Miss Charity Maru, also known as Charity Lu Lu Seng, finally tasted victory on Wednesday night.
The 24-year-old freelance translator beat 13 other contestants to be crowned Miss World Singapore 2015 at the One Farrer Hotel & Spa.
But her joy was quickly tainted by criticism online that she is not the best person to represent Singapore at the international finals on Dec 19 in China.
Miss Maru is a relatively new citizen, getting her pink IC only in 2007.
Source: www.tnp.sg
Generally, the Malay Muslim community placed their trust on MUIS to have the honesty, integrity and soundness of moral character managing funds and donations from the public.
With the recent convictions of CHC leaders, it showed that even a ‘Man of God’ can err. Therefore, we should not be complacent and relinquish our moral duty just because all is well now.
No system is perfectly safe. Without proper transparency and accountability, things might just go astray. There should exist within an organization, proper system in place to highlight any irregularities or suspicious activities.
Stakeholders should not just care when something goes wrong. It should be done continuously to ensure rot has not been given a chance to fester.
Questioning our religious leaders when we sense something is amiss, is not blasphemy. Although there are proper etiquettes to observe when doing so. It is part of our responsibility as a Muslim to always seek clarification.
Hopefully we can learn some useful lessons from the CHC’s case.
Source: Osman Sulaiman
It is sad that there are still people who don’t recognize that Malay is our National Language. And worse still, they insist the minorities should learn Mandarin instead of the majority picking up the National Language.
It is also sad that there are some foreigners who don’t want to learn English.
I went to Tang Tea House for lunch just now. These days even Halal food outlets employ PRC. There was this waitress. She spoke with a Mainland accent. But what struck me was that she made the effort to learn Malay and took my order in Malay. I am a very happy customer. I patronize Tang Tea House because they trained their staff very well especially the foreigners.
Source: Hazrul A. Jamari
What’s interesting to me in all this City Harvest stuff, is that no one is talking about this as a peril of Christianity. No one is using this as an example of how there’s something wrong with Christianity and Christians who are so easily misled and brainwashed.
Compare this to any rhetoric on anyone who is vaguely brown and Muslim. It immediately becomes about Islam, a failure or inherent flaw in Islam and these Muslims who are so easily radicalized and brainwashed.
As always, western religion when practiced by Chinese people gets a pass. They get to be people in their own right, not strereotypes to be made fun of.
Source: Sangeetha Thanapal
Went to a coffeeshop in Tuas, bought a can of coke zero an a bread ask the lady at the counter how much? And she replied in Chinese, so i told her in English pleased, but she keep repeating in Chinese… in a helpless situation i give her a $2 note and she look at me with such big eyes of hers and say out loud in Chinese which i still don’t understand and ask her how much?
At that point a customer come forward and say it is $2.20 so i give her another $2 note. The Chinese lady accepted it but she still scolded me in Chinese so i told her in English, i don’t understand a single word you say and you don’t understand a single word i say why don’t you learn English so that you can easily communicate with your customers, and a man came forward and say why don’t you learn chinese too?
And i ask him why should i? He goes on to say that Singapore is 80% Chinese and the goverment should made the chinese language as the national language not English.
With that i told him that the national language of Singapore is MALAY and that he and that lady should learn MALAY since it is the national language of Singapore.
He was looking rather angry at that point and i was readying myself for a fight when the owner of the coffeeshop came over and say sorry for the trouble that his staff has cause. I just walk away but what worrying me is what the man had said…….
Source: Pak Dolmat