The Boastful Clown Princess

[Boliao]

Hsien Yang is no coward. When in the army, to which he was bonded for eight years for accepting the President's Scholarship as well as the Singapore Armed Forces Scholarship, he earned badges for scuba diving as well as parachuting. He needed to get only one of the two badges, as all senior officers had to to prove to their men that they were not cowards.

I happen to have the luck to witness a BG earn his diver badge. This guy just made Chief.. and so a bunch of majors, colonels was standing around him near the ramp (the ones you lower your boat into the water) while a couple of full time Naval divers help him on with his diving gear. This guys took a couple step and walked into the water and walked backed almost as soon as he was fully submerged.

Clap, clap, clap... chief of Navy pin the diver badge on him and yes! this guy has became the man amongst men for earning his diver badge.

Very brave hor?

 

[SneeringTree]

Here's how I would edit her article.

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Aug 1, 2010

Doing Right

Don't be afraid to speak up and take action if you are in a position to do so

By Lee Wei Ling
http://www.straitstimes.com/Think/Story/STIStory_560429.html

[to start from the sentence below]

My younger brother, Lee Hsien Yang, once asked me: 'Why do you step on powerful and sensitive toes?' I replied: 'But if I don't, who will do so to put things right?'

As a businessman, he knows that antagonising powerful people does not make good business sense.

But I am not a businesswoman; I am a doctor serving patients in the public sector. Since 2008, I have also been a regular columnist in The Straits Times and The Sunday Times. Writing columns gives me a chance to discuss social trends and to point out government policies that I think are wrong.

I try not to hesitate to speak up when my superiors or even the Government do something that I think is not in the best interest of Singapore.

I do all this not because I wish to score points or gain glory. I do so because I owe Singapore a debt for the opportunities it has given me: people in my position should always do what they think is the best for Singapore.

 

[blackmore]

Do you mean Charles Chong?
He's still an MP at Paris Ris-Punggol GRC.

Oops ! Your right, the Chong bugger, my bad for mixing up the Chen fella who is from KL whom are almost the same freaking breed.

Chong has been rather quiet since his infamous remark except for the appearance on poster boards

 

[Sun Ce]

bump~~~~~~~

 

[johnny333]

She still bare a grudge against her mother, even on her death bed, for loosing her PURE GOLD medal ?

Don't know the dynamics within the Lee family but I think the loss of the medal is just the tip of her issues with her mother. There is I think a deeper emotions we are not privy to

 

[manokie]

Here's how I would edit her article.

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Aug 1, 2010

Doing Right

Don't be afraid to speak up and take action if you are in a position to do so

By Lee Wei Ling
http://www.straitstimes.com/Think/Story/STIStory_560429.html

[to start from the sentence below]

My younger brother, Lee Hsien Yang, once asked me: 'Why do you step on powerful and sensitive toes?' I replied: 'But if I don't, who will do so to put things right?'

As a businessman, he knows that antagonising powerful people does not make good business sense.

But I am not a businesswoman; I am a doctor serving patients in the public sector. Since 2008, I have also been a regular columnist in The Straits Times and The Sunday Times. Writing columns gives me a chance to discuss social trends and to point out government policies that I think are wrong.

I try not to hesitate to speak up when my superiors or even the Government do something that I think is not in the best interest of Singapore.

I do all this not because I wish to score points or gain glory. I do so because I owe Singapore a debt for the opportunities it has given me: people in my position should always do what they think is the best for Singapore.

If u do that,

Someone will be typing up your resignation letter at the same moment!