http://therealsingapore.com/content/blogger-michelle-lee-actually-calvin-cheng
[h=1]IS BLOGGER MICHELLE LEE ACTUALLY CALVIN CHENG?[/h]
Post date:
21 Feb 2015 - 10:40am
The pro-PAP IB Michelle Lee strikes again after more than half a year of silence. The reason I’m writing this is not to criticise her, many have already done so. I would just like to point out some curious similarities I couldn’t help but notice between her posts and those of former NMP and obviously pro-PAP Calvin Cheng.
Her latest post https://balancingthesentiment.wordpress.com/2015/02/19/the-foreigners-in... “The foreigners in our universities is a non-issue” basically argues that the foreign-student ratio is fine.
The post just before that https://balancingthesentiment.wordpress.com/2015/02/18/the-wp-has-been-a... “ The WP has been a huge disappointment “ criticised the WP’s handling of the Aljunied affairs. Her prior posts has always been supportive of PAP’s policies whether it is the income inequality, minimum wage or high defence spending.
From reading her handful of blog posts so far, it is obvious that she is extremely imbalanced and pro-PAP. Her “About” page is extremely scant and only alluding to the (yet-to-be-independently-verified) fact that she studies in NUS FASS and was from a top-JC. For all we know this may not be an 18-year-old woman but a man double the age. There is no email provided, no Facebook profile or Twitter page behind this blog other than the blog itself.
Having said that, I have a suspicion that this Michelle Lee is an alias and is actually former NMP/pro-PAP Calvin Cheng based on an entirely unscientific but Freudian slips made on his/her part. Or at least, somebody who is influenced by him.
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The first one is the name of the blog. Michelle calls hers “Balancing the sentiment”. Calvin calls his “Beyond the emotive”. Different words but both seem like the same attempt to sound neutral and mature. Any English or Literature majors can correct me?
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Anyway, on her latest post, she say:
“Many anti-government bloggers like to pontificate about equality for this and that. When it comes to equality of university admission foreign or local, they are strangely silent.”
The key word here is “pontificate”. I had to look up the meaning of this bombastic word from a dictionary when I first read it from Calvin Cheng’s posts. It is obviously not a word that is commonly used.
When did Calvin Cheng flaunt his Queen’s English? Turns out more than once.
“Better to establish clear rules for transparency now than suffer the same fates as Western democracies that pontificate fairness and democratic values, but subvert the same values with hypocrisy.” http://beyondtheemotive.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-pap-and-unfair-election...
“Whenever economists and academics start pontificating about how business should be run, how productivity should be increased, how workers should be motivated, how employees should be remunerated etc, I can't help but feel annoyed. ”https://www.facebook.com/calvinchengnmp/posts/872422632807814
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Assume my angmoh is not so good and “pontificate” is a word that is actually more common, the next point is more obvious.
On her previous post, she said and I quote “Nearly 40% of Singaporeans voted for the opposition, you tell me none of them want to work with the WP?”
Calvin Cheng posted on his Facebook wall on Feb 13 https://www.facebook.com/calvinchengnmp/posts/874246965958714
“Nobody wants to work for the Workers Party?
40% of the electorate voted for the opposition.
Out of the million persons, NOBODY capable of managing a town council wanted to work for the WP?
Is this believable ?”
Notice the similarity? What do you think? I believe there is more to it than meets the eye for this Michelle Lee blogger.
An
TRS Reader
[h=1]IS BLOGGER MICHELLE LEE ACTUALLY CALVIN CHENG?[/h]
Post date:
21 Feb 2015 - 10:40am
The pro-PAP IB Michelle Lee strikes again after more than half a year of silence. The reason I’m writing this is not to criticise her, many have already done so. I would just like to point out some curious similarities I couldn’t help but notice between her posts and those of former NMP and obviously pro-PAP Calvin Cheng.
Her latest post https://balancingthesentiment.wordpress.com/2015/02/19/the-foreigners-in... “The foreigners in our universities is a non-issue” basically argues that the foreign-student ratio is fine.
The post just before that https://balancingthesentiment.wordpress.com/2015/02/18/the-wp-has-been-a... “ The WP has been a huge disappointment “ criticised the WP’s handling of the Aljunied affairs. Her prior posts has always been supportive of PAP’s policies whether it is the income inequality, minimum wage or high defence spending.
From reading her handful of blog posts so far, it is obvious that she is extremely imbalanced and pro-PAP. Her “About” page is extremely scant and only alluding to the (yet-to-be-independently-verified) fact that she studies in NUS FASS and was from a top-JC. For all we know this may not be an 18-year-old woman but a man double the age. There is no email provided, no Facebook profile or Twitter page behind this blog other than the blog itself.
Having said that, I have a suspicion that this Michelle Lee is an alias and is actually former NMP/pro-PAP Calvin Cheng based on an entirely unscientific but Freudian slips made on his/her part. Or at least, somebody who is influenced by him.
-----
The first one is the name of the blog. Michelle calls hers “Balancing the sentiment”. Calvin calls his “Beyond the emotive”. Different words but both seem like the same attempt to sound neutral and mature. Any English or Literature majors can correct me?
-----
Anyway, on her latest post, she say:
“Many anti-government bloggers like to pontificate about equality for this and that. When it comes to equality of university admission foreign or local, they are strangely silent.”
The key word here is “pontificate”. I had to look up the meaning of this bombastic word from a dictionary when I first read it from Calvin Cheng’s posts. It is obviously not a word that is commonly used.
When did Calvin Cheng flaunt his Queen’s English? Turns out more than once.
“Better to establish clear rules for transparency now than suffer the same fates as Western democracies that pontificate fairness and democratic values, but subvert the same values with hypocrisy.” http://beyondtheemotive.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-pap-and-unfair-election...
“Whenever economists and academics start pontificating about how business should be run, how productivity should be increased, how workers should be motivated, how employees should be remunerated etc, I can't help but feel annoyed. ”https://www.facebook.com/calvinchengnmp/posts/872422632807814
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Assume my angmoh is not so good and “pontificate” is a word that is actually more common, the next point is more obvious.
On her previous post, she said and I quote “Nearly 40% of Singaporeans voted for the opposition, you tell me none of them want to work with the WP?”
Calvin Cheng posted on his Facebook wall on Feb 13 https://www.facebook.com/calvinchengnmp/posts/874246965958714
“Nobody wants to work for the Workers Party?
40% of the electorate voted for the opposition.
Out of the million persons, NOBODY capable of managing a town council wanted to work for the WP?
Is this believable ?”
Notice the similarity? What do you think? I believe there is more to it than meets the eye for this Michelle Lee blogger.
An
TRS Reader
