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Entry: Just a note Tuesday, October 17, 2006

1. For those who wish to read the inaugural New Paper article I wrote, please refer here. It's regarding Ministers blogging. I've read the article and am very happy with it -- it said exactly what I meant.

2. Blogs have been cited in the court filings of the Lees vs. FEER case for having reproduced the offending article. It is also interesting to note that MM Lee Kuan Yew has a sweet IC number! SOOOOO03E. Now isn't that awesome. I wanna be special too.

Addendum: Amused and honoured that Life! recommended me as a must-visit site for the weekend. Have compiled a series of 'Recommended Posts' available to the sidebar for those who want a sense of who I am and what my views are. Well...what my views are, at least. And I've been 18 years old since August 12 2006. See? Don't believe what the state newspapers say ;)

37 comments


	NameSim Chin Boo November 29, 2006 10:35 PM PST Gayle' right to make political comments was questioned on blog tv as she is only eighteen. How shall those around thirty five and older behaving like teenagers be treated ?


	Joshua November 26, 2006 02:53 AM PST Why 00...003? The father, the son and holy Ho? Oh no!


	chel November 8, 2006 01:35 AM PST someone has an S8888888S ic number.. if my sources are correct. some lee guy also.


	Aygee November 6, 2006 06:45 PM PST Gayle, with the TNP article, and your appearance on blogTV, you have crossed over to the mainstream. You are no longer the average blogger. You are now open to the OB markers, just like those Mr Brown faced. i dont know, but i just felt that you should have just remained on the Internet.


	a October 29, 2006 10:15 AM PST <b>Chen Jiahao (AcidFlask EX-scholar) vs. Wee Shu Min One Country, 2 Systems</b> A society in which <b>the elite thinks that discipline applied only to others and not themselves</b> soon finds that even the most efficient monitoring system would break down as the people in charge of enforcing discipline <b>lose confidence</b> about whether they can apply the same rules to everyone, and then learn to <b>twist the rules to gain benefit for themselves</b>. In other words, failure of elite members to apply self-discipline soon <b>corrupts the whole society.</b> http://singabloodypore.blogspot.com


	WSM Video @ singaporemind.blog October 29, 2006 06:59 AM PST WSM Video @ singaporemind.blogspot.com http://singaporemind.blogspot.com/


	WSM Video October 29, 2006 01:12 AM PDT WSM Video at: http://singaporemind.blogspot.com/


	A Xeno Boy in Sg: October 28, 2006 10:40 PM PDT A Xeno Boy in Sg: I am Xeno Boy, The Political Savant. I bring forth Singapore's First Political Blog. http://xenoboysg.blogspot.com


	anon. October 26, 2006 11:22 PM PDT this is what happens when elected government <b>serves</b> peasants. "Employers have reacted with horror to the new Australian Fair Pay Commission's (AFPC) first minimum wage decision, which delivers up to $27.36 a week for the nation's poorest workers." http://au.news.yahoo.com/061026/2/112bm.html


	anon. October 26, 2006 11:19 PM PDT US Department of State: http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2002/18263.htm


	Pei Sai Lee October 26, 2006 11:41 AM PDT "People support CPF cuts because there are no protest outside parliament." - PM Lee Hahaha.....what happened to the 4 that were protesting in front of the CPF building? They invited the riot police and were dragged into the kangaroo court! PM Lee must have a pei sai brain to make such a comment. My 8 yr old has more brain than this Pei Sai Lee.


	anon. October 26, 2006 01:26 AM PDT "Retrenchment is good for singapore. If there is no retrenchments, then I worry." - SM Goh "I don't think that there should be a cap on the number of directorship that a person can hold." - PAP MP John Chen who holds 8 directorships. "It's not for the money because some of the companies pay me as little as $10,000 a year." - PAP MP Wang Kai Yuen who holds 11 directorships. "If you want to dance on a bar top, some of us will fall off the bar Top. Some people will die as a result of liberalising bar top dancing... a young girl with a short skirt dancing on it may attract some insults from some other men, the boyfriend will start fighting and some people will die." - Vivian Balakrishnan, Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports "I would want to form an alternative policies group in Parliament, comprising 20 PAP MPs. These 20 PAP MPs will be free to vote in accordance with what they think of a particular policy. In other words, the whip for them will be lifted. This is not playing politics, this is something which I think is worthwhile doing." - SM Goh "If you sing Jailhouse Rock with your electric guitar when others are playing Beethoven, you are out of order. The whip must be used on you." - SM Goh again, on a dramatic u-turn, rethink or backtrack, whatever you call it. "Save on one hairdo and use the money for breast screening." - another gem from Lim Hng Kiang "We started off with (the name) and after looking at everything, the name that really tugged at the heartstrings was in front of us. The name itself is not new, but what has been used informally so far has endeared itself to all parties." - Mah Bow Tan on the $400,000 exercise to rename Marina Bay as Marina Bay. "Having enjoyed football as a national sport for decades, we in Singapore have set ourselves the target of reaching the final rounds of World Cup in 2010." - Ho Peng Kee "Only 5% are unemployed. We still have 95% who are employed." - Yeo Cheow Tong "Singaporean workers have become more expensive than those in the USA and Australia." - Tony Tan "People support CPF cuts because there are no protest outside parliament." - PM Lee "No, it was not a U-turn, and neither was it a reversal of government policy. But you can call it a rethink." - Yeo Cheow Tong "...I regret making the decision because, in the end, the baby continued to be in intensive care, and KKH now runs up a total bill of more than $300,000..." - Lim Hng Kiang, regretting the decision to save a baby's life because KKH ran up a $300,000 bill


	anon. October 26, 2006 01:16 AM PDT http://www.insanepoly.com//temp/wsm.jpg


	anon. October 25, 2006 05:16 PM PDT get a high score for these and you are on your way to rule over the peasants.


	whybegay October 25, 2006 03:58 PM PDT Here are the exam syllabuses for the 2006 GCE A Levels examinations http://www.seab.gov.sg/SEAB/aLevel/syllabus/school/2006_GCE_A_AAO.html


	anonymous October 25, 2006 12:58 PM PDT Wee-wee can't take the heat and run road. I really hate it when so called elites can't even make a simple apology for improper behaviour. Look at LKY?! I see many of such elites at my workplace. Bloody hell, educated in Cambridge, Oxford and Harvard and what do they do when they made mistakes? Blame on others ... blame on the society, blame on the system, blame on their genes. It only takes 2 balls to apologise. Wee-wee may not have but surely Big Wee should have!


	Lucky Tan October 25, 2006 08:19 AM PDT You guys are too harsh to Wee Shu Min. It is not her fault that she harbors those thoughts and expressed them in sincere language. Her dad has stepped forward to support her basic point that Singaporeans should moan so much. I've done an analysis of our system and it is perfectly natural that people like Shu Min and MP Wee exist among us. visit my blog and you will understand: http://singaporemind.blogspot.com


	anon. October 25, 2006 02:57 AM PDT "Good administrators step down gracefully." In your dreams baby! "Army will intervene in freak elections" - Lee Kuan Yew, 15 Sep 2006


	john riemann soong October 24, 2006 07:29 PM PDT whybegay: but this is not state-sanctioned censorship, ie. using the usual forms of coercion. Remember, it was Shu Min who took down her own blog - none of us even demanded her blog be taken down. We did have a right to respond. "It was a miracle for a small city-state Singapore to survive its independence from Malaysia." Yeah, but I'm tired of hearing that every time as an excuse to not afford more civil liberties to the people, or why we should not complain. I don't care how well we are doing compared to other third world countries or how we should be grateful. Actually I am rather grateful, but I'm tired of hearing this argument as a reason not to complain against the government. We should have the best government at all times, period - and if that means changing the current one (ingratefully), then yes. Good administrators step down gracefully.


	Capt Jude H. October 24, 2006 05:24 AM PDT i wish i had more thinking shipmates like you back when i was in the navy!


	Huan Guan October 24, 2006 05:22 AM PDT Always nice to have some light instead of darkness all the time. LLTB!


	anonymous October 23, 2006 08:55 PM PDT Trademark of an elitist - to know when and who to be nice to/with ... The blog exposed her private and genuine self and it is this that frightened and angered many of us. Just like the PAPs who don't even show the basic courtesy to be sincere anymore. Hip hop, my ass! Yah, the fittest survive. When you are left with one, it is extinction. Singaporeans are becoming extinct. To be replaced with another batch, of course.


	gayle October 23, 2006 10:39 AM PDT I've already read it. I know Shu Min personally and she isn't that bad. The post, though.. is very insensitive. But I disagree with pouncing on the fact that her father is an MP as many have been doing. Also, there is a grain of truth in what she says, but she fails to consider a whole host of other factors, qualifiers, caveats, etc.


	KOHO October 23, 2006 09:12 AM PDT Nice site - this KOHO your friendly controller - as one chapter closes another opens again. Long live the brotherhood!


	whybegay October 23, 2006 08:37 AM PDT Elitegal is actually quite right in what she said, although she wasn't quite civil. But she did mention she was only expressing her private thoughts on her blog. It was a miracle for a small city-state Singapore to survive its independence from Malaysia. What Derek said is somehow reflective of the workings of the private sector, which is always competitive. The public sector is different. So Derek was not speaking from multiple sides of the story. It was basically not a full and objective point of view. So is Derek restricted in his view? Of course he is. There is actually much truth to what Elitegal said. So if MPs would voice their opinions on blogs like Elitegal's, I would actually read them. Singaporeans have been crying for free speech and then when it comes from people like Elitegal, they cannot handle it and shut out voices that differ from their own. This is just another type of tyranny, bullying and pot-calling-the-kettle-black hypocrispy of the Ugly Singaporeans. Throughly amused that some bloggers can't even handle the comments of an 18 yr old girl. They are so EASILY distracted to fault find with all the things they can fault find with Elitegal. In a sense Elitegal became their easy target because she is everything they would so easily like to hate. They wish they could be like Elitegal but can't. So easily distracted by an object on a string. This whole fiasco is not worth my time, next!


	Hou October 23, 2006 05:19 AM PDT Gayle, check this out : http://forums.delphiforums.com/n/mb/message.asp?webtag=sammyboymod&msg=121090.1


	vesance October 22, 2006 02:34 AM PDT instead of managing their image with blogs and hip-hops, i'd rather they spend time serving the peasants� needs. we don't want another MRT suicide.


	layman October 21, 2006 01:18 PM PDT With all the news about blogs now, it is another spin in the bigger picture. They made it sounded like a fashion trend, after a while, they will let it die down. Create the interests now but taper it down when we are nearing the next GE. Knowledge is dangerous...


	anon. October 21, 2006 04:22 AM PDT i heard (and confirmed) that one of the p65 MPs blogs under a psuedonym, in the "real" internet, about his views. i wonder if he understands the dubious legality of a politician having a political website, anonymous or not.


	passerby October 20, 2006 11:35 PM PDT By the way, we know his IC number, his DoB is easily known. Now, guess how much he got for his ERS and NSS?


	gayle October 20, 2006 05:05 PM PDT Thank you for coming :) And do give comments where you disagree. I read all of them and mull over particularly insightful ones; they've helped to shape my opinions along the way.


	CK October 20, 2006 04:24 PM PDT This is the 1st time I am reading your blog...thanks to the recommendation on Life! today. I have just read a couple of your past blogs and though I may not agree fully with some of your views, I am amazed by the maturity and grasp of political insight in a 18 years old. I will certainly come here more often from now.


	Lucky Tan October 20, 2006 08:59 AM PDT Straits Times today listed your website as a "must visit". Initially I thought the reporters were hinting to the ISD that something must be done about your blog. ....but I realised you're only 17. ....the people in charge wouldn't do anything to a misguided a 17 yr old because there is still a chance to get your thoughts and opinions rectified.


	nutcracker October 18, 2006 08:25 PM PDT hmm... I wonder whose IC number is S0000001 and S0000002 respectively... :)


	jamesbond October 18, 2006 05:32 PM PDT One thing to note the difference here. most people here blog using nicks, while MPs and Minister using their name. Think about it!!!


	kp October 18, 2006 10:53 AM PDT Why am I totally not interested in what THEY blog about? Why would I rather read Gayle�s blog? Why do THEY even bother? Chances are, THEY hired a whole bunch of ghost writers to blog for them - while they are doing the REAL work of kissing babies and patting themselves on the back for their fantastic PR campaign. Oh please, I�m so tired of being told how in-touch my MPs are.


	whybegay October 18, 2006 04:52 AM PDT We can be sure that the MPs would only talk about their work and not the ins and outs of Singapore politics because Dr Amy Khor said the blogs' main purpose was to connect with heartlanders.

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