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MCYS staff FORCED to mourn for Mrs Lee
October 7th, 2010 | Author: Editorial
The spectacle along Thomson Road yesterday which saw some 500 staff from the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports (MCYS) lining the road to pay their last respects to Mrs Lee Kuan Yew as her cortege passed by on its way to Mandai Crematorium had set tongues wagging among Singaporeans if it was orchestrated from above.
According to tip-offs we received from several disgruntled civil servants from MCYS, nearly the entire workforce at the ministry, minus the security guards, were FORCED to leave their work in the afternoon to participate in the “wayang” to show that MCYS is “mourning” Mrs Lee’s demise.
Attached below is an internal memo sent to all MCYS staff from Ms Pamela Tan, the Assistant Director of its Human Resource Division which called on all staff of MCYS/SLF Building to line up along Thomson Road on the afternoon of 6 October 2010 and to leave the buildings by 3.45pm.
It even asked MCYS staff to be “solemn” and “bow” their heads as a form of respect as the cortege passes by and to wear clothes with “sombre” colors.
One irate civil servant from MCYS, who declined to be named, said:
“It is most ridiculous that we have to put our heavy workload aside to line up along the road under the hot afternoon sun. Our superiors kept reminding us to be punctual so as not to miss the cortege. I felt so “malu” standing there like an idiot sweating inside my pants and suit.”
Though it is not known if the PAP minister in charge of MCYS Dr Vivian Balakrishnan was the one who “arrowed” his staff to “mourn” for Mrs Lee along Thomson Road as her cortege passed by, it is highly unlikely he did not know about it as the entire MCYS was “activated” on that fateful afternoon.
It is a shame and insult to PAP strongman Lee Kuan Yew that his civil servants had to be forced to put up a fake show of sympathy and support for his deceased wife, reminiscent of the passing of North Korea’s Kim IL-Sung in 1996 where thousands of workers and peasants were “ordered” to “cry” for him at his funeral.
Dr Vivian Balakrishnan should explain to the public what is going on. How much taxpayers’ monies had been wasted on such a frivolous, unproductive and irrelevant activity? Shouldn’t MCYS officers be working hard on the ground to help the poor and needy in Singapore such as those on Public Assistance (PA) whom Dr Vivian asked if they want “three meals a day at a hawker center, food court, or restaurant.”
In feudal China, it was part of court protocol for all the officials to line up the streets to kowtow to the cortege of a deceased Emperor or Empress on its way to the imperial tombs. Based on the recent media coverage of the passing of Mrs Lee, the endless self-aggrandizement and cult-figure worship plus the fiasco on display, Singapore may not be too far off from being a “dynasty”.
October 7th, 2010 | Author: Editorial
The spectacle along Thomson Road yesterday which saw some 500 staff from the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports (MCYS) lining the road to pay their last respects to Mrs Lee Kuan Yew as her cortege passed by on its way to Mandai Crematorium had set tongues wagging among Singaporeans if it was orchestrated from above.
According to tip-offs we received from several disgruntled civil servants from MCYS, nearly the entire workforce at the ministry, minus the security guards, were FORCED to leave their work in the afternoon to participate in the “wayang” to show that MCYS is “mourning” Mrs Lee’s demise.
Attached below is an internal memo sent to all MCYS staff from Ms Pamela Tan, the Assistant Director of its Human Resource Division which called on all staff of MCYS/SLF Building to line up along Thomson Road on the afternoon of 6 October 2010 and to leave the buildings by 3.45pm.
It even asked MCYS staff to be “solemn” and “bow” their heads as a form of respect as the cortege passes by and to wear clothes with “sombre” colors.
One irate civil servant from MCYS, who declined to be named, said:
“It is most ridiculous that we have to put our heavy workload aside to line up along the road under the hot afternoon sun. Our superiors kept reminding us to be punctual so as not to miss the cortege. I felt so “malu” standing there like an idiot sweating inside my pants and suit.”
Though it is not known if the PAP minister in charge of MCYS Dr Vivian Balakrishnan was the one who “arrowed” his staff to “mourn” for Mrs Lee along Thomson Road as her cortege passed by, it is highly unlikely he did not know about it as the entire MCYS was “activated” on that fateful afternoon.
It is a shame and insult to PAP strongman Lee Kuan Yew that his civil servants had to be forced to put up a fake show of sympathy and support for his deceased wife, reminiscent of the passing of North Korea’s Kim IL-Sung in 1996 where thousands of workers and peasants were “ordered” to “cry” for him at his funeral.
Dr Vivian Balakrishnan should explain to the public what is going on. How much taxpayers’ monies had been wasted on such a frivolous, unproductive and irrelevant activity? Shouldn’t MCYS officers be working hard on the ground to help the poor and needy in Singapore such as those on Public Assistance (PA) whom Dr Vivian asked if they want “three meals a day at a hawker center, food court, or restaurant.”
In feudal China, it was part of court protocol for all the officials to line up the streets to kowtow to the cortege of a deceased Emperor or Empress on its way to the imperial tombs. Based on the recent media coverage of the passing of Mrs Lee, the endless self-aggrandizement and cult-figure worship plus the fiasco on display, Singapore may not be too far off from being a “dynasty”.
