Human Resource

Come here: http://www.moe.gov.sg/esd/Default.htm and read the various statistics for yourself:

Intake to universities for past 25 years:
1980: 3002 students
1990: 6928 students
1996: 8929 students
2000: 11232 students
2005: 12508 students = 23%


Since 12508 students is 23% of the cohort, by proportion, we can compute that 3002 is less than 5% and 6928 is about 10% (since the size of the cohort was larger back then).

So, barely 15 years ago, in 1990 - for those people currently in their late 30s - only about 1 in 10 was allowed to go university. What is going to happen to them when they hit 40 in a few years time? Structural unemployment! (Remember: washing test-tubes alone require bachelor degree).

In fact, they will be very hard hit, because they will be competing with those new graduates entering university right now, and right now, 2 in 10 can enter government-subsidised university, while another 1-2 fork out their own money and do it long distance.

But they are still "lucky".

Back in 1980, for every 10 persons you pick at random, only half of 1 person (yeah, not even 1 whole person) had a degree. These people, now in their late 40s, are "shaking legs" at home - retrenched!


In 25 years, we increased the number of graduates by four times!! Tell me, can the numberr of intellligent people in a population increase by 4 times in 25 years?

Surely not!

Therefore, there is hardly any educational basis to our university admission criteria.

How many can go in, how many cannot, all depend upon how many people the Matrix Master arbitrarily allows based on his wrong prediction at that time.

For 40 years, higher education has been suppressed and limited to the minimum number of people the Matrix Master thought the economy needed, the goal being to minimize the number of minds liberated, so as to maintain political control.

Your academic (and hence financial) future is determined not so much by your academic result, but by an artifically pre-determined percentage. This percentage has somewhat loosen up in recent years, but don't be fooled; The Matrix Masters has simply re-calculated and now predicted that we need more university graduates, so more are now allowed to go from poly to University. It's still the same-old same-old: arbitary admissioin criteria not based on educational principle.

And if you think such nonsense is only at the university level. I will administer you another red pill: it exist at all levels - A-level, O-level, N-level, PSLE!

You can study very hard, but if you have been designated - at the tender age of 9 years old - to become a factory worker when you turned 16, that's it. You will be one. The intended inflexibility of the various educational stream will ensure that.

That was in the past. Now, the administration has become, hmm, shall we call it, more sophisticated.

In the past, after the Matrix Master had decided that X% would become cheap labour, Agent Smith aka MOE would simply dump X% at PSLE into the normal stream. Quick and simple! But, tsk tsk, unhappy human batteries complained: educational system too inflexible, want to migrate.

No problem! Agent Smith is adaptable:

Latest forcast predicts that we now need only 0.6*X% to become cheap labour. But nope, let's not put 0.6*X% in the normal stream. Let's still put the same X% in normal stream! Then, let's fine tune the N-to-O level admission criteria, such that after the N-level exam, 40% of them are allowed proceed up to O-level. Done! We will get back the same figure: X - 0.4X = 0.6*X%. Wiow, back to square one, but you know what, human batteries are now all so happy that our educational system has become flexible!

And that's what we pay hundreds of thousands per year to elite admin officers to come up with!

And those who got into normal stream studied soooo hard, day and night, night and day. And when they finally get promoted to O-level, they were so happy. But they didn't know - they would have gotten into O-level directly if not for the blue-pill wayang!

Maybe they also didn't know: in other developed countries, everyone gets to do the equivalence of O-level, with no streaming, no inferiority complex, no elite-peasant divide!


"Human resource is our only resource. We will develop you to your greatest potential"!

*Palm to Face*

Until now, you, my fellow human batteries, have still not gotten it:

Human Battery:
You are not a human resource.
You are a human battery!!!
A digit.
An energy source for the Matrix Masters!!

Before

A shocked and surprised parent wrote to the newspaper:

May 29, 2007
A, B, E but no place in the local universities

MY DAUGHTER'S recent applications for entry to the three local universities - Nanyang Technological University, National University of Singapore (NUS) and Singapore Management University - were all rejected. The reasons given were an overwhelming response, limited places in the universities and stiff competition.

My daughter is an above-average student who had excelled in sports. She has met all the criteria for entry to a local university. Is being eligible not enough? Must one now get extraordinary grades to be granted a place in university?

Like her, many young Singaporeans her age must have had their dream of pursuing a higher education dashed recently. Ironically, the universities are still advertising for applications. Are they looking for A-star performers who have more than one option? Are they raising their standards for applicants so that they will be able to improve their world ranking - just like an elite school or junior college that accepts only the best in Singapore so that ultimately its ranking will be at the top?

The Minister for Education had said that 'no Singaporean should be deprived of a good education', so what about the many students, like my daughter, who are qualified to enter university after two years of hard slog, only to be told that they had not been selected due to limited vacancies and stiff competition?

The Education Ministry should look into this problem with a sense of urgency as it only shows a lack of planning to meet the aspirations of young Singaporeans who want to study for a degree.

Local universities are publicly funded. Isn't it about loyalty and kinship that citizens are given a chance to study there as long as they are eligible for entry?

Are my daughter's grades of an A, B, C (General Paper) and an E not good enough?

My son, who is 27 years old and had A-level grades of A, B and C, graduated with a Second Upper Class Honours degree in the Arts and Social Sciences at NUS.

See Chee Wee


In other developed countries, Miss See's result will not get her into Cambridge University, Tokyo University, Harvard University, Australian National University or the likes of them, in their respective countries. Likewise, in Singapore, her result will not - and should not - get her into NUS - the number 1 ranking university of the country.

BUT, in these other countries, there are enough universities to go around, such that Mr. See's daughter can get into a 3rd or 4th rated one.

That's what those government do with the money they collect from tax-payers: build government-subsidised universities so that X% of their cohorts can be well-educated,-- as opposed to our much-less-than X% figure.

It is a fact that this Matrix Island does not have enough universities per 100,000 population, compared to all other developed countries.

It is a fact that on this Matrix Island, university admission criteria is not based on educational principles i.e. the principle that if, from an educational point of view, such and such a grade is needed for a student to be able to cope with such and such a university course, then we should have enough universities to admit a student having such a grade.

It is a fact that on this Matrix Island, only a small percent of each cohort is allowed to enter university, the percentage being first determined by how many people our Matrix Master (MM) had wrongly predicted that the MNC-based economy needs, and then "wayang-ly" determined by artifical university admission criteria (e.g. you need to pass GP to enter certain courses, and yet to enter the likes of Harvard, you need only have the equivalance of O-level C6 or a pass on the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL))!

It is a fact that we now have structural unemployment because our people, having been artifically deprived of a tertiary education, cannot find jobs in the new knolwedge-based economy - that's why 80% of the researchers at our research institutions are foreigners Meanwhile, 80% of the locals, are now "washing test tubes" for these researchers! (But no, even washing test tubes require a bachelor degree. So are they cleaning tables at hawker centres instead ? Nope, that's reserved for Ah Peks and Ah Mas. The 40-something are simply "kiao-kar-ing" at home after being retrenched!)

It is a fact that the Matrix Master now realises that his forcast is wrong and is increasing the number of universities dramatically - double, in fact, from 2 to 4. Eh, what happened - Suddenly 100% more people clever enough to go university? IQ doubled in 40 years?

It is a fact that despite realising his mistake, our Matrix Master has merely re-predicted the number of graduates the new economoy needs, He has not, and will not, ever abide by the educational principles stated earlier. That's because he knows only too well the grave danger an educated, mind-liberated, humanities-trained person can pose to his political party.

It is a fact that the above policy was started 40 years ago, had continued with no disruption for 40 years and will continue in the forseeable future, probably for the next 40 years if MM gets his way!


Just which part of the above fact does Mr. See not know?

Just which part of the above fact is new?

For goodness sake, it has been like that for the past 40 years! There is nothing new!

Has Mr. See not been living on the Matrix Island for the past 40 years?


What has he been doing for the past 20 years, since he was 21 till his daughter turned 18, while cohorts after cohorts of young men and women, whose parents were too poor to send them overseas, were denied a university education?

Has he been saying: "Why should I be bothered? So long as PAP's policy result in wealth for myself, other people's problem is none of my business. My daughter is still in primary school"?

Has he been saying: "MM said if we build too many universities, we will have too many unemployed graduates and it will be a waste of money. MM said we cannot judge our graduates-to-population ratio based on other developed countries because this Island is unique. I believe whatever MM says"?

Has he been saying: "I have never considered if there is a political reason behind the policy of not abiding by educational principles. I don't need to think - MM does it for me"?

Has he been saying: "I used to be able to vote in a single constituency. Later, I get to vote only in a GRC. And of late, I have not been voting at all. But I have never been bothered by my inability to express my stake in the country via voting, because whatever goverment policies of the day has not affected me then"?

Or, is Mr. See saying now: "Now that my own child is affected, I am starting to have an interest in politics, starting to doubt MM's ability to forcast correctly, starting to doubt the wisdom of micro-managing educational and social policies and starting to suspect that there have always been more to any issue than what he state publicly and all these, I started for the first time in 40 years after the policies affect my own family"!


If this is what Mr. See is saying, I think I have to "laugh".

But if Mr. See has been a 33.3% for the past 40 years, I will "cry" in sympathy, for then, it's not his "fault".

My point?

Human Battery: Please take an active interest in politics before it affects you and your loved ones!

Mega blue pill

(surely they meant:
"the future of our Matrix Master"?)

"A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves" - Edward Murrow (1905-1965)

"So long as men worship dictators, Caesars and Napoleons will arise to make them miserable." - Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)


Have you come across such words of wisdom during your school days?

Perhaps during literature class? Or as part of the history project that you did on Napoleon or Caesar?


(But wait, you did get to study literature or ancient world history in school, right? No? Why not?

I mean, students all over the world from Europe to America, get to study literature and world history as part of their mandatory education, along with other compulsory subjects such as Math and Science. WHY NOT YOU?)


And if you did study history, surely your history lessons have consisted of more than memorising dates about Sir Stamford Raffles, right?

I mean, surely, you must have done many history projects on:

• Napoleon, Caesar, Hitler: their thinking and their words,
• the rise and fall of Chinese dynasties: the causes and the reasons,
• the various types of political ideologies: communism, democracy, how they arose, the theories behind them
• reading up various contradictory accounts of the same historical event, thus understanding that "history is written by the victor"?
  

(I said "surely", because that's how students in other developed countries are taught, and we are a developed country.)

No, No, No to all 4 bullet points?

WHY NOT?


Or perhaps, the words of these wise men appeared in one of the hundreds of essays that you read, during your 10-12 years of English language "reading comprehension" lessons?

No? Literally hundreds of essays and not a single work by such famous people/writer?

WHY NOT?


I will tell you why!

Because we are human batteries!

Our responsibility, as far as education goes, is to learn how to build things, cure sickness or make money, so that we can become engineering/ medical/ business human batteries respectively.

Learning to think, to question, and to ultimately liberate the mind is NOT the educational goal assigned to human batteries!

And our Matrix Masters have specially designed an education curriculum and exam syllabus and streaming criteria to ensure that.


"But.. but.. but a country does need people who are well-versed in such history and literature and philosophy and whose mind are liberated in order to survive, does it not?", stammered some human batteries in shock.

Sure it does!

And our Matrix Master knew that too. Long ago, in fact.

More than 20 years ago, he had already come up with the perfect solution - a Humanities Scholar Scheme, designed specially for the top X% of each cohort. Here's how it works:

• Identify such top students via national exams
• Allow these students (and only these students) to enroll in selected schools that are funded with extra money allocated specially for the scheme.
• Let their young minds be liberated through such studies in humanities.
• It's ok, because they won't betray the Matrix Masters. The undergraduate scholarships and bonds that they will get later, will ensure that!

(Wee Shu Min, by the way, was in this Humanities Scholar Scheme, if I remember correctly).


To put it another way, on this Matrix Island, only the top X% of each cohort are allowed to go through a real education - which seeks to liberate the mind by training it to analyse, to doubt, to question, and hence to be able to sieve truth from falsehood, relevance from irrelevance, fact from myth. And, having had their mind thus liberated, they, while useful to the country, will also become a serious threat to the Matrix Master, and hence all will be bought over with scholarship money and high salary and be inducted into the administrative service!

Oh, btw, X is a very small percentage.

Less than 1%.

The gifted student scheme is for the top 1% of the cohort. Each cohort is about 50,000 students and so only 500 join the scheme each year. The Humanities Scholar Scheme draws its students mostly (but not entirely) from a subset of the gifted student scheme and so is made up of less than 1% of each cohort!

"The remainder i.e. 99.xx% of each cohort, they have better had only a technical education which serves the economy directly and which will ensure that they remain ignorant human batteries!", so thought our Matrix Master.

In Chinese, there is a special term for such an education strategy:

愚民教育！
(an education system to "stupidify" its citizens)

Human Battery: The entire education system - curriculum, exam syllabus, streaming - is a mega blue pill!

Thanks, Mom

Mother's Day is here.

Just what kind of mother do you have?

What moral values did your mother teach you?

This is what George Yeo's mother taught him:

"我妈妈对我们的教诲，我们是个大家庭，必须善待陌生人和客人，因为你对来客感到害怕。你对来客一定要比对家人好，因为他是难以预测的，也可以对你造成伤害，所以你必须确保他能融入"。-- 杨荣文, 早报 2007-04-29

"My mother taught us thus: we are a big family. we must treat strangers and guest well, because we are afraid of them. You must treat a guest better than you treat your own family members, because the former is unpredictable, and can also cause you harm, therefore you must ensure he can assimilate" - Foreign Affair Minister George Yeo, in an interview with Lianhe Zaobao on 29/4/07, translated by the Human Battery.


The Chinese said: "养不教，父之过" - to raise a kid and not teach him any moral values, is the fault of the father (and in the modern days, mother too). How true! Some parents really need to be spanked for raisinig kids with no moral values. This means parents like yours or mine, who have no sense of morality, unlike George Yeo's mom.

The Westerners said: "The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world". How true, too! The fate of human batteries on this Matrix Island was sealed, not in recent years, but many years ago - the day some mother taught her son that he must treat outsiders better than the way he treats his own family members!

On this Mother's day, this human battery would like to express his gratitude to his mother for not having taught him the "values" that George Yeo's mum had taught George!

Heng ah!

Human Battery: Thanks, Mom!

An entire nation

"I want to leave this Matrix Island,
but i don't have the means to"!

How many times have you heard of the above whining?

This Matrix Island is full of such whiners.

In fact, a recent survey revealed that 50% of our youth would like to emigrate if given a chance!

Unbelievable!

Even in matters of emigration, they want someone, presumably the government, to "give [them] a chance"!

Just what is so difficult about emigrating?

You don't have to be highly educated - literally thousands of men, women and children from Hong Kong emigrated to Europe, United States, and Australia pre-1997.

Just visit their Chinatown if you ever go on a business trip. Enjoy your Dim Sum, sip your tea and observe those women who are pushing the dim sum carts. Do they sound educated at all to you?

Why, many of them cannot even speak English! And don't tell me all hundreds of thousands of them are illegal immigrants - that just defy logic. Talk to them and you will discover that education is a myth. Skill is the answer. And sometimes, the skill can be as "simple" as knowing how to make/sell dim sum.

You don't have to be below a certain age - Australia may have an age restriction - below 45 years old. But not so, for many European countries and United States; Many of these countries do not discriminate in age, even in immigration matters.

So what do you need to have?

Answer: you need to have guts, and this is what many human batteries lack!

If you still need to be convinced, chat with your typical Indian or Chinese colleagues from India/China. How did they end up in Singapore? What about their peers who went to the west? Their revelation will be enlightening:

Many of them, upon university graduation, stayed on to do a Masters degree in their own country. They then used their masters result to gain entry to our NUS/NTU.

While here, they suffered discriminatory remarks from Singaporeans in their everyday lives. After enduring and getting a second master degree here, they applied to 1st-rated universities in the West, effectively using the highly-trusted NUS/NTU degree as a stepping stone.

Finally, after getting yet another masters degree, from the 1st-rated universities, they ended up with top-paying job, and get their PR and later citizenship!

So you see how much hardship and repeated studying at the same level they went through to get their new citizenship? Many don't even make it, and they return back to their own country having wasted both time and finance.

But no, our young local students will have nothing of this sort.

We have A-levels and poly diploma holders, who having been deprived of state-subsidised university education (because our matrix masters limited university entry ,and hence subsidy, to only 10+% of each cohort - a figure grossly below other developed countries' standard), and who having forked out their own money to study in Australia...

...choose to return back to this matrix Island to work at a fraction of the salary that they would have gotten if they had stayed on in Australia!

We also have local university graduates who would never go further their studies in the West unless fed monthly salaries while studying. (Well, according to Philip Yeo, that's the reason why A*Star has to pay its scholars salaried postgraduate scholarships).

And yet, 50% of our youth - of which these people are part of - would not hesitate to emigrate "if given a chance"!

Just what chance are they waiting for?

And to be given by whom?

What is preventing these unhappy young people from doing what their Indians and Chinese counterpart did?

To give another example, when Taiwan was a highly repressed society back in the 1970s, thousands of taiwanese university graduates emigrated to USA each year, and became the "model immigrants" of that country.

Later, when Taiwan opened up, they returned back to help fuel the high-tech economy -- which means it is neither disloyal nor shameful to be temporary "quitters", when the country is hoarded by despots.

Just what is preventing our disgruntled "young English-educated radicals" (to borrow MM's words) from doing the same, instead of just waiting for "a chance"?


Well, in a way, I am not surprised. If these human batteries have no guts to even vote against status quo, despite being highly displeased with their Matrix Masters (MM), what can you expect from them when it comes to something that involve considerable financial sacrifice, time commitment, and uncertainty on their part?

Lucky Matrix Masters - you have:

Human Battery: An entire nation of whiners!

Seven women died

Police say SMS about perfume poisoning is a hoax
By Pearl Forss, Channel NewsAsia, 08 May 2007
SINGAPORE: Police say an SMS that has been circulating, about seven women who died after inhaling free perfume samples, is a hoax.

Police remind the public to be responsible when disseminating information, and not to spread rumours.

If you receive such messages, you should contact the Police by dialling 999.


In other countries, it is the task of parents and nannies to "remind" their young charges to be responsible and not to spread rumours (about a perfume). But here, the police finds it appropriate to be our nanny!

So now you know why this country is called a "Nanny State"!

And in other countries, police emergency numbers are reserved for exactly that: emergencies. This means crimes such as an ongoing murder, rape, robbery, gang fight etc.

Here, on this wonderful Matrix Island, our Matrix Masters (MM), too, reserve 999 for emergencies. This means crime such as SMS messages disparaging the good name of a particular brand of perfume!

So, fellow human batteries, don't blame the police if you witness an unimportant crime such as a woman being raped, and cannot reach the 999 operator in time;

Those 999 operators have their hands full handling other emergencies of even greater proportion -- 7 women who do not exist and did not die!

So your rape victim jolly well have to wait in the phone queue while the case of the 7 virtual women is handled. First come, first serve - never mind virtual or real!


Oh, before I forget, how is the police going to "remind" us to be responsible (when it comes to a particular brand of perfume)? By inviting us to "drink tea" at the police station? Or is it at CID;s cold room? Or is it by charging us to court? (Obviously, they have to do one thing or the other, for otherwise, their "reminder" is not going to be effective).

This Matrix Island is not called a "Police State" for nothing!

So, if you are contemplating starting a family and having a baby, ask yourself: do you want just your 14 years old teenager to be hauled up to court or to the police station, for sending a SMS message about the false effects of a perfume?

If not, why do you want to have a baby on this Island? (That's not to say you should not reproduce. The hint is in the italics, to be talked about at another time :)

Human Battery: I want to let you guys know -- 7 women have died after inhaling free perfume samples that were offered to them at some shopping centres. So, beware, nothing is free in this world. Don't be kiasu when it comes to free stuff. Don't inhale perfumes. Don't breathe. Stay at home!

(So how? Have I created a pandemonia leading to a collapse of the economy due to nobody daring to buy a particular brand of perfume? Someone call the police quick! I need to be "reminded" that perfume X is manufactured by company T and any false claim that will affect company's T reputation is always an emergency!)

(Oops, Have I just started a rumour about company T which in fact did not manufacture perfume X? Someone quick call the police again! Another pandemonia has been created, this time leading to the stock market crashing due to everyone selling company T's stock!!!)

A really good deal

So, the Mountbattan Citizen Consultative Committee (CCC) held a fund raising dinner at suntech city yesterday, the proceed of which would go towards helping the poor residents of that constituency. And so:

• The CEO of Kim Seng Heng holding bid $6,800 for an XO wine with SM Goh's signature on it.
• The boss of Yafriro International bid $19,800 for an extra large Heineken, also signed by SM Goh.
• This same boss donated a $29,000-worth Parmigiani Fleurier watch.
• Someone bid $33,000 for this watch.
• Another bid $5,500 for an OSIM massage chair.

All in all, these generous people raised $200,000 for charity.

Erm, what about the wooden one himself, whom I supposed was the guest of honour? Of the $200,000 total, how much did he contribute to help the poor residents of Mountbattan?

Make a guess!
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Ans: $0.00! That's right, zero dollar and zero cent!

But, oh, the wooden one promised that if the CCC's Chairman, togther with the Vice-chariman of the sports club were to run 217 km across the Death Valley in California, USA, he would donate some money thereafter.

How much?

$5000

(The newspaper lauded his yet-to-be-seen, subject-to-condtions action thus: "he will donate more than $5000").

This human battery suddenly remembers two idioms that his Chinese Language teacher has "forced" him to memorise (and for which he is now reaping the good fruit) :

为富不仁

乐善好施

The first - to be rich and yet not benevolent - of course does not apply to SM Goh. How can it? Firstly, our leaders are very benevolent (they said so. We accept. That's the way things work) and secondly, they are not rich - they had all made undue "financial sacrifice" to enter politics, as we were reminded recently.

The second applies to him - he is such a generous man, ever happy to provide and to donate. I am impressed.


联合早报 2007-05-08
吴资政两瓶亲笔签名酒　为贫寒居民筹获2万6000元

　　国务资政吴作栋昨晚捐出两瓶附上他亲笔签名的酒供投标，为蒙巴登区筹得2万6000元。

　　蒙巴登公民咨询委员会昨晚在新达城举行筹款晚宴，共筹得近20万元。这笔款项将用来帮助该区穷苦居民。昨晚约500人出席这项活动。

　　晚宴的高潮是投标活动。金成兴控股总裁朱峙安先以6800元标得吴资政签名的XO酒，投标活动上，人们越叫越热，第二瓶酒的叫价在两分钟内就已经超越这个价格。

　　经过一轮激烈的喊价战，Yafriro国际表行老板丘金雄最终以1万9800元成功标得吴资政签名的特大瓶装的喜力（Heineken）啤酒。裁缝师出身的丘金雄透露，他愿意出如此高价，主要是为表示对吴资政的支持。“我和吴资政认识多年，经常为他量身订做洋服。”

　　丘金雄昨晚也捐出了一支市价2万9000元的Parmigiani Fleurier豪华表，该表以3万3000元成交。另一项投标项目Osim按摩椅则以5500元成交。这四位成功投标者都将获得由吴资政签名的合照。

　　蒙巴登公民咨询委员会主席林义发和蒙巴登区体育俱乐部副主席杨渊菁也将在7月中挑战美国加利福尼亚州死亡谷，设法完成217公里的长跑。

　　主办当局昨晚也当场分发筹款卡，呼吁人们捐款表示支持。吴资政带头宣誓若他们完成挑战，他将捐出超过5000元。

Neo: Yeah. That sounds like a really good deal. But I got a better one. How about... I give you the finger... and you give me my phone call?
Agent Smith: Mr. Anderson... you disappoint me.

心寒

马照跑，舞照跳，
百姓照样“死翘翘”，
薪水照升，“死伯爽”！

"Mr Lee noted that one major long-term challenge is the rapid ageing of Singapore's population. The key goal, said the Prime Minister, is to enable workers to work longer and retire later." - PM's May Day message， Channel NewsAsia, 30 Apr 07.


这种“滥交“话，他竟可以说得出口？

且还是大大方方，“面皮厚厚”地在五一劳动节，向着劳动阶级的工友们说！

心寒了。


"Free education and subsidised housing lead to a situation where the less economically productive people in the community are reproducing themselves at rates higher than the rest. This will increase the total population of less productive people.

We must... take the first tentative steps towards correcting a trend which can leave our society with a large number of the physically, intellectually and culturally anaemic." - MM, years ago, revealing the true reason why he would never permit any social welfare on his(?) Matrix Island.


这种“击败“话，他都可以大言不惭地公开讲。。。

。。。而大选竟还可大获全胜？？

当年支持他的选民也真他妈的够贱！犯贱！

真觉得心寒。


"We want to teach people the government is not a rich uncle. You get what you pay for. We are moving in the direction of making people pay for everything." - SM Rajaratnam, during a time when the "old guards" spoke their mind more freely than the younger Matrix Masters of today. (btw, I got the above two quotes from here).


那还缴税来干屁？

何必有什么 GST, COE, HDB???

这种令人发指的话，他都可以毫无顾虑地说出来。

实在令人心寒。


"A Singapore opposition politician yesterday overcame blisters and fatigue to complete his 55-hour protest walk across the city-state to highlight the plight of workers. Chee Soon Juan, secretary general of the Singapore Democratic Party, and his sister Chee Siok Chin finished the 150km journey on May Day at a park designated Singapore's Speakers' Corner to applause from about 20 supporters." - AFP


但，这才是真正令本电池人不寒而栗的！

有道是：“哀莫大于心死，而人死亦次之。”（庄子·田子方）

这就是了。This is it!

心。。。

。。。寒了，

。。。彻彻底底地死了！


后记：
所以说嘛，本电池人是蛮佩服 那个 Neo 的。为何他能如此坚持下去而心始终不寒，不死呢？

百思不得其解。因为电池人就办不到！有必要吗？What's the point? They don't deserve you!

In fact, to be more precise, the Matrix Masters (MM) and their human batteries deserve each other!

The rest of us should just "远走高飞" ("walk far far, fly high high [away]")，while we still can!

Human Battery: 令人心寒！

Nobody has ever...

(more pics here)

"当一个叛逆者（特别是政治与思想的叛逆者），是要付出代价的，那代价也许是失业、失学、贫困，更严重的是坐牢，甚至丢掉性命。。。

有些人想叛逆，但又不愿承担叛逆的后果，那怎么办？鼓励别人叛逆，自己当观众。你说他没有勇气？不，鼓励别人要有勇气，这点勇气他还是有的。" - 韩山元,早报副刊,2007-04-27.

"To be a rebel (especially a rebel in politics and thinking) requires paying a price. That price can be deprivation of job, education, and money, or more seriously, imprisonment or even death...

Some people want to rebel, but dare not shoulder the consequence of rebelling. What to do? Such a person encourages others to rebel, while remaining an audience himself! You say he has no courage? No, (you are wrong). To encourage others requires courage too. This tiny amount of courage, he still has!" - translated by The Human Battery, from a 27/4/07 article in Lianhe Zaobao.


This human battery is glad that he still has this "tiny amount of courage". haha!

He hopes all of you have too!

Trinity: Neo... nobody has ever done this before.
Neo: That's why it's going to work.