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By now some of us heard about the Sunday morning incident at Blk 511 Bishan where PAP grassroots leaders blocked food patrons from occupying seats at the Hawker Centre to have their own gathering with their MP. I have no doubt that many were aghast how such an inappropriate conduct was allowed in the first place. We penalise and even suspended hawkers for reserving seats with Newton usually in the lime light. So why is this different.
Now here is a real incident that took place half a decade ago when culture and civility was not a high priority.
On May 1961, the Bukit Ho Swee fire destroyed 2,000 homes and made 16,000 people homeless. Goh Sin Tub, Senior Civil Servant and a well regarded Catholic and Literary figure was put in charge of the crisis centre. Each morning he would attend to a long queue of people making all sorts of requests. One morning as was his practice he would look at how long the queue is prior to meeting the people when he spotted a familiar figure in a crumpled shirt and pants. He immediately recognised him. He was in the queue and that gentleman was Singapore's richest's man, role model and leader of the largest dialect group as well as the captain of industry.
Goh went up to him and asked him why he was queuing and asked him to follow him. That gentleman said he did not feel right jumping the queue and had to be persuaded. It later turned out that Policemen on site too had recognised the gentleman and told him to go straight into the office but he chose to join the queue.
That gentleman sat in front of Goh and wrote out a 6 figure cheque to help the homeless.
Tell me why Lee Kong Chian felt that it was only right to queue while these fucking grassroots arseholes and their MP felt that they were above everyone else. Lee Kong Chian was not there to make a request but he was there to provide relief and it turned out to be the single donation for the Bukit Ho Swee Fire.
By now some of us heard about the Sunday morning incident at Blk 511 Bishan where PAP grassroots leaders blocked food patrons from occupying seats at the Hawker Centre to have their own gathering with their MP. I have no doubt that many were aghast how such an inappropriate conduct was allowed in the first place. We penalise and even suspended hawkers for reserving seats with Newton usually in the lime light. So why is this different.
Now here is a real incident that took place half a decade ago when culture and civility was not a high priority.
On May 1961, the Bukit Ho Swee fire destroyed 2,000 homes and made 16,000 people homeless. Goh Sin Tub, Senior Civil Servant and a well regarded Catholic and Literary figure was put in charge of the crisis centre. Each morning he would attend to a long queue of people making all sorts of requests. One morning as was his practice he would look at how long the queue is prior to meeting the people when he spotted a familiar figure in a crumpled shirt and pants. He immediately recognised him. He was in the queue and that gentleman was Singapore's richest's man, role model and leader of the largest dialect group as well as the captain of industry.
Goh went up to him and asked him why he was queuing and asked him to follow him. That gentleman said he did not feel right jumping the queue and had to be persuaded. It later turned out that Policemen on site too had recognised the gentleman and told him to go straight into the office but he chose to join the queue.
That gentleman sat in front of Goh and wrote out a 6 figure cheque to help the homeless.
Tell me why Lee Kong Chian felt that it was only right to queue while these fucking grassroots arseholes and their MP felt that they were above everyone else. Lee Kong Chian was not there to make a request but he was there to provide relief and it turned out to be the single donation for the Bukit Ho Swee Fire.
