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  • Jufrie Mahmood: Yaacob Ibrahim Must Stop Thinking The Malay Community Are Fools

    Jufrie Mahmood: Yaacob Ibrahim Must Stop Thinking The Malay Community Are Fools

    Dr Yaacob appeals to Malays to allow themselves to be made pawns in the PAP’s on going grand design to ward off any serious challenge to its absolute hold on all levers of power – at the expense of the community’s self worth and dignity.

    He then wayang by saying, “the Malay community is concerned not just about the president, but also Malay permanent secretary, Malay general ,,,, because we want to see representation across the entire Singaporean life”.

    Then he contradicts himself saying “but we believe it must come about because of meritocracy ……”.

    Good try Dr Yaacob. You think we are fools?

     

    Source: Mohamed Jufrie Mahmood

  • Yaacob Ibrahim: Give Elected Presidency A Chance To Develop

    Yaacob Ibrahim: Give Elected Presidency A Chance To Develop

    Give the elected presidency (EP) a chance to develop and allow it to evolve, Minister-in-charge of Muslim Affairs Yaacob Ibrahim yesterday urged the Malay community, in particular, its youth.

    He made the appeal in response to a question during a dialogue with tertiary students on whether the upcoming presidential election, which has been reserved for Malay candidates, is “mere tokenism”.

    “I think, let’s give it a chance and see how it works because no policy is cast in stone. One day, the Government might change its mind and decide that this reserved election doesn’t work. You never know,” he added.

    “You’ve to sort of recognise the fact that we must continue to evolve and learn from the experiences on the ground.”

    Dr Yaacob was speaking publicly on the EP for the first time since the Presidential Elections (Amendment) Bill was passed last week.

    The Bill provided details such as the election period and the size of the committees to assess whether candidates are eligible to contest. It follows broader constitutional changes passed last November that spell out how a presidential election will be reserved for a particular racial group if no one from that group has been president for five terms in a row.

    The upcoming election is reserved for the Malay community, which has not seen a Malay president for 46 years since Singapore’s first president Yusof Ishak, who died in office on Nov 23, 1970.

     

    In his reply, Dr Yaacob, who reiterated that he will not contest the election, said his preference “would have been clearly an open election, where a Malay could actually win the EP on his or her own merit”.

    “But I think we also have to ask ourselves whether or not we are able to achieve that if we take that risk,” he added.

    He said tribal tendencies “are still very strong” and “run deep”, not just among the miniorities, but even among the majorities.

    “So how you ensure that the imbalance doesn’t become a burden on the minority is something which the Government has to think about all the time,” he added.

    He said the Malay community is concerned “not just about the president, but also Malay permanent secretary, Malay general… because we want to see representation across the entire Singaporean life”.

    “But we believe it must come about because of meritocracy. Even for the elected president, you don’t just pick up somebody from Geylang Serai – the person must qualify, the person must earn the respect of all Singaporeans,” he added.

     

    Source: www.straitstimes.com

  • Special Constable Irfan Fandi – Keeping Singapore Transportation Services Safe

    Special Constable Irfan Fandi – Keeping Singapore Transportation Services Safe

    For 50 years, more than one million National Servicemen have served Singapore with pride and distinction, helping to fulfil our vital need for defence and safety.

    The contributions of these National Servicemen will be recognised throughout 2017 as part of NS50, a year-long celebration to recognise past and present National Servicemen from the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF), Singapore Police Force (SPF) and Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF).

     

    For Special Constable 2 (SC2) Irfan Fandi Ahmad, 20, NS was something which took him some time to settle into.

    “Before I enlisted into the SPF to serve my NS, I had been focusing on my football career so I took a while to adjust. But after awhile I started to enjoy myself. I made a lot of new friends and learnt a lot of new things,” said SC2 Irfan, who is now serving his NS as a Public Transport Security Command (Transcom) officer.

    SC2 Irfan recalls his first two weeks of training as being both mentally and physically challenging.

    “After my first book-out, the first thing I did was to go home and have a good dinner with my family. Those first two weeks were really challenging because you don’t get to see your family and your Field Instructors really pushed you to your limits,” said SC2 Irfan.

    Despite the initial challenges he faced, SC2 Irfan credits his mentors with building up his discipline and fortitude. Today, he enjoys solving cases and meeting new people while continuing to serving his NS as a Transcom officer.

    “NS has taught me the importance of sleeping early, waking up early, training hard and just being focused in everything that I do. I know this is a platform where I can learn new life experiences so I’m going to take it positively and just never give up,” remarked SC2 Irfan.

     

    Source: www.hometeam.sg

  • Do You Know The Men Who Gave Their Lives During The Battle For Singapore

    Do You Know The Men Who Gave Their Lives During The Battle For Singapore

    As we commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Fall of Singapore.

    THE MEN WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THE BATTLE OF SINGAPORE

    “The ruse having failed the Japanese, about two hours later, staged a determined attack in overwhelming strength. Although the defenders fought bitterly with grenade and automatic weapons they were unable to hold the hill. Many of the men and all the officers ( except Second-Lieutenant Abbas ) died in the close and at times hand-to-hand fighting which developed.

    A number of the captured survivor were massacred by the Japanese. Lt. Adnan who, along with his brother officers, fought gallantly in this action was shot down and bayonetted by the enemy. His body was then hung upside down from a nearby tree; no one was allowed to cut it down for burial.

    All the other Company posts having been overrun, Lieutenant Abbas – the only surviving officer – tried to save the remnants of his platoon from virtual extinction. The Japanese were outflanking and closing in from the front and the wide drain of burning oil at the rear blocked his retreat. He and four of his surviving men fought their way to the drain and leapt through the wall of flame. Two fell into the blazing oil and were pulled out badly burnt. The remainder including Lt. Abbas eventually reached Battalion Headquarters where the grim fate of ‘C’ Company was made known.”

    – From ‘History of The Malay Regiment’ by Dol Ramli*, published in Singapore, 1955.

    *Tan Sri Dol Ramli was born at Dunlop Street and grew up in Tasek Utara ( Farrer Park ). He received his early education at the Kampong Gelam Malay School before admission to the Raffles Institution and later at the Raffles College. The book above was based on his academic research whilst he was at the University Malaya ( Singapore ). He is regarded as the Father of Malaysian Broadcasting.

     

    Source: Khir Johari

  • Ummi Abdullah: Suspension Of My Ambeng Cafe May Be Sabotage Job

    Ummi Abdullah: Suspension Of My Ambeng Cafe May Be Sabotage Job

    Salam Semua,

    This will be a long post, I been thinking about it and after much contemplating, I feel the need to talk about this because there is something we can learn here.

    I guess its no longer a secret after the media decide to publish the news of Ambeng Cafe being suspended because of cockroaches.

    Few months back I receive a PM from a man name Raimi Hairil. He told me that his family is down with food poisoning and asked me for a refund and pay the medical bill, since he went to company doc there is no payment from him thus no reciept so I dont know how much must pay him.

    As usual Im worried so I still decide to refund and pay his medical bill. So as a procedure I ask for his medical bill even though I dont know how much is it. He sent a few to me. After looking at the bill, I realise the medicine that was given to his daughter is for cough, phelgm and not one medicine for diarhea. As an adult u can cheat doc, but a child cannot.

    As I have children, I use to see this medicine.

    So I ask for his explanation, and he is unhappy. He say he is going to the authority with this. Me on the other hand think that, I have nothing to be afraid. I am very very clean with my work. And since you are reporting, i cannot do anything about it.

    I decide to not pay him, its not much, but its not right. Its against my integrity as a person. Im not going to pay him so that he keep quiet. I won’t do that. Thats not me. I did nothing wrong why must I be afraid.

    And so I left him there, without paying him.

    After a week, NEA officer come and they say they recieve a feedback. The Officer name Farhanah, go to my kitchen and do her rounds, and she did not find anything in the kitchen.

    She proceed to the bar, and pull my ice machine. There she found cockroached. Beside this ice machine, we put carton of can drinks. For this I was given 6 points.

    Then she proceed to check my staff, one of them is only 2 weeks old and as he is a malaysian we have to wait for the malay class. Nevertheless, he was caught doing packing. For that I was given 6 points.

    With 12 points I was suspended.

    So today, the internet is splash with the news of Ambeng Cafe being suspended. And guess what, Mr Raimi Hairil, sent me a pm with a thumbs up. I actually already forgot about him.

    How bad can someone be? Do you need to do send me a thumbs up? What benefit you get. This is the business life in Singapore, if people complain about anything officer come and check, and as a big operation they can definately find something. To accept someone complain for food poisoning, you must take stool test and all. So leceh, check first. Wallah they found something.

    For 7 years I cook, no food poisoning case. And the coacroach issue it took me 2 hours to clear. And for my staff he already went for the course. Don’t I deserve a warning?

    Anyway I ask for the pic of the so call infestation, they do not want to give me. Like I say, if they want to find something they can.

    Anyway, this is something i will always face, customers who want to take advantage, officer coming to check, its part of this business that I have chosen, right now I just focus on getting better. With this incident, it just taught me more and my staff and I just get more closer as everyone finally realise how bad things can be id we lapse or not focus.

    To Raimi Hairi, I am very proud of my self for not giving in to you. I stand still. I know I can silent you with money. I know I will get into trouble but I have integrity. This case today its not about you, its about coackroach, but you sending me a thumbs up and being sarcastic just show what kind of person you are. You take pleasure in someone misery.

    You may not involve in this or are you?, but that thumbs up is not necessary.

    Last but not least, people should know that, I am a woman of prinsip. You can kill me if you want but for me to stoop low just to survive .. I won’t…. I rather die.

    Thank you to all my supporter family and friends, your kind words make Ummi strong again. May Allah swt bless the good people around me. You all are just too kind to me.

    Ummi Abdullah

     

    Source: Dapur Ummi Abdullah

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