10 Reasons not to Vote for PAP this General Election

The PAP rally trucks are broadcasting their messages all over the neighbourhood. I wonder how many people are actually at home during this time of the day. I think most of us are probably in CBD slogging our life away, so who is the PAP really talking to? Its not a public holiday after Nomination day, is it? I wasn't too excited about the GE this year as I thought like many other years before there will be plenty of 'walkovers'. Turns out, I do get to vote this year. All except 1 of the constituencies are being contested. How did that happen? And how did it begin? Our inner thoughts that we penned down on Facebook or Twitter or other social medias during our frustrated moments in a crowded train, our struggles to get jobs, get seen by...

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What can Google do? The little tool that can overthrow governments (Part One)

On 18th January 2011, a young girl in Egypt recorded a simple video expressing a radical thought and her hunger for change.   On 11 February 2011, President Hosni Mubarak announces his resignation.   Over a span of 24 days, little did we know that that simple video featuring a young girl, not famous not a celebrity...she can be like you and me, caught the attention of many from hundreds to thousands to millions and brought change to her country and rid of a government known to be corrupted. What can we learn from this? Yes, small things can cause big change.  When unity rules, politicians drools. So I pondered about this, who really has power? Who really has control? "Give the people control and we will use it" The world has changed radically. Forever. Who...

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Which are the strong opposition parties this General Election?

Nomination Day 27 April 2011. Polling Day 7 May 2011. Of the six opposition parties that could be contesting the General Election, no more than half are deemed as strong contenders, according to two analysts. Dr Derek da Cunha, who has followed Singapore politics as an analyst for 20 years, named the three "real contenders" as the Workers' Party(WP), National Solidarity Party (NSP) andSingapore People's Party (SPP). The independent scholar said, "These three largely centrist parties are essentially courting the most crucial block of voters -- the wavering middle ground." "The other opposition parties tend to be viewed as outliers in the process," he added. Dr da Cunha was giving a pre-election analysis at...

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When the PAP loses an election, it will be time to leave.

I've never been interested in politics, never voted before. For the last 30 years of my life I have always believed that I was lucky to be born and bred in Singapore. Sure, nothing is perfect and the Government isn't either but we've never had like real situations like war or famine or poverty. In general, life is pretty good. Until recently. I'm speaking as a layman and as a layman something has got to give. Clearly there is something wrong when you feel like a second class citizen in your own country. And surely you won't be please to find out that your leaders are earning HUGE, like insanely large amounts of money perhaps at your expense when they make uncontested decisions that affects you be it in the price hikes, jobs competition with...

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Five Reasons to Take a Career Break

For one thing, you don't have to ride a stuffy train and deal with technical difficulties on your way to work. I need to practice more of what I read and the train fault this morning reminds me the reason why I hate commuting to work so much! I can hear the winds of change....hmmmm.... You woke up this morning, washed your face, looked in the mirror and wondered, “How did I get here? Thirty-something, house, car, excellent job, by all measures “successful;” so why do I hate my life?” You’re not alone. I think eventually most people have the “Is this it?” moment in their adult lives where they step back and wonder if there’s more that they’re missing. The answer, most of the time, is “Yes! There is more and you’re missing it!” - BootsnAll...

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An Academic's Delusion

Most corporate giants and MNCs is about about hiring the brightest Ph.D. academics and systems people on the planet. It makes sense right? However, hiring every postgraduate they could get their hands on, they caused themselves a very big blindspot… You could not even get an interview if you dropped out of college. So you wouldn't even consider the applications for the likes of say.... Mark Zuckerburg… Steve Jobs… Bill Gates? Interesting and ironic that it is the intellectual individuals who quit school, drop out of college that seems to be the movers and shakers on this earth. This model has been repeated over the course of history over and over again. It will take a long time for my academic friends to realize that chasing papers are just another of those writings on the wall....

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How to Shamelessly Promote Yourself

The internet has spawned many self proclaimed “celebrities” agree? You can shameless promote yourself like how this couple did, Not a bad strategy considering how the video which asked for people’s blessing of their marriage (she’s 47 he’s 23) went viral since Sunday. [Note: PLEASE DON’T unless you are really aching for your 2 minutes of fame. ]   Or you can do what I did by marketing yourself and advertising your services and products freely,   Not like this,     Like this, Disclaimer: I don’t get paid by featuring Anythinglah.com on my blog. I am a member of the site and returning the favour because they feature me on their page. Thank you Raswadi! J. &nb...

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This is Me....Then - Jeny's Closet Makeover

Thank you Jenny from the Block,   I don't come from an IT background. I never did learn about HTML and codings in school or was I ever taught. This blog, everything from its buttons to its link, images and plugins are self learned and self taught.  I don't claim to be an expert. I just asked Google. (Like a lot!) And in my journey of self discovery trying to manage this blog, now yes, I do consider myself an expert in my own right. There are ways to have a customized, easy-to-maintain blog at no cost at all. But be forewarned, it does have its fair share of hair pulling moments.   I can almost hear techie fan boys, blogging experts snigger BUT I'm not writing this for you guys. I am sharing this for all the rookies...

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Why I am not too excited about the Singapore Elections

I am sharing what I think are the general sentiments of the public and myself.   Ministers are currently drawing $1.2m a year which divided by 12 is about $100,000 per month. How does it compare with the average person? According to the Report on the Labour Force in Singapore 2006, the median gross monthly income of workers in full-time employment is $2,170. In other words, a worker takes a month to earn what a Minister earns in half a day! For university graduates, the median gross monthly income is $4,450. This would take the Minister one day to earn.    “Who are we trying to kid? Before we start talking about dying for Singapore, let us look at our leaders. We are told that we cannot get good leaders unless...

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If You've Never Failed, You've Never Lived

Dedicated to my father who never gives up. Even though sometimes he can be quite the stubborn old man I am still my father's daughter. I love you, Ayah. Essentially, anyone who decides to get ahead in life will have their fair share of tumbling stories and those who persist despite the rejections or humiliations will reap what they sow in the end. I hope people do not perceive such individuals to be doing it out of greed but a mere attempt to escape from corporate slavery, better education for their children, being there for their family which I believe are indeed noble reasons. Stumbled upon this from Anna William who shared this video in her post, thank you Anna. Sucess is most often at the other side of failure and when you want something really badly, the whole world will conspire...

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