Yam Ah Mee too high and mighty to eat with peasants @ CC

[brocoli]

Undoing community bonding

LAST Saturday, a friend invited me to an event organised by the People's Association (PA) at Cheng San Community Club.

The ticket cost $12 per person, and a high-tea buffet was included. In attendance were Ang Mo Kio GRC MP Ang Hin Kee and PA chief executive director Yam Ah Mee.

While I appreciate the efforts of the PA and community clubs in organising such community-bonding events, it left me with reservations.

I was flabbergasted to discover that the organising committee, judges, sponsors and other VIPs enjoyed their high-tea in a closed air-conditioned room while the rest of the guests had theirs outside under a tent.

Why was there a 'divide' for an occasion aimed at community bonding?

On the same day, across the road from the PA event, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong was officiating at an event marking the completion of an upgrading programme.

According to press reports, he emphasised that the Government was determined to improve citizens' lives, and this included community bonding.

What happened was unfortunate because the grassroots leaders who organised the community-bonding event were undoing what the Government is trying to achieve.

Lum Yan Meng

http://www.straitstimes.com/STForum/Story/STIStory_722690.html

all the dogs obviously dun take ass loong seriously, think he is a softie...

peons stewpig enough to pay for ah yam buffet when he dun even wan to eat with chiu ...

kannina

 

[butoh6050]

The air con buffet includes king crab legs, oysters, sashimi and lobsters.

The tent high tea is pakoras. smelly toufu , nasi lemak and rose colored water.

 

[eatshitndie]

there's 1st class and there's economy.

 

[zeddy]

Lum Yan Meng : was flabbergasted to discover that the organising committee, judges, sponsors and other VIPs enjoyed their high-tea in a closed air-conditioned room while the rest of the guests had theirs outside under a tent.

Ah Meng ah.... you voted for who last May? If you voted for the PAP then you deserved it lah... Frankly speaking, who in the right frame of mind would attend and pay $12 for a buffet event that was attended by countless PAP Porlumpars and Grasslooters..??? For less than 12 bucks you could have a decent satisfying meal at Wee Nam Kee...

 

[red amoeba]

Ah Meng ah.... you voted for who last May? If you voted for the PAP then you deserved it lah... Frankly speaking, who in the right frame of mind would attend and pay $12 for a buffet event that was attended by countless PAP Porlumpars and Grasslooters..??? For less than 12 bucks you could have a decent satisfying meal at Wee Nam Kee...

i think he may be a glassloot or running a business there & therefore "obliged" to go...but feel DL...LOL

 

[HedgeTrader]

i think he may be a glassloot or running a business there & therefore "obliged" to go...but feel DL...LOL

Agree man. Glasslooter! Nobody supporting and voting oppo will attend this type one, then KPKB later. Points for you.

 

[HellAngel]

Lum, I think you deserve the treatment.

 

[streetsmart73]

hi there


1. aiyoh!
2. such specimen still living in its own world leh.
3. daft sheep do not mix man.
4. untouchable elites eat by themselves, privileged.
5. daft sheep eat anything thrown to them!
6. it is only for some media thing, the elite sheep will come out to appease the common sheep.

 

[tima81]

What the fish man So SAF-like. The General and the crab enjoy good food. Peasants and farmer officers sitting out in the sun!

 

[lianbeng]

lianbeng asks, "since when did emperors/kings eat with commoners?"