PAP candidate Chong Kee Hiongis very petty leh...

[BuiKia]

I think if the teacher is still around, she will be condemned by him when he become MP.

When he was in Primary 5, Chong Kee Hiong scored the highest marks for mathematics and Chinese.

But his teacher at the now defunct Kim Keat Primary School told him he had won one prize too many and gave the maths award to another pupil who had finished half a mark behind.

“I didn’t argue with the teacher but I was very upset,” recalls the chief executive of serviced residences operator The Ascott. “The fact that I still remember it with such clarity shows that I am still disturbed by it.”

The episode goes against the ideals of fair play and meritocracy which he holds dear. After all, he says, Singapore’s meritocratic system made it possible for the son of a poor shoe seller to make good and become head honcho of the world’s largest owner-operator of serviced apartments.

He was the youngest of 11 children, and the family got by on the meagre earnings of his late father, who ran a small footwear stall in the Bendemeer market.

Home was a Housing Board rental flat in Toa Payoh.

“There were just two bedrooms. All the boys slept in one room; all the girls and my paternal grandma slept in the other. My parents slept in the living room,” he recalls.

He ended up in the living room too, and the sofa was his bed for several years until his teens.

Life was not easy and money was often tight. The children had to help out at their father’s stall on weekends, and their mother sometimes had to borrow from her parents to help tide over tough times.

“Being the youngest, I probably had it better than my siblings. But to save money, I packed food from home to school,” he recalls.

Mr Chong, 46, reckons he was aware of his poverty from a young age and probably nursed a subconscious desire to improve his lot in life from the time he was in primary school.

He remembers that when he was in Primary 1, he was called up, along with a couple of other small, skinny pupils, to stand in front of the class.

“The teacher asked us what milk we drank. I don’t think she was out to embarrass us, she just wanted to know why we were small,” he recalls.

“But it wasn’t a nice feeling to be singled out, and made to feel deprived.”

Fortunately, he is stoic. It’s a quality he thinks he developed from voraciously devouring Chinese sword-fighting novels by some of the genre’s most loved writers, such as Jin Yong, Gu Long and Liang Yusheng, as a child.

“In these novels, the heroes will always prevail although they have to undergo a lot of hardships first,” he says with hearty laugh.

“Also, in many of the stories, skilful pugilists and old masters would impart their skills only if the heroes showed great perseverance and sincerity, so I told myself I needed to have those qualities too.”

He is a self-starter in more ways than one.

 

[Microsoft]

moi remember a classmate...came in third but give de medal to the guy in front of him who slip and fall...moi oso recalled he even more happy then de guy who came in first after giving up his prize...last i head...he is a pmet...lost his job n now surviving on reserve...

 

[eatshitndie]

his wuxia hero must be dongfang bubai, the deadliest and most powderful katoey the world has ever seen. dongfang bubai also rose to power from very a humble background.

 

[Narong Wongwan]

Fucking selfish prick wants to showcase meritocracy but ended up showing up his petty and selfish character.
Like this you expect him to serve you?
From young over a small prize given up by his teacher he die die etched inside his miserly mind till now

 

[RogerK]

I think if the teacher is still around, she will be condemned by him when he become MP.

This type of people are better off serving machines. Definitely not good to serve people. So how on earth did pappies put such people forward? Doomsday is coming for the pappies.

 

[jw5]

This reminds me of the other guy who complained in a press interview that his classmates 30 years ago did not tell him there was an upcoming test.

 

[Narong Wongwan]

This reminds me of the other guy who complained in a press interview that his classmates 30 years ago did not tell him there was an upcoming test.

Very pathetic and somewhat disturbed childhoods if all the memories they carry from young are about such matters.

 

[jw5]

Vile pappies seem to attract these types.

Very pathetic and somewhat disturbed childhoods if all the memories they carry from young are about such matters.

 

[laksaboy]

Article from 2012 featuring Chong Kee Hiong:

http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/to-be-a-ceo-read-martial-arts-novels

Be wary of anyone who has ever been in a feature article of the presstitutes.

 

[laksaboy]

Definitely not good to serve people. So how on earth did pappies put such people forward?

As I've said: the PAP DNA attracts these kind of people, because it reflects something they see in themselves. They feel a connection, a sense of belonging.

Birds of a feather flock together, and people tend to seek out their fellow kindred spirits.

 

[butoh6050]

moi remember a classmate...came in third but give de medal to the guy in front of him who slip and fall...moi oso recalled he even more happy then de guy who came in first after giving up his prize...last i head...he is a pmet...lost his job n now surviving on reserve...

He probably gave his job to a less deserving FT.

 

[Microsoft]

He probably gave his job to a less deserving FT.

no. an interesting topic during last gathering...

he lost his job becoz a long time friend of his...being asking for a job in his co for a while.

manage to fit him a post after a long while. tat fella cum aboard...suck cock all the way up. suddenly feel he own moi friend a favour which isn't goot at all. a lot of things he wanna do kena tie hand tie leg...

so...for moi friend "own goot", he back stab n Sabo him till he got a quit.

isn't dis de same with pappies? dey ask for ur vote and after giving em...suddenly dey feel ur 20 yrs exp 2.5k asking pay for a technician is too much and never hesitate to import ft to replace chiu...

 

[Confuseous]

This guy got the same look as Lawrence Wong - the look that encourages people to dislike them.
The Cantonese has the phrase - hak yun chang

 

[Kuailan]

That Chee Hong treat voters like Army recruits or BMT??

what he says we must Obey?? arh??

It's an Order!! Yes Sir!! F**^%$K You!! Yes Sir!!