Lee Hsien Loong's monumental speech

 What has SM Lee Hsien Loong got to say about the caustic criticisms of his monumental speech at the Annual Public Service Leadership Ceremony 2024 on 17 September. It must have completely flummoxed him.  He expected the docile civil service to be overwhlemed by his so-called poignant inspiring speech which must have taken all his ingenuity to prepare. Is is like pouring cold water on his head.

His past glory is gone and he is living expectanly day by day. I have mentioned his so-called eloquence in the past and this is exactly what proves my point.

I think this will be an eye opener for PM Lawrence Wong. I found Lee Hsien Loong floudering trying to find a niche for himself and his last few performances could hardly be reassuring to PM Lawrence Wong He must be racking his brains.to find a niche for him in keeping with his status as senior minister. It will be interesting to watch his next antics.

I really do not have to do anything but watch his denuoement and PM Lawrence Wong will just throw his hands up in the air and call it a day for the illustrious SM Lee Hsien Loong.

A random thought on the comedy of error

 The comedy of error that is circling around in Singapore although mind-boggling  but amuses Singaporeans immensely, especially with the kind of dramatis personae.

Let's start with the first class stand-up comedian Lee Hsien Loong. He retired as prime minister with a glorious record  and our smart Aleck new PM Lawrence Wong appointed him Senior Minister following  tradition of past prime ministers. Outwardly it seems to be logical but it so happened that Lee Hsien Loong was floundering to find a niche to justify his appointment. With his experience as prime minister what talent could he offer to the administration?

Was it some kind of a joke when PM Lawrence Wong assigned him to advise the Health Minister Ong Ye Kung on health matters. Ong Ye Kung must have the fright of his life and should have ben unthinkable of this and not flabbergasted him as an underbelly insult. What advice do you think that Lee Hsien Loong can give him on health matters is a cynical irony beyond imagination.

The next farcical joke was his assignment to host the Crown Prince of Brunei who was here for a youth conference to a dinner. The Crown was already feted by the President and Prime Minister and was it necessary for a senior minister to overplay diplomatic etiquete. He is a Crown Prince and not a head of state.and what the mind-boggling PM Lawrence Wong was tying to prove by this superfluous gesture? Does it not show that Lee Hsien Loong is only fit to be a sinecure?  I think PM Lawrence Wong is trying to humour him to show that he can manipulate Lee Hsien Loong to satisfy his own ego.that he is a cut above him.

Lee Hsien Loong may still be living in a fool's paradise and may take some time to realise his destiny.

Now we come to our smart Aleck PM Lawrence Wong. He is doing a marvelous job by ranting almost everyday to delirious the public to his so-called philosophy of democratic government. But the persistency of such propaganda may gradually numb the public mind but he either dense or stupid not to realise this and slow down.which projected him to be some kind of a showman. Does he really believe that his voice is melliferous?

In the old days we used to have a very popular Cantonese story-teller by the name of Lee Da Sha (crazy Lee(李大傻) who took the public by storm with his inimitable uproarious story-telling,on TV in Cantonese. He was so well-known that he became a house-hold name. PM Lawrence Wong reminds me of this crazy story-teller but cannot match his popularity. Even children were captured by his thrilling story-telling.

A tribute to SM Lee Hsien Loong

 Lee Hsien Loong was the dragon who ruled the heavens and I was the tiger who roamed the earth. Never the twain shall meet. But God had however divined that we should cannon and combat for justice. But God was undecided whether there should be a dragon slayer.

Lee Hsien Loong was borned with a golden spoon to the famous or infamous Lee Kuan Yew who swore to see Hsien Loong as his successor as prime minster. He was greatly pampered throughout his life. And it was obvious that his father was assiduously preparing him to succeed him as prime minister. He went to Cambridge University as a President Scholar and graduated with first class distinction.

He returned to Singapore and joined the SAF as an officer.biding his time. He was portrayed as a hero in a cable car rescue.He became the third prime minister when the woody Goh Chok Tong finished his term. He entered the service with high credentials and no doubt received by the public with excellent approbation. He was highly ambitious and self-exalted trying to prove that he was a trail-blazing prime minister. which was patently evident in his farewell speech.

But the fact remained whether he was really performing a public service.or enriching himself by pocketing millions of people's money and pooh-poohed those who live on poverty pension. Moreover this showed hat he did not seem to have a persona of humanity  

Was he eloquent and made inspiring speeches? Sometimes it could not be mistaken that he could pass as a stand-up comedian. He could upset world leaders like China Xi-Jinping with his disgraceful deleterious speeches about the country.

He thinks that PM Lawrence Wong  is beholden to him because of his endorsement of him to be the prime minister. Not surprisingly Lawrence Wong shows that he is a cut above him in his performance as prime minister.. Lawrence Wong is an astute prime minister and he does not show his hand until the crucial moment. And it is not surprising if he finds Lee Hsien Loong to have outlived his usefulness and is tolerant waiting for the right time to dispatch him to eternity. Would this not be a poetic retribution? The cruel circumstances which forced his sibling Lee Hsien Yang into forced exile could be a reflection of this.

In the meantime I regard Lee Hsien Loong to be my enemy number one and will hound him till either he perishes or I go. 

A discernmenr of the political reality in Singapore

 We have seen the stepping down of Lee Hsien Loong as prime minister and the assumption of Lawrence Wong as the new prime minister. Lawrence Wong has passed his 100 days of apprenticeship as PM. What is the public perception of him as a savior of Singapore bringing to it enhanced prosperity and democracy, especially a new sense of egalitarianism.

Lee Hsien Loong seems to have bequeathed him with a remarkable democratic and affluent Singapore and Lawrence Wong, it must be recognised, has shown he is a cut above Lee Hsien Loong as prime minister. He started promisingly by going down with the masses to acquaint them with his vision of enhancement for Singapore's future.  He was doing it with a certain amount of earnestness that could capture the credibility of the people's mind. There is no reason why he could not sustain his magnetism if he  continues his mesmerism.

One important aspect of his persona is that he comes from the same stock as Lee Hsien Loong.and over time some cracks in his exemplary personality must show. What is his determination in solving the problem of modifying the obscene astronomical ministerial salaries? He cannot be deaf to the vocal public demands for him to take the initiative to assuage the public call for justice. This is indeed a very good opportunity for him to show his high standard of probity which the public expect. But he seems to be more concerned with retaining unethical wealth by pocketing people's money.

The money belongs to  the people and should be used only for the people's benefit and not for enriching themselves arbitrarily. The prime minister is drawing no less than four times the salary of the American President. How can he honestly justify this if he is not insane and consumed by greediness. It is really up to you to show that you and your avaricious ministers  are not a bunch of voracious money-grabbers without a tiny trace of conscience plundering the people's coffers.

Our first generation prime minister and ministers had set a lofty example by governing  without awarding themselves with obscene astronomical salaries to enrich themselves surreptitiously with people's money. The disgraceful plundering started with Goh Chok Tong at the instigation of Lee Kuan Yew. Sonny boy Lee Hsien Loong inherited it for the longest time. And now PM Lawrence Wong is happily pocketing it. Lawrence Wong started as an untainted prime minister and he can easily become a legendary prime minister in Singapore history if he only shows his uprightness in initiating action to reduce the obscene enormous ministerial salaries.

Is he a wayang actor? I leave it to your imagination. There is a Chinese saying: Each person has his own intelligence (人各有智).

A glimpse of the obscurantism of Singapore society

 This is not an attempt at self-exaltation but to give a glimpse of the obscurantism of the Singapore society.

May I begin with the disclosure that I come from a humble beginning. It was fate that  moved me to Singapore where I languished as a a lowly clerk in the British Army Base Ordnance Depot. It  was again fate that transformed me to join the Singapore Police Force where I was appointed a police inspector and posted to Special Branch.in 1951.

The Malayan Communist Party had started an armed struggle with the British and Singapore was in some kind of pandemonium with the communist assassins going round shooting reactionaries and traitors with immunity because Special  Branch was badly handicapped by a severe lack of intelligence. My colleagues and I were prime targets for assassination because we were fighting them on the front line.The British with their military might was hopelessly unable to defeat the communists and it was up to an independent Singapore Government under Lee Kuan Yew and his merrymen to annihilate the communists.and restore Singapore to its peaceful and democratic state.

Although Lee Kuan Yew, a prominent lawyer, and his merrymen came with very powerful credentials they were simply no match for the communists who controlled the mass base. They were indeed on the cusp of being devoured by the communists and it was God's blessing that Special Branch with the help of the then Chief Minister Lim Yew Hock who emerged to save them from being gobbled up and pave the way for them to achieve a landslide victory in the 1959  general election to form the PAP Government with Lee Kuan Yew as prime minister. What they have done to bring progress and prosperity to Singapore is well-known.

There were interesting anecdotes during their rein that could stimultate the memories of Singaporeans. One was the earth-shattering American CIA attempt to recruit me as their intelligence agent in 1961.We set a trap and put paid to their sinister adventure. Three high-level CIA officers were arrested and detained and the botched operation was so acutely infamous that it reverberated right up to the White House and severely disconcerted the American President John Kennedy. Lee Kuan Yew capitalised on it by raising his world political standing to a dizzying height  that the was able to browbeat John Kennedy and tried to extort US30 million as  compensation  but John Kennedy was no fool and rejected his demand.

The most significant aspect of this debacle was what would have happened if I had succumbed to the CIA allurement and became their agent. Even Indonesian President Sukarno was eatng out of the CIA hand so would it be possible that Lee Kuan Yew could have been out of CIA clutches? would Singapore history remain intact?

What I had contributed in my service to Singapore could not have been emulated even by the illustrious  Lee Hsien Loong or his merry ministers with or without their guts. What was really inhuman and low-down was the so-called gratitude that Lee Kuan Yew accorded me by defaming me with a blatant lie telecast live from Parliament House. No Singapore judge dared to convict him and I was left in limbo. I   requested his son Lee Hsien Loong to make a public apology for his Father's sin but he remained dumb.

I think it was God who gifted me with my writing skill to do a good cause. And I have been using it to fulfill a public service to the people of Singapore through my website Singaporer Recalcitrant to critique Lee Hsien Loong and the PAP for any shortcoming in their so-called public service or political antics.  I get strong support from two professional websites Temasek Review Emeritus and The online Citizen.

The new prime minister Lawrence Wong started promisingly but soon show his true colours  as coming from the same stock. He is so consumed by his venality of  unethical wealth from obscene astronimical ministerial salaries that he is dragging his feet to initiate action to modify it in spite of vocal public demands. He shows some illusory signs of humaneness but seem to be submerged by a more unsavoury persona.

I was just thinking which may be wistful. How celestial it could be if I could politically persuade SM Lee Hsien Loong and PM Lawrence Wong to have good yarn with me for a detente between us.They say the sun must rise from the West for this to happen.

Anyway I pray to God to give his blessings to these two titans.