Letter to Prataman

I e-mailed a letter and an amended letter to the Honourable President of the Republic of Singapore.

January 26, 2007

Your Excellency
The Honourable President of the Republic of Singapore
Istana
Singapore
[via e-mail s_r_nathan@istana.gov.sg]

Dear Sir,

Re: The Compensation for the President

I was surprised and shocked to hear that the Parliament of Singapore considered it necessary and/or appropriate to increase the annual salary for the President of the Republic of Singapore. It appears that an annual bonus is also paid to the said President, regardless whether or not it is necessary, without consideration for the numerous needy and financially or medically or physically challenged citizens.

Any fair minded compassionate individual who cares for his or her fellow citizens would decline to accept the raise regardless whether or not Parliament approved the increase and the amount of the increase. It is not a matter that the President should be paid a sufficiently high salary to ensure that he is not corrupt, because I have heard that you are a person with integrity and one of the most trusted and respected citizens of the Singapore. In addition, any individual (who is retired) with a net worth of more than $2 million, if not $5 million, would humbly notify the government and the citizens that $2.6 million a year is too much, and perhaps suggest that he or she would gladly accept $365,000 a year or $1,000 a day (because almost everything is provided at the Istana), and designate the difference of approximately $2.2 million a year for fellow needy citizens. Otherwise, I urge you to forthwith donate the said amount per year to your favourite charitable organizations, and encourage others to do the same.

With respect, I urge you to consider changing the perceived materialistic attitude amongst Singaporeans, including the extravagantly paid Ministers, very generously paid members of the judiciary and senior civil servants, who do not consider service to country and citizens before "market value based" compensation. Please consider leaving a legacy by changing the perceived materialistic image of Singapore and Singaporeans.

Yours respectfully,

CKL
http://singaporeelection.blogspot.com/2007/01/letter-to-president-sr-nathan.html

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BEAUTY AND THE BIGOTS: TV SHOW RIPPED OVER RACISM

Indian govt demands Britain take action for alleged mistreatment of Bollywood starlet;

Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty was bullied and subjected to racist slurs by Caucasian co-stars on the show Celebrity Big Brother. The actress was reduced to tears after being called a 'Paki' and a 'dog' on the show. In another taunt, a fellow contestant refused chicken cooked by Shetty.

'How do Indians eat with their fingers?' the contestant, model Danielle Lloyd, said. 'One doesn't know where their fingers have been.'

AH NEH NATION & SINKAPORE are BROS

SINGAPORE and India will need to negotiate a second Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (Ceca) as their economies integrate rapidly, Foreign Minister George Yeo said. He noted that Hong Kong and mainland China has a free trade agreement called the Closer Economic Partnership Agreement (Cepa).

Signed in June 2003, Cepa is based on a building block aproach for liberalisation of trade and services. A Cepa Four is currently being negotiated. 'I believe that in a few years' time, we will begin negotiating Ceca Two with India,' he said. He was addressing a partnership summit of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) on the theme India And Singapore - Roadmap To The Future.

Ceca, which came into force in August 2005, is a sweeping accord that covers trade, investment and services. Since its signing, bilateral trade has shot up, growing 40 per cent last year.

Singapore was the second-largest investor in India in the first seven months of last year, with total foreign direct investments of US$520 million (S$800 million). These numbers do not capture the full story because a lot of Singapore's investments in India are routed through Mauritius, said Mr M. Rajaram, vice-chairman of the Singapore Business Federation.

Singapore-India ties have been growing on several fronts. With 142 weekly flights between the two nations, India has become an important source of tourism for the island.

Political ties too have been growing apace. Earlier this month, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh acknowledged his nation's debt to Singapore for helping it enter various regional organisations, including the East Asian Summit.

'Singapore is a special friend of India,' he said at an annual global Indian conference at which Singapore Deputy Prime Minister S. Jayakumar was the chief guest.

Little Musa, Ali and Yari were walking home from school one warm spring day. As they were cutting through the alleys and backyards, they happened to look through a hole in the fence of one of the yards where a woman was sunbathing in the nude.

As they looked through the hole, Musa suddenly started to scream and took off running for home. He ran so fast that he left his two friends behind.

The next day, as the three boys came home again, they found the same hole in the fence and started to watch the woman. Again, after just a few minutes, Musa started screaming, and ran off quickly.

On the third day, the boys were peeping into the hole in the fence again after school, when Musa turned around and started to run again. But this time, Ali and Yari grabbed him and demanded to know what was wrong.

Musa replied, "My mother told me that if I ever looked at a naked woman, I would turn to stone. And I started to feel a part of me getting awfully hard..."

Sex???

Little Musa just returned from school.

Little Musa: Mother I need to know what is sex?

Mother: Taken aback by the question but she does not want to disappoint the child. So she explains to the girl about sex for about an hour - how baby is created, marriage and making love.

Musa: After hearing her mother talk, she starts to cry.

Mother: Why are you crying?

Musa: Mum I don't know how to summarise all that you have said in this application which only has two answers for SEX: MALE / FEMALE.

Mother: Ah......!

So Wats Politics?

Little Musa goes to his dad and asks, "What is politics?"

Dad says, "Well son, let me try to explain it this way: I'm the breadwinner of the family, so let's call me capitalism. Your Mom, she's the administrator of the money, so we'll call her the Government. We're here to take care of your needs, so we'll call you the people. The nanny, we'll consider her the Working Class. And your baby brother, we'll call him the Future. Now, think about that and see if that makes sense." So little Musa goes off to bed thinking about what dad had said.

Later that night, he hears his baby brother crying, so he gets up to check on him. He finds that the baby has severely soiled his diaper. So the little boy goes to his parents' room and finds his mother sound asleep. Not wanting to wake her, he goes to the nanny's room. Finding the door locked, he peeks in the keyhole and sees his father in bed with the nanny. He gives up and goes back to bed. The next morning, little Musa says to his father, "Dad, I think I understand the concept of politics now." The father says, "Good son, tell me in your own words what you think politics is all about."

Little Musa replies, "Well, while Capitalism is screwing the Working Class, the Government is sound asleep, the People are being ignored and the Future is in deep shit."