i don't quite get what is a second permanent secretary also, the chinese translation of PS is 次长 which literally means (2nd secretary) so a 2nd PS is 次次长????
In that case, the deputy secretary (DS) must be "san chi zhang".
i don't quite get what is a second permanent secretary also, the chinese translation of PS is 次长 which literally means (2nd secretary) so a 2nd PS is 次次长????
In that case, the deputy secretary (DS) must be "san chi zhang".
So where's Mrs Ow Foong Pheng now? Still in JTC?
Note the obituary style commentary of Wong Wee Nam.
Methinks it was a reluctant WWN asked to give the eulogy...reluctant because he hardly knew him, but knowing WWN, he is too nice to create enemies..so he was at great pains to search for words for praises one has to scrape off the barrel..
I got the same impression. Note his second sentence and that he was providing information that could only come from personal information and not from his interaction with TKL. I also noticed that it is not WWN style of writing.
If as WWN said, TKL was one yr his junior, then he was same cohort as me. Yet, I have never heard of him, but I know WN. It is true there were 14 Sec One classes, and it was impossible to know everybody. But having said that, even many lowly unknowns would become knowns over the course of 4-6 yrs, thru Pre-U, thru the LDCS (Lit and Debating Soc), raffles players, rugby, scouts, cadets, etc. If he escaped notice, he must really have been colorless and apathetic or plain anti-social.
If as WWN said, TKL was one yr his junior, then he was same cohort as me. Yet, I have never heard of him, but I know WN. It is true there were 14 Sec One classes, and it was impossible to know everybody. But having said that, even many lowly unknowns would become knowns over the course of 4-6 yrs, thru Pre-U, thru the LDCS (Lit and Debating Soc), raffles players, rugby, scouts, cadets, etc. If he escaped notice, he must really have been colorless and apathetic or plain anti-social.
Were you the same year as Richard Ang in RI?
Now that is a name that brings back memories. Singapore's first family of crime and only family unless you count the Yong sisters.
We did have a thread on this Scroo. Richard and William both went to RI but William was one year his junior.
No. But William was.
So Ronald Lim, Our well-known Rhodes Scholar former Principal of ACS Independent and Karpal were in your cohort.
That's right. You must be from RI same cohort?
You are talking as if your Huat ah is so naive! Well, did your Huat ah know that he and Tan Kin Lian are going to Elections Department to collect the forms together?
Goh Meng Seng
"Such behaviour from anyone in or aspiring to a position of influence suggests it's acceptable to trivialise women and overlook their myriad abilities and contributions."