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BREAKING: GARMENT Telling LIES To CON FTs AGAIN. Floods Only Happen Once In 50 yrs...

ahleebabasingaporethief

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Flooding only happens in Singapore once in 50 years?


<table id="msgUN" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="3" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td id="msgUNsubj" valign="top">Flood in S'pore occurs once in 50 years</td><td id="msgunetc" align="right" nowrap="nowrap">
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</td></tr> <tr><td class="msgtxt">The big clean-up is underway on Friday in many areas which were flooded in many areas across Singapore due to heavy rainfall on Thursday. Environment Water and Resources Minister Yaccob Ibrahim said that what happened yesterday occurs onces in 50 years. He said:" Yesterday's event, I was told by PUB, occurs once in 50 years."
"We have a proper drainage system...(that is) being continually upgraded and a proper response system. I hope the public will have more patience with us because it will take us some time to enlarge the drainage. But having said that, it is not possible for us to plan for every event.", he added.
Fellow citizens, don't worry. The next time such flood happens, most of us will be dead if what our Minister said is true.
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The govt got conned by FT..as no Sg wants to dig Long Kang?
 

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Singapore's World Records
On this small island lives the 30 best-paid politicians in the world, comments a blogger. MySingaporeNews.
Apr 3, 2009
As the economic crisis worsens and thousands are being retrenched, the huge salaries of Singapore's political leaders have come under the spotlight not only here - but overseas.
With G20 leaders gathering in London to work out solutions to the global crisis, the Times compiled a list of "the 10 best-paid politicians in the world" - naturally with Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong taking the top spot.
The story was picked up by The Australia, which also works out their salaries when ranked against population.
Mr Lee earns S$3.76 million (US$2.47 million) a year, excluding bonuses, allowances, pensions, etc which add on a significant bit.
This is about 54 cents per head of population. In second position was his counterpart from New Zealand at 9 cents. The rest of the world are all down there, below even the lowest-ranking minister in Singapore.
But Singaporean blogger redbean's "My Singapore News" carries a calculation from its reader, Green Peas, expanding on the UK and Australian reports.
It pointed out that the world's 30 best-paid politicians (a definition that will include ministers, elected president, etc) are all from Singapore.
Here's what the blogger says:
The TOP 30 highest paid politicians in the world are all from Singapore:
1. Elected President SR Nathan - S$3.9 million.
2. Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong - S$3.8 million.
3. Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew - S$3.5 million.
4. Senior Minister Goh Chok Thong - S$3.5 million.
5. Senior Minister Prof Jayakumar - S$3.2 million.
6. DPM & Home Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng - S$2.9 million.
7. DPM & Defence Minister Teo Chee Hean - $2.9 million
8. Foreign Affairs Minister George Yeo - S$2.8 million.
9. National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan - S$2.7 million.
10. PMO Miniser Lim Boon Heng - S$2.7 million.
11. Trade and Industry Minister Lim Hng Kiang - S$2.7 million.
12. PMO Minister Lim Swee Say - S$2.6 million.
13. Environment Minister & Muslim Affairs Minister Dr Yaccob Ibrahim - S$2.6 million.

14. Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan - S$2.6 million.

15. Finance Minister S Tharman - S$2.6 million.
16. Education Minister & 2nd Minister for Defence Dr Ng Eng Hen - S$2.6 million.
17. Community Development Youth and Sports Minister - Dr Vivian Balakrishnan - S$2.5 million.
18. Transport Minister & 2nd Minister for Foreign Affairs Raymond Lim Siang Kiat - S$2.5 million.
19. Law Minister & 2nd Minister for Home Affairs K Shanmugam - S$2.4 million.
20. Manpower Minister Gan Kim Yong - S$2.2 million.
21. PMO Minister Lim Hwee Hwa - S$2.2 million.
22. Acting ICA Minister - Lui Tuck Yew - S$2.0 million.
23 to 30 = Senior Ministers of State and Ministers of State - each getting between S$1.8 million to S$1.5 million.
Note: 1. The above pay does not include MP allowances, pensions and other sources of income such as Directorship, Chairmnship, Advisory, Consultancy, etc to Gov-linked and gov-related organisations or foreign MNCs such as Citigroup, etc.
2. Though it is based on an estimate, the data cannot be far off the official salary scales.
The above was posted in redbeanforum by Green Peas.
(London Times report: http://timesbusiness.typepad.com/mon...the-world.html)
http://mysingaporenews.blogspot.com/...icians-in.html
 

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I faintly recalled floodings in Bukit Timah and and some other areas last year or so. At least Thomsom road was flooded about 2 months back ?

My....how time flies. 50 years already since these floods happened ? I wasn't born then but I do recall these events like last few months only.

Maybe I was just dreaming if what the million-dollar minister said is true. Well back to sleep for another 50 years :smile:.
 

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<TABLE id=msgUN border=0 cellSpacing=3 cellPadding=0 width="100%"><TBODY><TR><TD id=msgUNsubj vAlign=top>In fact, this budoh liar used the same excuse in 2006. He must be thinking that Sporns suffer from amnesia like Wooden!

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Coffeeshop Chit Chat - Yaboob Used the Same Excuse in 2006!
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Re: Floods return to Bukit Timah
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let's wait for the next rain storm to hit Sg and see bukit timah flooded again.

i'm sure Yaacob Ibrahim will say it's twice in 50 yr event then...

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It is already his second “freak” 1-in-50-years event! He used the same excuse in 2006..

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Channel NewsAsia
21 Dec 06
Businesses along East Coast suffering due to rain
By Valarie Tan

SINGAPORE: Dark skies continue to cloud over Singapore, keeping many at home and businesses in pain. A handful braved the rain but it is practically a ghost town at the East Coast hawker centre.

Shopowners say business is down some 70 percent since last Sunday. Abdul Malik, a drinks stall assistant, says: "We lowered the price of drinks by about 20 cents so people will come here to drink." Bicycle rentals also got hit, with only two or three customers a day.

The rain has not stopped the more adventurous from coming out to enjoy the great outdoors. But with their businesses left at the mercy of the weather, most shopowners are cutting their losses quick. Part-timers are sent home two to three hours earlier than usual and shops are closing their doors at least an hour early.

Some gyms across Singapore also saw a 10 percent drop in customers as most people go away for the holidays and some are kept at home due to the recent downpour.

PUB says the recent heavy rain caused excess water from the MacRitchie and Upper Seletar reservoirs to overflow. Reservoirs are designed to hold a certain amount of water, but when there is too much rain, excess water will still spill.

At Upper Seletar Reservoir, excess water was released into the sea by opening the tide gates.

Dr Yaacob Ibrahim, Environment and Water Resources Minister, says: "You can't design for rainfall of this level, it is just too huge. The thing we can accept is that we can only design our canal of a certain size, and at the end of the day, we have to live with some of these occurrences which occur once in 50 years or so. I know it is inconvenient to some Singaporeans, but on the part of PUB and NEA, we'll do our best to alleviate the problem as quickly as possible."

The wet spell is likely to continue and NEA expects more flash floods in low-lying areas with high tides hitting 3.1 metres till Christmas Day.

The roads at the affected areas are back to normal and the spillage at MacRitchie Reservoir has ceased. - CNA/so
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<TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%"><TBODY><TR class=msghead><TD><TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0><TBODY><TR class=msghead vAlign=top><TD class=msgF width="1%" noWrap align=right>From: </TD><TD class=msgFname width="68%" noWrap>teh_si <NOBR></NOBR> </TD><TD class=msgDate width="30%" noWrap align=right>4:56 am </TD></TR><TR class=msghead><TD class=msgT height=20 width="1%" noWrap align=right>To: </TD><TD class=msgTname width="68%" noWrap>ALL <NOBR></NOBR></TD><TD class=msgNum noWrap align=right> (43 of 50) </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD class=msgleft rowSpan=4 width="1%"> </TD><TD class=wintiny noWrap align=right>24670.43 in reply to 24670.1 </TD></TR><TR><TD height=8></TD></TR><TR><TD class=msgtxt>there will be a lot of flood-damaged cars in the market soon..

unless you know how to detect the bad lemons... stay out

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FLOODED Ferraris, Lambroghinis, Porsches in SINGAPORE. Anyone got photos? <hr style="color: rgb(152, 152, 152); background-color: rgb(152, 152, 152);" size="1"> <!-- / icon and title --> <!-- message --> Ferrari - EK1717S
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Merc - SDE8888D
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it was in the seventies that many areas esp bukit timah was prone to flooding esp during the monsoon period.
the flood that occur conincide with the high tide there's a chinese saying
初三流,十八水, the tide on the 3rd day and eighteen day of the lunar calender is extremely high. coastal fishermen knows about this.
 

makapaaa

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it was in the seventies that many areas esp bukit timah was prone to flooding esp during the monsoon period.
the flood that occur conincide with the high tide there's a chinese saying
初三流,十八水, the tide on the 3rd day and eighteen day of the lunar calender is extremely high. coastal fishermen knows about this.

Nope. No matter how bad it was in the 1970s and 1980s, it was never this bad. In fact, the problem went away after they widened the canal in the late 1980s. The real culprit is the Marina Barrage and that's after spending $226M to build it!
 

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Nope. No matter how bad it was in the 1970s and 1980s, it was never this bad. In fact, the problem went away after they widened the canal in the late 1980s. The real culprit is the Marina Barrage and that's after spending $226M to build it!

Agree with you!

The only LOGICAL explanation is the damming of the SINGAPORE RIVER; the MARINA BARRAGE.

Spoke to a few local and overseas FENG SHUI people, and whoever made that decision is saving his/her ownself whilst sacrificing the whole country; to achive his/her means to an end.

The Singapore River is our DRAGON. Since the MARINA BARRAGE was put up, the DRAGON is now CAGED.

 

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Dragon get caged!

so if u want to <HUAT!> please venture overseas. like me i stay in zhuhai, rent out my hdb 3 room to china people. let them pay for my every things at high price in singapore.

well i stay at zhuhai and have a 22 year old meimei sucking my dick day in day out. hahaha. welcome to zhuhai singaporeans.

this time due to cold weather i come back to sg and found out that not much improvement leh.
mrt and buses still that lousy. all footcourt still the same all foot that from same supplyers.
 

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Yep!

A caged Dragon is an unhappy Dragon.

Hence everything the GARMENT touches turns to DUST or faces problems.
 

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I am curious.. why do people buy a 2nd hand car and risk getting one that is flood damaged while first hand car is totally safe.
 
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