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Clarification first. No actual monkeys were involved with the diplomatic bags and nothing was stolen from the latter.
We don't really understand why MFA kicked up a big fuss over the incident involving Gilbert Oh, its former director-general.
It wasn't the first time diplomatic bags were used to transport Sinkies' personal items.
Before 10-year series of GCE "O" and "A" level exam papers were on sale in local bookstores especially in Bras Basah Complex, ministars and the political elite close to Old Fart a.k.a. Leetator would request Sinkie diplomatic staff to buy and ship copies of past years' exam papers using dip. bags.
When movies were made available on VHS and Betamax videotapes in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the political elite would ask for pr0n a.k.a. adult movies to be sent via dip. bags. The dip. bags were used in this way well into the 1990s when pr0n was available on VCD first and then followed by DVD. With the advent of ADSL broadband in the late 1990s (not to be confused with fiber broadband) in this country and the general availability of pr0n on the internet, dip. bags were no longer the preferred mode of transport.
Sidenote: Did you know that ministars and the political elite would ask Sinkie diplomatic staff to buy the latest models of iPhone on their behalf and carry them as hand luggage? This was before Apple opened its store in Sinkieland. Then there was this Sinkie dipomat who was the trusted friend of a ministar. This ministar's wife had a weakness for very expensive bling and the diplomat would buy and carry the expensive jewelery on his person when he returned to Sinkieland.
Vocab:
Diplomatic bags. Correct term is Valise Diplomatique (singular) or Valises Diplomatqiues (plural). Don't ask why the official terms are in French.
In the popular psyche, dip. bags look like what some SingPost staff lug around. In actual fact, a wooden or metal crate of whatever size such as the size of an HDB storeroom (just kidding) can be a valise diplomatique as long as the words "Valise Diplomatique" are stamped on all sides of the wooden crate. They must be accompanied at all times by at least one or more accredited diplomats and must be sent via the diplomatic channel at the airport of the host country.
Ministars = Ministers
It is common knowledge that Hollywood movie stars demand to be paid astronomical salaries and commissions for their roles in movies. Sinkie prime minister and his coterie of ministers also demand to be paid skyhigh salaries and bonuses just to wayang for a population of 6 million people on a 780 square kilometers of land. (Compare Pinky's total remuneration to Joe Biden's and Eleven Jinping's).It is fitting therefore for Sinkie ministers to be labeled "ministars". After all there is just a small change of vowel from "e" to "a".
We don't really understand why MFA kicked up a big fuss over the incident involving Gilbert Oh, its former director-general.
It wasn't the first time diplomatic bags were used to transport Sinkies' personal items.
Before 10-year series of GCE "O" and "A" level exam papers were on sale in local bookstores especially in Bras Basah Complex, ministars and the political elite close to Old Fart a.k.a. Leetator would request Sinkie diplomatic staff to buy and ship copies of past years' exam papers using dip. bags.
When movies were made available on VHS and Betamax videotapes in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the political elite would ask for pr0n a.k.a. adult movies to be sent via dip. bags. The dip. bags were used in this way well into the 1990s when pr0n was available on VCD first and then followed by DVD. With the advent of ADSL broadband in the late 1990s (not to be confused with fiber broadband) in this country and the general availability of pr0n on the internet, dip. bags were no longer the preferred mode of transport.
Sidenote: Did you know that ministars and the political elite would ask Sinkie diplomatic staff to buy the latest models of iPhone on their behalf and carry them as hand luggage? This was before Apple opened its store in Sinkieland. Then there was this Sinkie dipomat who was the trusted friend of a ministar. This ministar's wife had a weakness for very expensive bling and the diplomat would buy and carry the expensive jewelery on his person when he returned to Sinkieland.
Vocab:
Diplomatic bags. Correct term is Valise Diplomatique (singular) or Valises Diplomatqiues (plural). Don't ask why the official terms are in French.
In the popular psyche, dip. bags look like what some SingPost staff lug around. In actual fact, a wooden or metal crate of whatever size such as the size of an HDB storeroom (just kidding) can be a valise diplomatique as long as the words "Valise Diplomatique" are stamped on all sides of the wooden crate. They must be accompanied at all times by at least one or more accredited diplomats and must be sent via the diplomatic channel at the airport of the host country.
Ministars = Ministers
It is common knowledge that Hollywood movie stars demand to be paid astronomical salaries and commissions for their roles in movies. Sinkie prime minister and his coterie of ministers also demand to be paid skyhigh salaries and bonuses just to wayang for a population of 6 million people on a 780 square kilometers of land. (Compare Pinky's total remuneration to Joe Biden's and Eleven Jinping's).It is fitting therefore for Sinkie ministers to be labeled "ministars". After all there is just a small change of vowel from "e" to "a".
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