The Regrets of Old Man

[scroobal]

Some of you must have heard about these things;

1) The inability of DBS to emulate the success of HSBC
2) The failure of the sovereign funds to identify winners
3) Why Singapore has no one that comes close to Tony Fernandez
4) The lack of Booker Prize, Nobel Prize etc

[sodoMee]

Could nepotism and marriedtocracy be the cause of it?

Or being the nanny too much is bad for your peasants?

PRCs are successful in small businesses everywhere they go until they get the irks of the red eyes of their host country's peasant population!!

I dunno maybe we are not hungry enough and treat money with respect?

Isn't that a good thing? As Timothy 6:10 has already pointed out!

[Brightkid]

These are all very easy to slve as from the old man......just put more spurs into peasants' hides will do. That is his million dollar problem solving skill.

Don't beleive ? Wait till election is over.

[kingrant]

I thot uppermost in his regrets wld be
0) Why Singapore has no one that comes close to himself.

Some of you must have heard about these things;

1) The inability of DBS to emulate the success of HSBC
2) The failure of the sovereign funds to identify winners
3) Why Singapore has no one that comes close to Tony Fernandez
4) The lack of Booker Prize, Nobel Prize etc

[cheekenpie]

I thot uppermost in his regrets wld be
0) Why Singapore has no one that comes close to himself.

Agree. His biggest regret is that his son prefer pink to white.

[kingrant]

Old Man has to concede that some things are just larger than himself, that the world is beyond his control, and that he is no God. He may wish that he had a few hundreds of himself, but that might just make the problems even more intractable. Imagine having to fight with yrself all the time.

[kingrant]

Next book by the prostitutes will be MIP - Men in Pink.

Agree. His biggest regret is that his son prefer pink to white.

[cooleo]

Think his biggest regret is how he got screwed front, back, left, right and centre in the Suzhou Industrial Park investment.

[Ash007]

Eh.. what makes all of you think he has any regrets? As far as I can tell, separation from Malaysia was the biggest regret he had. He is old, well-known, has heaps of money. All these "regrets" means virtually nothing to him now as far as I can see.

[Queen Seok Duk]

3) Why Singapore has no one that comes close to Tony Fernandez

Sim Wong Hoo ?

[makapaaa]

Some of you must have heard about these things;

1) The inability of DBS to emulate the success of HSBC
2) The failure of the sovereign funds to identify winners
3) Why Singapore has no one that comes close to Tony Fernandez
4) The lack of Booker Prize, Nobel Prize etc

And to have a few useless children to boot!

[cooleo]

Sim Wong Hoo ?

Too bad his misguided attempts at creating a iPod killer backfired and the co. is bleeding every year.

[Ash007]

Sim Wong Hoo ?

Yes, Sim would be the closet, unfortunately he made the mistake of coming back to Singapore.

[scroobal]

Sim came back to raise a rights issue of his company shares. Much of the proceeds went to him. Thats how you mitigate your risk. Singaporeans bought it on emotive grounds. When I asked people if they read the prospectus and where the funds raised was going, they had no clue.

Yes, Sim would be the closet, unfortunately he made the mistake of coming back to Singapore.

[scroobal]

Its turning out to be a one hit wonder - soundblaster.

Sim Wong Hoo ?

[NoNewsGood]

Eh.. what makes all of you think he has any regrets? As far as I can tell, separation from Malaysia was the biggest regret he had.

Yes, he had this hidden life ambition to become prime minister of malaysia.

He thought he was getting closer.

Suddenly, with the separation (which he really did not see it coming), his dreams all went up in smoke. That's why he cried.

[zuoom]

what regrets?

about having the casino, F1 events in Singapore too late?

[johnny333]

Think his biggest regret is how he got screwed front, back, left, right and centre in the Suzhou Industrial Park investment.

When the village ganster goes to the big city, he finds out there are many more smarter people.

[aurvandil]

His greatest regret is probably that while we have the best paid Ministers/MPs in the world, they are probably not the best that Singapore has to offer.

If the current PAP Ministers/MPs are the best that Singapore has to offer, then there wouldn't have been the need for all sorts of strange political antics to stay in power.

If the PAP Ministers/MPs are the best, they should be able to carry the ground in a fair electoral fight.

Given MM's advanced age, this might be his last election. If it is done in the usual sleazy way that has become the norm for recent Singapore elections, then he will probably leave with the doubt that perhaps he failed in his last and most important task. The unscrupulous politicans, which he was trying so hard to protect Singapore from, have come in via cracks in the PAP system and are waiting to inherit his legacy.

So far, things have been looking promising that the upcoming elections might be fairer than usual. The budget which was released recently does not seem to contain any of the usual election sweeteners. There has been no demonisation of Oppostion leaders by the msm. While the Opposition has been given little coverage, the coverage so far has been relatively balanced.

One can only hope this wiill follow through Election 2010 and we find the best possible people to lead Singapore in the post LKY era.

[johnny333]

I dunno maybe we are not hungry enough and treat money with respect?

"We"

The PAP boast that Spore is run like Spore Inc, failures & successed belong to the management.

As lesser mortals, we are mere cogs, digits in the system. How can you blame the digits for failures at the very top