<TABLE id=msgUN border=0 cellSpacing=3 cellPadding=0 width="100%"><TBODY><TR><TD id=msgUNsubj vAlign=top> Coffeeshop Chit Chat - Do PAP Ministers have no Shame left?</TD><TD id=msgunetc noWrap align=right> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><TABLE class=msgtable cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="96%"><TBODY><TR><TD class=msg vAlign=top><TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%"><TBODY><TR class=msghead><TD class=msgbfr1 width="1%"> </TD><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>Sikodolauka <NOBR></NOBR> </TD><TD class=msgDate width="30%" noWrap align=right>2:07 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> (1 of 25) </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD class=msgleft rowSpan=4 width="1%"> </TD><TD class=wintiny noWrap align=right>47669.1 </TD></TR><TR><TD height=8></TD></TR><TR><TD id=msgtxt_1 class=msgtxt>You see we just had a Minister going on TV to shed false tears.
Now we have another foolish Minister going on TV to say that his family suffered a personal tragedy because his son had a relapse of leukemia. Why tell us now?
We all have our fair share of personal family tragedies. In fact some of us have a far greater share of personal family tragedies but we do not go around trying to gain personal sympathy and in the case of this Minister - votes.
I say shame on you for using the tragedy of your family member for something like sympathy votes.
Count yourself very lucky Mr. Minister because you have access to the top USA doctors-which very few Singaporeans have.
Count yourself very lucky Mr. Minister because your family can afford to move to the USA for 9 months. How many Singaporeans can do that.
Count yourself very lucky Mr. Minister because you earn millions of dollars which can provide excellent medical care for your family members. What about that little girl who has to pay some $15,000.00 or more because she fell on the MRT tracks. That poor girl lost the use of her legs.
But there is one thing that I will never do ie. use my family tragedy to gain votes or sympathy because I will not fall so low as you just did.
Idiots.
My most difficult moment: Minister George Yeo
<CITE class="byline vcard">By Faris Mokhtar | SingaporeScene – <ABBR title=2011-04-13T14:13:46Z>Wed, Apr 13, 2011 10:13 PM SGT</ABBR></CITE>
For Foreign Affairs Minister George Yeo, the toughest period of his life was not his time at the helm of one of the country's highest profile ministries, nor the battles he had forged in the political arena. His most difficult moment was when he discovered that his youngest son had a relapse of leukemia.
Having taken over the reins of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) from incumbent Mr S. Jayakumar in 2004, Mr Yeo told Yahoo! Singapore in an exclusive interview that it was a challenging period for him and his family when he received the news of his son's health condition.
The only way for him to save his son was for him to undergo a bone marrow transplant. Doctors said his son had a one-in-four chance of surviving. His son was then sent to the St Jude Children's Research Hospital in the US for treatment, said Mr Yeo, who is married to lawyer Jennifer Leong. They have two other sons and a daughter.
It was then that his wife, children and mother-in-law made the heart-wrenching decision to move to the US for nine months while Yeo remained in Singapore.
During their absence, the Minister said one of biggest tasks was to oversee the renovation of the family home, as his son needed a clean environment for recovery upon his return.
"That was quite a stressful period for me. I didn't notice it but people who saw me said I looked a wreck. I must have," quipped the 56-year-old, who is also the MP for Aljunied GRC.
"So I am glad he is well. There are issues you can manage but when something so personal hits you, then it's a different order of difficulty, completely."
Foreign policy
Turning his attention to Singapore's biggest foreign policy challenges, Minister Ye
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<!--PostMsgHTML--><SCRIPT language=JavaScript><!--if (adPosition == 1){ showGoogle(); }//--></SCRIPT><!--/PostMsgHTML--><!--PreMsgHTML--><!--/PreMsgHTML--><TABLE class=msgtablealt cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="96%"><TBODY><TR><TD class=msg vAlign=top><TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%"><TBODY><TR class=msghead><TD class=msgbfr1 width="1%"> </TD><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>FuckPAPee <NOBR></NOBR> </TD><TD class=msgDate width="30%" noWrap align=right>2:34 am </TD></TR><TR class=msghead><TD class=msgT height=20 width="1%" noWrap align=right>To: </TD><TD class=msgTname width="68%" noWrap>Sikodolauka <NOBR></NOBR>unread</TD><TD class=msgNum noWrap align=right> (2 of 25) </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD class=msgleft rowSpan=4 width="1%"> </TD><TD class=wintiny noWrap align=right>47669.2 in reply to 47669.1 </TD></TR><TR><TD height=8></TD></TR><TR><TD id=msgtxt_2 class=msgtxt><My most difficult moment: Minister George Yeo> ___________What a selfish fucker why don't he say he regret causing misery to thousands of Sinkees for the policies of the PAPee,why should he deserve any sympathy,when the callous policies of the PAPee affected the lives of tens of thousands actually we should all look at him in derision![/SIZE]
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Now we have another foolish Minister going on TV to say that his family suffered a personal tragedy because his son had a relapse of leukemia. Why tell us now?
We all have our fair share of personal family tragedies. In fact some of us have a far greater share of personal family tragedies but we do not go around trying to gain personal sympathy and in the case of this Minister - votes.
I say shame on you for using the tragedy of your family member for something like sympathy votes.
Count yourself very lucky Mr. Minister because you have access to the top USA doctors-which very few Singaporeans have.
Count yourself very lucky Mr. Minister because your family can afford to move to the USA for 9 months. How many Singaporeans can do that.
Count yourself very lucky Mr. Minister because you earn millions of dollars which can provide excellent medical care for your family members. What about that little girl who has to pay some $15,000.00 or more because she fell on the MRT tracks. That poor girl lost the use of her legs.
But there is one thing that I will never do ie. use my family tragedy to gain votes or sympathy because I will not fall so low as you just did.
Idiots.
My most difficult moment: Minister George Yeo
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For Foreign Affairs Minister George Yeo, the toughest period of his life was not his time at the helm of one of the country's highest profile ministries, nor the battles he had forged in the political arena. His most difficult moment was when he discovered that his youngest son had a relapse of leukemia.
Having taken over the reins of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) from incumbent Mr S. Jayakumar in 2004, Mr Yeo told Yahoo! Singapore in an exclusive interview that it was a challenging period for him and his family when he received the news of his son's health condition.
The only way for him to save his son was for him to undergo a bone marrow transplant. Doctors said his son had a one-in-four chance of surviving. His son was then sent to the St Jude Children's Research Hospital in the US for treatment, said Mr Yeo, who is married to lawyer Jennifer Leong. They have two other sons and a daughter.
It was then that his wife, children and mother-in-law made the heart-wrenching decision to move to the US for nine months while Yeo remained in Singapore.
During their absence, the Minister said one of biggest tasks was to oversee the renovation of the family home, as his son needed a clean environment for recovery upon his return.
"That was quite a stressful period for me. I didn't notice it but people who saw me said I looked a wreck. I must have," quipped the 56-year-old, who is also the MP for Aljunied GRC.
"So I am glad he is well. There are issues you can manage but when something so personal hits you, then it's a different order of difficulty, completely."
Foreign policy
Turning his attention to Singapore's biggest foreign policy challenges, Minister Ye
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<!--PostMsgHTML--><SCRIPT language=JavaScript><!--if (adPosition == 1){ showGoogle(); }//--></SCRIPT><!--/PostMsgHTML--><!--PreMsgHTML--><!--/PreMsgHTML--><TABLE class=msgtablealt cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="96%"><TBODY><TR><TD class=msg vAlign=top><TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%"><TBODY><TR class=msghead><TD class=msgbfr1 width="1%"> </TD><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>FuckPAPee <NOBR></NOBR> </TD><TD class=msgDate width="30%" noWrap align=right>2:34 am </TD></TR><TR class=msghead><TD class=msgT height=20 width="1%" noWrap align=right>To: </TD><TD class=msgTname width="68%" noWrap>Sikodolauka <NOBR></NOBR>unread</TD><TD class=msgNum noWrap align=right> (2 of 25) </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD class=msgleft rowSpan=4 width="1%"> </TD><TD class=wintiny noWrap align=right>47669.2 in reply to 47669.1 </TD></TR><TR><TD height=8></TD></TR><TR><TD id=msgtxt_2 class=msgtxt><My most difficult moment: Minister George Yeo> ___________What a selfish fucker why don't he say he regret causing misery to thousands of Sinkees for the policies of the PAPee,why should he deserve any sympathy,when the callous policies of the PAPee affected the lives of tens of thousands actually we should all look at him in derision![/SIZE]
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