Gini coefficient: Mdm Ho Ching & Mdm Noorfarizan make the Gini so efficient

After celebrating our silver table tennis medal with so much confusion over the fate of the team manager, chief coach and now the president, we can now celebrate Mrs Prime Minister for being the World's 8th most powerful woman!

With so much power and money in Temasek, but More unable to pay electricity bills can she, her husband or the relevant authorities please help those who have fallen off the cracks?

Since the government has made a mockery of nation building and national service by paying themselves millions, are we going to make a mockery of kindness in helping the poor too? Or is it not the government's responsibility to help?

The loan sharks throw paint, pig's head or even faeces at your doorway to scare you into repaying your debt. The Singapore Power Supplier went one up. They fixed the poor by making them KAYU, I mean, PAYU - Pay As You Use -.

"The pre-paid metering scheme, called Payu, for Pay As You Use, involves replacing conventional power meters with special ones that work only if an account has sufficient credit in it.

Users can top up amounts from $10 to $250 into their accounts. As electricity is used, the sum is drawn down and has to be topped up. Twenty per cent of what they top up goes into settling their outstanding balances with SP Services.

Madam Noorfarizan Abdul Rahim, 30, went on the scheme after failing to pay her bills for three months. Her family owes SP Services over $400, but with four children to feed on a single income of $850 a month, putting food on the table, not paying bills, gets top priority.

Madam Noorfarizan, whose husband is a cleaner and whose children are aged between eight months and 10 years old, said: 'The price of rice has gone up, the price of cooking oil has gone up and everything has gone up.'

To help a little go a long way as far as energy is concerned, she restricts activities like watching TV. Social workers say that other such families also resort to leaving their flats in darkness. Many throw doors and windows open to catch available light from common corridors.

Madam Noorfarizan topped up her Payu account with $10 a few days ago, but just $3 remains. She will head to the Post Office today to top up another $10 - good for 'two to three days of power'."

I wonder how much does it cost to specially fix the meters (replacing conventional power meters with special ones) to fix those too poor to pay their electricity bill on time. If Mr Prime Minister is harping on a gracious society, isn't it time for the Power, including Singapore Power to be kind and gracious enough to help the down and out instead of punishing them?

Or do they just want people like Mdm Noofarizan to 'please, get out of my elite uncaring face'?

Apart from the value of kindness and graciousness, the value of representative democracy went to the dogs when PAP MP's voted against NMP Prof Thio Li-ann's and Dr Loo Choon Yong's motion to make amendments to Parliamentary Elections Act. The must-see speech by NMP Siew Kum Hong on "the 3 P's - Principle, Practicality and People was so sensible and sharp that some sensitive PAP's MPs may wish that they did not listen to it. With the current unhappiness of the people over the inflation, GST and ministers' obscene salary, I guess the chance of having a by election is as good as Mdm Noorfarizan having high tea with the Queen of England. The "Kiasu, Kiasi and PowChiak!" translated from Hokien, "Afraid to Lose, Afraid to Die and Definitely Edible (Sure Win)!" attitude of PAP which is sadly and blindly copied by many Singaporeans has won again!

I'm surprised that The New Paper did a poll in Bukit Batok and published it. "What People of Bukit Batok say by Arul John. "The majority of Parliamentarians voted one way, and heartlanders the other". Are the parliamentarians so high up in their whiter than white ivory tower that they are so out of touch with their residents?

How far and how long can you continue to mock the people who make Singapore what it is today? Oops, or is it only the PAP leaders not the people who made it?

Meanwhile, please do not blow off Mdm Noofarizan's candle to make yours burn brighter. It doesn't work that way.

Have a heart, don't knock her for being poor or for having too many children. (Don't bring her down like you did during the "Stop at 2" days.)

Give her light.

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