50 years of Singapore and what we can show and what we cannot show to the World

[enterprise2]

We have the highest paid cabinet in the world and we r the most expensive city for 3 years running. Does this count??

 

[GoldenDragon]

I recall we had a left handed (southpaw) who won the World Bowling Championships.
Is he Henry ???

Henry Tan. In the early 80s, Adelene Wee.

 

[Leongsam]

Fuck you tua Pau Xian don't state your opinions as facts

Scroobal is always spot on.

 

[eatshitndie]

Scroobal is always spot on.

let's say it takes a tpx to spot another tpx.

 

[Charlie99]

Henry Tan. In the early 80s, Adelene Wee.

Thank you.
It looks like my memory is failing me.

 

[frenchbriefs]

Lets be positive and think of all the incredible things that can happen in SG and nowhere else.

 

[Jah_rastafar_I]

Scroobal is always spot on.

you dumb nigger you too.

 

[Rogue Trader]

To be fair, sinkieland also produced some M-pop heavyweights who are on their way to etching their names on the hall of fame - Stephanie sun, JJ Lin and Tania chua. Also many other behind-the-scene songwriters who have produced in the pan asian pop music scene.

For a small country with half fuck chinese language standards, we have managed to punch above our weight in this division...

 

[Papsmearer]

Ah yes...Grace (Anabelle Chong) Quek. World record holder for f*&king 251 men in one session.
Singapore should be proud of her achievement!

Whore Jinx can beat that. She fucked 1.5 million sinkie man in one day with one bad deal losing billions $.

 

[Papsmearer]

Creative at its peak was worth 5b.it could have had the chance of becoming the first Tata or Samsung or Cheong kong holdings but unfortunately SWH was a fucktard.he was never a good businessman to begin with anyway just a one trick pony.

Seems you don't know much about business.

Firstly, this guy did more then 99.9% of the people in singapore and certainly far more then any PAP so call ministers. He invented a product, patented it, and at one point in time, his product was indispensable among PC users. He identified a product that was needed and tapped a market that wanted it. That's basically what Steve Jobs does.

Secondly, look at where he is. He is in Singapore. The one fucking place on earth where the govt wants to own all R & D and tech companies under its GLC umbrella. The one place on earth which has a govt that deliberately stymies, sabotage, and ignores local tech companies unless its one of theirs or unless they agree to be bought over. Simply because if you are not a GLC then you are the competition. If he had started Creative Labs in the Silicon Valley, he will be fine today. It would have been a bigger company. Most innovative people are not good businessmen. When Steve Jobs started Apple, he had Mike Markkula as his business partner, handling the financing, and management end of things. Apple would not have gone far without Markkula. In an environment like Silicon Valley where you have access to professional and experienced managers from good schools, financing through IPOs, venture capitalists, etc, as well as tech and engineers, you can put together the resources and talent to move the company forward. What's he got in Singapore? Nothing. He is almost in a vacuum here. NUS is MIT? He can get innovative and highly trained engineers from there? Who will lend to him? UOB? Don't joke lah.

He was always fighting an uphill battle from day one. he should have moved his design and engineering team and company HQ to Silicon Valley. that was his mistake. He stayed here. And then when he failed, all the doubters like you come out and whack him. Give me a break. This guy proved to the whole country you don't have to be a PAP porlumpar, or born with silver spoon, or have a $millions to start a company that was at one time the leading edge in its field. He is a true born hero as far as I am concerned.

 

[Papsmearer]

To be fair, sinkieland also produced some M-pop heavyweights who are on their way to etching their names on the hall of fame - Stephanie sun, JJ Lin and Tania chua. Also many other behind-the-scene songwriters who have produced in the pan asian pop music scene.

For a small country with half fuck chinese language standards, we have managed to punch above our weight in this division...

This part is true. Is George Leong considered in that category?

 

[Papsmearer]

Let me start by what we cannot show;

- no nobel prize
- no invention
- no Singaporean has achieved an award of International Standing
- no Olympic Gold medal
- no author has won a Booker or Pulitzer Prize
- no academic of world standing
- no michelin star chef
- no world glass athlete or sportsperson
- no architecture award of world standing
- no entrepreneur of World standing
- no CEO of a World class company outside Singapore
- no world class artiste or performer
- no winner of any World beauty pageant
- no world's first in anything of importance - such as first organ transplant,
- no world class institution of any kind
- no famous actor or actress of international standing
- no world famous model

.

-No Hope
-No Future
-No Basic Human Rights
-No Ideas

 

[enterprise2]

Seems you don't know much about business.

Firstly, this guy did more then 99.9% of the people in singapore and certainly far more then any PAP so call ministers. He invented a product, patented it, and at one point in time, his product was indispensable among PC users. He identified a product that was needed and tapped a market that wanted it. That's basically what Steve Jobs does.

Secondly, look at where he is. He is in Singapore. The one fucking place on earth where the govt wants to own all R & D and tech companies under its GLC umbrella. The one place on earth which has a govt that deliberately stymies, sabotage, and ignores local tech companies unless its one of theirs or unless they agree to be bought over. Simply because if you are not a GLC then you are the competition. If he had started Creative Labs in the Silicon Valley, he will be fine today. It would have been a bigger company. Most innovative people are not good businessmen. When Steve Jobs started Apple, he had Mike Markkula as his business partner, handling the financing, and management end of things. Apple would not have gone far without Markkula. In an environment like Silicon Valley where you have access to professional and experienced managers from good schools, financing through IPOs, venture capitalists, etc, as well as tech and engineers, you can put together the resources and talent to move the company forward. What's he got in Singapore? Nothing. He is almost in a vacuum here. NUS is MIT? He can get innovative and highly trained engineers from there? Who will lend to him? UOB? Don't joke lah.

He was always fighting an uphill battle from day one. he should have moved his design and engineering team and company HQ to Silicon Valley. that was his mistake. He stayed here. And then when he failed, all the doubters like you come out and whack him. Give me a break. This guy proved to the whole country you don't have to be a PAP porlumpar, or born with silver spoon, or have a $millions to start a company that was at one time the leading edge in its field. He is a true born hero as far as I am concerned.

He started out great but lost his way later... Very common amongst startups whether here or US

 

[Narong Wongwan]

let's say it takes a tpx to spot another tpx.

Quote of the week

 

[Papsmearer]

He started out great but lost his way later... Very common amongst startups whether here or US

No doubt. But with the resources and environment in a place like Silicon Valley, he has a much better chance to succeed or be bought over. No doubt the company would have reinvented itself into something else or merged with another company. But in Silicon Valley, they see dozens of tech startups every week. The company issues would have been something that they have seen before, and the resources to solve them would have been there. He must have been reinventing the wheel here. Like I said, he should have turned his company into an american company headquartered in Silicon valley, and maintain his manufacturing facility in singapore like many MNCs do and apply for EDB tax credits and other shit that they give to MNCs.

 

[enterprise2]

Thought Creative listed in NASDAQ once? Anyway think their once fearsome competitor Aztech doing better than them now!

 

[Ash007]

Actually, he did, he actually moved all his operations from us to Singapore. He even laments on the no u turn syndrome here. If memories serves me, he definitely has an Rnd operations in the states. Anyone knows why he decides to concentrate his operations in sg?

No doubt. But with the resources and environment in a place like Silicon Valley, he has a much better chance to succeed or be bought over. No doubt the company would have reinvented itself into something else or merged with another company. But in Silicon Valley, they see dozens of tech startups every week. The company issues would have been something that they have seen before, and the resources to solve them would have been there. He must have been reinventing the wheel here. Like I said, he should have turned his company into an american company headquartered in Silicon valley, and maintain his manufacturing facility in singapore like many MNCs do and apply for EDB tax credits and other shit that they give to MNCs.

 

[Jah_rastafar_I]

Seems you don't know much about business.

Firstly, this guy did more then 99.9% of the people in singapore and certainly far more then any PAP so call ministers. He invented a product, patented it, and at one point in time, his product was indispensable among PC users. He identified a product that was needed and tapped a market that wanted it. That's basically what Steve Jobs does.

Secondly, look at where he is. He is in Singapore. The one fucking place on earth where the govt wants to own all R & D and tech companies under its GLC umbrella. The one place on earth which has a govt that deliberately stymies, sabotage, and ignores local tech companies unless its one of theirs or unless they agree to be bought over. Simply because if you are not a GLC then you are the competition. If he had started Creative Labs in the Silicon Valley, he will be fine today. It would have been a bigger company. Most innovative people are not good businessmen. When Steve Jobs started Apple, he had Mike Markkula as his business partner, handling the financing, and management end of things. Apple would not have gone far without Markkula. In an environment like Silicon Valley where you have access to professional and experienced managers from good schools, financing through IPOs, venture capitalists, etc, as well as tech and engineers, you can put together the resources and talent to move the company forward. What's he got in Singapore? Nothing. He is almost in a vacuum here. NUS is MIT? He can get innovative and highly trained engineers from there? Who will lend to him? UOB? Don't joke lah.

He was always fighting an uphill battle from day one. he should have moved his design and engineering team and company HQ to Silicon Valley. that was his mistake. He stayed here. And then when he failed, all the doubters like you come out and whack him. Give me a break. This guy proved to the whole country you don't have to be a PAP porlumpar, or born with silver spoon, or have a $millions to start a company that was at one time the leading edge in its field. He is a true born hero as far as I am concerned.

Very good posting here.

Chinese dog frenchbriefs is displaying one of the typical traits of a chinese dog which is crab in a bucket syndrome that is to tar those like him chinese sinkies as losers like himself and to drag them down to his level. Suffice to say he will never have anything good to say about sinkies especially chinese sinkies.

 

[PTADER]

*wrong thread*

 

[Agoraphobic]

The present state of these affairs is because everything here in Singapore, the peoples always require some kind of mandate, or endorsement by the ruling political party before giving their own their approval. There have been some personal achievements in the past, but were given very low publicity by the media, don't know why, but I consider them great personal achievenments. Could it be they weren't activities favoured by the ruling party? Examples that come to mind - Gerry Looi beating world champion Barry Sheene at Batu Tiga motorcycle race in Shah Alam (I think it was in 500cc GP class), Thia Yoke Kian, 3rd position in world karate competition held in Paris, I think it was in 1974/5 season. There is little interest or support from locals to local organizations and events. How many of you here have watched concert performances by local bands like Heritage and Sweet Charity? I think very few. Todate, the locals arts scene has been boosted only because some inner-circle rich-blokes patronise them, the public doesn't give a hoot. Because of this state of affairs, local artistes do not get any exposure to fame. Show organisers feel safer bringing in big name world acts from Western nations to promote here. Local fans readily fork out big bucks to see shows by International acts like Bon Jovi. But would they pay 12 bucks for a mug of beer to watch a local band play at a gig at some dive-bar? Unlikely. Show some support for the home boys man!

Cheers!

Let me start by what we cannot show; ...........................