Mah Bow Tan: I retired after wife urged me to sleep at home instead of office

[looneytan]

Well he does not need to bend down to suck his wife's neh-nehs....

he has to tip toe leh! more tiring

 

[halsey02]

As the Cantonese saying goes : 矮仔多计

That was what my late mother warned me about..so, I am very wary of those short ones...especially of the "what teow, mo bat ti"... ha ha ha you watch carefully of what they are chopping especially buying chicken rice from them & what they are saying in Hainanese ( in whcih I understand well)...they will cheat you.... ha ha ha ha

 

[halsey02]

he has to tip toe leh! more tiring

Encik..can use the batu to stand on...or bricks from Jurong Brickworks, the one HDB uses...

 

[oli9]

Who gives a shite whether this hobbit sleeps at home or in office or in his 4 foot high cave. What we want to know is, HOW MUCH DOES A HDB COST? He has no fucking clue to this burning question!

 

[Sideswipe]

Who gives a shite whether this hobbit sleeps at home or in office or in his 4 foot high cave. What we want to know is, HOW MUCH DOES A HDB COST? He has no fucking clue to this burning question!

he of course knows that but he can't tell us.

 

[Guerriero]

Alamak .. maybe one HDB flat would cost around ONE MILLION in future !!! How to survive like that ???

 

[oratedar]

not worth reading

AT least 1000X better than your usual crap about your family drama, BITCH.

 

[kaipoh]

Mah is talking rubbish. This is another LKY high salary failure. just imagine after accumulate his MP salary (20 millions?) you still want to face all the peasants and listen to their rubbish complaints)? High salary = lost of doggies.
Not only George, GCT, Mah will do it, any PAP's minister will take the chance to step down once they are defeated- like cantonese say "no eye to see" what you fucker do and say, I have many houses in oversea "

Former minister for national development Mah Bow Tan has revealed in an interview that he had retired from politics after his wife had urged him to sleep at home instead, and not because he was caught doing so on the job as widely believed.

Two years after stepping down from his post, the MP for Tampinese GRC said he had left office with no complaints or regrets.

When he retired after the 2011 General Election, there was widespread surprise that he had actually been around for the preceding decade. Many were under the impression he had retired in 1999, when he was last spotted doing anything of note.

“A lot was said about my reasons for leaving, with some speculating that I had hogged the cushy seat for too long,” he was quoted saying in a Chinese book about prominent Hainanese in Singapore. “But I did not feel that was the case. I felt I had already given my best years to the Government and the people of Singapore.”

But Mr Mah said he had to make way for a new generation of leaders jostling after his office nest and eyeing his comfy Herman Miller lounge chair, said a Shin Min Daily News report on Sunday quoting the book.

“Besides, my wife was asking me every day, why don’t you just sleep at home in a proper bed instead?” said Mr Mah.

“I explained that I can’t because the people are paying me good money to do so at the ministry.”

After 10 years spent exploring various postures for a desk nap, he finally gave in to his wife’s demands. This was after party supporters had dragged him out of his snores in time for the 2011 election.

Now he misses the times when he could doze a whole day undisturbed with the office door shut and blinds drawn.

“But if you think I was fortunate, you obviously haven’t seen what Swee Say does in the Prime Minister’s Office,” he added quickly.

“The truth is nobody has, or knows what he does. It’s a mystery to everyone in the cabinet.”

In his 10 years at the Ministry for National Development (MND), Mr Mah said, he had the honour of not doing much as the world revolved around his deep and long slumber. Describing it as the 10 most restful years of his life, he added he had given his bugger all to the task.

“Ten years is a long nap by any measure. There were times I struggled, when I had to pretend to sleep just so that my staff wouldn’t bother me with housing problems faced by the people.”

And his proudest achievement was increasing the net worth of asset-rich Singaporeans without having to lift a finger, as HDB prices sky-rocketed under his sleepy watch.

As a child, said Mr Mah in the interview, he loved visiting Collyer Quay and admired how wild pigs along the pier could sleep without stirring, even when you threw sticks at them .

So when joining MND, he hoped he would evoke the same kind of awe in today’s children.

“I’ve done better than that. The cleaner aunties at MND had expressed amazement at my ability to sleep like a log,” he said matter-of-factly.

“Quite a few almost threw me out by accident because I looked too much like dead wood!”

After leaving politics, Mr Mah has been sleeping less and spending more time with his family.

“I am making up for lost time now, by staying awake more and going for holidays with my family,” he said. “I feel so refreshed and youthful after my stint at MND.”

“Retirement hasn’t been easy going, though. Who would have imagined that a beach holiday is so much more tiring than a minister’s job?”

- http://www.voiddecker.com/2013/09/m...after-wife-urged-me-to-sleep-at-home-instead/

 

[iamhere]

"After leaving politics, Mr Mah has been sleeping less and spending more time with his family."
=> he was sleeping more when he was office-holder?

did we pay him to sleep more?

 

[Lizzert]

maybe the short ass steal eat.and tell dumb wifey he work late,stay in office, yada, yada went he actually banging
some syt

 

[sta1100]

What load of shit, ask to stand down got no gut to admit knowing he screw up big time.

 

[blackmondy]

This Mah-the-fucker is the source of all Singaporeans' pain.

Thanks to him with his "asset enhancement" and COE implementation, our housing and car prices reached sky-high levels.