3 majority vote in parliament. The PAP always has, always had and probably always will have that 2/3 majority required to veto any President.
And why should I get excited over the EP when last election not one of the four campaigned on the actual unconstitutionality of the role? How it is a breach of parliamentary sovereignty. Did even one candidate ever say , āIām just a ceremonial figurehead so long as the PAP have that 2/3 majority.ā
How did all these virtuous bloggers and scribblers and activists follow up the wins of GE 2011?- by making sure the unified message to get 1/3 of opposition seats in Parliament was sabotaged. The result is a PAP majority and veto.
Get over it. You chose to put your lives Ā and every aspect of life in Singapore into the hands of one political party. Ownself fury about ownself choice. Uniquely Singaporean!
Source:Ā https://kenjeyaretnam.com
On this day 75 years ago, Singapore was invaded by the Japanese 25th Army.
Over the next 8 days, we’ll be recapturing the key moments from the Battle of Singapore.
It is from history that we learn about who we were then, who we are now, and who we want to be in the future.
We remember the sacrifices made and lessons learned – Our SAF exists and is strengthened by National Service to make sure history never repeats itself again.
Source: The Singapore Army
The changes to the Elected Presidency (EP) scheme were passed by Parliament on Monday, 7 February.
The Government have also announced that the next EP will take place in September 2017.
This next presidential election will be a special one which is reserved only for Malay candidates.
It is part of the slew of changes made to the EP scheme by the Government which claimed that it was concerned about there not being a minority-race president for an extended period.
The changes ensure that this would not be so. If there has not been a minority-race president for five terms, the following EP election will be reserved only for minority candidates.
The proposed changes had only been announced last year and were quickly debated in Parliament in November last year.
Barely two months later, the changes are now in force and the next election will be reserved only for Malay candidates.
Since the proposed changes were raised, some have expressed suspicion that they were engineered by the ruling Peopleās Action Party (PAP) to bar Dr Tan Cheng Bock from running in September.
Dr Tan had come within a whisker of defeating the PAP-approved candidate, former PAP minister Dr Tony Tan, in the 2011 election.
Dr Tan Cheng Bock had last year announced that he would contest the next presidential elections.
The Government, in the meantime, has said the changes are not to bar anyone, and that it was making the changes because of its concern that Singapore, being a multi-racial society, should be represented at the highest level by the different racial groups.
While there have been many questions raised about the new rules, one in particular is worth delving further into.
This has to do with the decision to designate the next election as a reserved one.
Workersā Party chairman and Member of Parliament for Aljunied GRC, Sylvia Lim, highlighted the issue in Parliament on Monday.
āThe Schedule sets out a table showing President Wee Kim Wee as the first President to be counted,ā Ms Lim said. āTogether with the subsequent Presidential terms of President Ong Teng Cheong, two terms of President SR Nathan and one term of President Tony Tan, these form 5 terms where a non-Malay President was in office.Ā Thus, the government reaches the conclusion that this yearās Presidential Election will be reserved for Malays.Ā This is a conclusion that has left Singaporeans bewildered and suspicious.ā
Indeed it has.
The Government, which said it was advised by the Attorney Generalās Chambers (AGC), had explained that counting should begin from President Wee because he was the first President to exercise the powers of an Elected President.
āThis advice was surprising and illogical to many Singaporeans, given that President Wee Kim Wee was never elected to office,ā Ms Lim said.
āWhy not count from the first Elected President, Mr Ong Teng Cheong?ā she asked. āIs it because if President Ong was the first one to be counted, we would have to go through this yearās election as an open election and risk the contest by Chinese or Indian candidates who may not be to the Governmentās liking?ā
In his response, the Minister in the Prime Ministerās Office, Chan Chun Sing, said Mr Wee was the first president to exercise the powers under the elected presidency.
According to news reports, Mr Chan doesnāt seem to have elaborated further on his argument, except to insist how the Government had no political intentions, and that in fact āthe changes carried high political risk and cost.ā
āIf this Government led by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong is for short-term political advantage, would we do it?ā he asked. āWould we expend our political capital to do this?ā
Rhetoric aside, the Governmentās position on why Mr Wee should be the starting point makes him, in effect, the first elected president because he had exercised the powers under the elected presidency.
But such a view runs counter to earlier statements by Government ministers themselves, including former Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong, and the government-controlled media, who had all described Mr Ong as Singaporeās first Elected President.
Let us take a short walk down memory lane.
Way before the EP scheme became reality, former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, who had initiated the idea, āhintedā in 1985 āthat Singapore might have its first elected President at the end of Mr Weeās four-year term or, perhaps, earlier.ā
The Business Times, in September 1993, just a day before Mr Ong was sworn in as President, described Mr Ong as āthe firstĀ elected president.ā
In the Malay Berita Harian newspaper the next day, it said āHistory made: Mr Ong Teng Cheong has been sworn in as Sāporeās first [elected president].ā
6 years later, in 1999, the Straits Times published a chronology of Mr Ongās achievements, including: ā1993: Mr Ong Teng Cheong wins Singaporeās firstĀ presidential Election..ā
In 2002, upon Mr Ongās demise, the radio station 93.8FM had this headline: āFormer president Ong Teng Cheong, Sāporeās firstĀ elected president, has died..ā
And even as recent as 2007, the Straits Times was still referring to him as Singaporeās first Elected President:
āHwa Chong Institution now has student centre in honour ofĀ Singaporeās first elected president, Mr Ong Teng Cheong.ā
And if you are still not convinced that Mr Ong was indeed Singaporeās first Elected President, here are two authoritative sources which might change your mind.
First, there is the governmentās own National Library website.
Right the top of its āHistory SGā page is this headline, in caps:
āONG TENG CHEONG IS THE FIRST ELECTED PRESIDENT OF SINGAPOREā.
That is pretty unequivocal from the curators of our history.
And second, here was what then Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong in 2002 said in his condolence letter to Mr Ongās family:
āAs the first elected President, Teng Cheong had to work the two-key systemā¦ā
So, there you have it.
Singaporeans, the media and even the Government itself, had referred to Mr Ong as Singaporeās first Elected President many times the last 24 years since he was first elected.
Mr Chanās explanation on why it was instead Mr Wee who is being counted as the nationās first Elected President is unconvincing at best, and totally disrespectful of Mr Ong, at worst.
It also denies our own political and national history which, in fact, is plain for all to see. And not to mention it is also an utter repudiation of Singaporeansā choice when they elected Mr Ong to be the first Elected President.
All in all, a simple stroke of the pen to change our history is an act of betrayal.
Mr Ong Teng Cheong presented himself to the people as a candidate, convinced them he could do the job and they elected him through the ballot.
This, with all due respect to Mr Wee who himself was a very excellent president indeed, is what the ELECTED president is supposed to do, at a minimum.
What Mr Ong has done as Singaporeās first Elected President resonates even today with many Singaporeans, especially when he stood independent from the rulers of the party he once belonged to, in carrying out his duty on behalf of Singaporeans.
And because of his presidency, the EP went through many substantial changes and improvements as well.
Mr Ong was Singaporeās first Elected President and the changes to the EP should take reference from his tenure.
To conveniently sidestep his presidency, without any valid or convincing explanation, only fuels suspicion and speculation that the current Government has ulterior motives in pushing through the changes at such speed.
In the end, it damages the credibility of the EP, especially the reserved EP, and this is not good for the country.
Mr Chan needs to do better to convince Singaporeans that the Government has no ulterior agenda in not recognising Mr Ongās presidency.
Source:Ā https://andrewlohhp.wordpress.com