Monday, 23 May 2011
Are foreign workers using our drinking water to bathe and wash up after sex?
I was going to do a blog posting on PM Lee’s cutting of Minister salaries. However what happened below is so shockingly disgusting that I feel compelled to blog about it first.By now, everyone should have heard about the unfortunate Indonesian maid who was murdered by her Bangladeshi boyfriend. If you have not, you can check out the CNA report here.After being murdered, her body was dumped into the water tank which was the source of the drinking water for several blocks of residents in Sembawang. According to reports, the water in the tank was “foamy” when the body was found. This means that the body had started to decompose.To allay voter concerns, MP Vikram Nair made the following home made video posthaste and put in up on Youtube. This was then carried on CNA. In the video, he is seen drinking what Singaporeans have called “dark water”.
In doing the Youtube, MP Nair probably thought he had contained the damage. He was probably even congratulating himself that he had managed to score some brownie points with those nasty P65 voters who have been giving the PAP so much grief.Imagine to his surprise therefore when approximately a hundred and fifty angry residents stormed his MPS. http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/seasia/singapore-apartment-block-residents-voice-anger-after-murder/442387
The residents were angry over 2 points.
1. The police report was made at 10 am. The Town Council however kept quiet about it until 5 pm. They were therefore using the contaminated water during that period.
2. The residents were reported as saying that they had seen the foreign workers near the water tank with bathing towels. They therefore suspected that the foreign workers had been using the water tank to bathe. They also believed that the foreign workers had taken their girlfriends to the water tank for sex and washed up in the drinking waters after sex. This was censored initially but eventually published in Lianhe Wanbao according to Karamabear on Sammyboy forum (http://www.sammyboy.com/showthread.php?93744-Bangla-bathed-in-water-tank-after-sex...).
The link to the original Wanbao article in Chinese is here: http://news.omy.sg/News/Local%2BNews/Story/OMYStory201105221525-246987.html.
The second point struck me as supremely disgusting. What concerned me even more is that the Town Council involved had outsourced the running of the HDB housing estates to EM Services. EM Services is responsible for providing estate management services for a large number HDB housing estates all over Singapore. If the lapses occurred in Sembawang, could they have occurred elsewhere?Politically, EM Services is extremely well connected to the PAP. Ang Mong Seng, Chan Soo Sen and even Mah Bow Tan all reportedly have links to EM Services. This is not the first time that the company has been involved in controversy. Previously, the Online Citizen did a series of articles on how EM Services was renting out government owned HDB flats to foreign workers at high rental prices. This resulted in needy Singaporeans wanting to rent a subsided government owned HDB flat having to wait as long as 26 months.http://theonlinecitizen.com/2010/01/hdbs-reply-on-rental-flats-unclear
PM Lee has been saying repeatedly that after GE 2011, the PAP has changed to become more accountable to Singaporeans. If he is serious about this, he should immediately order a Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry into this matter. This Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry should include both PAP and Opposition MPs. If this matter is swept under the carpet because it appears that not many Singaporeans are aware of it, then we have yet another piece of empirical data that PAP is not really serious about honoring those promises which were made in GE 2011.
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Source: singstatistician
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Monday, May 23, 2011
BACK FROM BATAM
I was at Batam the past few days with families and had the honor to reside in Formosa Grand Hotel (5*). Charles and Pichong went along too.
Anyway, don’t think will visit Batam within anytime soon since there was nothing much and the cost of selling is quite costly although they are a poor country. But by looking at their living standard, I just feel fortunate of where I am rooted at.
Anyway, don’t think will visit Batam within anytime soon since there was nothing much and the cost of selling is quite costly although they are a poor country. But by looking at their living standard, I just feel fortunate of where I am rooted at.
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
VULNERABLITY IN ADULTS
Adults are often vulnerable on one occasion – when they saw babies below 3 years old. You will saw the adults making funny faces just to exchange a smile or giggle from the babies looking at them. This morning, amazingly, I saw 3 adults doing those funny faces on 3 different babies in the MRT and its platform. And it was awesome to hear the babies’ laughter after that. It does make my day more positive. No wonder they say a family needs to have at least a kid to unite and improve the family’s positiveness level. In this case, perhaps I should have a kid too in future when financially allow.
Thursday, May 12, 2011
Monday, May 2, 2011
LOVE KNOWLEDGE
what is love?
i thought love is... 2 persons have to be constantly together, holding each other hands, walk till the end...
then i realised, love is... understanding what the person want and feel... not really abou 2 persons have to be constantly being sticky with each other.
when i thought married couple have to be together, no matter live or breathe together...
sometimes, it is just aint possible.
perhaps, emotionally let go is the best possible love one could give.
i thought love is... 2 persons have to be constantly together, holding each other hands, walk till the end...
then i realised, love is... understanding what the person want and feel... not really abou 2 persons have to be constantly being sticky with each other.
when i thought married couple have to be together, no matter live or breathe together...
sometimes, it is just aint possible.
perhaps, emotionally let go is the best possible love one could give.
Sunday, April 17, 2011
LAWFULLY MARRIED
So Charles and Fannie are married lawfully today by the Solemnizer, Mr Peter Lee and together with both parents on stage to witness our signing at Pariss Seafood International Buffet at Marina Square with 66 invited relatives.
I woke at 630am and dragged my tired body up. Perhaps, the continuous rehearsal for the past 2 weeks drained my mental and physical. No, I should not only says I am the only one who is drained, the 5 helpers who worked with us all these while are tremendously squeezed too. Time check now 1645, and I believe all helpers are asleep. His brother and my sister acted as the main host today, Weiwei as the receptionist, Junjie as the Videographer and Weifeng as the laptop controller. All of us, including Charles and myself started the planning and rehearsals 2 weeks ago, trying our best to base on the plan as planned, but in the end, the timing couldn’t be as fixed as we thought. Even Charles and my thank you speech, became 2 separate parts, thanking everyone twice. And the vow which we memorized based on the Solemnizer who gave it to us 2 weeks ago, seems to be different when we said our actual vow. But then, I am glad when we don’t have to recite our memorized vow as there is a very high chance that both of us will forget the vows that we memorized due to stress, excitement and tension. It is good that the Solemnizer said one phrase and we repeated after him, in English and Chinese. Heng ah…
While the whole event today do seems a little messed up but all of us have our own fun and happiness. When the Solemnizer pronounced us husband and wife, the little touched washed over me. This day, was the day I dreamt 3 years ago. There are tensions within the 3 years regarding the settling down issue, which very likely arisen due to our different backgrounds. We bicker and we did suffer in order to come to decide to live and grow old together. I don’t know how life is going to lead our way from now on; I still have 7 months to learn the meaning of marriage before the actual Chinese ceremony/wedding occurs. I will try my best to work harder for my own family no matter how tough when I no longer have my parents’ careful daily support. And I do trust Charles that he will also in turn, do well and strive double of what I am going to contribute to our future own family and own house that we call our own. It is the trust and beliefs that a wife has to have for her husband. It is also the significant of a marriage when the husband carries the responsibility of a wife and a family.
Today onwards, 17 April 2011… the day I becomes officially, Mrs Heng.
Charles and I will never forget today; the day we tied our knots legally.
I will ends, with the vow that I memorized as a little memory… that will forever be kept safely in the corner of my heart.
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I vow to keep my love as pure as it will stay
In your laughter and your tears,
In your comfort and your fears,
In your happiness and your sadness,
In your sickness and your health.
I vow to always cherish you,
I vow to be faithful to you.
With this ring as token, I pledge my love to you forever.
And I now, marry you.
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I woke at 630am and dragged my tired body up. Perhaps, the continuous rehearsal for the past 2 weeks drained my mental and physical. No, I should not only says I am the only one who is drained, the 5 helpers who worked with us all these while are tremendously squeezed too. Time check now 1645, and I believe all helpers are asleep. His brother and my sister acted as the main host today, Weiwei as the receptionist, Junjie as the Videographer and Weifeng as the laptop controller. All of us, including Charles and myself started the planning and rehearsals 2 weeks ago, trying our best to base on the plan as planned, but in the end, the timing couldn’t be as fixed as we thought. Even Charles and my thank you speech, became 2 separate parts, thanking everyone twice. And the vow which we memorized based on the Solemnizer who gave it to us 2 weeks ago, seems to be different when we said our actual vow. But then, I am glad when we don’t have to recite our memorized vow as there is a very high chance that both of us will forget the vows that we memorized due to stress, excitement and tension. It is good that the Solemnizer said one phrase and we repeated after him, in English and Chinese. Heng ah…
While the whole event today do seems a little messed up but all of us have our own fun and happiness. When the Solemnizer pronounced us husband and wife, the little touched washed over me. This day, was the day I dreamt 3 years ago. There are tensions within the 3 years regarding the settling down issue, which very likely arisen due to our different backgrounds. We bicker and we did suffer in order to come to decide to live and grow old together. I don’t know how life is going to lead our way from now on; I still have 7 months to learn the meaning of marriage before the actual Chinese ceremony/wedding occurs. I will try my best to work harder for my own family no matter how tough when I no longer have my parents’ careful daily support. And I do trust Charles that he will also in turn, do well and strive double of what I am going to contribute to our future own family and own house that we call our own. It is the trust and beliefs that a wife has to have for her husband. It is also the significant of a marriage when the husband carries the responsibility of a wife and a family.
Today onwards, 17 April 2011… the day I becomes officially, Mrs Heng.
Charles and I will never forget today; the day we tied our knots legally.
I will ends, with the vow that I memorized as a little memory… that will forever be kept safely in the corner of my heart.
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I vow to keep my love as pure as it will stay
In your laughter and your tears,
In your comfort and your fears,
In your happiness and your sadness,
In your sickness and your health.
I vow to always cherish you,
I vow to be faithful to you.
With this ring as token, I pledge my love to you forever.
And I now, marry you.
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