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He wants hungry leaders, not boring drones:
Philip Yeo scoffs at bookworms, saying scholars need to be hungry and tenacious
Tan Hui Leng [email protected]
“HAVE you been to a bar? A red- light district?” — these are some of the questions that top civil servant Philip Yeo once posed to an officer from the Public Service Commission at an interview.
To both questions, the answers from the young man were: “No.”
“This guy spends all his time at the library!” commented Mr Yeo at a Pioneers of Singapore Dialogue Sessions organised by EDB Society and The Straits Times.
Eh, I also go geylang OK! See, they gave me a medal for being the top bobo shooter. Got special kang tao or not?
Philip Yeo scoffs at bookworms, saying scholars need to be hungry and tenacious
Tan Hui Leng [email protected]
“HAVE you been to a bar? A red- light district?” — these are some of the questions that top civil servant Philip Yeo once posed to an officer from the Public Service Commission at an interview.
To both questions, the answers from the young man were: “No.”
“This guy spends all his time at the library!” commented Mr Yeo at a Pioneers of Singapore Dialogue Sessions organised by EDB Society and The Straits Times.

Eh, I also go geylang OK! See, they gave me a medal for being the top bobo shooter. Got special kang tao or not?
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