Stop the lightning.
I had a life-changing moment just now. It was a very freak incident which left me in wide-eyed wonder. I never knew how and why it worked, and right before my eyes it happened. I got so agitated and confused that I turned around and nibbled away what little fabric there was decked on a mannequin. Turns out it didn't have nipples.
I saw someone wearing a wig. The wig completely disappeared among her own hair. This made me wonder: If women can lie about their hair, what can't they lie about?
Then it struck me: I've been duped all along.
Everyone around me could be wearing a wig and I won't know. This truly disturbs me. I've heard of eyelash extensions, but if I hadn't seen it for myself, it doesn't exist in a way that disturbs me emotionally. Hearing about people wearing wigs also doesn't come as a surprise--every TV drama serial with a female cancer patient often ends up with the female cancer patient either
a) shaving her head bald
or
b) wearing a wig.
But seeing the process of wigging up close, I couldn't help but stare in shock. What have women been doing all these while?
I cannot trust females anymore. They are all wiggers, and even if they aren't, there's no way of differentiating. I hate my life and I want to be an amoeba--at least I won't have to worry about reproduction.
That led me to wonder--what about politicians?
First things first. I think the Ministry of Transport isn't functioning. This might sound like a serious allegation, but I think my accusation isn't unfounded. For the ignorant, here's how things look like outside my estate:
Road works. You might think "Road works. Big deal. The expressways are undergoing the same things too." That's what I felt too--the expressways are undergoing road works, so why bother with this project in a relatively small, slow road as this one? The reason is simple. The gahment wants the citizens of Sengkang to feel its presence, look at the Bangladeshi workers and go "Yes, the gahment is doing work."
It's all good that the gahment's presence is felt. So what is my problem here?
The only problem is that this particular roadwork along this 100m stretch of road has been going on for at least 3 years. What has the ministry been doing? They start a lot of projects, but don't bother closing the cases. If making your presence felt is the only reason why you want to start on such road works, then perhaps you should just fuck off. You're not helping here. It was originally 2 lanes before the gahment stepped in. Now it's left with 1 lane for a stretch of 50m. If you're out to make life hell for drivers just to prove a point, good job. You've aced the subject, now hurry up finish this job and let us live in peace.
Another thing I have a problem with this particular ministry is the question of platform screen doors (PSD) in Singapore.
As we all know, there are 86 MRT stations in Singapore, of which one is not in use at the moment.
Out of this 86 MRT stations, there are 36 which are elevated, meaning there are doors protecting commuters from dropping into the tracks. 8 of these stations currently have such PSDs installed. The gahment has been talking about the installation of PSDs since 2008. It's 2011 now, at least 2 years from when the gahment stated its intentions. 8 stations in 2 years is hardly commendable.
As we all know, the recent accident involving a foreigner (a Thai girl, 14) resulted in her losing both her legs. We can all agree that the quality of her life is not, in any way, compromised by this accident--saying that would be an insult to all wheelchair bound people. However, there will definitely be things that she used to do which she can't anymore. Is this the fault of the gahment? Can we blame the gahment for every accident that happens on our public transport system? I don't think so. But the fact remains that this accident COULD HAVE BEEN prevented if the gahment had stepped up on the construction of the PSDs, especially on the more crowded ones such as AMK MRT station.
There's of course a silver lining in every cloud. The question here, however, is whether you'd be willing to sell your legs for $100K.
My legs are priceless--fuck off.
You may not believe me, but whenever I hear about this, I cringe and hug my legs in a foetal position. I have love for all my appendages. What's a $100K compensation? She'd still be wheelchair bound for life, and I'm pretty sure she would rather do without the $100K compensation and struggle on with poverty with her legs than this.
Seriously. What's PAP doing in this aspect?
And then they have the cheek to introduce Tin Pei Ling as a candidate. I don't hate the PAP, and I don't hate people who support PAP or are members of it. PM Lee is, after all, from Catholic High. But this girl takes the cake. I have no problems with her credentials, whatever they may be. I do have a beef with "My greatest regret is not taking my parents to the Universal Studio before campaigning started" or something along these lines. It genuinely scares the shit out of me. Do we really want someone who is wet behind her ears to take home $13K a month? Is there no limits to how much we as citizens of Singapore are going to be exploited? Do we really want to pay taxes to give someone whose greatest regret is something as inconsequential as that? DO WE REALLY WANT TO PAY TAXES FOR HER TO JUMP AROUND GOING "I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO"?
If the PAP wins the Marine Parade GRC just because SM Goh is there, the GRC concept should really be abolished. The flaws of this weak candidate TPL should not be overlooked simply because SM Goh is backing her up.
Another cause for concern is the high salary for MPs and ministers. MPs get like what, $13K a month. That or $15K, I'm really not sure. Let's just take the lower number for the sake or argument. This means $156K a year. A minister earns what, $1M a year, because a minister's pay is pegged to the top 5th percentile of salaries in Singapore..or something like that. Our NCMP Ms. Sylvia Lim made a very persuasive speech against the sudden salary hike (and the PAP has the cheek to say that she doesn't contribute much at all--it's just that she doesn't contribute to their cause)--you can find her speech on Youtube if you're bothered enough.
(For the record, what the ministers are paid for to do are highly contentious. Look at DPM Wong:
What he effectively said was "I screwed up, I admitted, and so what?")
Let's put this into perspective. Our median annual income for 2010 is $52350. That's a good 3 times lower than an MP. If TPL manages to get into parliament, that means $156K worth of taxpayer's money spent to elicit a cute, albeit bimbotic, fit of her stamping her feet going around, presumably, shouting "I don't know what to spend my money on!"
With all that said and done, I know that the PAP will win anyway. It's human nature to err on the side of caution. My cousin's friend once told my cousin that his first vote in his life would go to PAP, because "just in case next time I want get HDB."
The PAP loves to cite Potong Pasir and Hougang as less developed wards, presumably due to weak leadership from the opposition. PM Lee also openly admitted that they don't provide as much funding to these wards. I don't recall his exact words and I don't deem it important enough to be memorized, but I do remember the salient points.
1) These wards did not vote for the PAP
2) Wards which did should get their upgrades first--that is only fair since they chose the "right people". If the opposition-held wards were to get their upgrades along with the rest, it won't be fair to the majority who voted for PAP.
That's why voters tend to think "We need more opposition", followed by "as long as they aren't in our ward."
Is this really what elections should be about? It's human nature to put one's interest before the others, and if PAP does a good job in my estate, why should I bother about with "change"? That's why I have a lot of respect for the voters of the opposition-held wards. It just shows that they have a lot of integrity. They don't care about upgrades. They don't vote for the PAP no matter how shortchanged they are DESPITE BEING TAXPAYERS. They are our last beacon of hope of political change in this mire the PAP is digesting Singapore in.
To people who think that PAP should be voted in all the time because of what they've done for us in the past, refer to this:
Seriously, just because they've done a good job previously doesn't mean they would carry on doing a good job, and I feel uncomfortable seeing Singapore as it is right now.
Besides, whoever said that descendants would always follow predecessors should be shot. Let's take a look at one current MP's daughter, Wee Shu Min, who stated famously:
"get out of my elite uncaring face"
Type it into your google search box "get out" and you'd see the rest of the sentence typed out and ready to be searched for.
For the record, Mr. Wee Siew Kim defended her daughter's stand, but not her tone, effectively making an elitist statement. And he's still an MP of AMK GRC.
Now I have no problems with elitists, they are all high up and having orgies in the heavens, and I can live with knowing that I can only watch porn and masturbate. I do admit that I am different from majority of the population who cannot live with not being in the special club of elites and are thus bitter towards elites and elitists in general.
The question here is: How many people in Singapore are considered "elites"? I'm guessing not many. Since there is not many elites in the first place, why are the non-elites voting for elitists (get this, elites should be voted, not elitists)?
How can PAP claim to be know the voters if people like Mr. Wee exist?
There's something really rotten in the core of PAP. Really rotten. And it won't change, because everyone would vote for the "lightning".
Education minister
I've had the fortune to meet Dr. Ng Eng hen in person once. I didn't know who he was back then, but when I realized it I found him scary. I don't know if you find it that way, but he looks like an evil character from a Chinese movie. As evil as someone who wants to abolish his Mother Tongue can be.
This makes me very angry. I don't really believe in the opposition, simply because they haven't proven anything to me yet. And as you can see from the above, I don't believe in the PAP either. This begs the question: When I am finally eligible to vote, who shall I vote for?
I have decided to become a politician, except that instead of a politician, I will be the Prime Minister because I am a Lee too, and instead of being the next PM Lee, I will establish a monarchy. I will be Emperor Lee, and I will personally see to the destruction of a lot of things that I deem immoral.
I will decree that every civilian is not allowed to wear clothes. Don't get me wrong, this isn't because I want to see everyone walking around stark naked. This isn't because I'm secretly a nudist. This is because it's the only way of preserving what's left of our morality. Think about it this way.
With clothes comes the process of stripping. Without clothes, there's nothing left to strip. Strippers would thus lose their livelihood, and we'd have successfully stamped out an occupation steeped in vice.
Another thing with clothes is that with such a huge variety of fabric, people get materialistic, and try to outdo each other wardrobe-wise. Without clothes, people have no such thing to compare, and will instead come up with other stuff to pit against each other with. What that thing is, I'm not sure, but I'd probably be amused.
Also, without clothes there will not be a need for pornography. Humans no longer have to worry about being "upskirt-ed". People can walk around freely without fearing that they've been exposed in any way. Porn will go out of business because a significant portion of porn is dedicated to such cheap thrills like upskirting someone. Trust me, I've seen my fair share.
A world without clothes would be a better one to live in. Trust me.
-- 4/23/2011 08:34:00 PM