Reform Party celebrates Hari Raya with Muslim Singaporeans at Joo Chiat
September 10th, 2010 | 
Author: As the 46 PAP MPs and activists are feasting themselves on sumptuous Chinese banquets and demure Jiangnan girls during their “bonding trip” in Jiangsu province, China, a few Reform Party leaders and activists spent the holiday eve mingling with ordinary Singaporeans at Joo Chiat:
[Above: RP leader and candidate Jeisilan selling newsletter to passer-bys at Joo Chiat]
The Reform Party has gone on an overdrive lately, working tirelessly on the ground to increase public awareness of its noble quest to provide an alternative voice for Singaporeans who have long suffered under the repressive rule of the increasingly unpopular PAP regime.
For the fourth time in less than a week, the Reform Party conducted a walkabout this time at Joo Chiat to wish fellow Muslim brothers and sisters “Selamat Hari Raya”.
Though less than ten volunteers turned up for the event yesterday, they managed to sell quite a number of their newsletters and make a few new friends.
[Above: Less than ten volunteers turned up for the event yesterday - RP needs more help from you!]
Due to the PAP’s misrule of Singapore via a series of ill-thought policies such as its pro-foreigner and ultra-liberal immigration policies, life of ordinary Singaporeans is becoming harder with each passing day.
The Reform Party has proposed 19 policy pledges to clear up the “mess” left behind by the PAP such as a more rational labor and immigration policy as well as a minimum wage for low income workers which is even espoused by Professor Hui Wing Tat from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy.
However, for RP to be more effective, Singaporeans have to get its MPs into Parliament so that they can hold the PAP accountable to its words and actions and for its initiatives and proposals to be heard.
RP activist Irene Ho wrote that there is still much more work to be done:
“As you can see from our pictures, we didn’t have much volunteers helping us today. If you are reading this, I hope you will move out of your comfort zone, and step forward to help us! In my own honest opinion without regarding the feelings/viewpoint of anyone; Every Singaporean has a stake in Singapore. If we want to see a change in Singapore, it is not enough to just say that we are going to vote for change in the coming election. We need to step out/up now.”
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Do you want to pay for RP MPs to work for you or PAP MPs to enjoy themselves in China:
[Above: PAP MP Khaw Boon Wan in the company of fine wine and women in Jiangsu province, China on Hari Raya Puasa]
We need more credible alternative party MPs in Parliament and not PAP-endorsed “wayang” MPs who dare not question the ruling party. Please keep yourself updated on the Reform Party’s latest activities here.
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It’s still a long way to go for RP. Jiayu, work hard.
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WELL,IT GOES TO PROVE A POINT.
THE ‘poor’are looking after THE POOR!
THE RICH MIWS ARE CELEBRATING THEIR ‘HARI RAYA’ IN prc.
hahaha!
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Joo Chiat should be won easily by opposition long ago.Don’t know why that Kong Kong look blur sotong MP still there? I think the Joo Chiat PAP supporter resident also super Kong Kong blur blur big sotong……
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Time to take back Singapore from the MIWs. Calling all my muslim brothers and sisters, enough is enough, join in hands, spread the WORDS and VOTE OUT as many PAPies as possible this GE.
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TR SHOULD ASK WHO PAID FOR THE ‘MERRY MAKING’ TRIP TO CHINA
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“God bless us everyone
We’re a broken people living under loaded gun
And it can’t be outfought
It can’t be outdone
It can’t outmatched
It can’t be outrun
No”
…. Linkin Park
SAY NO TO PAP
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Spirit of JBJ never dies!!! Defy LEE KUAN YEW and PAP to the end!!!
http://campaignjbj.wordpress.com/
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Actually I feel SDP and Chee SJ have a more radical policy to chase our foreigners. I tend to lean towards them as they seem the most likely to chase foreign trash away.
Any opposition is good I guess…At this point, I would vote for a dog if you put it against those PAP monkeys.
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Hello,
Everyone please do your part to volunteer. Dont just talk so much. What’s the point of keep on saying : We want change, we want to vote Pap out, where none of you really step out in action to volunteer and help RP.
Words is cheap. Action speaks louder. Go out there with your foot step out from the front door of your house and be a volunteer to any opp. parties that you want them to get into the parliament to voice out your grievances!
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The Malay Minority was “never” of any “interest” to them.
On the contary, They “seem” more “worried” if the Malay Community became a “formidable” force…jus look at all the Muslim Brothers and Sisters in our surrounding Muslim Countries !
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Singaporeans deserve the PAP. They have once chance in history gto help RP beat the PAP and only 10 turn up. Next time don’t complain when a PRC take your job.
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The poll by TR has indicated that the vote for PAP is increasing and they have climbed to a high of 33% about to overtake the opposition.
Opposition supporters having to share the votes with so many parties and PAP alone can rake in so many votes, the next government is guaranteed to be form by PAP again.
Congratulation to PAP. Handshake. Winner takes all. RP tries harder in the 2016 general election.
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RP is wasting their time to win the heart of the Malay community.
Thousands of Malays working as civil servants. They don’t have much choice. Their superiors are pro-PAPs.
If only RP can convinced all local companies to employ more Malay workers, there could be a big changes in the next election.
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@PAP shit if you suddenly chase away all the foreigners, then who’s going to replace them? The shrinking pool of Singaporeans?? The rational thing to do is to increase the bar and make transparent the policy for awarding PRs. Also, increase foreign workers levy to level the playing field for locals. Plus impose a US H1B equivalent policy to ensure only true FTs with skills locals lack are allowed to take jobs in the country.
@allanyam You’re right. At every election, lots of people cow peh cow bu online about MIW. What happens? MIW gets returned to power and opposition fail to gain a seat. I’m hopeful opposition can gain more seats this time round. But MIW get kicked out of parliament? Dream on if everyone continue to be kiasi and refuse to wake up from their dream. Even if don’t help RP as volunteer, all should do their role of promoting opposition to their family, friends & colleagues. When you hear complaining Singaporeans grumbling abt govt policies, ask them who they voted for? If they voted MIW, then tell them they deserve it fully and complain only if they cannot vote or voted opposition
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In the poll PAP is gaining more votes and has leveled with the amount of people willing to vote opposition. Now who is scared of who???
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Well done, RP. Keep up the good work. Singaporeans need you!!
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UR MISLEADING. THIS IS DANGEROUS. UR DANGEROUS.
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Do u know why everytime so many ppl turn out for opposition rally? So many ppl duspleased with govt? so many ppl blog online about PAP? But in the end, PAP still win the election?
Reason very simple…everyone can talk but who dare to do? How many ppl in this forum will volunteer for oppostion? How many ppl will donate to oppostion? Only 33.33%!! Please help to donate as much as u can for RP!! I have donated $1000, how about you??
http://www.thereformparty.net/en/getting-involved
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@To be free:
Wat the hell are you trying to do? Why are u critising the opposition here? This forum is not for you!! Please fuck off!! This forum is for RP Supporters!!!
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@TR
I suggest u create a Printer-Friendly versions for all articles/posts so that we can print and distribute (by hand, fax, etc) to people who do not have PC/broadband.
Also for every article/post, add a form for readers to recommend to other people via email. I can see u already have the Share button but having a form will be more obvious to readers and effective for simple email referrals. Simple one with From, From Email, Email Recipients (comma-delim) and Remarks fields.
For your share button, this one may be better?
http://www.addthis.com
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goodsuggestion by MAMPUSLAH SINGAPURA， TR pls think about it
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The big threat to Singapore-born citizens is the new citizens’ loyalty to PAP. Perhaps, we should point out to these new citizens that if we can be unhappy, they too will have the same sentiment later on. The Reform Party should speak to the Singapore-born citizens as primary target audience and also address the new-citizens as secondary target audience.
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Indonesians and Malaysian Malays do want to work here for the same reasons that PRC Chinese want to work here :
comparatively high salaries, exposure to modern city state, professional exposure and a chance at improving job prospects.
I used to work in a healthcare setting.
To take the example of the nursing job which is considered to be an up and coming profession, I have met many foreign nurses in the local hospitals.
They typically come from the following countries in order of numbers.
1) Philippines
2) PRC China
3) Indian
4) Malaysia
5) Nepal
6) Myanmar
7) UK
Not a single Malay nurse from Indonesia!
The ones from Malaysia were not Malaysl!
The PRC nurses spoke bad English. The Filipino nurses couldn’t pronounce “vomit”.
They said “var.mit”.
Thanks to the “arrogance” of our local nurses, the Filipino nurses slowly but surely learnt their lessons, became more confident, more demanding and in the end became as arrogant as their local “teachers”.
When new Singaporean nurses goes to the hospital, they in turn got “bullied” by these treasured “foreign talents”.
The Filipino nurses were very united nationalistic if you like, so were the Indians and the PRCs.
Only the Singaporeans were a fragmented lot.
Some Malay nurses grudged at their better-positioned Chinese colleagues. The Indian nurses also set up “camps”.
In short, Singaporeans were not united, unlike their fellow Asian colleagues.
They secretly sneered at the attitude of our local nurses.
It is a known fact many of these foreign nurses only want to get the professional exposure in Singapore before heading to Canada and the United States where the salaries are higher. Yes! They may admire Singapore but for most of them, she can never be their true home.
So much for the loyalty of the foreigners that the government is so kiasu to retain.
They do not like to work in Singapore because they find Singaporeans patients demanding and Singaporeans generally arrogant.
You can say they are in solely for the money.
I am surprised …they are Filipinos, Sabahans, Sarawakians in our local hospitals not working as nurses but as healthcare attendants : jobs that poor locals can do.
So much for the policy of “talent” – based immigration.
In the hospitals, I have yet to see a Malaysian / Indonesian Malay doctor, nurse, physiotherapist or healthcare attendant. Forget about the higher ups in the hierarchy. Probably, there are no foreigner Malays at all.
I think the only prominent professional foreigner Malays in Singapore is the young academic, Dr Farish Noor working in a leading local think tank (who is politically not in favour with the BN government) and the old-school oldie Dr Mana Sikana, a famous Malay Literature scholar in NTU.
One thing strikes me.
There are many Malaysian Chinese doctors, nurses, physiotherapists working in the hospitals.
I do hope… they, having “suffered” some kind of “discrimination” from their home country,
… do not allow their “bad” experience to bear on their many Malay patients in terms of words and attitudes.
Sometimes,
I feel for the old non-English speaking Malay patients, who, being more at ease with their own kind, had to get used to these alien nurses,
whose utterance of
“berak” (shit), kencing (pee), “makan” (eat) sounded as alien as the cultures they come from.
Such was the impact of over-importing talent.
The PM’ assertion that it is “…difficult to get foreign Malay talent” is empty talk. Only one job-rejection case was reported in the papers. Beyond that, there is no other concrete evidence of why they don’t want to work in Singapore.
How many talented Malays have the govt approached? What kind of jobs were offered to them? What specific steps did the government take to entice these talents?
What evidence is there that the government went the length and breadth of the Archipelago to seek out that “elusive” Malay talent.
How come… there are no foreigner Malay nurses in Singapore?
OK….fine…they can’t speak English.
Then , how about the Myanmarese, Nepalese and PRC nurses whom they hired by the hundreds.
Can they speak superb English?
This is not the sincerity that the Malays come to expect from a national leader.
One must probe deeper into the issue to know the whole truth — why ain’t they coming?
suspect there is no such policy in the first place. Or, was it not pursued aggressively?
Malays are alarmed….not so much at the dwindling figure per se. ..but the likelihood of ….
increased “discrimination” ….that comes together with a larger majority. Membership (of a majority) usually has its privileges.
Their population has now dwindled from 15% to 13%.
If you exclude the non Malay Muslims from the 13%, maybe there are only 10% of the Mas Agoeses, the Jufri Mahmoods & the Abdullah Tarmugis left.
This has grave implication for Malays as well as other Singaporeans’ political representation…
which an astute observer should, by now, realise….
is about the only political vehicle left (thru their votes) that will help
EMANCIPATE other true-blue Singaporeans from the social, political and economic
“exasperation ” that they are suffering now….
The Malay voters are “ironically” the unsung “political emperor-makers”, “players that matter”, “the “at-the-margins” voters that make the diference ”.
And this factor probably caused the “political tsunami” at our neighbor’s last GE.
The Prime Minister, in his the National Day Rally quoted a beautiful Malay proverb:-
“Jika tidak dipecah ruyung…di mana boleh mendapat sagu.”
( if you don’t scrap the bark of the rumbia plant, how can you get at its sago (the sweet stuff)”
It teaches us that:
If you do not work sincerely hard at something, how can you achieve success out of it?
or… if you don’t work hard at the problem, how can you get at its solution?
…if you don’t work hard at getting Malay talent into Singapore, the result is: you don’t get any.
So PM, don’t suka-suka quote Malay proverb if you don’t mean it… because a Malay proverb says
“Menepuk air di dulang, terpercik ke muka sendiri..”
(If you slap water in the pan, it might just jump back into your face..”)
meaning
“Be careful of what you say or do..it might just backfire and embarrass you.”
So PM,
it seems that you may need to go back to your Cikgu for more Malay lessons. This time… pls be more sincere.
It is also proper to be at home during an important festive occasion of the Malays in this country you want them to call home. Do you?
Your timely absence tells something about the level of respect you have for them. Selamat Hari Raya to all in Singapore and China.
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@ MAMPUSLAH SINGAPURA:
Seems an irrelevant suggestion..are u trying to get the forumers into trouble? Who are you refering to people without PC/Broadband?? Unless you refer to those kampong people staying in Singapore, prison inmates, mental handicapped people? Why do u need to print out anyway?
Are you from the law enforcement agency?
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Even die also use CPF pay for funeral. Need to talk about CPF b4 election
CPF savings left behind by members who have passed on will no longer have to be paid out in cash.
Changes to the Central Provident Fund Act announced by Manpower Minister Gan Kim Yong last month will let CPF members opt to have their savings transferred directly to the CPF accounts of their nominees.
Nominees do not have to apply for the bequeathed funds either, as the CPF Board will automatically disburse the money to the nominees.
The change will take effect next January.
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I am afraid very afraid bec whenever Govt say have option to do this/that very soon become MUST DO and its compulsory. Thats to say bye bye to whatever $$$ u have in your CPF. Where on earth can anyone do such a thing….its our money. earned thru blood and sweat. Just saying cannot withdraw cpf in cash then money is no longer useful.
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migrate and u can get all back
thats my plan in 5 years time
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aiya just treat that our cpf contributions is nothing but additional taxes lor..wat to do, complain n complain also no use..they said wat is ORDERS, we die die must obey..
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