From today’s Sunday Times.
So now Lee Kuan Yew and family are considered ‘middle class’. Lee Wei Ling’s column hits a new low.
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The Straits Times trolled the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (Iras) today. A story of Iras’ request for one Steven Ooi to pay a one cent tax levy was published in the Home section of today’s newspaper.
Steven reproduced a photograph of the Iras letter, which was included in the article.
The letter included a threat to impose a 5 percent penalty fee if Steven did not comply with instructions. While he duly paid his taxes like a good Singaporean, he did not take the matter seriously, as one normally would when dealing with the local authorities.
Journalist Kezia Toh even concluded the article with Steven’s tongue-in-cheek challenge to Iras, “I wish I had not sent the cheque, because I really did want to see how they would charge me the 5 per cent penalty.”
This lack of respect for a state institution is alarming. It worries me that a national newspaper like the Straits Times chose to subvert the authority of the venerable Iras.
From today’s Sunday Times. Which reminds me of the song I am My Own Grandpa.
How about ‘My Maid, My Mum’. Isn’t that just as common? Why did the Straits Times not run that?
It is easily predicted what the wondering eyes of men will focus on.
An old post from one of my deleted blogs from years ago. It’s a photograph of a Sunday Times newspaper, if I remember correctly.
Advertisement in yesterday’s The New Paper.
If you Facebook more than read books, it does not mean that you know a lot about information and communication technology. It just goes to show how much shit is in your head.
‘Record Breakers’ – on the front page of the Home segment of today’s The Straits Times. It is about Fajar Secondary School, which has broken 27 Singapore records, and is now gunning for a Guinness World Record. Sounds impressive.
But none of the records are related to academic, artistic, or sporting excellence.
Some of the local records they have broken include ‘writing out a Ralph Waldo Emerson poem in paper clips’ and ‘de-shelling nuts within three minutes’.
The Guinness record they are chasing involves ‘getting each of its 983 students and staff members to stand on one leg for two minutes’.
Imagine my shock when I read that mass stupidity has been portrayed as a good thing and is something to be proud of.
Fajar’s principal, Ng Shok Yan, even went so far to give a lame ass word play, “The lesson that all students in this school learn is that ‘Impossible stands for ‘I’m possible’.”
She obviously needs a spelling lesson from one of her English teachers.
Has this school descended to such a pathetic state that she needs to resort to such gimmicks to raise its profile?
And what is a paltry 983 people? If the powers that be at the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) so decide, I’m sure they can get all the regulars and NSFs to fall in and stand on one leg. For whatever number of minutes they want.
Such is the level of Fajar Secondary School’s stupidity – they deserve comparison to the SAF for breaking the record in mindless idiocy.
From today’s Straits Times:
Ok I’m half joking. I don’t want to punch him. But a President needs a presidential look and Tan Kin Lian does not have it.
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