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Leong Mun Wai vs VB

steffychun

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leong_Mun_Wai

Education​

Leong Mun Wai attended Raffles Institution in the 1970s.[2] He was awarded an Overseas Merit Scholarship by the Singapore Government in 1979 to study Economics in Hitotsubashi University in Japan. Leong furthered his education and obtained a MSc in Management from London Business School in 1992.[3]


Career​

Leong began his career in 1986 with the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation and subsequently worked with global investment banks in Tokyo, London and Hong Kong, assisting more than 100 companies in their IPOs and fund raising. He returned to Singapore in 1997 to assume an appointment as Managing Director of OCBC Securities, a wholly owned subsidiary of OCBC Bank, and one of the leading securities and futures brokerage firms in Singapore. He is currently the Chief Executive Officer of his own private equity firm, Timbre Capital.[4]

Note: Those days there was no RJC so I suspect Leong MW did his A Levels in RI?

Worked in GIC - hello worked for the establishment.

Worked in the private sector. Hello PAP ministers - how many of you have?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivian_Balakrishnan

Early life​


Balakrishnan was born in 1961 to an Indian Tamil father and a Chinese mother with ancestry from Fuqing, Fujian.[1][2] He had his primary and secondary education at Anglo-Chinese School, before going on to National Junior College. After graduating from junior college in 1980, he was awarded a President's Scholarship to study medicine at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He served two terms as the president of the NUS Student Union, and later served as chairman of the union council. He chose a postgraduate specialisation in ophthalmology and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1991.


Medical career​


From 1993 to 1995, Balakrishnan worked at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London as a specialist senior registrar, where he subspecialised in paediatric ophthalmology. He later returned to Singapore, where he was appointed as a consultant ophthalmologist at the Singapore National Eye Centre and National University Hospital, and an associate professor of ophthalmology at the National University of Singapore in 1998. In 1999, he was appointed the medical director of the Singapore National Eye Centre, and later became chief executive officer of the Singapore General Hospital in 2000.[3]

Balakrishnan was also the Commanding Officer of the 2nd Combat Support Hospital of the Singapore Armed Forces from 1999 to 2002.

In the 1990s, he hosted the series Health Matters on Singapore television.[4]

ACSIan - typical ACS-RI fight.

NJC - same as Leader Pinky and man-date Ho Ching.

Doctor - so what? Typical PAP stunt man.

Served in SAF - haha typical. No private sector experience

So, there you have it. Who do you think (like SJI Teo CH) is illiterate? Which school is lousy - NJC/NUS or RI/Hitotsubashi University and London Business School? GIC or army doctor?
 

Leongsam

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Mr Leong is a gentleman and a gracious one too! Certainly much more humbler than Ms Vivian.

He has to be humble because he's from a lousy school. On the other hand VB is from the best school on earth so he has earned the right to be cocky.
 

nayr69sg

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Staff member
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ACS NJC or NUS - which is the best?
NS is the best.
VB is CO.
LMW?
SAF connections very important especially in the later 1990s with all the BG here BG there.
You can trace a decline in progress of career in public side from LMW durif that period and a rise for VB.

Many Drs who get into politics got the army connection.

Another one similar route is Colorectal suegeon Son of Punggol. Impressed as NS CO. There are those other 2 eye surgeon who were SAF regular MO too.

All about army when it comes to public service and politics.

Maybe now starting to wane because of overall poor performancr from past and present generals in politics and MNC
 
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Confuseous

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Generals are not used to having their decisions questioned.
Heard of ex-generals sitting on condo management committees who quit after
a few months - they did not understand the way committees work.
 

laksaboy

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It doesn't really matter what your academic credentials or CV is.

If you are a lanjiao lang, that sticks for the rest of your life.

Vivian Balakrishnan is a lanjiao lang. End of story.

Hardly surprising, considering who's his boss.
 

nayr69sg

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Staff member
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It doesn't really matter what your academic credentials or CV is.

If you are a lanjiao lang, that sticks for the rest of your life.

Vivian Balakrishnan is a lanjiao lang. End of story.

Hardly surprising, considering who's his boss.
I rather be a rich lan jiao lang than a principled lower middle class ses GP.

Not so easy be rich lan jiao lang.
 
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