The Extra-ordinary woman - Benazir Bhutto - Sad day for Pakistan and the world

Few more days, it will be 2008!! It is so sad that 2007 has a sad ending.....

This morning got the news that Pakistan's politician got assassinated by suicide bomb attack in Islamabad. She was shot in the neck before her assailant blew himself up. She died later in the hospital. At least a dozen more people were also killed in the rally.

Just awhile ago, Al-Qaeda has claimed that they did the crime.



She escaped an assassination just in Oct, but she was undeterred and proceed to meet her supporters for the up and coming election in Jan 08. So sad, this time, she was unlucky.

Her father, Mr Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was Pakistan Prime Miniter from 1970 to 1977. He was striped of powers by military coup led by Gen Zia ul-Haq in 1997 and was hanged 2 years later. Her 2 brothers turned to terrorism and both were killed. She was released to London after few years imprisonment, where she re-build her father's party, Pakistan People's Party. She later became Prime Minister twice, 1988 to 1990 and 1993 to 1996.

What has happened to the world? There are so many hatred now? Religion against religion, race against race? Politicians use dirty tricks to get their vote so they can get the power. To me, i see it as some people were doing all these crimes to benefit themselves and using religion and race as cover up. It is the cheapest and effective weapon to achieve what they want.

With the current only super power in the world, namely USA, behaves selfishly, unfair handling international matters, creating more and more hatred. Plus this same super power refuses to work with the rest of the countries to solve the global warming problem, the world is getting worse!!!

I hope her dead will not create more death in Pakistan. I respect her for her courage and determination in wanting to make Pakistan a better place.

Ms Bhutto, I salute you ...

Update : Disgrace act by 3 UK tourists in Singapore

Trio apologise !!!!

Finally they apologised, thought a bit late, but it is better late than never, right? Well, now i feel much better, though more can be done by these 3 guys.... at least they did not disappear in the air.

hmmm... lets move on ...

Below is the apology "letter" appears in Youtube....

Apologies from Bo and his friends.
Read this first.
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I have already sent 2 apologies out on you tube. But I'll apologise again. As I don't think many people have seen it.

When I look back at the video it does look very bad. I offer my sincerest apologies to Mr Lee, his son & everyone that has been offended. It was very disrespectful and insensitive to make fun of an old man. If you knew us you'd realise that we are actually nice guys.

On that night we'd had a few beers (slightly drunk), and needed to get back to our hostel. So we began walking up the street looking for a taxi. The trishaw driver was waiting at the side of the road and suggested we take his taxi. At first we declined as we wanted an actual car, but he insisted we got in. I thought ok, I'd never been on one before and told him our destination. He said $10 which was fine.

After setting off I did start laughing, I was a little drunk and thought it was funny how slow we were going. I did actually ask the driver if I could peddle before we got the camera out.So after travelling hardly any of the distance agreed, I could see that it was stupid for us to continue and said we should get out. We'd only travelled around a quarter of the agreed distance so I at the time I thought $5 was reasonable. Bearing in mind that we'd just come from Thailand where drivers initially charge way over the odds and it's customary to haggle the price.

I don't know why Mr Lee is saying we didn't pay, when in the end we gave him the $10. I know I was laughing but I wouldn't dream of not paying for the ride! That would be unforgivable. The camera cuts out before we actually leave the trishaw but I can guarantee everyone that we paid the $10 before we left.

My upmost apologies again go out to Mr Lee and his son. If it were my dad with 3 young guys laughing at him, I'd want to find out who they were and speak my mind. But can I just confirm again that we did pay!

Best Regards
Bo
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News Coverage:
http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2007/11/todays-video-si.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=490946&in_page_id=1770
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/news/2007/11/brits_behaving_badly_set_off_s_1.html
http://www.asiaone.com/Digital/News/Story/A1Story20071031-33370.html

Go to the page http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB_GoQ-h9Zg

Disgrace act by 3 UK tourists in Singapore

Regardless of your race or nationality, after you've watched this video clip, I believe you will feel how sickening these 3 guys have had behaved.

These guys were from UK...., Well, regardless of where these guys were from... their behaviours were no different from those hooligans and coward for bullying an old man at his 70s...


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Shame on you, guys!!!

Update : 2007-11-01 1000hrs

Below is the news and video interview by OMY....



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This news also appear in Daily Mail ( UK )


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Update : 2007-11-02 0045hrs

These guys' look ....

Shame on you, guys !!!

I urge you guys to come back to Singapore, apologise to the uncle personally and pay the money back to him and close the case. We will all look forward then...

He deserves some basic respects!

Don't be a coward..... be a brave British!

2007 总理国庆群众大会 ：长寿不再是福了，而是问题哦！

总以为长寿是福！

昨晚看了电视现场转播，听了总理李显龙很详细的讲了经济展望，修改公积金，改进教育，人口老化问题和组屋提升计划。听了之后，有喜悦也有忧虑。。。

令我忧虑和印象深刻的是人口老化问题。一直以来，总会和朋友开玩笑在新加坡可死，不可病，因为医药费昂贵。却从没想过长寿也可能会是个“问题“。在以前长寿绝对不是个问题，而是件好事。左邻右舍有谁家老人家过世时八九十岁，那一定会有一辆“好命车“带头喔。 唉！今非昔比，假如能活到65岁，先不用高兴，查查看储蓄和CPF有多少？不够的话，唉！祝你好运咯！

新加坡在独立过后，经济蓬勃，国泰民安，生活水平一日千里，国人在良好环境下，寿命普遍增长。长寿本该是件好事，但在没有天然资源，地小寡民的新加坡，长寿反而有可能变成一个负担。尤其是当你没钱养老，又没孩子支持你。尤其现在的新加坡家庭不只迟婚，而且都只生一两个孩子，有些甚至都不生，老了不像现在的老一辈有多儿孙。所以，又迟婚（不提没婚），又生少或不生，然后又长寿。。。唉！越想越寒！

幸好吧？我们至少还有点公积金（CPF）来养老几年。不过，由于我们的生命越来越长，也就需更多的钱来养老。靠孩子？还是不要期望太高。所以，CPF不够了。我们到了六十岁还得工作了？

假如你想老了享清福，可以呀！乘年轻读多点书，勤奋工作，多储蓄，不大赌，不花天酒地。。或者娶个有钱老婆或嫁个有钱人咯。。。。那还可有这个退休梦。当然，不忘小赌Toto或4D，买个希望。。。中了什么都不用愁了。。。呵呵！

鸣鸣。。。。一直以来“死“是一个可怕的字眼。哎呀！长寿呀！何时你也变成另一个可怕的字眼呢？

唉！到底还不是钱在做怪嘛！悲呀！

可能吧！那时“安乐死“都已合法了！

有趣新闻：香港笨贼

今天看了这项新闻。很有趣！

报道说有两名“怪贼“在打劫之后，其中一名劫匪事后打电话给事主，跟她道歉。正当警察没头绪去找他们时，这电话来得正是时候。警察从劫匪打来的手机主叫号码，找出他们的身份。就在他们正准备要再干案的时候，警察就在观塘及旺角分别拘捕他们。

读了这项新闻，使我想起了很多年前在军队时的一位女同事的类似遭遇。有一个晚上，她和男朋友在花柏山 ( Mt. Faber ) 上拍拖。谈到一半，忽然间跑出两名劫匪，向他们要钱。这位女同事不畏惧他们，也不愿意把钱交给他们。她的男朋友却叫她不要反抗。挣扎了一段时间，他们两的钱包终于被抢走了。那两个劫匪，抢后就跑掉了。

忘了当时他们是怎样报警。就在他们在等待警察的到来时，忽然间，其中的一个劫匪跑了回来。他们是被吓到了，以为他还要再抢一次。那里知道，他是回来把身份证还给他们。就在这时，警察也到了。他们就合力把这“好心“的劫匪给抓了起来。过后，另一位也跟着被抓。

那个时候，我们听了都哈哈大笑。那女同事说以后再也不去花柏山谈情说爱了。

忘了那两个劫匪之后被判了怎么刑。想了又想，那个“好心“劫匪应该是第一次干案吧？希望他服完刑之后会做回好人。到底，他的心肠还是好的。只是做错了一步，或许被朋友影响吧？

假如你是我当时在军队的同事，那你也应该认识Baby Ting吧？就是她。。。嘻嘻！！！

News of 2LT Li travel to Washington......

Let's see next time if another Michael Faye appears in Singapore, will there be anymore discount....

Singapore Prime Minister’s son reprimanded in the military

Yesterday ( 13th July 07 ) morning, kind of shock to learn this news. Wow! What had happened? Why he got it? And who is so daring to reprimand him?

Read the story, found out that 2LT Li HongYi, our PM’s 2nd son, who has just commissioned as an officer last Dec has breached the military's code of conduct.

What had happened then? Oh, he has actually reported a superior, who went Absent Without Official Leave ( AWOL ) twice to higher authority within the unit but nothing was done. Realizing no action was taken and lousy explanation given by the senior officers, he then broadcasted an email to even higher authority, Defence Minister, Chief of Denfence Force and Chief Of Army and many others. The matter got out of hand when the email went to the cyberspace.

In the end, that officer was court-martialled and the 2 senior officers were served warning letters. 2LT Li himself was also charged for not following the proper channel to make complain, but not sure what punishment he got.

While I cheer his behavior to expose the military black sheep, but at the same time, it makes me wander what he was thinking when he decided to compose that email…. If he is a son of an ordinary citizen, I would say this boy has gut! But, he is our PM’s son. What was in his mind? Could it be he was thinking, “Well, my dad is the PM, nobody can touch me…, so I am going to expose all these black sheep”. I hope he didn’t have this thought, but just wanted to expose them. I think he has done the first approach right, by reporting to the unit senior officers. Unfortunately, those officers could be in the same boat, no actions were taken. Yet, they were helping that officer to give excuses.

To me, the military reprimanded all 4 soldiers is a fair action. The most encouraging is that it has shown that nobody is above the organization, not even PM’s son.

Well, every organization has black sheep; SAF of course can’t run away from it. Commercial corporate when mismanage will ended up in closing shop, but if SAF also has the same problem, then the whole nation will be gone within minutes when crisis strikes. We can’t afford that. Generally, SAF is a healthy organization, this is a just a small group of black sheep in there. Hopefully they can be eliminated soon.

When I was still in the unit, many years back. I remember there was an officer, who openly hand carried rose in the unit during valentine day to pass it to the lady soldier in the same unit he admired. Coincidentally, he was the same and only soldier in the unit got fainted during a parade. Hmmm….

Good News !!!! NKF saga - Richard Yong got caught in HK yesterday

Hahahahaha.....

The 600K Peanut story continues......

Finally he got caught after 7 weeks...hmmmm..., this is the best news this morning when i woke up...

I would say he is not clever enough, he should have run to Indonesia, whom is having extradition problem with Singapore. Bringing SGD4.0million into Indonesia, i am very sure Indonesia govt will be very happy to accept him. Granting PR or citizenship shouldn't be an issue. Once he is there, Singapore govt can't do anything as Indonesia govt will protect him to show their unhappiness and demonstration to Singapore......

Indonesia, you are not fast enough to get Mr & Mrs Yong over.....

Well, lets see what he and wife get when they are back......

Cheers to everyone....:-)

很多时侯，一些自以为是的所为上流社会精英，穿得似莫似样的在交流。其实还不是披上人皮的狼或狐狸嘛！唉！这种人太多了，四处在骗吃！

杨坤达最经典的一次为NKF筹款讲话 “每一次当我想起经费不足，想起这些病人，我流泪，夜晚无法入眠。“

很神圣吧？唉！都是假的嘛！呵呵！不过，当时的我真的被他感动了。

600K Peanut

Wow!! Finally, i am in blog too....hmmmm...

Let me start my 1st blog title with "600K Peanut"

U many be wondering why i am using "600K peanut", right?
Well, if u are residents of Singapore in the past few years, u will know what it means. Some sad things happened here in Singapore, abusing of power and corruption in few charity organisations. Corruption in Singapore? U may ask. Yes!! in Singapore and it is a big one.....hmmmm ..... Sad thing isn't it :-(

It started with this biggest charity organisation name "National Kidney Foundation" ( NKF ) few years ago, which majority of its fund was donated by general public. It was a big earthquake in Singapore......

The CEO got himself high salary, around SGD$600K per year, plus many perks. Wa-lau!! Charity organisation leh, SGD$600K per year?? Yes !! But not only that.... business class when flying out for meetings...

Until one fine day, a contractor went to do renovation work in the office and one of the requests was to install gold-plated tap for the CEO office's toilet ( wash room ).... The contractor was an odinary Singaporean, who was angry with the way the organisation spending its donors' money. So, the news leaked... after sometime, it reached the media. The reporter decided to write an ariticle about this.

Ha... the organisation CEO was angry with the defamation and together with the committee members, they sued the reporter and the press. It had successfully sued 2 parties b4, so this time, they were confident that they will clear their names.

Hmmm.... Well, not this time! They calculated wrongly, they lost!! As the court hearing went on, more dirty things were dug out.... and it lead to the fall of the CEO and the entire committee... Government stepped in, appointed new CEO and team, got auditor to check all books.....

Wow!! the former CEO treated NKF like its family-owned biz, one man managed organisation. He involved in almost everything, especially money-related issues.... outsourced projects to friends and own company.... Those committee members don't know do what, may be they just make use of NKF to build their own profile. Nobody bother to know what the CEO is doing.

Now, the 600K Peanut comes in..... during the courts hearing..... my respected former PM, Mr Goh's wife, whom is a close friend of the former CEO, made a comment, which made many Singaporeans angry the following day... Mrs Goh said that with the NKF capacity and the amount of money raised by the former CEO, SGD$600K is just a peanut !!! I was totally disappointed with the words came out from my respected fomer PM's wife.

I disagree, Mrs Goh.... To you, SGD$600K may be Peanut, but many of the donors may not earn this much in their entire life. Believe me, this is true. If this is peanut, why did the former CEO reluctant to reveal his salary and other packages? Besides, this is a charity organisation, not IBM, HP, Shell, Google etc... All the money is from ordinary Singaporeans, whom some of them monthly take home is less than SGD$1K. No matter how, nobody should treat it like a commercial organisation. Anyone who wants to work in charity organisation should not expect market-rate salary like those commercial organisation. Day one, he/she should know this is a public-funded organisation.

The development of this case, till today ( 23June07 ).... has made the former Chairman, Mr Richard Yong, bankrupt and he sold all his properties and ran away from law.... sigh... haiz!! i remember he made appeals to the public for more donation, saying he couldn't sleep and worrying for the patients as the organisation has insufficient funds to support them for the next few years... he cried !! Yes, he cried .... But now, what happened to him ?? He ran away ..... Isn't it insulting?? Good acting right? Should have gotten him an acting award...

Now, the former CEO is being convicted for using a fake SGD$20K invoice to deceive NKF, he is sentenced to 3months jail. He will appeal soon. Besides, he is also ordered to pay SGD$4.0millions to the new NKF for the losses and damages it suffered. Well, lets see if he also run away....

I used to defend NKF in the past whenever somebody said bad things about it. I was a regular donor, even during my difficult time. I have since terminated the donation, may be will resume later when everything is back in order. I have changed my opinion on charity organisations, unlike last time, now i question when approach for donation.

Recent months, many charity organisations here were found to have mis-managed funds. The latest was 2 days ago, St John's Home for Elderly, the Superintendent took away SGD$3.88Million and is now uncontactable. He is in his 60s and has 2 grown-up sons, not sure if the whole family run away together.

Well, greed is inside every human beings, when the temptation is too strong to resist, some many give up morale and choose to act something which they were taught by parents and teachers not to.....

That is life..... and it goes on....

贪婪 - 人类基本潜在的特性。

贪小便宜 - 满街都是，小贪者也。在我们的日常生活每天都有。都是你，我和他。哈！
贪得无厌 - 往往都是没了理智，不懂得收手，最终被抓。
人心不足，蛇吞象 - 特大贪，一次过要做皇帝。不过，通常都是消化不了。最终也伤了自己。