Free Makan & Show for Quitters in London?

While most are getting excited over Aware exco members drinking with straws through their noses after the expose of the Feminist Mentor, I find the Singapore Day 2009 celebrated in London a thriller too.

According to CNA, [link] Deputy Prime Minister Wong Kan Seng was on hand, too, to explain why he thought it was important to hold an expensive event like this at a time of recession.

Pray tell: How expensive is it? And who is footing the millons of pounds for this bash? Wow, they even flew artistes like Mr Brown in business class of SIA Airbus A380! [link] Or did Swaku Brown pay for the luxury?

Mr Wong said: "Even though the times are not good, we should not just enjoy when we have good times but, I think, in bad times we must also hold up hope for a better future.... For Singaporeans here, some of them might be quite anxious about their jobs and anxious about their families back home because they might have members who lose their jobs. We want them to know that the government will put in place programmes to ensure that Singaporeans will be taken care of."

"We should not just enjoy when we have good times but . . . "

Bad times for the less fortunate Singaporeans (especially those who recently lost their jobs) living in Singapore is just that - Bad Times! They jolly well learn to be resilient, tighten their belts and tough it out! They are to live within their means, get help from their family members and not to borrow money from loan sharks [link] as our man in London will change the law and incriminate them for doing so!

If you still can't feed yourself, go queue at Buddhist Lodge at Kim Yam Road to fill your stomach [link] and [link] like they do in London on 25 April 2009 at Hampton Court Palace [link] and [yummy pics link]

Some say the Singapore Day (no, not Aug 9 National Day) celebrated since 2007, is to engage Singaporeans not living in Singapore (quitters?) emotionally. In so doing, they sent a contigent of the best hawkers rated by Makan Sutra to feed them. The organisers also send a contingent of artists and comedians like Hossan Leong, the Dimsum Dollies, Channel 8's Jack Neo and his kakies and, heaven forbids, Mr Brown! [link] to entertain them.

I have nothing against Singaporeans (quitters, students, foreign workers in foreign land) getting free food and entertainment at the expense of don't-know-who but compared to the government's 'cowpehcowbu' on welfare for the poor based on the parliamentary exchange below

Dr Lily Neo:

Sir, I want to check with the Minister again when he said on the strict criteria on the entitlement for PA recipients. May I ask him what is his definition of “subsistence living”? Am I correct to say that, out of $260 per month for PA recipients, $100 goes to rental, power supply and S&C and leaving them with only $5 a day to live on? Am I correct to say that any basic meal in any hawker centre is already $2.50 to $3.00 per meal? Therefore, is it too much to ask for just three meals a day as an entitlement for the PA recipients?

Dr Vivian Balakrishnan:

How much do you want? Do you want three meals in a hawker centre, food court or restaurant?

I think the Singapore Day Extravanganza is another example of misplaced heartware. Wouldn't it be nice if the lesser mortals were treated to such goodies? However, in the minds of 'please get out of my elite uncaring face', useless unproductive lesser mortals are a pain to society and only fit for euthanasia.

What I find amusing is, whether in Hampton Court (for the sikit atas) or in Buddhist Lodge (poor lesser mortals), Singaporeans queue for food!

I wonder if Goh Chok Tong's daughter was enjoying the Katong Laksa, Roti Prata, Kway Chap, Satay and other yummy Singapore food too?

I'm amazed that they get artists like Mr Brown to do jokes on Singapore and they even put up self-deprecating ERP replicas at the venue to show that they are lightening up.

Meanwhile they just did us in with the 'assembly of one' and 'move on' Public Order Act and the Films Act.

Tricky?

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