Learn to be like parents of the people!

柔佛苏丹与州政府展现了人民父母官的本质,新加坡行动党政府的好榜样!

行动党政府好好学习如何当个人民父母官吧。

 

 

 

The Sultan of Johor state government and high ranking officials exhibiting the characteristics of the citizens' caretakers - a good role model for the government of Singapore!

 

May the PAP government learn how to parent their people in the same way!

 

 

 

 

 

House Visit on 9 May 2015 (Elias Road)

Today's Walkabout is concentrated on Block 615 Elias Road. The outreach walkabout kicked off at 10.00am sharp, anchored by Kuswadi B. Atnawi.

Many of the residents were chatty and very welcoming this time round, spending more time sharing their concerns and suggestions with the amicable team.

From level 18 , the team slowly made their way down to the lower floors, handing out the SDA pamphlets, explaining to the residents what this is all about, sending their regards and trying to understand the residents better.

This time round, some of the residents feedback about the high costs of living in Singapore, especially the exorbitant costs of transportation and housing.

One *Mr. Ang (name changed to protect privacy) expressed unhappiness at the fact that oil price has gone down but the cost of petrol in Singapore continued to soar. "This makes no sense at all, right? Sometimes I don't even know what is the justification for this price increase!"

Interestingly, this time round, there were residents who also commented against the cleanliness of the estate. *Mr. Tang (name changed to protect privacy) remarked that the estate is peppered with litter. "Sometimes when we hang clothes out to dry, we get all sort of gravy or stains on the clothes no thanks to those who throw things out the window. In the past we never had that issue!"

Other members thanked SDA for making the rounds and taking time to visit them. A couple of them spent sometime discussing the contents of the pamphlets, touching on the CPF issues especially.  There were those who offered suggestions for the upcoming issue of the pamphlet.

The SDA team finally completed the visit at 12.15pm, touching lives and gaining better understanding on the changes the residents here hope to see.   It was yet another fruitful and meaningful morning well spent.



If you have any feedback, suggestions or would like to be a part of SDA or DLs' Caring Community, please feel free to get in touch via email or our Facebook page here or leave your comments on this blog itself. If you would like to be a part of this meaningful initiative, please feel free to get in touch too.

Trapped between Train Doors again

之前已经发生过同样的意外,为什么还是没有多大的改善?

难道不能改进现有的地铁车厢的门口加一片伸缩版吗?

 

There was a similar accident that occurred before, why aren't there more massive changes to improve the situation?

Why can't they improvise the current train cabins by adding another platform / board between the gaps?

[Recap] What a Good Leader should have..

Photosource: http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/2013/jan/31/university
-leader-career-progression-training

By Desmond Lim Bak Chuan:

I remembered when I was young, my grandfather used to tell me:

“The system will work for me only, if I treated each and every individual with respect, have their interest at heart,and build good relationship before I proceed with my planning”. 

Here is something that I wish to share; 

•A person who is highly intellectual does not mean he/she are more civilize then those who don’t, 
•A person who had obtained high qualification does not mean he/she has higher standard then those who don’t, 
•A person who is in power does not mean that automatically he/she will gain respect from other or/ and expect commoner to be fearful to him/her. 
•A person who is holding high position does not mean that he/she has better quality then those who are not in the position. 

Hence, anyone who wants to change other lives should embed not only with their expertise but also with humanity and humility at all times.

[Recap] Profits over Predicaments-Solving

这么多年来政府不注重提供社会福利网,把我们的公积金当投资资源拿去发展经济,只关注赚钱,以丰厚的储备以及高薪养贤为理由,发高薪给认同他们的精英。而社会所累积起来问题确推给社会团体自立处理,变成后果一些国人自己来面对和承担。

 

Photosource: http://www.todayonline.com/singapore/government-urged-review-cpf-holistically

 

 

For so many years, our government has not paid attention to providing our community with economic welfare. They use our CPF contributions as resources for investment and developing the economy, only paying attention to profits and using its as justifications to reward themselves, by paying high salary terms. Meanwhile, accumulated social problems which require time to be resolved have been pushing back to community for self reliance. Thus leaving most Singaporeans the burden of having to solve their own predicaments.

 

 

 

 

 

Whose future - PAP's, or SIngaporeans' ?

Photosource: http://blog.enerdynamics.com/2011/11/15/the-future-of-electric-utilities-part-ii/

A multi-party system is crucial and critical for the growth of Singapore.

 

What if one day, the ruling party loses the basis of its policy making in equality among all citizens?

 

What if their motivation, response and performance becomes poor?

 

Bear in mind that Singapore success does not belong to PAP; the stellar performance of our nation in the past was not dependent on one political party, neither will it ever be so in the future.

 

Neither does it belong to just our public servants who supervise or execute public policies and programmes in the various fields.

 

The true main character in the Singapore success story is you.

 

The working people of Singapore, at all levels of our multiracial society.

 

Hence please, come support our vision of a Singaporeans First policy.

[Recap] A party with its values

任何一个执政党如果不把"以民为先,以民为本"的政治理念谨记在心,又不能满足大多数的人民的"衣,食,住,行"的需求时,哪怕它有多大的本领继续促进经济增长和创造奇迹,它最终还是有可能会被人民给遗弃。

Any ruling party that does not instil the values of  "people first, and the heart for the people" in mind, and failed to deliver "food, clothing, shelter, transportation," to the majority group of the people, or meet the majority demand, even if it has much ability to continue to push for economic growth and/or create miracles, but it doesn't connected with the people, it may still be abandoned by its people.