no lah, not reallyOriginally posted by Cindyfeh:So you are saying our PM is a joker?
btw, kokwhye is not a clone of meOriginally posted by SnowFlag:no lah, not really![]()
Cant be bothered to listen to his rally...Originally posted by kokwhye:This speech was definitely better than his previous one and of those of his predesessor - peppered/puntuated with witty jokes and videos. Content wise was so-so, not much "presents" this year except for low income HDB housing grant, conversion of baby incentive to edusave and increasing of medishield age. Nothing for average Singaporean like us.
Managed to somehow convince me that the 40k "rebranding" marina bay to marina bay was well spent.....
The most obvious hint in the speech that GE is coming...Originally posted by macjoe:Rosy picture means election is coming.![]()
Originally posted by BillyBong:Maybe that's why no presents at NDR.. saying it up for elections?
Let's hope elections come before the end of Dec 05 (as i predict it will)...then maybe we can inflict some real displeasure on the ruling party and give them a serious wake-up call.
This could also mean that they can control us in such a way that no other countries could control their subjects.Originally posted by charlize:Best line from the speech.
When interviewed on what Singapore can do that other countries can't, he says:
"(we) can ban chewing gum, and make it stick."
Traditionally NDR is an annual PR blitz to make us feel good only, no freebies/goodies are offered.Originally posted by kokwhye:Maybe that's why no presents at NDR.. saying it up for elections?
That's what I meant.Originally posted by pearlie27:This could also mean that they can control us in such a way that no other countries could control their subjects.
Wow. Expand please, sir.Originally posted by LazerLordz:Smoke bombs to lull the populace into thinking about bread and butter issues where the main source of such issues is not really addressed, i.e the macro issues.