This is a bit more decent:
Permanent Secretary Tan Yong Soon spent $40,000 for a family trip to France to learn cooking, triggering a polarizing response from ordinary Singaporeans.
While older uncles and aunties criticize him as “hao lian” (hokkien for arrogant), the younger generation feels he is simply writing the truth and has no intention of belitting others.
The minister in charge of the civil service, Mr Teo Chee Hean criticized Mr Tan’s article in Parliament yesterday as lacking sensitivity and being “ill-judged”.
Tan Yong Soon brought his wife and son to Paris for a 5-week cooking course last Deccember and wrote a travelogue on about which was published on 6 January in the Straits Times Life section.
The exorbitant fees for the cooking course which costs $15,000 per head and $45,000 in total earned the irk of netizens who felt “top civil servants do not practice what they preach and even brag about their wealth to the public.”
Read rest of article here:
http://wayangparty.com/2009/01/22/t...el-draws-polarizing-responses-from-two-camps/
Permanent Secretary Tan Yong Soon spent $40,000 for a family trip to France to learn cooking, triggering a polarizing response from ordinary Singaporeans.
While older uncles and aunties criticize him as “hao lian” (hokkien for arrogant), the younger generation feels he is simply writing the truth and has no intention of belitting others.
The minister in charge of the civil service, Mr Teo Chee Hean criticized Mr Tan’s article in Parliament yesterday as lacking sensitivity and being “ill-judged”.
Tan Yong Soon brought his wife and son to Paris for a 5-week cooking course last Deccember and wrote a travelogue on about which was published on 6 January in the Straits Times Life section.
The exorbitant fees for the cooking course which costs $15,000 per head and $45,000 in total earned the irk of netizens who felt “top civil servants do not practice what they preach and even brag about their wealth to the public.”
Read rest of article here:
http://wayangparty.com/2009/01/22/t...el-draws-polarizing-responses-from-two-camps/
