A lesson learnt, says MP and dad Wee Siew Kim
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Confirm this is the Oh-wee-so-famous Ms RJC (center) ?
I think the aftermath reactions of both Bloggers speak louder than words.
Derek Wee's blog is still around
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while daughter-Wee's blog is zipped (Now copyrighted in many other blogs like this one.)
So why is Daddy Wee's reply doing in ST when Derek Wee's article can't even get into ST forum in the 1st place?
"Elite" has become an uglier word...right after "Peanut".
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And you think the PSC chappies and Rafflesians aren't outraged? There is a growing number of "elites" who couldn't care if Wee Jr is fed to the dogs, simply because they have opened their eyes.
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Your views: Open letter to Ang Mo Kio MP Mr Wee Siew Kim
Dear Mr Wee,
There is no doubt in my mind that until now, both you father and daughter have no idea what the fuss is all about.
The strong language is one issue, (and that may be forgivable), but the underlying message of the blog posting and your subsequent reply shows that you simply have no concern about the struggles of the commoners, even those who're educated.
Is this your job as a MP? Is your job not suppose to speak for your people? Instead, you trash them for being unable to face the "challenges of life".
I am deeply ashamed to see someone as pretentious as you sitting on a parliament seat. Why do I say pretentious?
If this is how you daughter and father think in private with your elitism views of the society, I cannot even fathom why you should continue being an MP.
Surely, how can someone like you begin to imagine what it is like to be near bankrupt because of a business failure? How it is to be debt ridden? How it feels like to be at your prime age of 40 and yet feel insecure about holding on to your job?
Where is your compassion and understanding of the unfortunate ones who are only venting their frustruation through a virtual medium?
It sickens me to see that sort of remarks coming from a minister.You and your daughter's remarks serves to only disconnect yourselves from the people you are supposed to be serving.
This is not the kind of leadership that Singaporeans deserve, nor is what most of them want to see.
If this reflects the mindset of the people who sits together on the pedestral you have stepped on, I fear for the future of the less fortunate, less educated Singaporeans.
Regretfully,
Teoh Tian Jing
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why all so fuglyOriginally posted by Gun:Confirm this is the Oh-wee-so-famous Ms RJC (center) ?
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Can someone inform Teoh from Mediawatch SG that Wee Sr is just an MP and not a minister.
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You veh handsome meh?
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MP Wee said it was a lesson learnt.
But for who?
Is he trying to teach all of us, the middle and lower income people,
a lesson or he was refering to himself and his daughter?
From the few sentences that he had said, every sentence is in support
of his own daughter. So, where is lesson learnt for her, or for him?
He must have meant, to my mind, that the lesson (i.e. his daughter's
message to Derek Wee) we non-elitist Singaporeans must learn is
not to make any hue and cry (bemoaning) about govt policies that
affect us, especially those with a degree, but to simply carry on with
what we have and be happy about it, because this is the
"survival of the fittest" (dog eats dog) world.
Yes, Mr MP Wee, I get your point. That was a very good lesson your
daughter and you are dishing out to us, the lowly Singaporeans, who
in your own daughter's words, are "leeches" and should "get out of your
uncaring elitist face".
Yes Sir, High Almighty Elitist MP Wee, I for one will put the lesson learnt
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As far as I am concerned, he is making a fool of himself, and no self-respecting Singaporean will ever believe those words coming out of his mouth.
Intellect? I have more than he or his daughter could ever speak of.
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I, a guy, looks better than herOriginally posted by Hellraiza:You veh handsome meh?
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PAP should give both father and daughter a lesson by asking her uncaring father, MP Wee, to "get out of the elite parliament"!Originally posted by pisces8:She concluded by telling Mr Derek Wee to “get out of my elite uncaring face”. -
On a lighter note, and not that it makes any difference, it DOES look like she fell out the ugly tree and hit a few branches on the way down. There's just something about her that's so ... porcine.
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LOL! Anyway. based on several accounts, I think Ms RJC is the middle one. A very well-norished elite gene, indeedOriginally posted by Rock^Star:I, a guy, looks better than her 
Hmmm..their dressing & bkgnd looks far removed from anything tropical..
Another possible "quiter" from the family ranks of MIW ? -
More likely your tax dollars are funding her little jaunts around the world. Not that she seems to have learnt anything from her travels, mind you, but then again, I suppose it's no less useful than those same dollars going to paying her useless father to write one thing and do the complete opposite.Originally posted by Gun:Hmmm..their dressing & bkgnd looks far removed from anything tropical..
Another possible "quiter" from the family ranks of MIW ? -
Took a look at the link someone posted. It shows her post and apology. Lol she sound so childish. It gives me an impression that she is trying to skim her way through the situation. Even put this '
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All i can say about the pic is...she has a nice......erm...top. Yeah.
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Angel's face but devil's mind. Don't judge a book by its cover.
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Angel's face but devil's mind. Don't judge a book by its cover.
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Latest update from Straits Times.
Wee Siew Kim apologises for remarks 26 Oct 2006
The dad is as bright as the daughter.
MP WEE Siew Kim has said sorry for remarks he and his 18-year-old daughter, Shu Min, made about Singaporeans who worry about jobs.
In a statement issued to The Straits Times last night, he apologised for the comments he made in an earlier interview on his daughter's criticism of another blogger, Mr Derek Wee, 35, on her Internet journal.
'We both apologise to the people whom we have offended, and especially Mr Derek Wee,' the MP said.
Miss Wee, a Raffles Junior College (RJC) student, had last week called Mr Derek Wee 'old' and 'undermotivated' after he wrote in his blog that the Government should try to be more understanding of Singaporeans' employment woes.
Many on the Internet slammed her for her remarks. She subsequently shut down her blog and was later counselled by her tutor at RJC.
In an interview with The Straits Times published on Tuesday, her father tried to smooth things over by acknowledging that she had used insensitive language.
However, he said he stood by his daughter's 'basic point', saying well-educated Singaporeans such as Mr Derek Wee should 'get on with the challenges in life' rather than complain to the Government about them. 'I think if you cut through the insensitivity of the language, her basic point is reasonable,' he had said.
'Some people cannot take the brutal truth and that sort of language, so she ought to learn from it,' he added.
The MP's comments drew further criticism, especially online.
Yesterday, in his apology, he said: 'I should not have said what I did about people's inability to take the brutal truth and strong language.' -
They can be public's enemy for a long time.
Lee ah Lee, time to get rid of your incompetent subordinate. He has no future in politics, he has flawed your plan for a perfect image, flawed your elitism system. -
Fact is, Shu Min can say all she wants, and get flamed or fight her own stand. No one has a problem with that.
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Note MP Wee's apology. He is sorry for saying what he did about people's inability to take the brutal truth and strong language. He did not explain if is he holding an elitist's view.
As a MP, he should be accountable on what he has said on his first respone to tis issue. Basically, what does he mean when he say he stands by Ms Wee's basic point? Is sorry enough? Shouldn't he explain? I thought that our country are led by people with integrity, people who should explain their actions and words.
Talking about the recent election, it brought to mind an episode regarding SM Goh. During dialogue with Hougang's resident, he talks about the possiblity of having PAP's opposition MP. ie. PAP MPs who is allowed to vote against party's stand. Later, he backtracked and is quoted by the Straits Times as saying he is only trying to find a way out during the dialogue.
As a minister addressing residents during a dialogue, should he be trying to find a way out or should he be identifying the residents' concern and resolving them if possible? What about PM Lee's remarks on "fixing opposition MPs"? All these episodes trigger alarms on the altitudes of our MPs.
My apology for side-tracking from the current Wee's episode. I am just expressing my disappointment with the attitude of some of our MPs. I hope that they are just being misunderstood and their comments taken out-of-context. Still, it would be nice to have them coming out to explain their words and prove their integrity. -
BWAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! What have you been smoking, man?Originally posted by roc7:I thought that our country are led by people with integrity, people who should explain their actions and words.
If sarcasm was meant, I apologise - I'm just taking that statement at face value, and it's good for a giggle. -
Originally posted by JackOT:
Well, it proves that they are a family.
The dad is as bright as the daughter.
The young one throws shi+ onto her clothes, the old one tries to clean it, then the sai also spread to him. Now he thinks that cleaning it with mud will make things better.
Ya, less shi+, but even dirtier. -
(As posted to YoungPap forum on 26.10.2006)
It will be of no use too if they only know how to talk about noblesse oblige without practising it. I agree that in the first place do the elites ever know their duty to society which give them the opportunity to have all the head-start which others do not have in the public service.
Term after term, despite all the self-praises heaped upon their own select MPs, Ministers and all the scholar elites they have been caring only for their own policies or self-rewards and afraid to lose their positions or high office.
So people are left to fend for themselves and some committed suicides by jumping the MRT tracks being unable to cope up with the perpetual fee increases and creative accounting dished out on the lower and middle class.
So if our MPs and Ministers and the elites occupying high positions in GLCs etc have lost the respect of the people who give them the opportunities but they have failed to serve their due to society.
So in Singapore the elites who are called talents or scholars have gradually lost their right to lecture or teach anyone else about morality, citizenship duties and responsibility.
That is probably why with such poor records our elites are no longer trusted but were seen to be hypocrites.
When MPs fail to empathise with the poor suffering unemployed they will cause resentments if they try to be hypocritical by saying they want to look after the public donations for the family whose bread winner has just committed suicide.
That is why when Ms Wee Shu Min wrote what she wrote against Derek Wee she was instantly condemned due to the pent-up feeling of the people towards the uncaring elites.
The elites have lost the right to lecture or moralise any citizens because people have seen through their hypocrisy. The only cure is the remaking of mentality of our leaders, and all the elites so that they will do something to pay back to the people to improve their fellow citizens.
People expect them to speak up and stand up and challenge wrong policies of the past which resulted in unhappiness and inequities otherwise they will not count as elites or be respected by the people. -
I dread to think that what MP Wee Siew Kim has written is a true reflection of what and how he feels for the less well-off. If we have many of such people in Parliament and top civil service posts, can we not expect the cost of living to keep going up?? And the poor become poorer?
And he expects all the graduates and high earners to think and do alike, i.e. just accept the challenges, work hard and aim high for their own personal gains. How about those who are at the bottom of the rat race ? Is it wrong for somebody who is more capable to speak on their behalf. Or should they be ignored and if possible eliminated ?
Do we need to see more people committing suicide (like throwing themselves at a moving MRT train) before our "elected" leaders reaslie that society as a whole is not as rich and glamorous as what they see, or pretend to see.