::Homework Crapbox:: (2017)
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'PUTIN WON'T BE PLEASED'
North Korea test fires ANOTHER ballistic missile which lands just 60 miles off Russia’s coast
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3555642/north-korea-russia-ballistic-missile/
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[India] - A jilted man and his buddy abducted and raped the man's 23 year old ex-girlfriend before smashing open her head with bricks, running her over with a car, and feeding her body to wild dogs.
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/jilted-indian-lover-rapes-kills-ex-girlfriend-police-062256369.html
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Hong Kong is the only country in the world with property prices higher than Singapore (some cities such as New York and London have higher prices, but I'm comparing country averages here). You thought shoebox apartments (size of a Sg bustop) in Singapore were bad? Check out nano apartments (half the size of a Sg bustop) in Hong Kong.
http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/nano-flats-on-the-rise-in-hk
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[Video] - Vladimir Putin plays the piano at Xi Jinping’s residence
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Top 4 Most Credible ALIEN ABDUCTIONS
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Would *you* risk your life to save another?
The day an everyday hero saved a homeless man
http://www.straitstimes.com/lifestyle/the-day-an-everyday-hero-saved-a-homeless-man
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Doctors are warning that the avocado fruit poses a serious health hazard... but it's not what you think -_-"
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/doctors-now-calling-safety-warning-194500400.html
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On another forum, the topic of discussion being this ChannelNewsAsia article about "Tay Kheng Soon's criticisms of the PAP / Sg Govt"
In the forum thread, nayr69sg posted :
My father used to be a senior civil servant. He has often given me insights into the workings of the civil service. He has worked with Mr Howe Yoon Chong before. While a very bad tempered and fierce person, Mr Howe generally made good decisions for the good of the public.
Back then, the salary of Ministers was not that much higher than the civil servants. Hence they worked together closely. Ideas were shared. Civil servants were often told their job was to serve the people, save the country money, never overspend and make the best decisions for the overall good.
Things changed after LHL and his gang of SAF people started coming in.
Of course we know about the massive increase in salaries of the Ministers which made them feel way more superior and "smarter" than the civil servants. Health benefits of the civil servants were taken away by LHL too. LHL's SAF cronies were placed into more positions in the senior civil service ranks.
Over the years they have raised the salaries of senior civil servants as well. It is to reward the cronies and further establish obedience. If you have lots to risk and give up (ie you know you command salary way higher than what you are worth in the private sector) then you are more likely to be a yes man and be a cheerleader for the boss's ideas and opinions. Makes the boss's job easy.
In the old days, civil servants worked because they really wanted to build Singapore. It was not for the money because their salaries were pretty crappy anyway. They did have pensions which were another reason to stay on for. But these days there is no pension either. So clearly those civil servants who stay are because they know they cannot do better anywhere else.
Personally, my experience with MOH and internal Singhealth and NHG admin is the same. Nobody really wants any "new ideas".
Why?
When there is a meeting and the boss asks "Is there anything we need to improve on? Are there any problems?"
This is a bait/trap question. The one who answers "Yes there is XYZ problem. Can we try to do ABC? It will improve XYZ. Right now XYZ is causing LMNOP problems" is either a very stupid henta kaki fellow or a very newbie. When the boss asks such a question, if you answer that way, he/she will view you as incompetent. Boss will think "why this stupid fellow cannot solve the problem himself/herself? Why must tell me? Then want me to solve the problem? Useless bugger"
Boss wants to hear "everything is going well Sir/Madam!" Then there will be a bit of a pause. Everyone keeps quiet and then Boss says how about A Department look into improving Q issue? I have identified XYZ problem and think Q needs to be improved"
The smart officers will say "That is an excellent idea boss! I think it is very good. We should look at improving that. I will look into it right away and come up with some proposals"
In other words never be the one to bring up any suggestions because if you do, you also are implying there is a problem. And that problem may not be what boss thinks is worth his/her time to look into.
Let the boss direct what needs to be done.
I learnt this the hard way myself because my father worked in a time when the civil servants were really asked to sit at the table almost of equal standing with their bosses. Remember Philip Yeo? Another example. And this worked well for Singapore of course. See the massive improvement and growth prior to LHL coming into the fold.
After LHL......it is all a pile of feces. Officers who do well in Civil service now are ones who are good at implementing the boss's directives and very good at apple polishing.
To which numero uno replied :
you got to be joking when you mentioned philip yeo" Remember Philip Yeo? Another example. And this worked well for Singapore of course. See the massive improvement and growth prior to LHL coming into the fold....". this guy is the classic example of a pompous bureaucrat who knows nuts. all his project from suzhou to A star and biopolis were great flops and a waste of billions tax payer money. I still remember the ST quoting him as saying he knows all about genetics after reading a small primer on it overnight!!!! As you can see Astar and biopolis were great flops. 20 years and not a single achievements at all. this guy thought you can replicate overnight the academic aura of esteemed insituitions just by employing all these dead wood. I still remember I almost fell off my chair when shitty times reported in thier front page about singapore being able to teach USSR about science and technology!!!! how pompous can you get!!!!! they have send man into space and here we are talking c@ck. The old man LKY read it and was so embarrassed that he ordered a clarification/retraction on the news the next day. philip typifies these arrogant people. all the nobel laureates they hired were flash in the pan coming here for their million dollar salary and running away after getting their fill. please don't insult all the businessmen, scientists and doctors in singapore by quotng philip yeo as a good example. suzhou is a classic example of how an arrogant obnoxious guy was brought to his knees by overseas people in their backyard.
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Dangers of conflict with N. Korea: ‘Most heavily armed states in the world are in the region’
https://www.rt.com/op-edge/388351-missile-test-korea-danger-armed/
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Pastor tries to walk on water, gets eaten by crocodiles
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/pastor-tries-demonstrate-jesus-walked-083406346.html
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[Australia] - Police who found a dismembered body being cooked on a stovetop in an Australian apartment thought they had stumbled on a Halloween prank, they told an inquest on Monday.
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/australia-police-thought-dismembered-body-prank-065516305.html
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Vladimir Putin warns the US against 'intimidating' North Korea after 'dangerous' missile test
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/north-korea-says-missile-test-222920035.html
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Here's another example of how a country's self-affirmative (eg. Malaysia) or self-protectionist (eg. Trump) policies can end up backfiring or self-sabotaging. The "Make In India" policy was Modi's idea of supporting India's domestic policies. An example of how it is going wrong : imports of many items are now banned (naively to support India's own manufacturing industry instead of other countries' manufacturers), but many business owners still need specific items that are not currently avaialble in India, but now are unable to import them in because of the new "Make In India" policies and laws, end up aborting or compromising the projects, and/or spending much more (ie. self-sabotaging the economy), to pay criminal syndicates to illegally smuggle the items in, and/or bribe civil servants and government officials across many departments and levels.
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[Physics / Chemistry / Biology / Medicine] - Global warming is causing disease epidemics through complex mechanisms humans never suspected possible.
Haley remembered, it had not been very cold that year. There was only one night of hard frost; everyone had talked about it, grateful they did not have to dash out to wrap plants and turn off hose taps while thermometers plunged. The investigators downloaded federal weather data for each year since West Nile first arrived in Texas and plotted the metrics against the case counts. The epidemic year was an outlier on every measure, with the warmest winter, the warmest spring and the heaviest early rainfall in 10 years. As it turns out, the climate changes such as heavier rainfall resulted in greater breeding numbers, allowed more mosquitoes to survive the warmer and shorter winters, causing them to wake sooner, spill out earlier from their winter hiding places, and bite more people than in any other previous year, transmitting so many deadly viruses that killed an unprecedented number of victims.
Global warming is also now melting permafrost and ice that have been frozen for thousands or even millions of years, slowly releasing long-dormant bacteria and viruses that could potentially wipe out humanity.
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The video should be titled, "Tekaning the Parrot"
https://www.facebook.com/dailypicksandflicks/videos/1415429368477123/
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Simon Cowell gives his Golden Buzzer to cancer survivor teenage girl Calysta Bevier who's only 16 years old (ie. Secondary 4 if she was Singaporean). She can *really* sing.
https://www.facebook.com/sabrinaterence/videos/10153832460659926/
Btw, the history of the Golden Buzzer has an interesting episode : Lorraine Bowen
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A rare glimpse into the other side of talent shows... if contestants' touching stories (ala Dream of China) are the highlights, these are dark side's homologues.
Angry Acts : Top 5 Angriest Contestants from The X Factor UK
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWn6AjDc_hI
At 7 minutes onwards, just what was the angry father thinking of doing approaching the judges? Beat them up on behalf of his darling 'Pink' daughter?
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Can you tell the difference between an Irish accent versus a Scottish accent?
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A wise and/or smart king / president / politician would have the good sense to Tai Ji the situation to his advantage, eg. post on his own Twitter or Facebook, "Hey that's such a cool looking dude yo (see those 6 pack abs?), say I wonder who he is? ;Þ", and enjoy the publicity to improve public relations and approachability, instead of getting all worked up (high blood pressure, heart attacks and strokes, yo) and furiously hiding behind unethical lèse-majesté laws that his country's people are perpetually suffering in fear from (because if your neighbor or colleague doesn't like you, he can just false accuse you of lèse-majesté, and even with no evidence, you'll be presumed guilty and jailed for years or decades even).
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4507110/Thailand-threatens-sue-video-king-crop-top.html
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Singapore may be the safest country in the world, but low crime doesn't mean no crime. Be careful, ladies.
[Singapore] - Bangladeshi foreign worker man raped China foreign worker woman
Also see : S’pore is safe but creeping on girls & women in public is not okay, okay? How often are girls and women in Singapore on the receiving end of creep behaviour? Too often.
http://mothership.sg/2017/05/spore-is-safe-but-creeping-on-girls-women-in-public-is-not-okay/
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Donald Trump is indeed an idiot, but in this case he's totally right that just because some information is classified (what isn't?), doesn't automatically mean it wouldn't be in America's interest to share it with Russia (specifically when Trump is trying to rope in Russia as an ally in the context of ISIS and the information shared).
Donald Trump says he had 'absolute right' to share 'classified information' with Russia
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/donald-trump-apos-revealed-highly-214020967.html
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/trump-tweets-defends-sharing-information-russians-113621761.html
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[Singapore] - Ugly Singaporean Customer Stomps Off without Paying Service Charge just because He Walk to Counter to Pay Bill
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Ignore the pompous reviews that irrelevantly & irreverently compare the drama series to the original movie series from 2 decades ago. "Lethal Weapon" the drama series is an excellent drama on it's own right, a totally different beast from (and frankly, better than) the original movie.
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His thirst might be relevant, a symptom of drug abuse.
[USA] - Man chops off his mother's head during Mother's Day, complains of thirst during arrest.
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/man-holding-human-head-stabs-worker-oregon-grocery-160607071.html
