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Goh Meng Seng: Entry Of People’s Power Party Will Not Divide Opposition Support

Many people show concerns about “multi-corner” fights among Opposition with this formation of new party, People’s Power Party. But let me put it this way, most of the people who are involved in this PPP are not new faces but experienced activists. For those slated as candidates under PPP, either they stand under PPP or other political party. The net number of people participating in the next GE will not be more or less!

Thus, as I have said, don’t worry too much about multi-corner fights even with this new party. This new party will not field too many candidates and most importantly, these are known faces.

Those WP people and supporters somehow have this apprehension about PPP because they think that I will definitely go into 3 corner fights with WP! Some even think that I may just go and contest in Aljunied GRC since WP is now facing confidence crisis over there. I can safely tell you guys that I am not someone who will rob the victims when there is a fire.

But I can foresee that WP may go into a lot of multi-corner fights because of its expansion plan. i.e. if they increase their number of candidates, it may just be inevitable that they will clash with other opposition parties. I sincerely hope not but apparently, this is unavoidable. I hope PPP will not be involved in such contests.

PPP is formed basically because we do not want to DISRUPT other existing party’s management. Most of us have been through the difficult times of integration when different groups of people come into one party. We do not want to waste energy and time on such matters again.

Secondly, we have to agree with PAP Minister Masagos that all political parties in Singapore do not have strong philosophical and political ideological grounding. PPP will not disappoint him in that sense.

Last but not least, we are seeing worrying signs which are working against opposition as a whole. The tightening of internet and new media space, with the never ending Town Council saga eroding voters’ confidence in opposition as a whole. We hope to re-establish the lost confidence by doing our part in making sure that our selection of candidates are worthy ones.

I hope the above will address some of the unwarranted concerns that most opposition supporters have.

Source: Goh Meng Seng

May 19, 2015
Berilah Bantuan Kepada Golongan Rohingya Muslim Yang Berkeperluan

Alhamdulillah 360 Operations membantu golongan Rohingya di Malaysia. Sdra Tahar Jumaat (FB TJ Mohd), bekas petugas (man on the ground) Mercy Relief sedang berusaha membantu golongan Rohingya di Aceh.

Kita akur tidak semua dari golongan ini akan diterima Indonesia. Hanya Allah swt yg mengetahui rancangan Nya. Bukan kuasa kita utk memahami pekerjaan Nya. Mari kita berganding-bahu membantu golongan yg kurang bernasib-baik ini. Tiada jumlah yg dikira sedikit kerana mata wang kita di antara yg tertinggi di Nusantara ini.

Yang berkemampuan bolehlah salurkan derma anda ke POSB Savings 406188922. Harap dapat catit “Rohingya” di dalam derma anda.

Insyaa Allah “status update” akan disiarkan di halaman FB beliau dari masa ke semasa. Terima kasih. Jazaakumullahu Khairan Katheeran.

Source: Zait Ismail Halimah Masa’ed

May 19, 2015
Ngalirdjo Mungin: When I First Started Selling Satay, It Cost 2 Cents A Stick!

Three individuals, whose stories are featured in the book Living The Singapore Story: Celebrating Our 50 Years 1965-2015, tell GAO WENXIN ([email protected]) what life was like in the early years of independence

He has been in the satay business for 70 years and knows the exact flavours that appeal to the locals.

“Singaporeans feel that sweet satay tastes better. I know because I sell,” said Mr Ngalirdjo Mungin, 94, in Malay.

Although Singaporeans have enjoyed the same taste of Mr Ngalirdjo’s satay for decades, things have not always been the same for the satay man.

Before he set up his stall at Sims Drive Market And Food Centre in the 1970s, he used to peddle his satay as a street hawker.

“Back then, I had to look for customers. Now, my customers come to me.”

Mr Ngalirdjo came from Java just after World War II in 1945.

AVOIDED BEING SOLD

“Many immigrants here would be sold to Malaysia as farmers but I did not want to be sold,” he said.

Instead, he lived with other Javanese satay sellers at 97, Jalan Sultan, and was paid 10 cents a day to make satay.

There, he learnt the tricks of the trade and later sold his own satay.

He would carry two huge baskets of ingredients and a portable charcoal grill, and cover the area between the Esplanade area and Geylang.

“I also sold satay at Jalan Besar because I would get more business when there was a football match on,” said Mr Ngalirdjo, who occupied a space at the back entrance of the stadium.

Satay was sold at two cents when he first arrived, then five cents in 1947 and 10 cents in the 1960s.

Fifty sticks a day was considered good business but the jovial man said he was quite blessed to get orders of hundreds of sticks from towkays.

He met his late wife, Madam Kamisah Dadi, thanks to his satay trade. She was selling her mother’s kuih (Malay for cake) at the time.

After they got married, Madam Kamisah also helped him make satay.

His current stall is named after her.

The couple have 11 children and one of their sons runs the stall. But Mr Ngalirdjo still keeps an eye on the food quality.

“I still haven’t retired. I hope my story will encourage people to do their own business and to work for themselves,” he said.

Source: http://news.asiaone.com

May 19, 2015
Isteri Menderita Tiada Tempat Mengadu, Suami Panas Baran Dan Ringan Tangan

Inilah dia rahsia dari ‘Camelia’ yang saya telah udarakan. Beliau meminta pendapat dan nasihat anda:

“Saya telah bernikah nak masuk 2 tahun dan hanya berkenalan bersama suami seblom kami bernikah hanya 4 bulan. Kami berkahwin dan ini adalah perkahwinan yang kedua untuk the both of us dan masing2 ada anak sendiri.

Selepas berapa bulan berkahwin, kami sering bertengkar. Saya tak dapat berjumpa dengan anak2 saya kerana suami tidak suka akan mereka. Suami saya panas baran dan sering skali jalan tangan. Saya pulak kuat melawan kerana saya ingin menegak kan diri saya yang sering kali tidak bersalah.
Saya dilarang untuk bertemu dengan keluarga dan tidak dibenar kan ada apape komunikasi dengan mereka.

Suami sering menggertak untuk mencari yang lain dan sering menggeluarkan kata2 kesat & even let me feel so down dengan cacian dia. Worst, setiap kali saya menggamuk kerana tak tahan dengan sifat ego, sombong dan riak dia, saya akan dipukol teruk.

Kami dikurnia kan anak yang telah pon masok 6 bulan dan suami tetap bersifat demikian. Even when I am pregnant, saya dipukol tanpa belas kasihan & biler saya nak melahirkan anak dia nik fiza, he can even quarrel with me about the past.

Saya dah tak tahan dengan sikap dia fiza. Saya runsing, kalau setiap kali saya mahu pulang ke pangkuan keluarga saya dan tidak ingin bersama dia lagi, dia akan memukul saya dan mengugut saya yang dia akan berjumpa dengan bapa saya bawak perempuan. Saya tidak ingin menyusah kan bapa saya dan dia amat menyukai dengan suami saya cuma saya tak pernah cerita kepad bapa saya siapa sebenarnya suami saya kerana bapa saya jantung nya bukan larh begitu sihat.

Saya pernah dipukul di khalayak orang tapi tak siapa membantu. Mungkin kerana tidak ingin campor hal ruma tangga saya atau mungkin kerana takot akan muka benggis dan tattoo di badan suami.

He wasn’t like this before we got married and a few months after marriage. Saya runsing. Nak lari, tiada tempat menggadu as I’ve let down a few of my family yang dah tahu tentang kisah saya dan suro saya meninggal kan nya. Tapi setiap kali saya melihat wajah anak saya…. There is always that holds me back.

Kalau nak bercerita lagi fiza, memang tak kan habis. Banyak yang berlaku jadi saya pendek kan dan ringkas kan. I need help, seriously I do…..

Terima kasih fiza. Hope that you can give your pendapat too. Thanks.”

Source: Fiza O

May 19, 2015
Goh Meng Seng Registers The People’s Power Party

Former National Solidarity Party secretary-general and opposition politician Goh Meng Seng has registered a new political party named the “People’s Power Party” (PPP) yesterday with an eye on participating in the next general election.

Goh Meng Seng said during an interview with the media that he was disappointed with the current policies implemented by the government, and feels that the government should not always have the final say on public policy in Singapore.

He also said that the PPP would champion a form of democracy based on revolutionary Chinese leader Sun Yat Sen’s theory of democratic government. In Sun’s theory of democracy, government would be divided into five separate branches: the executive, legislative, judicial, the censorate, and the civil service system. The latter two branches primarily functioned as a check on the first three, which are the more familiar branches of government. They are also traditional branches of the Chinese government and functioned independently. The civil service had been around since the Han period and the censorate was created by the Hong Wu emperor at the beginning of the Ming dynasty (1368-1644).

According to Goh, Singaporeans will live better lives only when principles of democracy are upheld in Singapore. He says that the current system which centers political power into the hands of a few key persons is unsustainable.

Source: www.allsingaporestuff.com

May 19, 2015